Donald Pirl

Current

• Windows Desktop Engineering at MCG
• Web Designer & Webmaster at The Gateway
• President at Sand 2 Pirls

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Past

• Desktop Software Engineering and Deployment at Taos
• Senior Systems Administrator at Headlands/Greenpoint Mortgage
• Desktop Engineering Contractor at Safeway

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Education

• University of California, Davis
• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Donald Pirl’s Summary

Senior level IT Systems Administrator professional with extensive hands on Windows technical experience. Broad background in Desktop Engineering having software deployment, integration, and reporting automation skills as well as database design and query abilities.

Having been a part of IT infrastructure transitions from a few hundred to thousands of Desktop PCs supported, I have in depth hands on experience with many key technologies as well as the ability to quickly assimilate or develop new technologies. I have the ability to automate complex processes while retaining infrastructure robustness and integrity. I also write high level program code in various languages and database formats and oversee such development, whether the design is web based or locally installed.

Donald Pirl’s Specialties:

Specfic skills include SMS software deployment, inventory, Wise software packaging, Microsoft Active Directory, virtualization software (EMC VMWare and Microsoft Virtual PC), and scripted or imaged workstation builds in all current Microsoft operating systems.

Network skills include hands on experience constructing small office networks, including Apple Macintosh, PC integration.

Specific language skills include VBScript, SQL, and PHP-HTML/MySQL web development.

Donald Pirl’s Experience

• Windows Desktop Engineering

  MCG

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  On contract at Sutter Health, Marin General Hospital for Software Packaging, and Desktop Engineering.

• Web Designer & Webmaster

  The Gateway

  (Computer Software industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years)

• President

  Sand 2 Pirls

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

  Sand 2 Pirls Small Business Technologies (www.sand2pirls.com) provides technical services for small business including dynamic website development with customized content management.
  
  Ancient Paths Personal Growth (www.ancientpathspersonalgrowth.org) is a community outreach sponsored by Sand 2 Pirls, Inc. for the purpose facilitating personal psychological and spiritual growth through the use of tools such as the Enneagram, Meyers Briggs MBTI, and Love Langages.

• Desktop Software Engineering and Deployment

  Taos

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2007 — February 2008 (8 months)

  On contract at Safeway in Walnut Creek with Desktop Engineering team assisting in transition to SMS from HP's Radia software deployment system. Wrote may custom SQL queries for Safeway's specialized reporting needs. Also on contract at inSilica.com for support of Active Directory environment.

• Senior Systems Administrator

  Headlands/Greenpoint Mortgage

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; COF; Banking industry)

  1996 — 2007 (11 years)

  Administration of Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) for software deployment and inventory reporting, software packaging and QA, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) deployment and reporting, Active Directory Group Policy creation and maintenance, VBScript enterprise wide logon scripts, integration of client server software into a complex network environment, level 3 technical support.

• Desktop Engineering Contractor

  Safeway

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SWY; Retail industry)

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

Donald Pirl’s Education

• University of California, Davis

  B.S. ,

• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

  M.S. ,

Additional Information

Donald Pirl’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company
• My Website

Donald Pirl’s Interests:

Current interests include WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) especially as utilized for customized dynamic Website content management.

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