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Thursday, 03 February 2000 22:02

My name is Kendrick Coleman and thanks for taking a few minutes to check me out.

I am a tech savvy professional based out of Louisville, KY. Over the years I have acquired a vast amount of skills, but I would say my strong points are networking and virtual environments.

It all started during my Junior year of high school, I participated in the Cisco Networking Academy Program. Trinity was the first school to adopt the program in all of Louisville and I was in the inaugural class. The program was developed to prepare a student for the CCNA exam at the end of your senior year. This class was the turning point in my life where I would know computers are just my thing. I left Trinity in 2002 with numerous awards, both athletic and academic.

I continued my education and went to the University of Kentucky. At this point, I knew I would be spending the rest of my life in front of a computer so I began my work in the engineering school for a Computer Science degree. At the beginning of the semester I had started pledging Kappa Sigma. Through this semester I had met tons of new friends. One friend in the fraternity, told me about another program at UK that dealt with computers with more of a business approach. It seemed more interesting to me because the CS degree started out programming in C++, which I never found all the useful and quite boring.

While I was pledging Kappa Sig, one of the older members who continued on to be President of Student Council, talked me into running for the Freshman Representative Council. Not one time in my life had I ever even thought of running for something political with my school. He told me that he saw leadership skills in me that I could put to a good use. With his encouragement, I figured I would give it a shot. I went through a two step interview process, and a week later I was one of 20 selected freshman to be a part of the Student Council.

After my freshman year, I had started on my path pursuing my business major of Decision Science and Information Systems (DSIS). At the end of my sophomore year I had been accepted into the Gatton School of Business and I had a few more projects on my plate. During that time, I had accepted the position of Director of Internal Communications within my fraternity. People before had created newsletters and email lists, it was about time something better came along. I had started the development of www.beta-nu.net. It only took me about a month and I had the website fully functional. Using my past skills of being able to write HTML, I was able to conceive and develop a site from of a template that still looks the same as it did when I first published it. I created a forum on the site that has over 150 registered users, and accounts over 250 hits per day. The forum helps alumni, like myself, still feel connected with the fraternity with open communication.

I began my core work for a DSIS degree my junior year. The classes focused on VBA work in excel. VBA projects seemed much more interesting a gratifying than C++ ever did. I was able to get real results in a matter of seconds. Throughout DSIS, I took 3 VBA courses that made me an excel expert. I also took a networking class that taught us the ins and outs of basic networking.

I excelled so much in my major that I finished with a 4.000 GPA. Even though my overall GPA was a 3.236, I still feel that my Major GPA says something about my skills.

Since graduating, I started my career as a Systems Administrator at a marketing agency in Louisville KY. While working as a systems admin I gained a better understanding of how to interact with users on a daily basis. Since it was a marketing agency so I was thrown into working/troubleshooting Macs. After 2 years, I attained my first cert, CCNA, and began in my current job as a Network Engineer. When I started at my current employer, about 60% of the environment is virtualized. I took a VMWare 'boot camp' and attacined my VCP. Now my current company is looking at an infrastructure that is about 85% virtualized. This position has given me more benefit and knowledge than any other job I've had. I am now meeting challenges each IT component brings to networks, a corporate understanding of managing users within the network, and how to bring virtualization to a company.