My Resumé

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Personal

• Jimmy D Burrell
• Brandon MS

Bio

I'm a father of two boys, Jacob, age 14 and Jonathan, age 11. I am married to Jackie, my one and only wife, the love of my life. We live just outside Jackson, Mississippi, the capitol of the State. I have worked in the computer field for over 20 years in various roles including simultaneous management of system administration and network engineering teams for a nation wide, enterprise class telecommunications company, to a single man IT department for a niche market, web centric company and most roles in between. Regardless of whether I work in a management role or not, I enjoy hands on and being intimately involved.

Education

• Kosciusko High School - Kosciusko, Mississippi
• Holmes Jr College - Goodman, Mississippi
• Mississippi State University - Starkville, Mississippi

Work History

My current employer is a national advertising agency where my job title is Manager of Information Technology. My day to day duties include FileMaker and MySQL database maintenance and programming and web development utilizing PHP, Javascript, and HTML. I also provide hands on system administration for a wide range of server platforms including Apple's Mac OS X Server, Windows 2003, & 2000, and Ubuntu and Fedora Linux plus client platforms on Mac OS X and Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7.

My previous employment was at a national telecommunications company where my job definition was ‘Data Communications Specialist’. My day to day activities included network administration, maintenance, network security, design and data connectivity. I frequently was charged with providing data connectivity across a spectrum of devices using a variety of standards and protocols. Some of the more frequent data connectivity tasks I performed involved Cisco routers and switches, the IBM AS400, Microsoft NT Servers and clients, paging terminals and centigrams via Frame Relay, Ethernet, PPP, TCP/IP, X.25, SNA, and SDLC.

My work references are available upon request.

Other Qualifications

In the course of pursuing industry certifications I have garnered the ‘Microsoft Certified Professional’ title and the ‘Cisco Certified Network Associate’.

I am familiar with the Linux, other Unix(es), and Novell network operating systems in addition to Apple's OS X and the various flavors of Microsoft Windows.

Further, I have formal training as both a programmer and an instructor and have taught various aspects of computer science. Courses I have taught include ‘Introduction to Computer’, ‘Introduction to Programming’, and ‘Introduction to Computer II’. I have taught these classes at the Junior / Community College level as well as vocational / adult ed., and corporate environments.