Qualifications -- Sam Lindsey III

 

 

 

 

 

 

1995 - 2001

I am currently a free-lance photographer.  A great deal of my current work is with the "Town Courier" which is a newspaper covering the Kentlands, the Lakelands, and Quince Orchard Park in Gaithersburg, MD.  Some of my personal photographic work is on this web site in the Portfolio Section.

Director, MIS, Acting Internet Editor for an Internet-based e-commerce company where I have developed an information-sharing website and martial arts oriented databases.

Help Desk Manager for Internet-based, E-commerce Company where I assist in Internet related e-commerce problems; also assist the network engineer in configuring and maintaining the company’s LAN and Internet servers (all NT 4.0).  Provide technical support to the other employees of the company including hardware (desktop computers running Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 98, and Windows 95) and software (Microsoft Office 97).  Assisted the Network Engineer in planning, configuring, and deploying the Proxy Server for the company. Developed client-server Access database program to track contacts on a company-wide basis from Telemarketers to Sales to Sales Contract to Client Services. This program was developed utilizing Visual Basic for Applications, Access Security, and NT network security.

Developed and maintained company intranet with Excel Timesheet and Expense Reports templates (which I also developed).  This intranet is also the basis for links to our Web Trends reports (web server statistics) and general company information. Tier-1 Support Supervisor supporting 3000 computers in Classified and Unclassified Networks (Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, DOS, Ethernet environment) for the Department of the Navy, Pentagon.

Acting Help Desk Supervisor supporting and overseeing support for 1100 computers in 6 locations plus providing telephone support for 7 other offices (Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, DOS, Token Ring environment)

Developed business templates for a division of Thompson Financial Services – a Sales Report that utilizes an Excel database, multiple pivot tables, and lookups to consolidate and summarize the sales of four business units into single sheet reports with sales-to-goals figures for Sales as a whole and as individual business units, and charts and product sales breakdowns.

Taught classes in MS Office products including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. I taught classes in these subjects to ICF Kaiser employees [part-time while I was Acting Help Desk Manager].  I also taught PowerPoint classes under a short-term contract to a DC lawyer’s office before working with ICF Kaiser.