MIKO ..
Web Develop/Graphic Design, Photography,Multimedia. IT Support (PC/Mac), Networks (WiFi/LAN/Domain)
- Location
- Greater Seattle Area
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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MIKO ..'s Overview
- Current
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- Webmaster and Graphic Designer at The Academic Consortium for Alternative and Complementary Health Care
- Webmaster and IT Consultant at The Center for Native Education
- Web CMS Developer and IT Support at The Integrator Blog
- Webmaster and Photographer at ICI USA, LLC and Tovolo.com
- Microsoft Database Developer and PC/LAN Support at Belgium International Co. (BIDCO)
- IT Consultant, Photographer, Graphic Designer at Miko
- Past
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- Webmaster and IT Consultant at Phillip Kelley, Licensed Acupuncturist
- Webmaster, Art Director, Photographer at As You Like It Catering, Seattle
- CONSULTANT PROGRAMMER/SYSTEMS ANALYST at TRIMDATA CORPORATION
- Consultant Programmer and UNIX Administrator at Trimdata Corp (Automation Dynamics)
- Associate Director of IT at The American Association of University Women
- ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, INFORMATION SYSTEMS at AMERICAN ASSN UNIV WOMEN
- Programmer/Analyst 4 (PA/IV) at University of California
- IST at UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA
- SYSTEMS ANALYST/SENIOR PROGRAMMER at AMERICAN ASSN UNIV WOMEN
- COMPUTER SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR at San Francisco Art Institute
- Computer Systems Administrator at The San Francisco Art Institute
- SALES DATABASE COORDINATOR at CHO YANG AMERICA
- FILEMAKER DATABASE DESIGNER/ADMINISTRATOR at SWANSON ASSOCIATES
- Education
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Yale University
- Yale University
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Colchester High School
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Heald Datatrain, San Francisco
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UC Berkeley Extension
- Recommendations
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2 people have recommended MIKO
- Connections
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146 connections
- Websites
MIKO ..'s Summary
Miko is Yale educated with more than 20 years of experience working with computer technology. He has worked as an Associate Director of IT, a Computer Systems Administrator, an IT Director, Systems Analyst, Databse programmer, Web Developer, Helpdesk Team leader, and an Applications Trainer. He is a trained photographer and Photoshop wizard who has a broad base of multimedia experience including video production and audio editing. Miko currently offers all of these services as a contractor or consultant either remotely or on site in the Seattle area.
Specialties
Flash Animation, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Macromedia Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, CMS, Joomla, Drupal SEO (search engine) optimization, Webmaster Tools, corporate branding & identity, graphic design, art photos, product photography, audio edit, video edit, database creation, structuring, development & programming, Visual Basic, VBA, ActionScript, UniBasic, Envision, web site creation, HTML, XML, CSS, style sheets, web templates, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, LAMP
MIKO ..'s Experience
Webmaster and Graphic Designer
The Academic Consortium for Alternative and Complementary Health Care
January 2008 – Present (4 years 2 months)
Designed and delivered the ACCAHC logo in collaboration with the ACCAHC Board and Team. Designed and Developed the ACCAHC.org web site using the Joomla CMS system with major template and graphic revisions, in collaboration with the ACCAHC Board and Team.
Webmaster and IT Consultant
The Center for Native Education
2007 – Present (5 years)
Manage major and minor web site updates, assist in planning of new site development options. Recently have been adding Flash animations and videos to site- before that, worked on complete overhaul of site font and color usage. Working to templatize site for accessibility via Contribute and similar.
Microsoft Database Developer and PC/LAN Support
Belgium International Co. (BIDCO)
2005 – Present (7 years)
Have provided several years of extensive Windows PC and network support. More importantly, I singlehandedly have undertaken the massive project of developing a diamond inventory and sales transactional database using Microsoft Access very heavily supported by Visual Basic. The database incorporates functional bar code scanning and label printing for which I had to learn DPL (Datamax Programming Language) and also barcode font differentiation, sizing and print optimization. The database manages invoices and check history, keeps an active list of "checked out to reps" diamonds, and produces monthly sales, payment, commission and inventory reports.
IT Consultant, Photographer, Graphic Designer
Miko
Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Food & Beverages industry
January 2003 – Present (9 years 2 months)
Serving literally hundreds of business and home clients in the Seattle Area since February 2005, I offer the following services: Mac/Apple support, Windows/PC support, Wireless/Wi-Fi/Cabled network support- software, systems, and hardware- Data and Creative Services including Web Design and Development; SEO optimization; Graphic Design; Corporate Branding and Logos; Product, Event and Artistic Photography; Flash Animation development; Database Programming; Video and Audio editing services. Am locally the webmaster for about 20 Seattle-based websites, with my support offered to even more.
Webmaster, Art Director, Photographer
As You Like It Catering, Seattle
January 2004 – December 2008 (5 years)
Managed/Directed the complete overhaul of the primordial AYLI web site with limited finances in a bit-by-bit manner. Contributed graphic design in all forms, and the photography that went with it, for many post cards, flyers, posters, mailings, invitiation, and evites, and materials for the LGBT Film Guide, GSBA, KCTS, the Swedish Meatball contest graphics, and LeTip advertising while functioning as Artistic Director. Created a gorgeous photobook for AYLI using mostly photos I'd taken for them
CONSULTANT PROGRAMMER/SYSTEMS ANALYST
TRIMDATA CORPORATION
December 2000 – November 2002 (2 years)
I was the primary, though not only, UNIX-systems skilled consultant working for Trimdata. us Trimdata hired me out to
places like the American College, in Bryn Mawr, who made use of me as UNIX Systems Administrator- managing all
standard UNIX tasks and also moving data and applications from one older, smaller server to a larger. ere was much
research and implementation of UNIX server throughput/processing optimization strategies. TAC was primarily Compaq.
Trimdata made use of my UNIX skills with HP-UX at Datatel Corp, which has many HP servers, and at clients sites, on-site
or as remote super user by telnet. Tasks included resolving permissions issues, mounts/dismounts, user setup, installation of
C compilers, compilation, installation and implementation of 3rd party software or kernel-integrated socket service extensions
for POS and other remote, live nancial transactions.
At Trimdata I also programmed screens, reports and batch processes, installed and implemented software packages, managed
user documentation of our custom applications, acted as Windows PC tech support, and worked occasionally as a technical
writer. Much use was made of my database-programming skills using Unidata/UNIBASIC/Uniquery and Datatel's Envision
Toolkit (for interfaces) and associated Colleague and Benefactor database systems (administrative, nancial, and fundraising).
Consultant Programmer and UNIX Administrator
Trimdata Corp (Automation Dynamics)
December 2000 – January 2002 (1 year 2 months)
Programmer, Database developer working heavily with Financial Transactions, using Datatel database, UniBasic procedural language, and the Envision Toolkit 4GL. Highly trained in all aspects of Datatel software as of the year 2001. Also offered my background and training as UNIX Administrator at various client sites including the American College in Bryn Mawr, PA.
Associate Director of IT
The American Association of University Women
Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry
1997 – 2001 (4 years)
Worked at AAUW twice. As Sys Analyst/Programmer in 1997- was asked to return in August 1999 to become Assoc Dir of IT. Supervised Datatel Database support requests, the Helpdesk team, the network engineer. Acted as UNIX system administrator, Windows Server Administrator. Managed/ completed system backup and file restore. Supported Marketing efforts. Fully managed archaic code-based interface computer system for telephone line switchboard. Handled security/virus issues. Administrated Groupwise until Windows Server. Developed management system for "run amok" mnual TCP/IP assignment and horribly labeled/managed off-site tape backup system. Created new strategies to clean-workstation-swap to resolve AAUW staff workstation issues instead of lingering at desks to try to fix hurt systems. Was personally in charge of all support for the graphics support because I was the only Apple/Mac support person on site. Managed printer queues and Exchange Server.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, INFORMATION SYSTEMS
AMERICAN ASSN UNIV WOMEN
August 1999 – December 2000 (1 year 5 months)
Co-managed IT dept. & a network consisting of 2 UNIX servers (which evolved- DEC/Digital UNIX, Compaq Tru64, HP-
UX 10.0), 5 Windows servers, 150 Windows workstations, (all Windows systems were migrated from NT 4.51 to Win 2000
while I was there), 1 hybrid web server, 1 supervisor engine, one Cisco PIX rewall, numerous Cisco routers and LAN; switches, a T-1 connection, and a 150 line Meridian PBX style programmed phone system. Supervised Network Engineer and
oversaw all network. Managed Helpdesk Support Team. Managed all disk arrays (i.e. RAID levels as well, partitioning,
logical volumes), data backups & restores. Co-managed day-to-day UNIX server functions- user accts, print queues,
permissions, data moves in resolution of disk space issues, le cleanup, reboots, etc.
Managed Helpdesk staff & Network Engineer. Led complete, standardized upgrade of 120+ workstations from Win 95/98/
NT 4.51 to Win 2000. Upgraded Servers. Managed Windows server products- mail, backup/restore, web, net.
Supported graphic design staff on Macs. Ensured network interfacing with NFS, UNIX and Windows.
Programmer/Analyst 4 (PA/IV)
University of California
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
January 1998 – August 1999 (1 year 8 months)
Worked in Berkeley. Internal IT consultant and Datatel/UniData/Benefactor programming technician and UNIX administrator. Developed novel techniques for storing variables in memory spaces and these techniques greatly improved Benefactor fundraising marketing group boundaries, leading to recordbreaking annual donations in supported departments in 1998-1999. Techniques are STILL gladly in use TODAY at UC Berkeley by Rannah McIntosh and her associates.
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UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA
January 1997 – August 1999 (2 years 8 months)
UCB University Relations strategies via development of novel data handling and programming techniques, to
rapidly produce fundraising reports, with great speci city and fund-market accuracy, thus allowing UCB to break, that year,
previous fundraising records. Techniques included subroutines, scripting, UNIX shell manipulations & scripting, and use of
shared memory and common memory space data storage. Also helped to manage UNIX user accounts. Analyzed UNIX
level security issues of various types of UCB servers.
COMPUTER SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
San Francisco Art Institute
Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry
January 1993 – December 1996 (4 years)
Managed all Windows PCs, Macs and the Windows network. Maintained and upgraded hardware and software of all PCs
and Macs as needed. Received my HP training during this time. Migrated this Art Institute's administrative databases, user
accounts and e-mail from a VAX/VMS server basis to HP-UX 9.0 basis. Developed directory structure and managed
multiple disk drive volumes mounted within one server. Con gured all HP-UX system parameters, managed licenses, kernel
modi cations, upgrades. Created login shell scripts and user accounts, managed all HP-UX standard con gurable system
les. Compiled, installed and implemented on HP-UX all 3rd party software including printing software, database engines,
database tools, GUI interface tools. Project managed the migration and conversion of all administrative data from legacy
Administrative systems. Functioned as Interim IS Director at SFAI for 3 months in 1996 at SFAI.
Computer Systems Administrator
The San Francisco Art Institute
Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry
January 1992 – January 1996 (4 years 1 month)
Functioned as Vax/VMS, Unix systems administrator, and LAN network administrator. Primary administrative database manager and developer for Administrative and Financial databases. Mac and PC support. Computer skills teacher. Second in command to the IT Director and functioned at IT director for many months at a time during periods of turnover.
FILEMAKER DATABASE DESIGNER/ADMINISTRATOR
SWANSON ASSOCIATES
September 1991 – December 1991 (4 months)
I actually upgraded, re-designed, maintained and developed a large Handicapped Accessibility Database for an architect
named Sally Swanson. I implemented novel new strategies for "number-crunching." e database was relational, with
extensive lookups, radio and options boxes, numerous forms and reports, repeating and calculation elds. We used the
calculation elds as an "arena" for special "programming" types of functionality.
PUBLICATIONS DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR . NEW WAYS TO WORK
MIKO ..'s Education
University of California, Berkeley
CERT, C++ Extension Certification
1998 – 1998
Yale University
BA, Art, Psychology
1985 – 1990
Activities and Societies: Worked in Audiovisual department, and on Spider's Web literary magazine staff; won two poetry awards at Yale
Yale University
B.A
1990
Colchester High School
Heald Datatrain, San Francisco
UC Berkeley Extension
MIKO ..'s Additional Information
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photography, graphic design, flash development, cooking, hiking, biking, science-fiction, stand-up comedy
- Groups and Associations:
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Better Business Bureau (Seattle), GSBA (Greater Seattle Business Association), Mac Users Group in Seattle, several photography groups, several Mac/Apple groups, Yale Alumni Association, food styling group
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