Brandon Parker
bparker@unt.edu

Experience

August 2002–May 2001    Denton Wesley Foundation    Denton , TX

Position: Network Administrator 

Type of Business: United Methodist Campus Ministry

Start/End date: 8/02- present

Responsibilities:
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Designed, implemented, and administered Active Directory local network and lab.
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Write grants for tutoring programs and student lab.
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Maintained student database and website (internal and www).
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Instruct staff on software usage.

 

June 2002–Aug. 2002     Verizon (Verizon Online)    Grapevine, TX

Position: Intern – Application Development Group

Type of Business: Technical support

Start/End date: 6/02 – 8/02

Responsibilities:

§         Learned all facets of a new web application to then provide information in the implementation of the software in new production environment.

§         Experiment with Red Hat 7.0, Apache, and new web application to ensure they worked together and on the hardware trouble free.

§         Various smaller research tasks relating to new application or procedures for the production environment.

 

 

May 2001–Jan. 2002     College Computer Support    Denton , TX

Position: Computer Technician - Level I

Type of Business: Technical support

Start/End date: 5/01 – 1/02

Responsibilities:
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Answered tech support phone calls from faculty and staff of the University of North Texas 's College of Arts and Science.
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Repaired computers for faculty and staff.
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Learned the network setup and architecture, along with Novell and network protocols.

 

Summer 2000    NeighborNet    Spring, TX

Position: System Administrator

Type of Business: Website design and hosting

Start/End date: 7/00 – 8/00

Responsibilities:
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Maintained IIS web servers and email servers.
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Created employee manual.
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Answered tech-support emails and phone calls.

 

2000–May 2001    Denton Wesley Foundation    Denton , TX

Position: Office Staff and PC Technician

Type of Business: United Methodist Campus Ministry

Start/End date: 2/00- 5/01

Responsibilities:
§    Created brochures, flyers, PowerPoint presentations and other publications.
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Maintained student database and website.
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Maintained office computers and peripherals.
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Instruct staff on software usage.

 

Summer 1999    Albertson’s    Cypress , TX

Position: Cashier

Type of Business: Grocery Store

Start/End date: 7/99-8/99

Responsibilities:
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Ran cash register and helped in customer service.
 

 

Summer 1999    Cherokee Staffing LLC     Houston , TX

Position: Assembly Line Worker

Type of Business: Computer case fabrication – through temp staffing agency

Start/End date: 7/99

Responsibilities:
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Built computer chassis for Compaq desktops 

 

Summer 1998    Kroger     Spring, TX

Position: Cashier

Type of Business: Grocery Store

Start/End date: 6/98-8/98

Responsibilities:
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Ran cash register and helped in customer service.

Education

 

1999–present                 University of North Texas                    Denton , TX

§         Address: Denton , TX

§         Current GPA: 3.48

§         Working towards Computer Science Bachelor of Science.

            Expected graduation date: Dec. 2003

§         Mathematics and Tech Writing minors.

§         Relevant courses:

-          Advanced Technical Writing        -    Computer Organization

-          Data Structures                         -    Numerical Analysis

-          Software Development                -    System Programming           

-          Technical  Editing

 

1995-1999                     Klein High School                                  Klein , TX

§     Address: 16715 Stuebner Airline Rd , Spring, TX  7737
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GPA: 4.5972/ 4.0 weighted (rank: 78 of 767)
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SAT: 1300
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ACT: 28
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Relevant courses:
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Computer Science AP – A, AB
       -    Calculus AP

 

Awards

§      Alpha Lambda Delta & Phi Eta Sigma Honor societies (UNT) – April 2000

§      Dean’s List – Dec. 1999

§      Eagle Scout – Aug. 1998

Leadership

§      Secretary of the UNT Chess club - 2002-present

§      Secretary of Denton Wesley Foundation’s Board of Directors - 2001 - present

§      Chairman Denton Wesley Foundation’s Student Leadership Initiative Council – 2000–2001

§      Student Government Association member (UNT) 1999–2000

§      President of Klein Internet Club – 1998–1999

 

Other Skills

§      Linux administration

§      NT administration

§      Network design and administration

§      Microsoft Office proficiency

§      Music composition and performance

§      Programming experience in:

   - Intel x86 Assembly

   - Bash scripting

   - Basic 

   - C/C++ 

   - HTML

   - Lisp

   - Java/JavaScript

   - Pascal

   - PHP

§      Sound engineering and recording

§      Website design