WALTER BYRD
Home Phone: 303.307.4589 Cell Phone: 303.810.3211
email: walterbyrd@yahoo.com
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FORMAL TRAINING:
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2002 - 2003: Colorado State University: Completed graduate work in Project Management.
1992 - 1992: Thomas Edison State College: BA in Mathematics and Natural Science with enough extra units for bachelor degrees in Business Administration and Computer Science.
1986 - 1991: Sonoma State University: Majored in Business, Math, and Computer Science. 1982 - 1983: Allan Hancock College: AS degree in Business Administration. INDUSTRY

CERTIFICATIONS:
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CompTIA Certification (Career ID# COMP001002897294) Security+.
CompTIA Certification (Career ID# COMP001002897294) Project+.
Colorado State University: Project Management.

SECURITY CLEARANCES:
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1998 - 2001: SSBI Top Secret Security Clearance.
1979 - 1983: DOD Secret Security Clearance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
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02/01 - Present: System-Savers.com. Own and operate my own business specializing in systems and networks. CISCO, UNIX, LINUX, WINDOWS, MacOS.

05/98 - 02/01: General Dynamics. Systems Administrator with top secret security clearance. CISCO, UNIX, LINUX, WINDOWS, MacOS.

11/94 - 05/98: Computer contractor. Specializing in systems and networks. Companies for which I worked would include: IBM, Burdines Department Stores, and Royal Caribbean Cruises. POS, UNIX, LINUX, WINDOWS, MacOS.

12/92 - 11/94: Community Blood Centers of South Florida, in Lauderhill Florida. Software development. Systems administration and analysis. Validated systems software to meet FDA standards. BUSINESS-BASIC, C/C++, SQL, UNIX, WINDOWS.

03/83 - 12/92: Computer contractor. Specialized in highly quantitative/analytical programming. Companies for which I worked include: Warrick Hospital, Tuttle and Company, Sonoma Technology, The Fair Issac Companies, Academic Therapy Publications, Graphics Development International. BASIC, FORTRAN, OBJECT-PASCAL, X86 ASSEMBLER.

06/79 - 03/83: United States Air Force, Vandenberg AFB, California. Mainframe systems operator. Held a secret security clearance and participated in classified processing.

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