Colin Helms work history and skills

1. COLIN M. HELMS
colinhelms@gmail.com 503.516.9590 www.linkedin.com/pub/colin-helms
product marketing engineer
it systems engineer

2. EXPERIENCE
It Consultant – SurplusGizmos - October 2013 – Present
• Managed the project and deployed Windows Server 2008 R2
• Migrated 10 clients to Windows 7 with active directory and a managed back-end.
• Deployed Exchange Server, SQL Server and SharePoint. Cataloged and tested rackmount servers with
Linux for resale verifying hardware.
• Write and deploy javascript and vb applications for use within the company.
Owner Producer Editor - Inspired Film & Media - May 2003 – August 2013
• I owned and operated a video production company.
• Produced at around 50 weddings and produced a storybook video production featuring all aspects off
the wedding, from the morning at the hair salon, to following the bride and groom to their final site for
their wedding night.
• Used Adobe Premier, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Encore. I learned professional lighting and stage
presentation.

3. EXPERIENCE
Product Marketing and Systems Engineer -
Intel Corporation - July 1999 – December
2008
• Built, produced and gave presentations
that showed the performance of our
product.
• Presented our mobile platform "Robson"
at Intel's Developer Forum, in front of
industry leaders such as Michael Dell,
and other important external leaders from
HP, Samsung, and Gateway.
• Used Visual Basic, Java/script and C# to
test and create demonstrations of how
well the product worked. I also created a
gaming-based demonstration as shown
here

4. EXPERIENCE
Robson Mobile Demonstrations at Intel Dev Forum
• Patent Applied for Storage Timing Tool

5. EXPERIENCE
Intel Experience continued
• Responsible for the upkeep of Windows Servers 2000, 2003, and 2008 server that made up all of
intel.com.
• Knowledge and experience with Active Directory, IIS, Apache, Exchange, and SQL server.
• Worked closely with developers to create and deploy internal and external facing application.
• Developed SQL Server and.net applications that were used in administrative support of these
systems.
• Responsible for the production Share Point systems that was used by widely by many people at
Intel.
• Through-out all my positions I had the opportunity to continue my developer education (with C#,
VB.net classes, as well as java classes) which allowed me to be was one of the best
troubleshooters on staff.
Systems Administrator / Developer - Freightliner LLC 1996 – 2001
• VB software developer, I used MS Visual basic AND MS SQL server to create applications to support the
factory so that every truck built is custom made to order.
• Systems administrator and helped the transition of many items from the mainframe to a Windows Server
farm with MS SQL Server.

6. EDUCATION
Concordia University - Bachelor’s of Science
• Management and Communications - 4.2 gpa
Auburn University - Auburn, AL
• Management Information Systems - completed 3 years

7. SKILLS
Testing
IIS
JavaScript
System Administration
Intel
Java
Visual Basic
Windows Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Sales
Debugging
Project Management
Data Center
Servers
Scripting
Active Directory
Microsoft Exchange
OS X
Systems Engineer
Network Security
VB.NET
Time Management
Network Administration
Systems Analyst
HTML 5
Visual C#
Microsoft Certified Systems
Engineer
Technical Sales
Presentations
Research
Perl
DOS Scripting
Video Production
Presentation
Development
Product Management
Digital Media
Digital Photography
Automation
Customer Service
Microsoft Excel
Enterprise Architecture
Windows
Network Topology

8. HONORS & INTERESTS
• Multiple awards for excellence for projects completed at Intel
• Concordia University - Dean’s Award for Excellence
•MCSE – MS Systems Engineer – Certified for Windows Server
2000-2003
• Building Electronic components and 3D printers using PC/Mac and
Arduino
•Photography – Landscape and kids
•Building R/C Vehicles of all types- Cars, quadcopters, and
helicopters
• Volunteering at Audubon Society of Portland
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