Andy Flagg

Current

• VP/Treasurer at Mountain Computers, Inc.

Past

• Treasurer, Board Supervisor at Washoe-Storey Conservation District
• President Nevada Inventors Association at Nevada Inventors Association
• WCSD IT Advisory Subcommittee Member at Washoe County School District

• Chairman, Customer Service 2008 Competition at Skills USA Nevada
• Owner at Reno4Sale.com - Reno, NV
• Owner, Director of Software Development and Training at MCS Systems, ARFE Enterprises
• Software Support Specialist and Professional at University of Nevada, Reno
• Network Operations Manager / Interim Director at Redundant Networks - Reno, NV
• CTO at Cool Trade Inc. formerly Neural Tick, Inc.
• Chairman, Commissioner at Humboldt County Regional Planning Commission
• CIO at Web-Stew.com - N. Nevada & Scottsdale, AZ
• Network Operations Manager, Contractor, Consultant at The-OnRamp.Net
• Editorial Column Guest Writer at Humboldt Sun Newspaper
• Technical Manager at Microsoft Corporation - Redmond, WA
• Supply Specialist at Washington Army National Guard - Seattle, WA
• Supply Specialist at Oregon Army National Guard - Ashland, OR
• Editorial Column Writer at The Edge Newspaper
• Chairman, Member at Oregon Student Lobby (OSL) - Salem, OR
• Student Body President at Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) - Klamath Falls, OR
• Assistant Manager at Bit Stop Computers - Klamath Falls, OR
• Library Aide and Research Assistant at Various
• Computing Center Specialist at Oregon Institute of Technology
• Supply Specialist at US Army
• Clerk, Checker, Box Boy - Rays Sentry, Ashland, OR at Ray's Sentry Market, Ashland Oregon
• President - Ashland, OR at 4-H of Southern Oregon

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Education

• University of Phoenix
• University of Phoenix
• Oregon Institute of Technology

• US Army Quartermaster School - Ft. Lee, VA
• Ashland High School - Ashland, OR

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Hardware

Websites

• Mountain Computers Inc

Andy Flagg’s Summary

For nearly 30 years, my track record has been customer oriented, with a plethora of experience and education in operational and executive leadership within information technology and a wide variety of cross-over business sectors related directly to business success.

My goals are to continue to provide the best leadership and guidance to organizations at senior and executive levels for years to come.

Andy Flagg’s Specialties:

Organizational Leadership and Management, Revenue Generation Finance and Accounting, Information Technology, Supply Chain Management, Legal-ease, Risk Management, Philanthropy, Citizenship, US Army, et al.

Andy Flagg’s Experience

• VP/Treasurer

  Mountain Computers, Inc.

  (Information Services industry)

  May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  Responsible for Business Operations and Finance of a newly formed computer company based in Reno, Nevada specializing in computer repair and service, website design and development, advanced computer design and optimization, information technology and network services, professional training and development / image coaching.

• Treasurer, Board Supervisor

  Washoe-Storey Conservation District

  (Government Relations industry)

  February 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 11 months)

  "working with all agencies to collaborate, communicate, lead and synergize, reduce duplication of effort and conserve resources and promote the greater good of the region, and educate all in the spirit and supporting law of the land to protect the history, habitats and nature for all to enjoy and treasure." - learn more at http://wscd.nv.gov and http://www.wscd.org

• President Nevada Inventors Association

  Nevada Inventors Association

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 2008 — December 2008 (1 year)

  The Nevada Inventors Association is an organization based on helping innovators, inventors and the public on the education and training to protect ones ideas, creations and intellectual property.
  
  visit and join, learn more http://www.NevadaInventors.Org
  
  As of February 2008, serving as President of the NIA with the goals and intentions to grow, streamline and optimize the organization and improve training and development of the members in the areas of patent protection, business, sales, marketing, and product development, manufacturing, quality, and more...

• WCSD IT Advisory Subcommittee Member

  Washoe County School District

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Education Management industry)

  September 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 3 months)

  Mountain Computers is an IT advisory subcommittee member to the Washoe County School District. Our service includes visiting and auditing high schools in the area and recommending improvements that enhance and connect the students experience in high school and connect it to the real world of business and employment.

• Chairman, Customer Service 2008 Competition

  Skills USA Nevada

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

  April 2008 — April 2008 (1 month)

  Completed sponsorship and organization of the customer service competition for the Nevada Skills USA 2008 contest. Worked with Terry Fowler of the Washoe County School District to design and implement a new and accurate customer service contest that accurately depicts business and industry needs. The competition was most successfully held at the Mandalay Bay Circus Circus Ballroom. Judges of the competition include Kellie Kuchler, Mike Tontimonia, and Terry Fowler.

• Owner

  Reno4Sale.com - Reno, NV

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  November 2001 — December 2006 (5 years 2 months)

  As of December 2007, Reno4Sale will become a division of Mountain Computers, Inc. The future of Reno4Sale and its other regions along with R&D are under development.
  
  Back in 2002, the Reno4Sale.com (R4S) phenomenon has taken off with several competitors seeking to take market dominance. The value of Regional4Sale.com (RG4S) continues to grow as strategic and tactical marketing and sales reach every demographic within the RG4S business plan.
  
  The investment value and opportunity to seek critical mass at some M&A is evident if not foretold based on the movement and direction of the online phenomenon as expected. Continued forward effort and progress of work, passion, streamlining, and optimizing based on existing business models is forthcoming (Subway, Mailboxes Etc., JetBlue, Southwest, Clear Channel, etc).

• Owner, Director of Software Development and Training

  MCS Systems, ARFE Enterprises

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1998 — June 2006 (8 years 6 months)

  From 1998 to 2001, invested, supported and managed a software development and comprehensive training company in N. Nevada with plans to expand to the West coast region. Clientele included 5 enterprise customers, and 45 mid-tier customers in 10 different industry sectors.
  
  As of 2005, currently managing three business ventures in the western United States starting 1998 in the areas of business and technology management and consulting, marketing and sales support management; with plans to expand from a local regional solution network to a national network in phases from 2005 and 2007. Ultimate goal is a fully capitalized national network by the year 2008, with strategic re-organization by 2010, and a 10 year business success cycle to the year 2020. By the year 2016, there are national intentions of strategic management changes and re-organization by the year of 2020.
  
  In 2006, migrated Andrew R. Flagg Enterprises into Mountain Computers, Inc.

• Software Support Specialist and Professional

  University of Nevada, Reno

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2004 — May 2006 (2 years 1 month)

  Provided software support to the University of Nevada Reno campus and surrounding satellite offices on a daily basis. Served on campus projects to improve computing support services, professional development and training projects, and worked with management to guide in the growth and development of centralized and managed support services. Over 25 colleges, 1500 employees, 6000 computers, 100 networks, 100 servers and 40 applications were managed and supported.

• Network Operations Manager / Interim Director

  Redundant Networks - Reno, NV

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2003 — May 2004 (7 months)

  On a monthly basis, directed the day-to-day operations of a 20,000 sq. ft data center, organizing human resources, and identifying, planning, and directing concurrently over a dozen IT and business projects. My major successes included overhauling the network operations organization to streamline and optimize internal operations with sales, marketing and quality, and at the same time end-to-end 7/24 customer support. Major successes included improving team member and employee performance and professional development, streamlined and optimized daily operations to seek a world class level of business unit. In addition re-established and improved technical information and knowledge sharing with other departments to enhances marketing, sales and quality management support. Strategically and tactically supported the company's SAS 70 Level 2 goal to attract additional financial customers.

• CTO

  Cool Trade Inc. formerly Neural Tick, Inc.

  (Investment Management industry)

  November 2001 — June 2002 (8 months)

  Completed strategic planning, technical design & management, and business development of Nevada based Internet based revolutionary financial stock trading system and e-commerce company. Headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona. Company re-organized in 2002 through 2004, with new strategic investment and implementation plans in 2005.
  
  Company innovation renamed to Cool-Trade.com

• Chairman, Commissioner

  Humboldt County Regional Planning Commission

  (Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Government Relations industry)

  December 1999 — November 2001 (2 years)

  Appointed as commissioner and then Chairman of Regional Planning Commission to complete representative duties to the county regarding planning, zoning, and business license applications. Completed initial and follow-up activities on 20 year master planning project for the region.

• CIO

  Web-Stew.com - N. Nevada & Scottsdale, AZ

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  January 1999 — July 2001 (2 years 7 months)

  Completed strategic planning, business development, and software development of Nevada based Internet e-commerce company. Headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona.

• Network Operations Manager, Contractor, Consultant

  The-OnRamp.Net

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  January 1998 — July 2001 (3 years 7 months)

  Managed overall network operations of systems and staff, providing direct customer service on complex networking issues, designing and developing application integration solutions, and providing online accounting systems design, streamlining and support. Managed all DNS, RADIUS, IIS, ASP, Windows 2000 Servers, SQL Server 6.5/7, LiveStats, ActivePerl. Managed major and minor management of Cisco Border and Distribution Routers across 5 POPs statewide. Worked extensively with CEO to improve and re-organize Internet presence with their migration to wireless and virtual dialup services. Completed VOIP development and design solutions in Reno area. Developed and designed proactive and preventive systems to provide corrective action and monitoring and auditing systems for overall operations from webhosting, network traffic, to accounting.

• Editorial Column Guest Writer

  Humboldt Sun Newspaper

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Newspapers industry)

  September 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  Completed a weekly editorial section called Flagg's Forum for the local newspaper. Topics included education, libraries, family, community, health, technology, and business. The focus of the column was suggesting proactive thinking, planning, and communication with activities to improve your home, family and work life.

• Technical Manager

  Microsoft Corporation - Redmond, WA

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  June 1991 — November 1997 (6 years 6 months)

  Worldwide Operations, Microsoft Replication, Worldwide Quality, Product Support Services were the business divisions I worked heavily within an emphasis in replication hardware and software engineering management. Authorized Replication management, rollout of Windows 95, NT, and dating back to Windows 3.1 and MS DOS 3.3. Asked to help start MS Licensing in Reno, NV but declined and semi-retired in Winnemucca, NV.

• Supply Specialist

  Washington Army National Guard - Seattle, WA

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

  June 1991 — September 1993 (2 years 4 months)

• Supply Specialist

  Oregon Army National Guard - Ashland, OR

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

  September 1987 — June 1991 (3 years 10 months)

• Editorial Column Writer

  The Edge Newspaper

  (Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Newspapers industry)

  May 1990 — June 1991 (1 year 2 months)

  Completed a weekly editorial section called Flagg's Forum for the local college newspaper. Topics included student rights, education, libraries, family, community, health, technology, military, and business. The focus of the column was suggesting proactive thinking, planning, and communication with activities to improve your home, family and work life.

• Chairman, Member

  Oregon Student Lobby (OSL) - Salem, OR

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)

  May 1990 — May 1991 (1 year 1 month)

  Elected and appointed by the Student Body Presidents and member institutions of the Oregon State System of Higher Education to represent and lead the organizations lobbying effort at the Oregon State Legislature.

• Student Body President

  Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) - Klamath Falls, OR

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  May 1990 — May 1991 (1 year 1 month)

  Elected by the students of Oregon Institute of Technology to lead the student senate, represent the student body in the community and across the state, manage and lead university activities, fund raising, and alumni relations.

• Assistant Manager

  Bit Stop Computers - Klamath Falls, OR

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

  April 1990 — March 1991 (1 year)

• Library Aide and Research Assistant

  Various

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

  September 1977 — May 1990 (12 years 9 months)

  Completed over 12 years of library activities; from 5th grade through 12th grade in K-12 settings, in the military for the battalion local records, and for my undergraduate college library, and the Microsoft library near Lake Bill 'Gates'. I write about the focus and need for everyone to have a library card just like a voter registration card, and to know where their local library is and visit it often.

• Computing Center Specialist

  Oregon Institute of Technology

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Information Services industry)

  July 1988 — September 1989 (1 year 3 months)

  Completed computing duties for the main computing center for administration, faculty and students; 3 PC labs, 2 Harris mainframes, 1 Harris miniframe, 1 Sequent mainframe 16 way, and LAN support for Novell servers, and Macintosh workstations. Performed PC configuration and repair, mainframe backups, student print requests, and enormous print jobs for administration.

• Supply Specialist

  US Army

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

  September 1984 — August 1987 (3 years)

  Completed tour of duty at Ft. Riley, Kansas at 1st Infantry Division "Big Red One", 937th Engineer Group, 541st Maintenance Battalion, A Co. and HHC Co.

• Clerk, Checker, Box Boy - Rays Sentry, Ashland, OR

  Ray's Sentry Market, Ashland Oregon

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Food Production industry)

  August 1982 — July 1984 (2 years)

  Performed duties as a top performing box-boy, promoted to clerk/checker and performed 4AM opening clerk duties, and 11PM closing duties for a regional grocery chain.

• President - Ashland, OR

  4-H of Southern Oregon

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Farming industry)

  June 1975 — August 1978 (3 years 3 months)

  Performed duties of 4-H president to local swine 4-H club as elected and appointed by 4-H leaders, sponsors, and club members.

Andy Flagg’s Education

• University of Phoenix

  DM , Organizational Leadership , 2004 — 2005

  Completed 1st year residency requirements. Complete 9 credit hours, last 3 credit course was LDR 711 Transformational Leadership.

  Activities and Societies:

  Started doctoral studies in organizational leadership, and stopped to capitalize on Regional4Sale.com business opportunity; to pursue, expand and strengthen Reno4Sale.com venture based on Regional4Sale.com business model and strategic planning.

• University of Phoenix

  MBA/TM , Technology Management , 2001 — 2004

• Oregon Institute of Technology

  BS , Computer Engineering , September 1987 — June 1991

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Delta Theta Member and Alumni, College Computing Center Support Specialist(1989-1990), Library Assistant (1988-1990), Incident Fees Commissioner (1990), Student Body President (1991), Oregon Student Lobby Chairman (1991)

• US Army Quartermaster School - Ft. Lee, VA

  Certificate , Maintenance Supply Management , November 1984 — May 1985

• Ashland High School - Ashland, OR

  Diploma , Computers, Math, Languages , September 1981 — May 1984

  Computer Lab Assistant, Library assistant

  Activities and Societies:

  Computer Team, Math Team, Brain Bowl Team, Madigral Choir, Wrestling, Church and Prayer Team

Additional Information

Andy Flagg’s Websites:

• Mountain Computers Inc

Andy Flagg’s Interests:

Research and Innovation; Business and Technology management; Marketing, Communications and Public Relations; Education and Community Development

Andy Flagg’s Groups:

Phi Delta Theta Alumni, Microsoft Alumni

•    Microsoft - Current and Former Employees
•    Norton Paratela - Jobs & Businesses

Andy Flagg’s Honors:

Owens Citizenship Award, Oregon Institute of Technology Klamath Falls Oregon (1991).

Most Outstanding Soldier, US Army 1st Infantry Division, 937 Engineer Group, HHC and Alpha Company - 1985, 1986, 1987 - received multiple awards across the 3+ years of active service as the most outstanding soldier of my unit. Completed non-commissioned officer advancement testing and 1st place recipient award, and receipt of promotable status to E-4P to advance to E-5 NCO school.

Drill & Ceremony 1st Place Award Recipient - US Army Basic Training Ft. Leonard Wood Missouri - Unit A-5-3 - Received the 1st place award for accuracy and performance of drill and ceremony competition tests. Squad Commander.

4-H Club "Valley View Snorters", Ashland Oregon, (Swine) 4-H Grand Champion Showmanship Award, Reserve Grand Champion Showmanship Award, Champion Spring 4-H Swine Show.

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