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KWB Technological Enterprises LLC May 2008 – Present

Owner, Software Engineer

KWB Tech began in April 2005 as KWB Technological Enterprises LLC. In May 2008 many new clients were asking for work and KWB Tech became a full time job. The work included:

• designing a robust, redundant and secure network to store critical financial and medical data.
• Administered multiple Windows 2003 servers in data center.
• Administered multiple linux servers in data center. Configured iptables, apache 2.x, mysql 5.x and php4/5.
• Performing manufacturing, installation, service and training on office computer systems.
• CISCO router and switch configuration in a live data center.

National Sports Services October 2007 – May 2008

Software Engineer

Don Best sports bought Nation Sports Services shortly after my departure in the spring of 2008. While there I provided the following services:

• Provided in house support for 50 position call center, including daily sales reports, leads reports and technical support for the call center.
• Create and maintain stored procedures for daily reports and weekly television broadcast effectiveness tracking.
• csharp programming developed class that was part of enterprise application pulling live sports data from feed and convert it to xml for use on website and desktop applications. See www.jimfiest.com .

GPmicro Inc September 2005 – October 2007

Software Engineer

GPmicro develops business continuity solutions. Their main product at the time I was with them was dinKum dataa backup.

• Redesigned an unnecessarily complex 8 step ordering system to a simple wizard like 4 step system.
• Track each step of sign up process and store information for sales team follow up.
• Windows and linux server administration of 10 TB storage system.
• Enterprise level backup and recovery.

ITT Technical Institute September 2004 – March 2006

Adjunct Instructor

• Managed a positive classroom experience for students learning Visual Basic, Windows XP, Java and Game Development.

International Gaming Technology November 2003 – September 2005

Product Assurance Engineer I

• Software quality testing of the intel i960 series of video slot games. Randomness testing and statistical
• analysis, RS-232 serial communication, wrote software to test video poker games more efficiently.
• Conducted training on C++ for other engineers.

Gaming Labs International November 2002 – November 2003

Test Engineer

• Compliance testing of gaming systems and video slot machines.
• Gaming systems consisting of MS Windows Server and MS Sql server database systems
• Video slot machines included machines running VxWorks embedded unix OS.
• Researched testing methods for validating random number generator output.