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Today's Featured Biography
Scott Chandler
Name: Scott B. Chandler
Age: 49 (or 50…I forget sometimes)
Height, etc.: 6 foot, 205 pounds, blue eyes, desperately good looking and not too kinky
Favorite phase: “Find the path that has heart and then follow it breathlessly”
Thing to do: Biking, Hiking, Skiing, Flying, and Sky diving (if the flying doesn’t go so well), Hang gliding and Para Sailing, Shopping, Reading, Computers, Sport Cars, and Women though not necessary in any order of preference.
-1st Life-
Having grown up snow skiing from the age of 4, my first career, at age 17, was a Ski Bum. As a Ski Bum I spent many years in various ski communities out west and taught skiing from the age of 18 until the ripe old age of 27.
I got my collage degree in Ski Area Management at the prestigious, (Yea Right), Colorado Mountain College (CMC).
I became National Ski Patrol at the age of 27 and patrolled A-Basin ski area full time until I was 30 and part time until I was 35.
Of course when the snow melted each spring I needed to find something else to do so each summer I traveled the Mid-west with a variety of jobs such as:
1. Oil Field Derrick Rigger
a. (Oil Field Trash)
2. Waste Water Truck Driver
a. (Oil Field Trash)
3. Marine
a. (Da Few, Da Poor, Da Marines)
4. Seasonal Harvest Crew
a. (Traveling Texas to Canada, chasing the coming fall, harvesting Wheat & Corn)
5. Cattle Feed Yard
a. (Cowboy with a eastern accent and fun to laugh at, at the local rodeos)
6. Tow Truck Driver
a. (AAA but the highway accidents scared me away)
7. Telephone Line Man
a. (More of a Line Boy really)
-2nd Life (Briefly)-
At the age of thirty I was talked into moving from the mountains I loved to the east coast again to manage a family own Ski Shop. I was told I could live in this cute town of Germantown and, envisioning things like all the homes with cute German doilies on them and people singing off the mountain tops in out here in Germantown I moved out east. I rapidly realized my mistake and vowed to give my new job 1 year but then return to the mountains. But, of course life happens. I met a lady and got down on my knees and asked her to be my first wife so my 1 year out east turned into a bit more.
Even though I was managing a Ski Shop and was becoming a sponsored skier getting free gear and earning a fair living from the Ski Industry and becoming repeatedly invited to be an environmental educator and conference leader with the National Wildlife Federation throughout the USA and hosting environmental tours and radio spots for VOA in Indonesia my wife and I thought maybe I could do more.
Well I had always been a closet computer geek building my first computer long before Apple was Apple and long before IBM though a home computer might be a good idea. All my meager spare money and spare time was spent with this “hobby”.
-3rd Life-
So I enrolled into a local collage to learn all about “them there” computers.
After two weeks at the collage my instructor and I both realized I knew more than he could teach me and the collage hired me to program for them and paid me more money then I had even seen before as well as paid for my education. Four months after that I was put in charge of their IT department and I never looked back.
Of course, shortly after that, because I was now earning lots of money but no longer going skiing and going to all sorts of neat places teaching and being an environmentally cool dude and all, my wife dumped me.
But, in spite of, or because of, that my IT career was taking off with projects like:
1. Hurricane Andrew - (Rebuilding computer system in tons of office in Dade County Florida while hanging in the keys on weekends, drinking margaritas and forgetting about my x-wife)
2. Department of Defense (DOD) – (Training Russian Troops Netware and Networking…What!?)
3. Hartford Community Collage – (Design, Install, and Train the staff on how to use their new, great computer network. My first management role in a large scale project of 11 building, 8 servers, 600 workstations)
4. American University – (Novell’s first Netware 4.x install with over 10,000 users. In fact we had 30,000 users and we interfaced directly with Novell for months until they figured out all the bugs of how to support 30,000 users which, in turn, taught me everything I ever wanted to know about distributed networks and user management)
5. AMTRAK – (On-call for emergency repairs as sub contractor to IBM for which IBM charged AMTRAK ridiculously high hourly fees. Even Lawyers wished they could charge that much)
6. Census – (Designed their National Input System, Installed it and provided Nationwide Training)
7. Citibank – (Managing their National Research Lab in Reston, Virginia)
8. Panasonic – (Supporting LANMAN, as if anyone remember what that is except me)
9. Immigration and Naturalization Administration (INS) – (5 years as a trainer and board membership on their Network Infrastructure Advisory Board for over 40,000 users, over 1,200 offices, over 5,000 servers based on Netware, NT, Banyan)
10. Airbus – (All their W2K issues with their entire USA IT infrastructure. Cool place to work with free Perrier and everything)
11. Small Business administration (SBA) – (Western States Region roll-out and training for Exchange/Outlook)
12. Westinghouse – (Netware installs in all their West Coast Nuclear Facilities. Scary but cool stuff)
Like so many in my field of expertise I moved through or serviced a variety of companies. Some you might have heard of but most of them just a few letter of the alphabet such as DRG, SCI, NOVA, Citibank, SAIC, Natek, CRM, UNCF, ASH, WANG.
I started Acorn Micro Corporation in the mid 1990s.
I met my partner in 1999 as I was training her INS Miami Office WANG staff. I couldn’t afford to hire a high level engineer so I asked Denise to marry me.
We re-incorporated in 2003 under the name of AcornNET.com.
Our house, our business, and everything we ever had burn to the ground 12-4-2003 at 2:00am on a cold snowy morning.
But the past is the past and even though we have not fully recovered, (insurance companies are not our friends), we reach settlement with them, IN FULL, 7-12-2005 and started to work to get our business and lives back whole again.
In 2006 we merged AcornNET.com with TeamLogicIT and have grown in capabilities and the expertise we can offer our clients.
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TeamLogicIT provides computer Consultation, Maintenance & Remote Managed Services on a national and international basis, dedicated to helping Small Business with all their computing needs.
We service clients in Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida, Japan, Thailand, England and Germany.
And we’re the only company anywhere that provides this cool Remote Managed Services tool called SystemWatch.
SystemWatch providing remote protection, diagnostic, maintenance and support from our secure Data Center into our client’s networks or even someone’s personal computer or laptop. And even allows users to remotely access their computers from anywhere in the world.
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But enough with the sales pitch. Denise and I are still leaping over tall buildings in a single bound and loving it.
(703) 777-3551
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