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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.



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Hawaii Pacific University