James B. (Brad) Hale
Senior I/T Technician
  • Kansas City,
  • Missouri,
  • United States of America
Member Since: 2009/08/19
Industry: Firefighting and Rescue
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Started as a COBOL programmer and through my career have moved to online programming such as ASP, PHP, HTML5 and such.

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James Hale Photography
September 2014 – Present
I decided to make it official and have gotten my business license and created a new website.  https://www.jameshalephotography.com contains links to photos that I have taken as well as services that I offer.
I/T Senior Technician
Kansas City Missouri Fire Department (KCFD) (formerly M.A.S.T.)
March 2009 – Present
Provide support and maintenance of the I/T Services for the Kansas City Fire Department in over 50 Ambulances, 400 desktop computers, over 100 laptop computers, 49 locations throughout the city, and in numerous KCFD vehicles.  Support services for desktop users and hardware/software troubleshooting expertise.  Created, designed and maintain the KCFD Membership Website and a KCFD Intranet site that is accessed by members throughout the department.

Was instrumental in a switch from Motion Computing's C-5 tablet to Panasonic Toughbooks for our ambulance crews.  Perform support on Toughbooks as needed.  Support and train employees on software and hardware as well as did hardware installation when necessary.  Support the many different servers and applications that were run in a 24-hour critical operation.  Support Exchange Server 2003 as well as the 300+ users that accessed it.
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Attended classes in Sharepoint Foundations I & II, Sharepoint Designer I & II

Trained in COBOL programming and spent many years programming Medical Applications written in COBOL in a Unix Environment

Knowledgeable in web-based programming and website design utilizing HTML, HTML 5.0, JavaScript, classic ASP, PHP and AJAX.

Worked with most networks from PC to Mainframe with an emphasis on the PC (Desktop) side.

Installed and worked with many different types of hardware and run many hundreds of feet of cabling

Familiar with computer security practices and practice them in my daily positions

Am knowledgeable in Social Marketing and SEO Optimization

Expert at customer service and support and have supervised up to 8 people in similar positions

Specialties: Sharepoint, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, HTML 5.0, PHP, ASP, SQL, VBScript, JavaScript, COBOL, MS Access, Oracle, DB2

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