GARY LANGE

OBJECTIVE

Position as an Information Technology Professional, designing and maintaining web sites and creating Graphic Designs,where I can use the breadth of my knowledge and experience as an artist, a writer, and computer science specialist. I want to combine my customer service background with my creative and artistic interests.

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Trained In
MS DOS, Windows 95, Microsoft Office Pro, Cobol, Windows NT Workstation, Windows NT Server 4.0, Unix, Customer Service Techniques, Networking Essentials, PC Maintenance and Upgrade, Web Page Design, Web Mastering, Computer Graphics, (Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator, and Coral Draw.) I am also familiar with page layout programs like Quark and Adobe PageMaker

Bachelor of University Studies in Agricultural Humanities,
"The Study of Man’s Relationship to Land."
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND (3.6 GPA)

Front Range Community College, Fort Collins, CO June 1997 to May 1999

• Monitor lab equipment, help students with questions about Windows 95, Windows Office Pro, Windows NT Workstation, and Windows NT Server

STUDIO ARTIST

• Designed, produced, and marketed original ceramic artwork valued at one half million dollars
• Worked in cooperative studio with multiple artists, sharing studio space, supervising new members, helping people market their own work, and acting as president for five years

WAREHOUSE MANAGER

Great Divide Exchange, Missoula, Montana 1982-1983

• Managed large natural food warehouse. Responsible for scheduling of personnel, loading and unloading of trucks, and handling of invoices

 

               REFORESTATION/ CONTRACTING

Seasonal part time work with multiple companies 1972-1982

• Participated in, and helped form various tree planting and tree thinning co- operatives throughout Pacific Northwest specializing in contract bidding and estimating
• Worked as contract representative to the government on numerous contracts
• Planted over three hundred thousand trees

SUMMARY

All businesses are unique in their own special ways, but they begin to merge when critical factors like time, functioning equipment, and payrole are considered. I spent ten years bidding on, and fulfilling deadline specific, government contract reforestation work. I made my living as a ceramic artist for 14 years, always marketing my work and satisfying customer needs. I went out on the edge and lent my labor to help start a 500 acre organic farm in the 1970's because of deep personal convictions. I know where I want to be in the future, and it has to do with the Internet, web pages, and information communication. Within this field I strongly believe I will be able to bring all of my experience and learning to the foreground, and address the challenges of of the new millennium. My past business and artistic experience along with my creative and technical knowledge allow me to treat each contact and each customer with the genuine care, courtesy, knowledge, and urgency they need and demand.

REFERENCES

Individual References will be given upon request

Please do note that I designed this web site to be my principle reference, under the belief that either I can do good efficient web sites or I can't.

Please also note that this web site is designed to be an open ended project so that each of the four branches of my "web tree" can be updated and developed as I see fit and have time. Some parts, like the Graphic Arts section, were designed years ago, and need updating, other parts, like the section on my life size sculpture, I have worked on recently. Most of the coding is done in fairly simple, but effective, html. Enjoy, Gary Lange