Student/Mac IT Specialist
Knoxville, Tennessee Area
Student/Mac IT Specialist
Knoxville, Tennessee Area
Technology generalist and detail driven individual with sales and technical experience in consumer and professional computer areas. Highly professional and passionate; fanatically tracking the latest in technology trends and cycles.
Mobile usability, news web site management, django development
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
Facilitate the day-to-day operations of the news website, The Tennessee Journalist. Develop, maintain, and deploy new features and additions to the custom built content management system based on Django, built with Python and MySQL. Improve site layout and design in CSS and XML. Ensure 99.999% availability of myself and the site. Launch an integrated video service.
(Public Company; AAPL; Retail industry)
September 2008 — January 2009 (5 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOL; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
March 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 4 months)
Assist in marketing, sales, and certain technical areas of Apple on the University of Tennessee Knoxville campus. Organize and coordinate among campus groups to enhance Apple involvement and imaging.
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)
August 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Assist students, faculty, and staff one-on-one in the creation of digital media projects primarily utilizing iLife and Final Cut Studio. Teach and troubleshoot video capture, editing, and production.
(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)
September 2005 — August 2006 (1 year )
Produce, edit, and import various forms of analog or recorded media such as slides, film, books, documents, and video. Participate in portions of process improvement and design. Develop new digital slate animation using Apple Motion's and Final Cut Pro for video projects in the Digital Media Service.
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Retail industry)
September 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Facilitate sales of Apple hardware and software as well as other brands carried by the store. Assisted in troubleshooting and repair of Macs and generic PCs. Participated in upkeep of store's Macs and other systems.
BS , Journalism and Electronic Media, Broadcast Communications, Information Science and Technology , 2004 — 2009
new media, human machine interaction, usability, user interfaces, marketing, troubleshooting, skiing, clarinet, sci-fi, classical music, typography, photography, video production
Recipient of an Apple Student Scholarship to attend WWDC - 2007