Richard Holmes:  

Life Earliest memories of life, 2 yo standing on the tarmac watching the small props taxi, take off and land at Love Field. The rest is the usual kid stuff... snakes, snails and puppy dog tails... then guns, booze, hunting, fishing, frog gigging, some edgumacation... hehehe Actually learned to play the guitar and smoke at the ripe old age of seven. Mom found out about my smoking her cigarettes... YIKES!!! In a game of chess, winning and pissing off the mom to the point of her throwing the game away... hehehe Elementary School Middle School High School Marine Corp Married in December of 84 just before shipping off again to the far east. A great wife (she had to be, to put up with me... hehehe), three college bound teen boys and 20 plus years later, it's been a real blast! Never a dull moment! School What can I say... it was the best time of my young life. Sure there were buttheads and butting heads with a couple of teachers... I'm sure I had my moments too. What ever passing was... I did exceed it. More later... College Part of my college attendance was a drag at best... hehehe Never the less I wound up at Richland for a while, then East Field and finally in 96, UT Arlington to work towards obtaining my Certified Novell Engineer(CNE) certification, a technical cert. Workplace I have worked for some of the finest companies at the time... Honeywell, Inc. - One of the top 1000 companies in the world at the time. The day after my End Active Service (EAS) date, I was hired for the protection services division and within a month was promoted to "Night Shift Supervisor"... WOW! Wound up using the time to pursue my passion of electronics... no... computers... no.... network engineering... yeahhhhh I JUST COULDN'T SIT STILL... My teachers from elementary, through high school will tell you that too... Along with some time in college I found technical schools were how I wanted to get ahead. BTW... Honeywell did get me my first ever cert - Certified NetWare Administrator - CNA! 1990 - While working for Honeywell, I ventured out and started my own company... did some contract work, setting up networks, running cable and installing servers. NetWare of course. So, educated on networking I setup our offices first network (ArcNet), with servers even…... then saw the writing on the wall and left late 92. Byerly Foods – late 92 – Wound up learning even more about servers and network environments, from the old Arcnet to the new Ethernet topology. I began to learn how NOT to run a business… hehehe Wound up out of a job, along with every one else, because of the bosses bad business decisions in the summer of 94. BKM – Summer 94 – This was a Steelcase manufacturer and re-manufacturer. Now begins a real education of network environments. Peer-to-peer and Client Server, I made it all work... somehow. Running cable for mainframe, client server and peer-to-peer took several weekends. I left summer of 95 for a more education and contracts. Mo-Money – summer of 95 – Let me tell ya about contracts. It ain’'t for the faint of hearts! Made BIG money! Enough that I could pursue my goal of a CNE! Certified NetWare Engineer… GREAT! Winter 96 – dropped all contract work and went back to tech school for my CNE. Class lasted until March of 96. Where I landed a better than average paying job (it was a stepping stone… hehehe) March of 96 – Texas Credit Union League – Great job and wonderful people I loved every moment of it. Had a great co-worker and confidant there. SHE was very knowledgeable and technical (did I mention SHE was cute too?..) I was soon educated on Microshaft... er uh Microsoft Windows 95... I left in March of 97. March 97 – Found better pay at DART... go figure... Presently working for DART as the Senior Technical Support Specialist! Education never ends here! Did I mention that I contract?... Update 9/25/2019 Contractor for Lockheed Martin Military - Mari...Expand for more