Information Technology Specialist and Web Designer
Kansas City, Missouri Area
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- Senior Webmaster & General Manager at Our Knickknacks (Self-employed)
- Information Technology Specialist at CPU help
- Past
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- Computer Optimized Manufacturing Specialist at Optimation, inc
- Education
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- University of Missouri-Rolla
- Maple Woods Community College
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Frank Verdusco’s Summary
IT Systems Specialist with extensive experience in computer network design, remote office computing, file server and computer hardware maintenance, network protection using firewall appliances, wireless access behind firewall protection, removal and defense against malware threats, eCommerce web design and maintenance.
Frank Verdusco’s Specialties:
Small Business Computer network design with firewall protection and wireless access. Website design with HTML, CSS, Javascript and more.
Frank Verdusco’s Experience
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Senior Webmaster & General Manager
Our Knickknacks (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Retail industry)
April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)
HTML, Javascript, PHP, etc programming to design and maintain online store website. Developed relationships with the manufacturers for the product lines that we currently sell online. Manage the online store and product updates. Perform customer service, order taking, billing and accounting on a daily basis.
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Information Technology Specialist
CPU help
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1989 — Present (20 years 2 months)
Perform customer computer needs analyses and subsequent computer network design, maintenance and support that includes high quality File Server hardware, Laptop and Desktop Computer hardware, Firewall appliances and Virus protection.
Additional services provided include remote office computing, wireless access and troubleshooting, virus removal, computer diagnostics and repair as well as Help Desk support with remote management. -
Computer Optimized Manufacturing Specialist
Optimation, inc
(Computer Software industry)
April 1986 — September 1989 (3 years 6 months)
- FORTRAN Programming, Debugging and successful implementation of the company's raw material nesting application, OPTINEST, on an 80386 based PC running SCO Xenix/Unix System V. The Nesting application was originally designed on a VAX/VMS mainframe.
- Wrote several Unix shell scripts to facilitate downloading machine code punch and laser commands/instructions to PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) from the Nesting application to complete the raw material fabrication process.
- Successfully ported the company's nesting application to various platforms and Operating Systems (OS's) including HP-UX, IBM-AIX, Apollo Systems (Later HP), NCR Tower using BSD Unix, and Data General.
- Established communications among the various aforementioned platforms and their OS's to enable them to communicate seamlessly over the same Ethernet in order to facilitate customer system installations after the porting, compilation and debugging phase of the OPTINEST code for each platform was completed.
- Assisted the design engineers with communications from the Digital Drafting tables to the various platforms so that customers would be able to digitize their parts into the parts library of the OPTINEST application.
- Performed onsite installations and setup of the OPTINEST applications with subsequent customer hardware and software support.
Frank Verdusco’s Education
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University of Missouri-Rolla
Bachelors , Computer Science , 1984 — 1985
Relevant Coursework, Licensures and Certifications:
COMPUTER HARDWARE and ORGANIZATION,
ROBOT Modeling,
SYSTEM 370 JOB CONTROL LANGUAGE,
OPERATIONS RESEARCH,
Digital Simulation - GPSS V,
DATA STRUCTURES (including Recursive programming and Binary Tree Structured Data Base organization).
Computer curriculum included extensive programming in PL/I and FORTRAN WATFIV on an IBM-4341.
Engineering Courses included:
ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY,
DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN,
ATOMIC and NUCLEAR PHYSICS,
ENGINEERING STATISTICS,
AC CIRCUIT ANALYSIS,
HONORS and Awards:
Placed on Honor Roll - Winter 1985 with GPA 3.5 for the semester.- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Kappa Theta
PHI KAPPA PHI - Selected as a Senior in the top 10% of the class to join this NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY with cumulative GPA in Computer Science = 3.8 at the time of selection.
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Maple Woods Community College
Associates , Computer Science, Engineering and Applied Science , 1981 — 1984
(Transfer Degree program to University of Missouri - Rolla)
Programming languages including ADA, Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, Assembly Language and BUSINESS SYSTEMS DESIGN.
- Field Project included development of programming libraries containing utilities that included screen handling utilities for the JANUS compiler as this was a brand new compiler and programming language for the college computer science department.
Engineering course work included:
Calculus & Analytical Geometry, Differential Equations & Matrix Theory,
Engineering Physics, DC Circuit Analysis,
Engineering Mechanics - Statics,
Engineering Mechanics - Dynamics, Statistics,- Activities and Societies:
- Math & Science award - Recognized as one of the top two students out of 700 in the Math & Science Curriculum with a GPA in Math = 4.0 and GPA in Science = 3.9.
PHI THETA KAPPA - Selected to enter this NATIONAL HONOR FRATERNITY because of GPA above 3.5
Served as Student Representative on the Curriculum Committee and lobbied to acquire the Janus compiler for the Computer Science dept.
Received 3 Associates Degrees CUM LAUDE: Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Science (GPA 3.753)
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Grillmaster, Musician (guitar), Christian Music, fishing, leatherworking, coin collecting, woodworking.
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