Skills
Ted's History With Technology
My background has a wide range of skills leveraging computer technology; while my education and early career focused on business administration, I quickly found my real enjoyment in "working" was when work no longer felt like work. That happened when I bridged by early career experience at Heiser Automotive with technology. A rough chronology of my career and how technology guided it below!
1980's
My first computer was an IBM PCjr a great starter computer, 5 1/4" floppy drive and 128k memory. Great for learning how to write some basic, and running Lotus 1-2-3. A spreadsheet.... can you imagine work before spreadsheets? It was the first real computer I had put to some practical use. I graduated from college in 1987, and from there, eventually worked my way up to a Leading Edge 386 with a whopping 40MB hard drive. Seemed like a huge change from just a few years earlier with the 128k memory and no hard drive.
I started my career in the car rental business, but filling out rental agreements by
Software: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, Tableau 8.0, Minitab 14, MediaWiki, Avaya CentreVu, ISC Irene WFM, Verint WFM, Aspect WFM, Seibel CRM, Xcelsius, Unipress Footprints, PageMaker, Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Paint Shop Pro, Shockwave, Robohelp, Flash, and Adobe Exchange/Distiller/Reader
Platforms / Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Win7, DOS, Linux, Unix, Novell, LANtastic, and BSDI
Networking / Web Development: Groupwise, SendMail, POP3, SMTP, TCP/IP, Eudora, Pine, Ethernets, DNS, subnetting, LAN, WAN, FTP, Telnet, Shockwave, Robohelp, and Flash
Programming Languages: Basic, Visual Basic, Fortran, HTML, PERL, PHP, SQL, and Java