Chris Layfield:
CLASS OF 1986
Winter Park High SchoolClass of 1986
Winter park, FL
Northeast Louisiana UniversityClass of 1991
Monroe, LA
Indian River Community CollegeClass of 1988
Ft. pierce, FL
Chris's Story
Life
Currently living in Jacksonvill, FL with my wife Meg, son Riley, daughter Adrian and our dog Bentley. We have been here since 12/06. After graduation I attended Indian River Community College then finished out at Northeast Lousisiana University on swimming scholarships. I recieved a BA in psychology. I currently work for MCI as an Sr. Technical Manager. Psychology major to Engineering Hmm? :). I have a family website by last name. Looking forward to seeing old friends at the next reunion.
CHRIS...
School
Stephen Foster Elementary 73-78
Westwood Middle School 79-81
Glenridge Jr. High School 82
Winter Park High School 83-86
College
Indian River Comunity College 86-88, AA Degree
Northeast Lousiana University 88-91, BA Psychology
Workplace
I have been very fortunate in that most jobs I have had I really enjoyed. The ones I did not enjoy, well I wasn't there long enough to remember them any way. Being in the right place / right time also helped. After finishing college I looked and applied to jobs in my field of psychology. So I like any eager, highly qualified college grad I waited tables in the interim to keep from starving. :)
I started my career path working as a loan officer for a mortgage company in Orlando, FL. I enjoyed that and started using computers for marketing campaigns and automation of leads, contacts, and quotes. I did this so much I helped many of my peers. This was my first business introduction in to networking and computers. I always liked working with computers in the Mac Lab at Winter Park H.S. . Now I had a financial incentive to be profici...Expand for more
ent. Word got around in my company about things I was doing in the Orlando office. I was asked to evaluate a new Loan Officer point of sale system. I did a lot of work and Q&A to ensure it was functional for my peers. After the product was launched I was offered a Job in Altanta, GA running the Southeast region POS systems and data base for originating loans. So lucky me I was the one man help desk for ~250 loan officers. I admit it was a lot of fun, I got to travel a lot. I also got married right before moving up to Atlanta, GA.
After about 3.5 years of being on call and traveling I needed a change and advancement in my career. The online company we were using for the POS system was CompuServe. I had been working with them to troubleshoot netowrk problems as they accurred. One of there engineers recommended I apply for the NSE roles. NSE - Network systems Engineer position, which is technical sales postion. Taking this carreer was the steepest of all my learning curves. After about 6months I was acclimated and advancing internally. I soon became team lead, the area manager of FL/GA/AL.
Then we were acquired by Worldcom and they merged with MCI. Well if you have read the papers/Internet you know the story there. I have to say it has been an interesting 10 years at MCI, but I am fortunate to be here. I am currently a Sr. Technical Manager for 2nd level technical support team in the US. It will be interesting to find out how life will evolve once Verizon acquires us. I will have to update this later. Looking forward to seeing old friends.
Best Regards,
CHRIS LAYFIELD
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