Résumé for W. Earl Allen

Internet: wea. @t-sign. allmax. dot. com

Objective: Technical Coaching in a Fast Company in Colorado

Skills & Qualifications

• Superb written and verbal communication skills
• Careful and accurate technical competence in both software and hardware
• Enjoys the challenge of multiple responsibilities in a growing environment

Professional Skills

Communications

• Advanced Toastmaster Silver award (August, 2001) from Toastmasters International
• Wrote and published manual for Macintosh program Trapeze; rewrote Fontographer manuals
• Mastered commonly used desktop publishing programs: Microsoft Office, Quark XPress, Photoshop, PageMaker, FrameMaker, FreeHand, Illustrator

Customer Service

• Promptly, accurately and courteously resolved customer problems via telephone and onsite for two startup businesses, two multinationals and a bureaucracy
• Expertly responded to queries via email, fax and written correspondence

Technical

• Built several PC clones as a hobby (including a 1Ghz AMD Athlon-based Asus A7V, an ATX [MSI-5169] 100Mhz bus AMD K6-2 300Mhz, and an Asus P5A-WOA AMD K6-2 450Mhz, all from scratch): expert in PC hardware diagnosis and assembly
• Attained expert status in AIX and Solaris Systems Administration; highly skilled at Windows and MacOS operating systems; highly competent Linux Systems Administrator
• Installed and managed a 30-node AppleTalk-Ethernet network; later expanded to 85 nodes
• Created and maintained website you are now reading; expert in TCP/IP networking and HTML programming
• Ordered, installed, and fixed AIX, Solaris, Macintosh and PC hardware and software for two growing companies, two multinationals, and a bureaucracy
• Film-imaged 230 page Trapeze manual and 380 page Fontographer manual on Lino 300

Employment

• 2003 to Present: IT Manager, Cornice, Inc.
• 2003 : Instructor DeVry University
• 2002 to 2003: Systems Administrator OAO Technology Solutions
• 1998 to 2001: Systems Engineer TEKsystems
• 1993 to 1998: Desktop Remote Support Specialist Scitex America Corporation (absorbed by Creo)
• 1988 to 1993: Technical Support Manager Altsys Corporation (absorbed by Macromedia)
• 1986 to 1988: Technical Support Manager, Data Tailor, Inc.
• 1983 to 1986: Customer Service-Programmer/Analyst, Computerized Business Systems
• 1980 to 1983: English/Computer Teacher, Southwestern Adventist College

Affiliations

• Secretary, Cottages at the Broadlands Subassociation Homeowners Association
• Front Range Chapter Toastmasters International
• Member, aerobatics competitor, International Aerobatics Club
• Member, Experimental Aviation Association
• Member and sometimes Candidate, Libertarian Party of Colorado
• Member Cato Institute
• Member Separation of School & State Alliance
• Contributor Institute of Humane Studies

Education

• M.A., English Literature Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI
• B.A., English Literature Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA
• 550 hour Instrument rated Commercial pilot, Airplane, Single-engine Land

Life Experience

• Lived in: Singapore, 3 yrs.; Philippines, 2 yrs.; Korea, 1 yr.; Canada, 1 yr.
• Visited: Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, England, France, Japan
• Briefly visited: Viet Nam, Mexico, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan
• Teacher's Assistant at Public School for one year at Vine Street Elementary School, L.A.U.S.D
• Director of SDA English Center, Pusan, Korea for 9 months. Increased enrollment 30%.
• Elected editor and photographer, Pacific Union College annual "Diogenes Lantern"
• Elected editor and photographer, Andrews University annual "Cardinal"
• Elected editor of Far Eastern Academy monthly school newspaper "Ripples"
• Disk jockey (classical) and talk show host, WAUS, 50,000 watts FM, Andrews University
• Disk jockey (rock), remote engineer, evening manager, WHFB AM & FM, Benton Harbor, MI
• Sold religious books door-to-door one summer in Seaside, CA
• Congressional districts lived in: David Stockman's, Phil (Democrat) Gramm's, Jim Wright's
• Candidate for U.S. Congress, 2nd District, Colorado, 1996
• Candidate for Colorado Representative, 31st District, 1998, 2000
• Candidate for Colorado Representative, 33rd District, 2002

Other Interesting Details

• Born 3/18/52, Provo, Utah. Full legal name: William Earl Allen.
• Father, Sydney Earl Allen, Jr., professor of Logic and Humanities, San Bernadino Valley College.
• Mother, Donna Lee Sharp, organist-pianist and homemaker.
• Three brothers: Edward, D.D., SDA pastor; Eric, entrepreneur; Evan, M.D.
• One sister: Esther, Ph.D., Translator.
• Fourth generation Seventh-day Adventist.
• Married 5/26/1985. Wife: Maralyn Angela Mencarini.
• Homeowner since 1985.
• Voracious reader: home library with hundreds of books on philosophy, politics, science fiction, flying.

Publications Recently Read

• The Unix Guide to Defenestration by Paul Murphy
• Becoming A Technical Leader by Gerald M. Weinberg
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
• The Incredible Bread Machine by R. W. Grant
• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Golden Globe by John Varley

Strongly Held Beliefs

• No organization has enough information to make good choices for individuals.
• The government that governs least, governs best.
• You can't fool even most of the people most of the time.
• "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
   

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