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Nathan Haines

Phone +1-562-787-2960 • Email nathan@nhaines.com

Objective

I am seeking to join a company where I can use my abilities to work with others in an atmosphere where I can experience professional and personal growth through new technical challenges.

Skills

  • Public speaking and training experience
  • Windows, Macintosh, and Linux experience
  • Advanced Excel, Python, HTML, CSS, 100wpm
  • OCR and photo manipulation
  • Quick to learn/detail-oriented
  • Conversant in German

Employment

9/2008 – 12/2009 Fonality, Inc. Culver City, California
Technical Support Engineer
  • Specialized in PBXtra and trixbox Pro configuration and maintenance, as well as Aastra and Polycom IP phone and Sangoma T1 and analog card operation and troubleshooting. Provided phone and email support for over 5,000 customers in all areas of system configuration, installation, setup, and problem resolution Expediently provided emergency support focused on minimizing downtime and then resolving root causes. Used SSH to remotely work on Linux and Asterisk-based IP PBX systems.
12/2007 – 9/2008 Soft-Train, Inc. Santa Ana, California
Lead Technical Consultant
  • As a contractor for Soft-Train, lead a an upgrade and data migration project for the City of Culver City, California. Supervising three subordinates, replaced 140 employee computers over a six week period. Was responsible for refining procedures, preparing and troubleshooting new hardware, migrating data from older computers to their replacements, and upgrading RAM in non-replaced computers. Refurbished 30 replaced computers for redeployment in house and donation to the city youth recreation center. Performed quality assurance on new hardware and handed data migration and hardware problems with replacement computers.
Instructor
  • Taught day-long training courses to business people on various computer programs. Class sizes ranged from 1 to 15 students. Tailored instructional focus to the needs and interests of each class. Topics covered included Windows 2000, Windows XP, Microsoft Office versions 2000 through 2007, including: Access, Excel, FrontPage, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word, and custom courses on transitioning from Office 2003 to Office 2007. Taught both at Soft-Train and on-site across Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside Counties. Additionally delivered instructional material weekly to other instructors over the above area plus San Diego and Ventura Counties.
9/2006 – 11/2007 Quest International, Inc. Irvine, California
ITSD Operations Support and Contract Services Lead
  • Continued to manage 4800-system billing and macros. Audited and managed proprietary online service call database and asset management system. Automated invoicing and price calculation procedures for critical accounts with existing and custom software. Wrote performance and cost analysis software using Python, converting from online database to finished invoice worksheet in Excel. Handled service calls and vendor communication, and provided backup support to call desk and Operations team.
Accounts Receivable
  • Performed Accounts Receivable duties in accounting. Audited hardware maintenance contracts for proper billing. Developed VBA macros to automate monthly hardware contract costs per machine for 4800 machines to help normalize and check monthly billing trends and changes.
7/2003 – 9/2006 Freelance work Bellflower, California
Computer Consultant
  • Designed and built custom computer systems for home users, offered computer troubleshooting and repair plus system optimization and basic maintenance education. Designed Linux systems for server and home use utilizing SuSE Linux 9.x and Ubuntu 5.04 and above. Acted as a property manager and provided financial accounting for a court-ordered conservatorship.
3/2001 – 7/2003 Long Beach City College Long Beach, California
Computer Technician
  • Oversaw a small Macintosh and PC faculty lab. Answered support hotline. Assisted school faculty with computer use and facilitated the adaption and creation of online coursework. Designed and maintained course Web pages and handled OCR, image scanning, and color correction. Created a helpdesk operations manual that contained all operational procedures as well as new employee training material and reference guide.
11/1999 – 8/2000 Long Beach City College Long Beach, California
Computer Technician
  • Performed routine maintenance and installation of Macs and PCs on campus. Worked with a trouble ticket system to travel to affect machines and troubleshoot and remedy problems. Created disk images for automated system setup of in-use computer models. Set up several computer labs from scratch.
6/1998 – 8/1998 Bellflower Unified School District Bellflower, California
Computer Technician
  • As a summer job for the district, assisted the district's Educational Technology department. Maintained and repaired computers district-wide. Built computer labs in newly constructed schools

Volunteer Work

9/2007 – present The Ubuntu Project California, United States Ubuntu Member and California Local Community Team Member 1/1999 – 4/2003 The ticalc.org Project Sollentuna, Sweden Help Mail and News Editor

Education

1998 – present Long Beach City College Long Beach, California
  • Currently attending for a degree in Computer and Business Information Systems.
1994 - 1998 Bellflower High School Bellflower, California
  • Golden State Examination: “High Honors” in Written Composition and Government/Civics; “Honors” in Economics and Reading/Literature.