Jason Anderson Curriculum Vitae

Jason Anderson

Particulars

Address: 6561 Sheltondale Ave.

West Hills, CA 91307

Phone: 1-818-943-5231

Email: jason@montero4x4.com

Website: www.montero4x4.com

Who Am I?

Social: Born in Glendale California, I've lived and worked pretty much in the Los Angeles area all my life. Having

for one of my jobs, 50% travel, I've worked in New York, San Francisco, Denver/ Aspen and various other places

for short times but nothing beats L.A. for the weather. I have family and friends all over the world and enjoy

traveling to visit with them when possible.

Avocational I have a love for complex systems which are both effective and aesthetic. At home, I run a mutli-platform,

Geeking multi-protocol network built from every piece of computer equipment I own that sits in my office. About 6

machines in all including 3 servers, 1 for www.Montero4x4.com, 1 for www.crescendopro.com and 1 that

handles all my custom DNS and routing on a special OS that myself and 2 other friends wrote ourselves!!

I maintain a dedicated connection to the internet with a routable subnet of IP's thanks to RoadRunner and a

speed of 3mb/700k at all times !!! I also maintain a Windows 2000 advanced server which runs all my PHP

stuff and I use it as a backup for handling my own domain Montero4x4.com. My own custom OS I designed

handles my DNS, SMTP, POP3, FTP and IMAP services and I provide webmail accounts @montero4x4

for all my friends. I know I've chosen the right career because my weekend relaxation sometimes resembles

my professional responsibilities.

Public I am the founder of the Southern California Montero 4x4 club, and current acting president. A group of both

Geeking novice and hardcore Montero vehicle owners who actually use their vehicles for what they were designed to

do. The Montero (Pajero in Japan) is the most winnings vehicle in the Paris to Dakar rally and no other

vehicle to date has won more then the Montero. I enjoy an active roll in the 4x4 community.

I'm also into aviation and also gliding. I fly RC sailplanes all the time up on the local slopes above Malibu,

Thousand Oaks, and various other places around southern California. One sport I have gotten into recently is

a phenomena know a "DS'ing" or Dynamic Soaring in which you use a pocket of air on the back side of the slope

to your advantage. An excellent animated view is here!!!

What do I know?

? Ratings are on a scale from total ignorance (0) to complete mastery (10).

I reserve the right to omit items I know but don't ever want to work with again!!. This is a

representative sample.

Coding C (4), C++ (5), Perl (3), ANSI SQL (6) Transact SQL(6), PHP (7), dBase/Foxpro and friends (4), HTML (9)

VB6 (4), Java (6). MCSE, A+ and CNE (do people still use Novell ?-6)

Systems Apache (5), IIS4,5 (8), Win2k/2kPro (9+), Ms SQL Srv. (7), Cisco ISO (6), VMWare (5), MacOS/OSX (7), MySQL (7)

IBM as/400 (4), SGI IRIX (5), Framerelay T1/T3 (8), Oc1/Oc3/OC48 (6) Fiber based systems (6)

Long Haul datacom stuff (6), Foundry(7), Extreme Networks (9), Alcatel (8), TCP-IP and the OSI stack (9)

WinXP- All versions including Embedded (9+), WinNT4.0 Including Server and Workstation (8), Win3.11(7)

Win95/98/Me and all the variants (8). Redhat/Fedora (8+!!), Mandrake and other *linux distros (6+)

Apps MSOffice (all version up to 2k3) (9), Act (8), Photoshop (7), IE (9), Samba(6), Acrobat (10), Premiere (8)

and too many more to list here... but maybe in the future...

Certs MCSE (2000), CNE (Way back in 93), CCNA(01) - was trying now for CCNP, A+(03), Server+(05)

IBM Certs (You need these when you work for the company) IBM Warranty, IBM Laptop, IBM Server- All 04

Now currently working on the Boston Linux Cert (Damn hard!!) and the RedHat Linux Cert by the end of 05.

Where Have I Worked?

Various Geek for Hire

Times

I have often earned my living as an independent consultant or contractor between jobs or helping past clients out.

I've had many opportunities to work as a contractor for a wide variety of organizations including Qwest,

Mercedes-Benz U.S.A, and others. Typical services include security HIPPA consulting, systems admin and

basic programming around the office to help out... many a times I have save the day.

May 04 I.T. Site Manager Siemens Bus Services / Cigna Healthcare.

Present One day during my "tech" break of 12 months or so, my very good flying buddy of 11 years told me that there's

a position available in his group at "Wamu" and if I'm interested to give his boss a call. Well, I was getting bored

at home daytrading so I called his IBM boss and sent her my resume. within 3 days I had the job! Upon coming

on-board, the typical training period for a Deskside tech is 3 to 4 weeks. Well, I was done in about a week and running

on my own! (the fastest of any tech in Deskside history according to both my bosses!). Well, after only 1 month of

performance on the campus, I was given the most difficult bldg. to support due to the proprietary nature of the software

and hardware that they run there (OS/2, Loanworks and other goodies) and has since been my bldg. I was also given

the permanent position of a member who left which has never happened to a contract employee before. My biggest

claim to fame though is after the 2nd. month, I designed and wrote a piece of software that allows us Deskside techs

to "re-image" a computer in less then 1/8th the time it took the WaMu engineered software to do it!. Now, instead of

35 minutes, it takes only 6 minutes !!!! All the techs now currently use "Jason's" software and both my bosses gave me

big kudos for doing it !!! This goes also goes back to my core beliefs, help the customer and client to the fullest extent.

I didn't get any reimbursement for it or my time, it was just another challenge and something I felt that could be

made better.

Jun 96 Director of Technology Datascan Inc.

May 03 When I came to Datascan, the company was in the process of actually being sold. At first, I was the "IT Manager",

but only 1 month after my arrival, the company was sold to some doctors who had no idea what they were doing

with it. Everything they were using was off the shelf software, but since what we wanted to do, no one else ever

did before, we needed an "outside the box" approach to the problem. They just wanted to throw money at the problem,

but that would not solve it. They promoted me to DOT, I hired 2 top notch programmers and within 6 months, we had a

fully working, Client-Server TCP-IP, 128bit Document Management system that was ready for testing. After successful

beta testing and final versioning of the software, it was ready to be released into the real world.... I custom designed

all of our networking operations center from the ground up using Cisco, Foundry, and Extreme Networking equipment.

Security and hard 1024 strong-ARM encryption was put into play to protect all of our customers documents.

By the end, I had a team of 9 programmers, 4 network engineers, 2 web gurus/.NET guys, 4 field support guys,

and also our *secret* team which was working on the separate medical imaging side which consisted of about

4 more specialized programmers who knew DICOM and certain medical protocols and such.

Who were our customers ? County of Riverside D.A., Calif. Attorney General, Ventura Police Department,

Lewis, Marenstein and Wicke, Rose, Klien & Marias, Ventura County D.A., Oxnard Police Department,

Kozdin & Fields, San Luis Obispo D.A.

Then, along with the help of the programmers, we converted the system to handle Medical documents as well as

MRI's, CT's, CatScans, Nuclear Medicine, etc... Our software passed ALL HIPPA and DICOM regulations and

started a new revolution in Document Imaging. Our Client list included: Southern California Orthopedic Group,

Scripps Institute, Los Angeles Dept. of Health, Syncor Corporation, FACEY Medical Group,

CMI Radiology Servcies, PHM Medical Services, County of Ventura Medical Services, Pacifica Surgery Group

The Company grew too fast and the doctors didn't have time to manage it so another team (aka. executive team)

was brought on board to handle the day to day operations. Within less then 1 year, the company went into bankruptcy

and no less then 6 lawsuits were brought apon them from all the various law firms. I did receive offers to work and

build a Document Management system like Datascan's or to pull their existing files from DS's servers, but I was never

an Officer of the company and have no connection with the suit. Therefore, I'm free to pursue my own career choices.

April 94 Network Design Engineer / Desktop Support Bridge Information Systems / Reuters Inc.

Mar 96 This is one of the most exciting and challenging jobs I've ever had the privilege of working at. Here, I would both

design, install and support the customer's complex financial trading systems. Since Bridge's customers are

some of the biggest trading companies in the world, security was key in every design that I did. Installations

from 2 to as big as 50+ trading systems I handled. And I even took care of clients like the PSE

(Pacific Stock Exchange), CruttendenRoth, Saloman Smith Barney, Goldman Sacks, LehmanBros,

Morgan Stanley, and Charles Schwab to name a few. I also integrated older Token Ring networks and bridged them

together into existing networks. This job also involved a great deal of travel and is how I met some of the top

financial traders in the industry, including getting to go to some really exotic places!. During crunch time though, this

was also the most challenging. You think desktop support is bad where the boss or secretary can't get their email.....

Try many, MANY, MANY, bitchy, yelling institutional traders at market open SCREAMING AND YELLING AT YOU

because they can't execute any of their market orders or get any market data cause the system is down and they have

MILLIONS of dollars on the line waiting and they are flipping out and I'm in the back room with protocol and

lanalizers trying to troubleshoot what is going on. It's good to have a background in Framerelay T1/T3 stuff

and worked at PacBell cause it turned out to be their problem and not my system.

I got a big raise because of it and the boss loved me!

Feb 92 Desktop Support / Network Support Engineer Pacific Bell Network Integration

April 94 In this position, I was hired as a WinNT and SCO Unix tech/ engineer to help transition and support the group

from the process that would start from the legacy SCO unix servers which were all Token Ring based and

eventually lead over to the conversion process to WinNT 4.0 back then and a new 10mb Ethernet network.

Some of the remote satellite offices like VanNuys, Pasadena, etc. were still on BanyonVines networks so

those took some additional time to sort out. After which, all the desktops where converted from Novell up to

Windows and all the users were trained and SecureID pass cards handed out. I also supported both the front

and back end to the security system here. I also handled the ordering, and monitoring of the frame relay lines

for the 3 offices that I was in charge of then.

What Others Have Said About Me

"At DataScan, Jason Anderson was the Director of Technology. He developed and maintained

the management systems, including servers, networks, software, and production equipment. He

also directed the software, hardware, and systems research and development projects that

significantly enhanced the operations and profitability of the company and helped position them for

the successful acquisition.

Prior to DataScan, Jason Anderson served as the Senior Level Network Design Engineer for

Bridge Information systems, the world's largest stock trading and transaction service provider.

In this position, Mr. Anderson designed, installed, and maintained networked trading systems

for one of the largest financial institutions in Southern California, including the Pacific Stock Exchange,

Bank of America, and Smith Barney. Utilizing both Internet and national wide area network applications,

he provided Bridge clients with unparalleled information management capabilities.

Jason Anderson also worked as a design Engineer for Pacific Bell Integration in Los Angeles, where

he developed and implemented the conversion from legacy systems to local area network-based,

fully integrated information management systems."

Why Hire Me?

Career Goals I am happiest when I am in a position to positively influence the success and growth of a company. I enjoy

systems design and administration as well as applications development. I look forward to being able to

continue helping organizations fully leverage their information technology in a full-time or consulting capacity.

Extra credit for being able to work with talented and gifted peers and colleagues.

Work Habits I am a self-driven person with a desire for perfection that borders on compulsion. When faced with a challenge,

expect me to do what is appropriate and effective, not necessarily what is conventional, expected, or requested.

If those two things aren't the same, expect me to be able to justify the difference quite capably. For those things I

don't know, expect me to have a knack for knowing who to ask or where to look to find the answers needed. Like

many skilled geeks, expect me to wrestle even the most unfamiliar software into submission in an almost reflexive

manner. Expect generous amounts of dedication and loyalty directly proportional to the respect and

responsibility I receive.