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Resumé of Christopher D. Taylor

christopher.don.taylor@gmail.com

Microsoft MCSE/MCSA(NT/W2K/XP), Cisco CCNA, CompTIA A+

Current Career Goals: Currently I am trying to find employment with reasonable remuneration in a Technical/IT/Media/Educational/Support capacity in the Vancouver Area.

Positions of interest: IT Network and Application Support, Network and System Administration, Sales, Video Editing/Production, Instruction

I have excellent client support and interaction skills, can handle large call volumes, take excellent notes of service calls, prioritize well, and can research/acquire specialist skills when necessary.

Experienced in Mac, Windows, Linux(many distros), Solaris OS, various hardware experience

Other interests: Film, Broadcast, Web, Multimedia, TV, Game design industries as:

Technical Support, Editing, I/O, IT Administration, Junior Artist, writing

Related abilities and experiences you'll find throughout the resume:

• Network Administration and IT – MCSE/CCNA/A+ experienced with MS/Linux/Solaris/Mac
• Professional Audio Engineer –
  Recording engineering/live sound reinforcement/sequencing/composition
• Video editing – 3/4” beta, Digital media with FinalCut Pro Studio/Premier/After Effects etc.
• Media Asset Management – large media archive manipulation and organization.
• A/V Technician – Senior A/V technician for hotel conferencing, various types of stage setups, responsible for other crew members and full setup of video/audio/multimedia presentation systems from single rooms to entire conference floors to full main stages.
• 3D – Mostly Sub-D or Nurbs spaceships and objects.

Familiar with all main 3D packages (xsi/maya/max/LW/softimage) and conversions.

Not a “math” scripter. Can familiarize myself with most scripting tools for basic activities or for reusing code, can't do math type scripting such as shaders or advanced formulas for constraint.

I can reuse or create simple unix or winscript as necessary for batch processes.

• Camera – I know how to use one, but I usually just set them up and someone else operates, I'm usually at a console of audio/video/lighting during shooting.

My blog: http://christuusgnosis.blogspot.com/

My Sub-D models: http://picasaweb.google.com/christopher.don.taylor/3DSubDModelsICreated#slideshow

My airbrush art: http://picasaweb.google.com/christopher.don.taylor/CTaylorPaintings19942000#slideshow

Education

Graduate of SAIT - Information Technology Professional program - Oct 2001 – Oct 2002

Business Network Design and Administration comprising the material taught in a 2 year course compressed into one year with twice the classroom hours. In conjunction with my 7 years of advanced computing and technical support experience, this course offered me sound instruction and practice in the Business aspects of IT and excellent Team Building studies.

This intensive IT course focused on Microsoft MCSE 2000, Cisco CCNA, Project Management, RFP analysis, and business skills including team project management

• MCSE Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer/Administrator with Exchange Messaging
• Official Microsoft curriculum and materials in: Active Directory/SQL Server/XP/Exchange
• Official Cisco Networking curriculum - CCNA certified
• Strong IT business simulation consisting of 3 detailed RFP projects
• theory and practice MS Project
• Organizational Behavior, Conflict Management, Business Skills, Project Management studies
• Visual Basic, Unix/Linux/Netware. Hardware, OS, and NOS - A+ certified

Practicum (SAIT – ITP) – City of Calgary, Asset Management

City of Calgary Calgary, AB April – July 2002

1. Analysis of Remedy Asset Management Database and data extraction
2. Configuration and generation of MS Systems Management Server audits
3. Access form queries of Remedy SQL Database compared to SMS queries
4. Documentation of Asset Management common queries
5. Asset management systems analysis and process re-engineering
6. Documentation of asset management points of error and mitigation strategies
7. Technical assistance and direction for physical auditors and data entry clerks

Instructor certificates from Olds College in:

8. Facilitating Learning,
9. Developing and Integrating Learnware,
10. Assessing Learning Outcomes,
11. Web Production for Courseware

Employment History

Visual Effects I/O

Stargate Atlantis/Pegasus Prod. Vancouver B.C. Apr 2007 – June 2008

Visual Effects I/O for Stargate Atlantis, pulled visual effects plates and their associated elements from raw footage using Final Cut Pro for delivery to FX Vendors

• Collecting, trimming to spec, exporting raw HD camera footage as image sequences for all elements of each VFX shot using Final Cut Pro (and excel) for delivery to Image Engine, Rainmaker, Stage 3, etc.
• Archival and organization of all exported and imported image sequence clips for quick comparison for production staff.
• Importing of completed VFX sequences and temps from vendors into Final Cut Pro using Quicktime Pro.
• Adding Slates when necessary to incoming footage, basic assessment of possible footage errors.
• Creation of high quality Log Cuts for all sets of sequences received for review by the VFX coordinator for each episode.
• Creation of high quality timecode burned logs of all episode production cuts including timecode for both show and source footage off of the actual editor’s Final Cut timeline of the episode.
• Professional labeling of all DVD’s to be sent to coordinators or vendors
• Consultation on possible sources of contamination for certain shots by comparison for production and vfx personnel of various footages archived by myself.
• Responsible for configuration of new HD workflow beyond basic configuration at start of Season 4. Extensive tweaking and organization of the I/O process, the Mac and PC workstations, and program configurations, including extensive configuration of Final Cut Pro and Compressor.
• Network , computer, filesystem, FTP, file transfer organization to optimize file transfer to more than 5 external disks at one time using 2 machines. Extensive configuration of the file transfer process.
• Also worked on logging and editing “The Tracey Fragments” (Bruce McDonald remix) footage in spare time

Reason for leaving: $11 an hour with no raise after one year, no film credit. Unlivable wage.

Teacher – Networking Administration

Winston College Vancouver B.C. Jan – Mar 2007

Taught A+, Network +, MCSE XP workstation, in a small college setting.

Reason for leaving: Low wage as compared to other college institutions, inadequate infrastructure (Pentium 3 computers for an MCSE course!), no payment for course preparation, long delays in getting software and textbooks necessary for the course. No planned curriculum on start. Insufficient institutional support.

Studies in Game design, Linux, Music, and work search

Vancouver B.C. July – Dec 2006

• Studies in Faceposer and Choreography tools of Valve Source Hammer Editor
• Evaluations of Knoppix 4, Fedora Core 4, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, CentOS
• Creation of a number of Reason 4 musical compositions, and guitar studies

Help Desk

Supreme Court of British Columbia Vancouver B.C. Mar. – June 2006

Help desk for the Justices of the Supreme Court and their support personnel

• Call to completion help desk, no tier separation, load 50 - 200 calls per day
• PC rebuilding, disk image preparation

Position was not extended after 3 month contract.

Personality conflict with a younger tech who had been on the job for longer.

A/V Technician

Sharp’s A/V Vancouver B.C. Sept. 2005 – Feb. 2006

Business Conference Audio Visual Technician

Left because of low pay($12) and unorganized event loads causing extreme long hours (over 20 hours/day in some cases) as well as sudden loss of hours due to seasonal low period of early spring.

Moved to Vancouver from Alberta

Oct. 2004 – Aug 2005

Spent some time with family, moved to Vancouver, had a holiday

Network Administrator – Macintosh Specialist

Transglobal Communications Inc. Edmonton, AB April – Sept. 2004

Network Administrator for

• 23 print production Macintosh OS9 and OSX clients with Adobe and Extensis Quark applications.
• 2 OSX servers with 2 Brownie 1.7 terabyte hardware RAID 5 arrays.
• 2 Xenix based Dolev Imagesetters, 3 Irix RIP, 1 Fiery RIP, 2 W2K Best Colour RIP.
• 2 plotters, 4 enterprise laserjets, various desktop peripherals/printers/faxes.
• 15 XP pro administration/sales/accounting clients.
• 4 W2k servers with 20 Terminal services clients.
• Various VNC and Terminal services network control configurations for Win/Mac.
• Backup administration and configuration for 1.7 Terabytes of information using disk mirroring, Dantz Retrospect, and Backup Exec Pro using ADIC Scalar 1000 tape library with SDLT Quantum drive.
• Documentation of existing network, network infrastructure upgrade planning, Visio and Excel.
• Wan replication/backup/mail/public folder/remote access infrastructure planning with W2K3 VPN, Active Directory Domain and Site design, and Exchange 2k3/IMAP/Openexchenge Mail and Groupware testing.
• Cisco router config for wan and videoconferencing with dual nat and remote access. Symantec and Dlink router config for wan and remote access as well as for remote administration and video conferencing applications and hardware.

Let go after 6 months – Reason: Personality clash with micro managing Art Director and insufficient funding of core infrastructure, was also a long commute for me.

Security Systems Engineer – Network Security Applications

CDG, Calgary, AB May 2003 - March 2004

12. Enterprise technical support for a large number of Enterprise Network Security and Gateway applications from Trend Micro, Brightmail, Websense, Fortinet, Netscreen, Sophos, Ositis, BlueCoat, Adonis, etc.
13. Solaris and Linux specialist for CDG clients using those platforms.
14. Network security and mail appliance testing and assessment.

Software Support Specialist

Olds College, Olds, AB Aug – Dec 2000

15. Responsible for installation, stability testing of OS and applications on base classroom machines
16. Creation of Norton Ghost “images” of classroom machines for later multicast installations
17. Configuration of applications for classrooms as per instructor needs
18. Registry editing to lock desktops and refresh application settings, policy editing
19. Batch file writing to automatate settings for specific application needs and to refresh desktop settings
20. Faculty software assistance and training
21. Attended Instructor Training Workshops in: Facilitating Learning, Developing and Integrating Learnware, and Assessing Learning Outcomes
22. Continued multimedia/programming/networking studies, practiced installations of Linux and Netware

Reason for leaving: offered $12,000/year more at Transglobal.

Senior Audio Visual Technician

Caribiner AV Edmonton, AB May ’99 – April ’00

1. Professional conference staging, show quoting, planning, setup, operation
2. Extensive personal contact with Business Clients in stressful conference situations
3. Training of other staff in professional audio and projection techniques and troubleshooting
4. Configuration of office computers and customizing of Excel macros for order input modules
5. Determination of necessary equipment and ordering, maintenance
6. During this time continued studies in multimedia/web design/VB6/RDBMS/networking

Webmaster/Layout Artist/Data Archivist/Network Admin/Tech Support/

Lone Pine Publishing Edmonton, AB July ’98 – May ’99

Responsible for:

23. Network admin of 12 W95 client Novell Server and 11 client Mac OS network. Tech support for client machines on both networks including all OS installs/client software/applications/troubleshooting. Extensive user support with Office 97 applications including Access and Mac publishing/graphic software. General server housecleaning.
24. Organization and backup of 200 Gigabyte tape archive of book production data and illustrations. Sorting, cleanup of images, format conversions, batch image processing, identification and removal of redundant files, batch renaming of files to enforce filename consistency. Extensive thumbnail cataloguing and creation of image list tables containing all image data (dimensions/resolution/filename). Transfer of final archives to clean tapes and then to DVD ram format
25. Webmaster for 10 G website containing listing of all Lone Pine books as well as “Birdguide.com" web within the Lone Pine web. Spent 3 months fixing image, text, alignment, and other errors in original web. Replace of poorly scanned cover images with complete new set containing all covers. Various specialty “What’s new” pages with spreads
26. Layout Artist and Graphic Design professional. Worked on numerous books at various stages
27. Entire book completed begin to end "Wildflowers of Sierra Nevada" 338 pages. All layout, majority design decisions
28. Extensive batch scanning of all book covers in Lone Pine catalog and archiving of cover images for print, as well as batch converting (Photoshop) all cover images for optimal web dimensions and file size
29. Scanning technician, image editor, batch processing, colour matching for book layout and web images
30. Backup of current books in progress, as well as all editorial backups
31. Testing of software technologies and their efficiency publishing production process. Recommended use of Acrobat for author review copies, I-view for image cataloging(mac), numerous plugins, DVD archive format, batch processes, etc.
32. Continued multimedia/web design studies began studies in VB6 database front end programming

Internet Business Advisor, Technical Director, Instructor

(business web design/internet communications and efficiency)

Student Connections Thunder Bay, Ont. June ’96 – Nov ‘97

Industry Canada funded small business Internet training program

Within the Northwest Enterprise Centre (N.E.C), Confederation College

33. Wrote numerous training materials for manuals and presentations on the business uses of the Internet, and effective Internet business practices.
34. Regularly made presentations on Internet and computer technology to business oriented audiences of 30 or more.
35. Maintained 3 Pentium 133 multimedia computers in a multi-user setting for Student Connections, as well as performing PC support technical duties on numerous machines within the Northwest Enterprise Centre.
36. Trained new staff members of Student Connections
37. Trained more advanced students of the program in web site design and advanced Internet productivity concepts
38. A developer of the Future Eye Computer Technology for Business seminar presented by N.E.C. in ‘97
39. Technical consultant/designer for N.E.C. on multimedia business training applications including cd-rom authoring, web page design, corporate identity graphic design and Internet conferencing
40. Tested new Internet technologies and made recommendations for integration into course structure
41. Advanced studies in multimedia using programs such as Director, After Effects, and Lightwave
42. Began first studies into windows networking concepts and practices

Web Page Designer

Baynet Internet Prov. Thunder Bay, Ont.

43. Designed pages Thunder Bay Restaurant Guide, Sheldon Reproduction, Team 100 Realty, Cencan, etc.
44. Contract work while working for Student Connections/Northwest Enterprise Centre (see above)

Conference Audio Visual Technician

Tel AV audio visual Vancouver, BC

Extensive customer service interaction with corporate clientele in a business environment.

References:

45. Available on request

I believe some of my most important qualities are:

46. Patience
47. Client support and interaction skills
48. 12+ years experience in advanced computing and its concepts/processes
49. Highly trained and committed to further professional learning and certifications
50. Dependability. I can be relied upon to complete any task in a professional and efficient manner
51. A positive, open, and helpful attitude in my dealings with clients and co-workers
52. Leadership/Managerial qualities
53. Teaching/User Support/Presentation abilities
54. I am equally comfortable working in team situations or as a self directed individual
55. Highly adaptable. Constantly searching for new methods/techniques to increase efficiency and quality
56. Understand new technologies and their applications quickly
57. Extensive knowledge of file formats and applications software.
58. Creative thinker, problem solver
59. Near photographic memory
60. Airbrush artist, multi-instrumental musician, outdoor enthusiast
61. 4 years of Drama and Theatre training in both acting and set building/stage work.

Technical Overview

All procedures and software known at an advanced level

except: (I) intermediate ability, (Jr.) Junior ability (more than cursory knowledge)

This overview does not contain Multimedia skill sets, see applicant’s Multimedia resume

Major Software installs to date: (Multiple machine ghosting/imaging counted as 1 install)
Windows 2K Server Windows 2K Professional Windows XP Corporate Windows 2003 Server	45+ 40+ 50+ 10		Office 2000 Office 97 Office XP Office 2003	55+ 100+ 30+ 20+
Windows NT Server (I)	10+		MS SQL Server 2000	8
Windows 98	40+		Oracle 8 (Jr.)	3
Windows NT workstation	20+		Netware 5 server (Jr.)	4
Windows 95	50+		Netware client	50+
Mac OS 6/7/8/8.5/9/OSX with Mac Application software	60+		Norton Anti virus	100+
Netscape & IE (vers. 3-5)	200+		Adobe Photoshop	65+
Windows 3.1	30+		Linux: Red Hat/Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, Suse, Mandrake, Slackware, Knoppix etc. Various Linux server/client applications software and configurations	80+
Dos	25+		Apache Web Server	15+
Vmware virtual machines	70+		Sun Solaris Unix 8 (I)	20
MS Systems Management Server	2		MS Exchange Server 2000 MS Exchange Server 2003	12

Software Packages that can be supported at an advanced level:
Microsoft:	Other:	Adobe:
Win 3.1/95/98/NT/2K/ME/XP	Remedy, Groupwise, Wordperfect	Acrobat/Distiller, Illustrator
Access, Excel, Word, Powerpoint	Apache Web Server, FTP utilities/servers	Photoshop, Indesign, GoLive
Internet Explorer, Front Page, Publisher	Star Office/Open Office	PageMaker, FrameMaker
Internet Information Server, Exchange	ISO/BIN/disk image tools	TypeManager, Image Styler
SQL, Small Business Server	Vmware/Virtual PC	After FX/Premiere/CS suite
Visual Studio/Interdev 6(I)	Autocad/Microstation
Systems Management Server	Accpac/Simply Accounting	Extensis Quark 4 - 6
	Websense, Brightmail, Sophos, Ositis
Norton/Symantec:		Macromedia:
Ghost, Suitcase, Winfax Pro	Acronis TrueImage, DriveImage	Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver
Internet Security, Corporate/Home Antivirus	All Trend Micro products	Framemaker, Freehand
Final Cut Pro Studio		Mac OS 6/7/8/9 /10+ Applications For Print, Multimedia, Design
Softimage 3.2 – 3.5 - XSI	Valve Source Game editing	Quicktime
Maya / 3DS Max	Lightwave
Mudbox/Zbrush/powerbuilder	Modo
Experience with a huge array of applications, not all can be presented. If one isn’t listed please contact me. I may know it well.

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