RYAN SOLL
** **** ***** **. ****** River, MD ****0
Home: 410-***-**** Cell: 717-***-**** Email: *********@*****.***
SUMMARY
Skilled IT Professional with over 10 years experience dealing with
computer systems, peripherals, engineering, and team management.
SKILLS
. Deploy new PCs, transfer data, and wipe hard drives for PCs identified
for disposal or re-use
. Assemble and install parts, test and perform operational checks and
interconnection of computer hardware systems and peripheral equipment
. Maintain, upgrade and replace hardware and software systems
. Prepare new equipment, assemble computer systems and peripherals, back-
up/restore users' data, install standard software loads/images,
initiate users' network connection
. Three years of computer engineering education
. Five years in management positions
. Develop, integrate and apply information systems components to solving
business problems. Maximize security features to emphasize on the role
of the end user in making a system secure.
. Construct business applications using an advanced application
development environment such as Visual Basic
. Write and implement complete C++ programs to solve engineering
problems using top-down design
. Use high-quality programming standards to develop C++ programs to
solve engineering problems
. Apply successful debugging strategies in a software development
process while developing programs of several hundred lines in length
PROGRAMS
. Windows OS
. Microsoft Office Suite 2003 & 2007
. C++ and Visual Basic
. Auto CAD
EXPERIENCE
Marketing Sales Representative, Capital Remodeling Inc., MD May 2007
- Current
Design and draw product and layout schematics, set up
agreements, and draft and finalize contracts with clients
Maintain and promote excellent customer service and relations
Operations Manager, Value City Department Stores, MD October 2006 -
May 2007
Troubleshoot software and programming problems in the existing
training and signing software
Promote team productivity and efficiency among all employees
Perform store level human resource functions; conducting
appraisals and performance reviews, interviewing and hiring
of potential candidates, and organize and administer training
and development sessions
Maintain and promote excellent customer service and relations
Assistant Store Manager, A.C. Moore, MD May 2003 - September 2006
Troubleshoot software and programming problems in the existing
training and signing software
Maintain and verify inventory control repository and ensure
order postings are current, necessary, and accurate through
asset management
Promote team productivity and efficiency among all employees
Manage, train, and supervise employees engaged in ordering and
inventory assessments
Maintain inventory standards and relay and assemble and maintain
inventory elevations
Create and manage ongoing department sales comparison
spreadsheets
Complete independence and responsibility to operate and maintain
the store based upon personal ability, decisions, and
standards
Maintain and promote excellent customer service and relations
Assistant Store Manager, K-mart, MD/PA Jan 2002 - May 2003
Troubleshoot software and programming problems in the existing
training and signing software
Maintain and verify inventory control repository and ensure
order postings are current, necessary, and accurate through
asset management
Promote team productivity and efficiency among all employees
Manage, train, and supervise employees engaged in ordering and
inventory assessments
Maintain inventory standards and relay and assemble and maintain
inventory elevations
Maintain and promote excellent customer service and relations
Lab Technician/ Systems Admin, Eastern York HS, York, PA May 1999 -Aug
1999
Install new software and hardware, determine supply needs
Troubleshoot problems with hardware and software and perform the
resolution
Build and maintain network infrastructure such as switches and
routers, and diagnose problems with these or with the behavior
of network-attached computers
Respond to difficulties with computer systems and diagnose and
solve common problems
Perform maintenance; changing backup tapes or replacing failed
drives in a RAID
EDUCATION
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech),
Blacksburg, VA
B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, Minors in Business and
Economics, Graduated Dec 2001
. Represent and manipulate information in binary form, design and
construct basic combinational and sequential logic circuits,
implement designs represented in a register transfer language,
write machine language computer programs, write elementary
assembly language programs, and write reports on hardware and
software design projects
. Design algorithms for solving problems that use data structures
such as arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, graphs, and trees,
and algorithms such as those that are used for list
manipulation, graph manipulation (e.g., depth-first search),
sorting, searching, and tree traversals
. Define and use the concepts of data types, arrays, pointers, and
stream and file I/O
. Use dynamic memory management, library functions, user-defined
functions, and simple classes to solve engineering problems in
C++
ACHIEVEMENTS/AWARDS
Received Iron Fist award in 2006 for superior enforcement of company
policies and support of company integrity
Customer Appreciation award 2005 for superior Customer Service