Frank J P.

## BIO **Current employment**: IT Manager, Vermont Department of Liquor Control, since 1994. I run an IT team that supports all enforcement, education, and licensing activities related to alcohol and tobacco, as well as the retail distribution system from the warehouse down to cash registers in liquor agencies statewide. My duties range from long-term strategic planning and budgeting to coding and cabling and everything in between. My team has achieved many successes including being declared the Outstanding State Team by Governor Dean in 1999. **Previous Employment**: I have many years of experience in other computer-related jobs, ranging from data entry, to coding for a profitable online multiplayer game, to developing databases to track background investigations, to coding systems used in a volunteer fire department to route trucks to fires, to running a public bulletin board system, and much much more. In total I have over 20 years of experience in the computer industry, working in such sectors as health care, education, corrections, retail, emergency services, entertainment, non-profit, and communications. **Education**: B.S. in Computer Science, from Johnson State College (though most of the study was at SUNY Stony Brook). Extensive additional training. **Philosophy**: It's vital that IT be subordinate to the parent organization's goals and purposes. IT's job is to make sure that when the organization discovers it needs some capability to facilitate its operations or improve quality or efficiency, IT has already discreetly installed it, so it's been there already waiting to be used. ## Area of Expertise **Operating Systems**: Extensive experience with all versions of Windows, including inner workings and troubleshooting. Administration and use of Unix and Linux, along with coding thereupon. I've used and programmed for all versions of the Palm OS. My experience with Macs is outdated; I've used them extensively with OS versions 6-8 but not more recent versions. **Programming Languages**: Thanks to my studies in language theory, I am adept at picking up languages quickly. I have extensive experience in C, Visual Basic/VBA, Unix scripting, VBScript/ASP, Java, and HTML/Javascript, and some experience in Perl, Python, and more other languages than I could list. **Other**: Too many things to list. Exchange, online text games, networking and security, modems, Office, OpenOffice, retail/POS, cryptography, GPS, home automation, Active Directory, Acrobat, game theory and design, and all forms of telecommunication.