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John McKenzie
97 Chandler Drive
Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia
B4C 3C6
(902)8659643
davros@bellaliant.net
http://www.accesswave.ca/~davros
Career Goal: I.T. position (web site management, instructing, multimedia authoring, sales, technical/user support)
Computer Related Knowledge/Experience
Environments:
- All major operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux, etc)
- Major alternative systems (AmigaOS BeOS, Irix etc)
- Others (NeXTStep, QNX, etc)
Hardware:
- Basic Hardware concepts and major systems (Wintel, MacIntosh, etc)
- Other (Amiga, SGI, etc)
- Peripherals (scanners, printers, modems, etc)
- Internal expansion(RAM, hard drives, expansion boards, etc)
General:
- Office Applications and suites (MS-Office, Word, Excel, StarOffice, Word perfect, etc)
- POS
- Databases
- Spreadsheets
Graphics/Design:
- Paint/Image Processing (Photoshop, Photopaint, Fireworks, Photogenics, GIMP, etc)
- Drawing/Illustration (Illustrator, Corel Draw, etc)
- Have done graphic design work
- 3D Animation (Power Animator, Maya, Lightwave, Imagine, Real3D, etc)
- First non-customer accepted to the Alias training course
- Desktop Publishing (Quark, PageMaker, Pagestream, etc)
Multimedia:
- Multimedia presentations (Scala, Power Point, etc)
- Non-linear editing, titling (Video Flyer, Avid, Premiere, etc)
- User interface issues
- Taught children Logo (basic math and logic oriented language)
- Taught intro to computers to all ages
- Taught basic web page creation to adults
Support:
- Provided formal tech support by phone
- Gave informal support online and in person
Networking:
- Basic networking theory
- TCP/IP protocol
- LANs and Internet access sharing, ethernet, etc
- Web server installation (Apache, NT)
- Long time Internet user (Email, news, FTP, Telnet, IRC, TALK, World Wide Web, etc)
- Helped hundreds of new users with technical/user issues and with netiquette
- Aide and CoSysOp on a variety of local Bulletin Board Systems
- Web Design (including corporate, private, nonprofit group and classified military sites)
- HTML, CSS, User Interface Issues, efficient design, adhering to WWW Consortium standards
- CGI programming (PERL, REBOL)
- Java programming
- Asked to be keeper of a FAQ Hosted 500 person question and answer conferences on IRC
- Articles authored by myself posted on prominent websites such as Linux Newbie.
Relevant Work History
Graphic Designer, Calgary Stampede Wrestling, 6 months and continuing
Customer Service, Microplay Video Game Stores #107, 1.5 years
Webmaster, C.F.B. Shearwater, 1 year
Front Desk/Inside Sales, Atlantis Kobetek Inc., 5 months
Graphic Design, Consulting, Homeworks Integrated Systems, 5 months
Consultant, Web Designer, Cybertime Computing Centre, 3 months
Consultant, Writer, Atlantic Animation, 1 month
Multimedia Author, Animator, Digital Image F/X, 4 months
Graphics Creation, Stock's Eye, 1 year
Education
Graduated from Sackville High School in 1989 on the principal's list.
Attended Dalhousie University from 1989-1994 and took class in subjects including geology, physics, chemistry, Latin, astronomy, political science, and women's studies.
(Certification)
Alias Research Level 1 Training Course, Alias|Wavefront.
Non-Linear Editing Course, Colchester Campus , Nova Scotia Community College.
Download my résumé as a Word Document. Other formats available upon request.