Michael Bryan

When I started my first job as a helpdesk tech for Irvine Apartment Communities 10 years ago, I was a fast and very enthusiastic learner, and did not mind putting whatever extra hours in to hang out with the server administrators to learn more about the server/network side of things. I gained responsibilities with supporting the more than 300 properties that the Irvine Company managed across California. I was also given classes to teach for their employees on how to work with the Microsoft Office software as well as the accounting software that we ran in house. I found that I have a gift for teaching that I enjoyed immensely. I picked up an incredible amount of experience with my next job at Bluetorch Television (Broadcom's extreme sports set top box endeavor). I worked under the best consultants and sucked up whatever they had to teach about Microsoft Exchange, NT Server 4 – 2000, network architecture, Mac OS 9, etc. Due to my enthusiasm, the MIS Director at the time decided that I could spearhead supporting their show editors’ use of a 5 million dollar Unity Server system. They sent me to Los Angeles to get Avid/IBM certified. I enjoyed using my training on top of the general server/network support that I provided until the company’s folding. I started working for an agency contracting with server/network/mail server teams for companies as big as Disney, and Prudential and built or maintained architecture's for smaller companies. I then found a full time job with McElroy a growing Interactive advertising agency. I built the company's network from 1 server and 25 people, to 14 servers and almost 100 users. They sent me to Cisco cert training (CCNA), which I have put to good use. Since our company is a web dev house, I had the pleasure of working with a great amount of technologies from Microsoft to Linux, and still enjoy helping end users in the day to day.