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 						<h3 class="segment-title">Employment</h3>
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-							Engineer - System Administration, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.qvc.com/">QVC, Inc.</a> (June 2013 - Present)
+							Engineer - System Administration and Automation, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.qvc.com/">QVC, Inc.</a> (June 2013 - Present)
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-								<li>Maintain physical and virtual Unix/Linux servers within the company's data centers</li>
+								<li>Build and maintain Linux and Unix systems, both physical and virtual</li>
-								<li>Troubleshoot problems within the company's infrastructure</li>
+								<li>Manage over 1000 systems using tools such as Puppet</li>
-								<li>Deploy new systems using a variety of technologies, including VMWare and NIM</li>
+								<li>Automate the server build and application deployment processes</li>
-								<li>Assist with the deployment of applications to Tomcat and WebSphere environments</li>
+								<li>Provide 24x7 on-call support for mission-critical ecommerce systems</li>
-								<li>Manage server configurations using tools such as Puppet and vCM</li>
+								<li>Work in a global environment, with teams in many countries</li>
-								<li>Work in a global environment with teams from all across the world</li>
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-							Network Admin, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.metpersnl.com/">Metropolitan Personnel, Inc.</a> (June 2006 - March 2016)
+							IT Admin, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.metpersnl.com/">Metropolitan Personnel, Inc.</a> (June 2006 - March 2016)
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-								<li>Maintain and update company-wide hardware and software (including servers, terminals, and networking equipment) on an as-needed basis.</li>
+								<li>Maintained company networking and server infrastructure</li>
+								<li>Deployed workstations and managed users and group-policy through Active Directory</li>
+								<li>Provided office technical support and assistance</li>
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 							Unix/Linux Administration Intern, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.qvc.com/">QVC, Inc.</a> (May 2012 - August 2012)
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-								<li>Wrote an application to automate the process of comparing server metrics (such as CPU, RAM utilization) to business metrics (such as pageviews/hour) in order to create correlation models that can be used to forecast server load.</li>
+								<li>Wrote an application to automate the process of comparing server metrics (such as CPU, RAM utilization) to business metrics (such as pageviews/hour) in order to create correlation models that can be used to forecast server load</li>
-								<li>Helped maintain and replace server equipment in the data centers.</li>
+								<li>Helped maintain and replace server equipment in the data centers</li>
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 							Web Development Intern, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dataforma.com/">Dataforma, Inc.</a> (May 2011 - August 2011)
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-								<li>Developed an interactive online drawing application using HTML5 and JavaScript, designed to be used by roofing contractors for modelling their projects.</li>
+								<li>Developed an interactive online drawing tool for roof modeling using HTML5 and JS</li>
+								<li>Worked in a small team doing task-focused, agile development</li>
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 							Founder, BITS (July 2008 - August 2010)
 							<ul>
-								<li>Started a small business in the summer of 2008 to provide computer service to local clients and businesses.</li>
+								<li>Founded BITS to provide on-site computer service to local clients</li>
-								<li>Services included hardware and software upgrades, custom-built machines, virus removal, and web development.</li>
+								<li>Diagnosed and troubleshooted computer issues, and installed/repaired equipment</li>
 								<li>BITS = Brad's IT Services</li>
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 							Programming and Scripting
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-								<li>C, C++, and C#</li>
+								<li>C</li>
-								<li>MPI and pthreads</li>
 								<li>Java</li>
+								<li>C#</li>
+								<li>Python</li>
+								<li>Bash</li>
+								<li>Javascript</li>
+								<li>MPI and pthreads</li>
 								<li>Android SDK</li>
 								<li>HTML5 and CSS3</li>
-								<li>JavaScript</li>
 								<li>PHP</li>
-								<li>Python</li>
 								<li>Perl</li>
-								<li>Bash</li>
 								<li>CUDA</li>
 								<li>OpenGL</li>
 								<li>MIPS Assembly (because screw x86)</li>
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 							Operating Systems
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-								<li>Linux (including all major distributions)</li>
+								<li>RedHat/CentOS 4, 5, 6, and 7</li>
-								<li>Unix (including AIX and HP-UX)</li>
+								<li>Arch Linux</li>
-								<li>Windows 3.1+ and Server 2003+</li>
+								<li>AIX 5.3 and 6.1</li>
-								<li>Mac OSX 10.0+</li>
+								<li>Windows 95+ and Server 2003 - 2008 R2</li>
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 							Software
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 								<li>WebSphere</li>
 								<li>MySQL/MariaDB</li>
 								<li>Puppet</li>
-								<li>Many VMware products (including vSphere and vCM)</li>
+								<li>Full VMWare stack</li>
-								<li>Microsoft SQL Server</li>
 								<li>Active Directory</li>
 								<li>Subversion</li>
 								<li>Git</li>
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 								<li>Photography</li>
 								<li>DJing</li>
 								<li>Instruments (I play saxophone, piano, and drums)</li>
-								<li>Learning new languages (I currently speak English, Spanish, some Japanese, and a little German)</li>
+								<li>Learning new languages (I currently speak Spanish, Japanese, and a little German)</li>
 								<li>Making long, unordered lists of things</li>
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