{"id":4,"date":"2014-03-15T15:46:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T20:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshuahughes.info\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2022-03-20T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T21:13:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joshuahughes.info\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mr-2 mt-2 wp-image-202 rounded float-left\" src=\"https:\/\/joshuahughesstorage1.blob.core.windows.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Josh-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Hello, my name is Joshua Michael Hughes. I have over twenty years of experience in the field of Information Systems. Throughout my career I have worked with Windows, Linux, and Unix Operating Systems, and Windows and LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) hosting environments. I have worked with Dell, HP, and Sun Microsystems servers, and Dell, HP, and Cisco networking equipment. I began my career as a Technical Support representative and excelled into Systems Administration, Systems Analysis, Systems Integration, and Design, and Computer Programming. I have also worked as a Web Application Developer and have\u00a0designed web applications in ColdFusion, PHP, and ASP.Net (MVC).<\/p>\n<p>Currently I am working in Public Health as a Distributed Computer Systems Administrator, and graduated Florida SouthWestern State College with an AS in Computer Programming and Analysis. As a Distributed Computer Systems Administrator I function as the IT Administrator and Management Information Systems Program Manager. I am responsible for budget, project planning, daily operations and Supervision of the Management Information Systems program.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to my technical skills and expertise in Information Systems, I am devoted to improving my leadership, planning, and communication skills. I have completed numerous hours of leadership development and coaching, and continue my studies of Quality Improvement methodologies. I have studied the Institute for Healthcare Improvement\u2019s model for Quality Improvement and have accomplished Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification.<\/p>\n<p>I am a husband, and I am a father to four children. In our free time we enjoy outdoor activities.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><em>My Strengths:<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>I am passionate about technology and all the amazing things that can be accomplished with it. I am great at solving puzzles and I am strong in Project Planning and systems analysis and design. I plan to continue working with my strengths by seeking further development in Project Planning and Service Delivery.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Knowledge &amp; Skills<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Skills Matrix<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Knowledge of distributed processing operations, procedures, and equipment.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of problem solving techniques.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of computers and software.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of the principles, practices and techniques of computer programming and\/or computer systems analysis.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of database design.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of storage technologies, memory management, disk arrays, and networking.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of backup and recovery processes.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of incident response and disaster recovery skills.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of Active Directory, firewalls, VPN, and Intrusion detection\/prevention systems.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to process information logically and solve problems.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to develop training programs related to distributed processing operations and procedures.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to monitor and resolve problems with distributed computer systems components.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to identify and define user task needs.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to communicate effectively.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to supervise people.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to write, code, test and debug computer programs.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to write technical data processing reports.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to adapt quickly to changing technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><em>Operating Systems:<\/em><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Windows Desktop ( 2.0 &#8211; 10)<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Windows Server \u00a0(NT4.0 &#8211; 2019 [Standard,Web,Enterprise,DataCenter])<\/li>\n<li>Gentoo Linux<\/li>\n<li>Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.0<\/li>\n<li>Fedora Core (6-14) (Gnome\/KDE)<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu<\/li>\n<li>PuppyLinux (Slacko)<\/li>\n<li>Solaris (2,8-10)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><em>Programming:<\/em><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>HTML\/CSS<\/li>\n<li>ColdFusion 4.0<\/li>\n<li>ColdFusion MX7<\/li>\n<li>PHP<\/li>\n<li>Bash<\/li>\n<li>DOS<\/li>\n<li>Visual Basic<\/li>\n<li>Java<\/li>\n<li>JavaScript<\/li>\n<li>Python<\/li>\n<li>ASP.NET<\/li>\n<li>C#<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><em>SQL:<\/em><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft SQL (2000-2012)<\/li>\n<li>MYSQL<\/li>\n<li>PostgreSQL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, my name is Joshua Michael Hughes. I have over twenty years of experience in the field of Information Systems. Throughout my career I have worked with Windows, Linux, and Unix Operating Systems, and Windows and LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/joshuahughes.info\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuahughes.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuahughes.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuahughes.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuahughes.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuahughes.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/joshuahughes.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/joshuahughes.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuahughes.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}