PC Technician, Digital Artist
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
- Current
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- Field Technician at Qualxserv
- Past
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- Electrical Cad-Cam at Genesys Industries
- Electrical drafter at CDI Engineering Solutions - Aerospace
- PC Technician at Lake Ridge Academy
- PC Technician at Modis
- PC Technician at MurTech Consulting
- Electrical Drafter/Designer at Analex Corporation
- Electrical drafter at Rockwell Automation
- Education
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- Ohio Business College
- Electronic Technology Institute
- Case Western Reserve University
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Arnold Johnson’s Summary
*PC Field Technician making warranty repairs, part replacement, bios update, and software installation.
*PC Support Technician providing support for networked PC's and Macs and printers. Monitoring and troubleshooting for hardware and software failures, replacing parts, removing viruses, maul-ware. Installing software and prepping for deployment and tracking inventory of laptops for student and faculty use.
*PC Technician Contractor removing older PC equipment and installing new. Deployed printers, faxes and work stations, insuring network connections were correct and clients had access to new equipment.
*Electrical CAD Designer supplying documentation and drawings for wiring systems on NASA space station project. Also worked on lab facilities improvements and printed circuit board design.
Arnold Johnson’s Specialties:
PC hardware repair and setup, PC user support, Desktop Linux setup and Linux user support, Electrical CAD, Digital Art
Arnold Johnson’s Experience
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Field Technician
Qualxserv
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Warranty replacement on Dell laptops and desktops
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Electrical Cad-Cam
Genesys Industries
(Computer Hardware industry)
December 2008 — December 2008 (1 month)
They made test fixtures to test printed circuit boards in Agilent 3070 board tester. I would take pcb data, draw board clearances to fit board onto fixture, prepare the CAM file.
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Electrical drafter
CDI Engineering Solutions - Aerospace
(Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
August 2008 — September 2008 (2 months)
Revising drawings to add camera and phone communication upgrades to GE Rail systems. Used AutoCad and Unigraphics NX4.
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PC Technician
Lake Ridge Academy
(Education Management industry)
April 2008 — June 2008 (3 months)
Assisted Network Manager in maintaining and deploying computers and laptops for student access, and for faculty and staff. Mixed PC and Mac environment. Installed network monitoring software, anti-virus, troubleshooting hardware and replaced malfunctioning hardware. Also did inventory tracking.
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PC Technician
Modis
(Public Company; MPS; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — November 2007 (1 month)
Assigned to Ford Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Ohio. Removed old printers, installed new HP printers in offices and on production line.
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PC Technician
MurTech Consulting
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)
Assigned to Key Bank for Printer upgrade project. Removed HP printers and faxes, removed CRT displays, removed computers for retirement. Erased hard drives. Uncrated, installed new Xerox printers, work-centers and faxes in business offices and trade floors at three corporate office locations. Mapped users to new equipment. Also removed computers for renovations and reconnected them afterward.
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Electrical Drafter/Designer
Analex Corporation
(Aviation & Aerospace industry)
June 1999 — August 2004 (5 years 3 months)
Electrical Drafting and engineering support. Worked at NASA Glen on fuel testing module targeted for International Space Station. Did layouts for wiring harnesses using AutoCad. Used Orcad to modify printed circuit boards and designed a few new boards. Also did some lab facilities upgrade work, documenting new wiring installation.
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Electrical drafter
Rockwell Automation
(Public Company; ROK; Industrial Automation industry)
June 1985 — February 1999 (13 years 9 months)
Worked in the paper group designing motor drive systems for paper mill machinery. Did the wiring diagrams, the cabinet and panel layouts. Worked on AC and DC systems, 20hp to 1000hp drive systems. Followed jobs through shop, correcting problems, updating drawings. Also present on test floor and final inspection before shipping.
Company was called Reliance Electric at the time.
Arnold Johnson’s Education
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Ohio Business College
Associates , PC Support Technology , 2005 — 2007
CompTIA A+ and Network+ certifications, Promoted Linux and FOSS (free and open source software), Built PC from parts, tinkered with servers, Cisco router and switches, installed and used Microsoft Office products, installed Microsoft Server 2003
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Electronic Technology Institute
2 year Certificate , Electronic technology, drafting , 1979 — 1981
- Activities and Societies:
- Pencil drafting, pen & ink drafting, circuit drawing, electronic technology fundamentals, Built radio, troubleshoot TV circuits, used test equipment
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Case Western Reserve University
Architectural Design, Art 1970 — 1972
I was very interested in architecture and interior furnishing design, especially new technologies. Geodesic domes, autonomous buildings, green building, solar and wind power and self-sustaining environments were all fresh ideas in college. I was not a college bound high schooler, I won a scholarship because I could draw houses in a work-study program to introduce the architecture field to inner-city kids, put on by Case Western Reserve Univ architecture faculty.
- Activities and Societies:
- drawing, painting, sculpture, played saxophone and conga drums in drum and dance troupe, Worked in campus library, Substitute jazz disc-jockey on campus radio station
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Arnold Johnson’s Interests:
Linux (Ubuntu), digital art, vector graphics, wall graphics, wide format printing, PC hardware, open source software, jazz, green technology
Arnold Johnson’s Groups:
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Computer Repair Group
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