"Information Technology" is such a  B R O A D  term for capabilities in such diverse areas that the list of  my skills gets lengthy and out of date. Re - education should be speedy, though.

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Self-employed as O-T-G, I consult with clients to find solutions for software bottleneck problems affecting their on-site throughput and production. "Integrator" was the early term when we were making diverse hardware function in enterprise software systems. Now even a computer operator multi-tasking among a diversity of programs to finish a job needs a similar job description.

For a time after the CCNA course I administered a private 5 node virtual network of simulated Cisco routers to keep my telecom interconnectivity skills honed. It still seems the only game worth consuming my time.

A sample client's need required my part-time telecommuting to a knowledge management firm with a real estate school on the internet. Sample duties included wordsmithing content and coding some of the ColdFusion formatted files that makes the school happen on the web. The kind of glitches I trouble-shot are:

The web on-line input screen of a database being populated through a ColdFusion server had been written at a high resolution, so other personnel coming to the site with 800x600 monitors could not see the menu choices they needed to use, on screen. The first suggestion to rewrite the .cfm pages to allow scrolling was rejected by the client. My work-around had all input personnel raise THEIR screen resolution so the menus would be available; and also increase the font size in their local editor so the text they were cutting and pasting would be big enough that they would not quickly tire of looking at the smallness of it. The field specs in the database accepted the pasted inserts only at a uniform size.

I was involved in production OCR of a 137 page book followed by writing .cfm files for web display through a ColdFusion server. I demonstrated error discovery and correction was improved by ignoring the OCR's attempts; pasting the text blocks into an editing utility with speedy search and replace functions, and macros to join lines disjointed by hard carriage returns during the OCR process. The chunks were then pasted to a .cfm web editor with WYSIWYG to display results for checking.

I have maintained collaborative web space for several clients using the now defunct QuickTeam service. The ability to leave problems and opinions up for a group to comment on, then track the success of suggested revisions is like a not quite face-to-face salon which needn't be attended every day, yet may be visited at any hour for stimulation. Prices for on-line ASP vendors services are as volatile as the .com companies themselves, so I did experiment with Lotus QuickPlace through MayeticVillages.com (but all the steps to change a page are too much for most clients), currently a QuickTopic bulletin board; and previously a shared document vault through ScanSoft's PaperPort software with a Visioneer scanner. My constant dabbling with Groove from www.groove.net has resulted in a downloadable invitation to a collaborative Groove workspace, available from my weblog www.o-t-g.com/blahg

I participate in 2 similar web egroups. One for the introduction of the new Toyota hybrid gas-electric car, the Prius. I own a Prius, and the multiple LCD displays demand info-tech skills for fusion into a grasp on the state of the machine.

Other email list-serves support ZOOT, an evolving text database program I'm fond of; Groove, the NoteTabPro html editor, and the local internet users group - RMIUG.

Yes, I know the above use a preposition in a post-positional manner does not seem to qualify me to even have an opinion about proper English composition; but in the common-usage way of things, I DO.