Writer, Songwriter, Musician, Web designer, Business Owner
Missoula, Montana Area
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- Volunteer Sound Engineer / Website Admin at Lone Rock Bible Church
- Owner, Consultant at Sapphire Website and Computer Services
- Singer-Songwriter at Tomas David Hood, Musician / Singer-Songwriter
- Contributing Editor at CQ VHF Magazine
- Contributing Editor at CQ Magazine
- Contributing Editor at Popular Communications Magazine
- Owner at NewWebMakers.com
- Past
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- Technical Writer at Entirenet
- Hardware and Networking Technician at Ty's Computers
- Senior Technology Lead at GreaterGood.com
- Founder, Senior Consultant at Anything Technical, Inc. (Carny, Hood, and Pancost, Inc.)
- Senior Software Developer at Travelers
- Education
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- US Army
- Stevi High School
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Tomas Hood’s Summary
Experience since 1983:
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+ Software design, coding, deployment
+ Web technologies
+ E-commerce
+ Technical writing
+ Database engineering
Languages:
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+ Perl
+ PHP
+ C, C#, C++
+ XML, HTML, DHTML, XHTML
+ WML, WAP
+ Various assembler
+ SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server)
+ Visual Basic
Platforms:
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+ Windows and Linux/Un*x
+ Some Apple
Other:
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Propagation and Radio Science Forecaster: have observed, analyzed, and created solar weather and radio propagation forecasts since 1998. Created software to gather and help in analysis of satellite data, solar observations, and related radio data.
Tomas Hood’s Specialties:
Software development, coding, scripting, testing; computer repair, networking, upgrading, optimizing; web site design, web site application development; web site hosting; anti-virus and security consulting; telecommunications; broadcasting; radio propagation; technical writing and global English
Tomas Hood’s Experience
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Volunteer Sound Engineer / Website Admin
Lone Rock Bible Church
(Religious Institutions industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Sound mixing, recording, editing. Technical / electrical sound engineering. Website adminstration. Re-work website project is currently underway.
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Owner, Consultant
Sapphire Website and Computer Services
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Owner and founder of Sapphire Website and Computer Services, a brick-and-mortar computer store and website design company. We serve the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana. We sell and service computers, and we do networking and web site design, as well as hosting of web sites. We do security and anti-malware services as well as data recovery.
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Singer-Songwriter
Tomas David Hood, Musician / Singer-Songwriter
(Music industry)
2007 — Present (2 years)
Tomas David Hood (BMI) is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Association International, and the Songwriters Guild of America. Tomas works with various genres including Country, Rock, Christian, Acoustic, and Americana. Tomas writes lyrics as well as music compositions. Tomas co-writes as well.
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Contributing Editor
CQ VHF Magazine
(Telecommunications industry)
2003 — Present (6 years)
Space weather and radio wave propagation are connected, and these two fields of science are discussed and explained. News as well as theory are balanced so readers may gain a working knowledge in a way that enables more effective communications by way of radio.
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Contributing Editor
CQ Magazine
(Telecommunications industry)
2002 — Present (7 years)
Space weather and radio wave propagation are connected, and these two fields of science are discussed and explained. News as well as theory are balanced so readers may gain a working knowledge in a way that enables more effective communications by way of radio.
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Contributing Editor
Popular Communications Magazine
(Telecommunications industry)
2002 — Present (7 years)
Space weather and radio wave propagation are connected, and these two fields of science are discussed and explained. News as well as theory are balanced so readers may gain a working knowledge in a way that enables more effective communications by way of radio.
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Owner
NewWebMakers.com
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — Present (9 years)
Build and deploy database-driven websites (example: NASA MURED); craft Java, Perl, C++ applications (example: ATT Mobile).
Create graphical art, layout, and technology behind many small business and community sites; create and deploy many stand-alone applications as well as web-based solutions for many clients. -
Technical Writer
Entirenet
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2005 — 2007 (2 years)
Write technical articles for Microsoft. MSDN, and Knowledge Base topics.
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Hardware and Networking Technician
Ty's Computers
(Computer Hardware industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
Repair, upgrade, maintain, optimize computer systems for home users, businesses, non-profits. Networking. Website design and consulting.
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Senior Technology Lead
GreaterGood.com
(Fund-Raising industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
Sole and Initial technology development, in the role of CIO/CTO, but not an officer. Create initial phases of GreaterGood.com web presence. Plan and manage all IT hardware and software, networking. Organized and led technology group with WebObjects and ObjectiveC, moving to the Apple platform.
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Founder, Senior Consultant
Anything Technical, Inc. (Carny, Hood, and Pancost, Inc.)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1992 — 1998 (6 years)
Consulting company providing turn-key solutions for e-commerce, applications for management, and database solutions for a diverse range of business models. Developed Windows multimedia applications to enable a growth audio industry. Programmed and supported Windows device drivers. Designed and deployed Microsoft Access database applications.
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Senior Software Developer
Travelers
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TRV; Insurance industry)
1989 — 1991 (2 years)
Created 3GL applications and tools for real-time quoting system using C and Assembler.
Tomas Hood’s Education
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US Army
IT and telecommunications 1983 — 1989
Military Training, self training in computer sciences; hands-on since 1983.
- Activities and Societies:
- ACM
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Stevi High School
High School , College Prep , 1982 — 1983
- Activities and Societies:
- Drama & Music
Additional Information
Tomas Hood’s Websites:
Tomas Hood’s Interests:
Space Weather, Radio Propagation, Website Design, Information Technologies, Technical Writing, horses, God and church, family, Amateur Radio, Ham Radio, Shortwave Radio, Solar Science, Linux, Perl, PHP, MySQL, C#, Music, Guitar, Song Writing
Tomas Hood’s Honors:
Army Achievement Medals (2), State Director of Army MARS in Washington State, Amateur Radio Extra
Tomas Hood’s Contact Settings
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- new ventures
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