I am an IT professional with over 12 years of experience in the field (and a tech hobbyist/enthusiast since childhood.) I have a wide breadth of experience, which ranges from desktop support at a private, tech-challenged, traditionalist company - to a network/systems administrator for one of the largest search engines in the world. I enjoy new challenges, and feel equally at home working on Windows systems as well as on a Linux command line. I have a proven track record in managing and executing projects, and taking initiative in improving every department I've worked for. More importantly, I've always taken on the role as team lead, and become the "glue" which binds the groups together - both within the department and across other groups within the company. It is this latter fact that drives me to seek out new opportunities which will test my consulting and management skills and enable me to empower people and businesses to operate at their very best. As my resume indicates,