Owner
Knowledge Power IT/Max W. Blackmer, Jr Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry
January 2005 – Present (4 years)
I provided Computer consulting services to various types of business such as Medical Equipment, Sales Consultant where I developed database applications and deployed and customized SugarCRM Professional. I also set up Internet Servers using Linux using the LAMP Stack and email Server for corporate communications with Spam filtering and anti-virus scanning.
CTO
Rapid X, LLC
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry
June 2007 – December 2007 ( 7 months)
Manage and Develop Company Technical operations, A start-up company focused in Open Source application customization and extensions. Special focus on SugarCRM and LAMP type projects. as well as integration projects that span from windows, Mac and Linux.
President/Business Systems Consultant
SystemsUltra, Inc.
Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Networking industry
2000 – 2003 (3 years)
I provided technical input, software design, coding and testing in a multitude of projects including:
Networking;
Databases for Project Analysis;
Document Templates;
LAMP Stack
Worked With Windows, MS Access, MS Excel.
Computer Consultant
Robert Half Consulting
Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RHI; Computer Software industry
2001 – 2001 (less than a year)
Duties included contract programming and documentation during NOC duplication and move of operations to another location.
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator, Engineering Email & Groupware
Kaiser Permanente
Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry
2001 – 2001 (less than a year)
Worked in the Engineering department of the Email and Groupware Services. Analyzed the impact of changes to upgrades and new software on production systems trouble shoot problems that operations could not resolve:
Systems Administrator
Xenote
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry
2000 – 2001 (1 year)
While at Xenote I preformed multiple tasks and roles beyond just Unix Administration as Xenote, Inc was a startup business. I provided Desktop Support for windows. I was also involved in the initial network design and implementation including a firewall with DMZ. Built a custom server to run Oracle 8i on Linux with hardware raid and Tuned Linux kernel for Oracle optimum performance. Also had operations in a co-location facility with Cisco switches and F5 Load balancing hardware and VPN. Managed T1 and DSL connections to the Internet. Implemented Backup solution for both production and development.
Consultant
Computer Horizons Corp
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CHRZ; Computer Software industry
1998 – 1999 (1 year)
I Contracted to various projects and industries such Health Insurance clams processor, Energy, and Auto Insurance.
Webmaster/Jr. Systems Administrator
Netlink Communications, Inc.
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry
1996 – 1998 (2 years)
Designed and developed websites including ecommerce to process credit cards. Also responsible for dial up service for the ISP side of the business involving DNS sendmail. ISP used Red Hat Linux.
Programmer and Contract Programmer
Creative Communications Corporation
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry
1994 – 1996 (2 years)
I modified and created new functionality to Classroom training software with direct interaction between Student and instructor with custom hardware to provide student interactivity with instructor in real time. Worked in C/C++, Visual D-Base, MS Basic, Blinker Linker, MS-DOS and Windows 3.1
Technical Specialist
Eagle Distributing/World Wide Autoparts
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Retail industry
1993 – 1994 (1 year)
Installed, Maintained and repaired IBM PC and compatibles, Installed SCO XENIX and applications for POS system for auto parts store locations. I worked with the following Awk, Sed, GW Basic,SCO XENIX/386, IBM PC and Compatibles.
