Are you willing to move? You might be a good fit for one of the support jobs here at MS with your support experience. We have an office here in Charlotte and one in the dallas, TX area. I can submit your resume internally.
- Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russel Madere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:28 AM Subject: Re: Making the jump > >Sorry to hear that... how long is the commute? > > 53 miles which on a good day takes an hour. Throw in a breakdown or > accident, double that. If I leave 5 minutes later than usual, add 15 > minutes. The worse part is the gas price. I only get 16 miles to the > gallon in my truck and the wife's car has 200,000 miles. > >>.NET is the way to go for job security. > > I'm seeing that, but lack the time and cash to learn it. I'm hoping to > find an employer who will send me to some training. > >>What kind of skills do you have in networking? > > I have always been an IS generalist with networking and PC support. I > have done LAN/WAN design, can subnet with a little refreshing, configured > and administer firewalls (FW-1 and a Linux packet filtering thing I wrote > in PERL 10 years ago) and can run Cat-5 cables. I just don't know how to > punch down cables in a block. I knew Cisco IOS on a Catalyst 2924 switch, > but no router work. I have done desktop support as an ancillary job > requirement for 8 years now and directly for 5 years before that. > >> What about programming >>experience besides CF? > > I'de be an excellent FORTRAN programmer with a little refresher time. I > can also handle COBOL, but never programmed directly in it. I haven't > touched either in 10 years. I know ASP Classic to get by and PHP to > muddle my way through. It's all procedural, so I can handle it. I can > muddle through PERL and have created a few applications by modifying > someone else's code to fit my needs. I also wrote C-Shell scripts many > years ago. > > I am self taught on some minor C++ and Java. I just haven't done much UI > design since most of my non-web proramming work was on mainframes and > computers (not PCs the big guys). > >> >>- Matt > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:208161 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
