Sloan Ozanne

Current

• Chief Geek at Adventure Helpdesk, LLC

Past

• Systems/Network Engineer at Brinker International
• Customer Support/Help Desk at DixieNET ISP (Oxford, MS)

Education

• The University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management
• University of Mississippi - School of Business Administration

Recommended

1 person has recommended Sloan

Connections

79 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• Twitter feed

Sloan Ozanne’s Summary

I'm a geek.......what can I say?? I started playing with computers back in the old Apple IIe days. I remember our first PC at home was the original IBM green screen PC with two low density 5.25 drives and 64K of memory. From there I just started breaking systems and then would figure out how to fix them on my own. Of course I've had a considerable amount of training since then ;-)

My main professional experience was the seven years I spent with Brinker Intl. I started there as an intern on the Y2K project and they couldn't get rid of me. During that time I would moonlight as a home and SMB support geek and honed those skills. Then in July of 2006 I left Brinker to take on the challenge of being a small business owner and turned my moonlighting career into a full-time job.

As far as my profession goals go........I want to take the knowledge and skills that have been developed and put them to good use for SMB's and home users because they typically don't have the resources to have their own IT staffs. That is unless one is living at home (you're welcome Mom and Dad!).

Sloan Ozanne’s Specialties:

Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, and the MS server architecture.

Sloan Ozanne’s Experience

• Chief Geek

  Adventure Helpdesk, LLC

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

  I started this company to focus on providing technical help to small businesses and home users.

• Systems/Network Engineer

  Brinker International

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; eat; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1999 — July 2006 (7 years 6 months)

• Customer Support/Help Desk

  DixieNET ISP (Oxford, MS)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  September 1996 — December 1998 (2 years 4 months)

  I acted as local tech support for the Oxford, MS POP. I also handled setting up new accounts and worked with the phone company with the PRI lines had fits.

Sloan Ozanne’s Education

• The University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management

  2000 — 2003

• University of Mississippi - School of Business Administration

  MIS 1995 — 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Kappa Tau

Additional Information

Sloan Ozanne’s Websites:

• My Company
• Twitter feed

Sloan Ozanne’s Interests:

Flying (yes, I'm a private pilot), skiing, hiking, camping, fly fishing........basically anything that can be done in the Mountains.

Sloan Ozanne’s Groups:

Phi Kappa Tau, Microsoft Partner, Symantec Partner, Watchgaurd Partner

•    Windows IT Pro Magazine Forum
•    GFI Software

Sloan Ozanne’s Honors:

Eagle Scout

Sloan Ozanne’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch