Kirby L. Wallace (918) 527-8960 Tulsa, Oklahoma USA
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Services
Computer & Network Support Server Buildout, RAID Array config, Windows Server 2003 Config, Router Programming and Config, Firewall Security, Gigabit Network Support, Active Directory, DHCP and DNS Admin.
Web Design & Development Internet, Marketing, Corporate Intranet Development, and complex Web Applications with ASP/HTML, Javascript, ASP.NET (VB CLR), VWD2008, Ajax Extensions, WinForms.
Programming & Architecture Visual Basic, VB.NET, MS SQL Server 2005 (Std & Enterprise), Stored Procedures, SSMS, SSRS. Crystal Reports.
Network Cabling & Wiring Cat5e cabling, drops, data recepts, behind wall and under floor runs, Building-to-Building runs, RJ45 terminators, underground and through conduit, custom cables,
Product Identification & Purchasing Recommendations Assistance in identifying correct equipment needed to accomplish your goals at minimum expense.
Serving small & medium-sized businesses in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Kansas
Formerly a business and management consultant for some of the nation's top performers:
Deloitte & Touche
Coopers & Lybrand
Computer Sciences Corporation
Bell Aerospace
Anderson Consulting
My clients have included such companies as:
Williams Companies
UtiliCorp United
Public Service Company
Clear Channel Television
York International
State of Oklahoma
Federal Government
CITGO Petroleum
Zink Companies
HardWare Services:
I provide full-spectrum Business and Management Consulting to small and medium sized business and government agencies. And I act as a management consultant to small and medium sized companies who lack on-staff, full time Information Technology departments. Basically, those companies that have computers onsite, but not computer experts on staff. I work as your interim, or on-call IT Manager, for less than it would cost to have one on-staff full time.
I make recommendations related to product identification, hardware purchasing recommendations, installation, configuration, troubleshooting and repair, including servers, workstations, networking equipment (routers, switches) and I also install network cabling, drops, wall jacks, terminators and perform wire testing to ensure reliable connectivity.
Software Services:
My primary theatre is highly interactive, data-driven, web-based applications written in HTML with ASP Scripting (vbscript, javascript) and ASP.NET (VWD2008 with ASP.NET and currently using VB CLR) and Ajax Extentions, Sharepoint Portal (formerly FrontPage Server Extensions) hosted on Microsoft's IIS Internet Architecture, and utilizing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for data storage and retrieval. I also create Client Server Visual Basic applications (Visual Studio 6), as well as very complex database applications designed in Microsoft Access. Basically, if there's an ODBC driver for your data product, then I'm all over it.
I use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 Database server almost exclusively for data backend, although I occasionally work with other databases (such as Oracle, btrieve and it's variants, MS Access, and MySQL).
Modus Operandi:
I come down pretty solidly on the proven reliability and dependability side of the isle. I am not an "early adopter" of most new technologies, prefering instead to work with and recommend what I know works from past experience. I do not believe in constantly upgrading for the mere sake of upgrading. I am solidly in favour of "Business Reuse" (ie, commonly refered to today as "re-purposing"). That means I am not in favour of buying new equipment when existing equipment is sufficient (and usually more than sufficient) for the task at hand. I believe in new technology only when it presents the opportunity to do something previously not possible, and only then when it is justified by cost and budgetary allowance.
In the Web Development arena, I work primarily and exclusively with server-side script, and minimal (in fact none at all wherever possible) client side script. If you want to know the source of 99% of website vulnerabilities and propagation of viruses, malware and spyware, it is client-side script. Most of my websites that I develop will work just fine in even the highest security environment. In fact, in many cases, you can completely disable all scripting, and my sites will continue to operate completely unaffected. That has the added benefit of supporting a wider range of web browser software, which in many cases differ significantly in their ability to properly interpret and execute client side script.
Vocab: You come into the office one morning, and your computer won't print anything. So you call me. I come out and turn the printer on.
In the Professional Consulting world, we call that Business Consulting. If we suggest that you turn the printer on, then that's Management Consulting. ;-)
All this means that when you know something is wrong, but you don't know what... Or you need something, but you're not sure what to buy or where to buy it... That's where I step in. When being told on the one hand that you need to buy a $2500 router, I can show you the other hand where a $600 router will more than suffice.
I am the author of software used by Dell Computer Systems for pre-imaging system drives shipped to customers. Originally developed in a partnership between Dell and Williams Communications (of Tulsa Oklahoma), the software was adopted for widespread use throughout Dell. The software included a specialized TCP/IP communications protocol for transmitting order information and application pre-imaging selections.
