Looking to put ACSA to use in Chicago!

[Thomas.Glen]

[b]Looking to put ACSA to use in Chicago![/b]

Greetings!

Thanks to AFP548 for giving us this place to hawk ourselves to the masses.
Here’s a quick synopsis of my situation, followed by an abbreviated resume:

I got my start in Mac support as a temporary employee with
Playboy magazine (long story). I had a list of clients of my own
for a number of years, mostly small advertising firms . I also worked some
short-term assignments with the larger ad companies like Frankel,
Ambrosi/Black Dot, and Foote, Cone, and Belding, and was eventually
offered the lead Mac tech position at Leo Burnett in 1999, which I
held for about seven years. (Leo Burnett was the largest agency
in Chicago at the time. You probably know many of its creations,
like Tony the Tiger, the Pillsbury Dough Boy, Snap Crackle & Pop,
or the Keebler elves.)

Toward the end of that period, I had trained another Macintosh technician
to take my place as 3rd level support, and became responsible for a
cluster of six XServe servers as well as an XSan video storage array
and associated fiber channel network. This was a real frontier
assignment, since XSan was brand new, and running fiber to the
desktop from the building’s data center had never been done before. I
was the primary technician, and built and maintained the systems
myself, but I was also responsible for sculpting the solution on
paper, selling it to the 5 separate brands who would use it, and
working out the budget for it.

I obtained an ACSA certification and worked with the Novell /AD
team to begin integrating directory services. I was truly enjoying the world
of Apple’s Enterprise Storage solutions, but as they say, all good
things must come to an end. Leo Burnett had been purchased by the
French group Publicis over a year before this point, and when the
inevitable massive reorg and layoffs occurred, I found myself
recruited out of explicit Mac support to become a member of the
Problem Management team at Publicis’ North American IT headquarters
(in a separate building). It was flattering to be a founding member of this
elite engineering hit squad, and to suddenly be involved in global IT
issues, but after a year of having almost nothing to do with Apple
hardware & software, I lost interest in the new position.

So last year I set out to feed another passion of mine, which is
PC gaming. (If you’re interested, we’re at [url]http://www.uberclok.com[/url].)

That business is doing well, but it no longer requires my direct involvement.
Now that my wife and I are looking to start a family, I’m once again looking for
a stable career with benefits, and would welcome any opportunities to interview for
IT positions involving Mac or Mac/PC environments – especially
SAN or server work.

– Thomas Glen
(312) 735-5650
[email protected]

Edit: the message board is tagging my resume text as spam, so here’s a link to a pdf:

http://www.uberclok.com/thomas.glen.resume.pdf

[Thomas.Glen]

BTW, I got a job within two weeks of posting this – thanks AFP548!

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