Ernest H. Hays
531 Green Meadow Lane ♦ Mars Hill, NC 28754
Phone: 828.505.6981 ehays@logicalcomputer.com
Profile
Over 25 years of training, teaching, consulting, and professional management.
______________________________Professional Experience______________________________
AB Tech Community College – 2009 – 2010
- Instructor – Class room instruction as well as Hybrid and on-line courses. Teaching Entrepreneurship, Computer Technologies, and Business Administration
Soteria Ministries , Asheville, NC 2003-2009
- Ordained Minister – originated downtown storefront ministry as well as retail bookstore, wireless coffee shop, meeting hall, and business development center.. Also held many instruction classes as well as Pastor of a congregation and outreach minister to street people and socially challenged.
Logical Computer Company, Orlando, Florida & Mars Hill, NC 1984 – 2002
Full-service company providing design and implementation of IT solutions for small to large companies
Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Lead IT Consultant
- Designed custom IT solutions for clients. Consulted for, managed, and maintained projects for over 100 new and different businesses per year, including small- to mediums-sized businesses and fortune 1000 companies (see below for example clients and projects).
- Managed Human Resources. Researched, hired and trained talented and technically proficient personnel for hundreds of positions. Managed personnel, budgets and projects to maintain streamlined profitability.
- Provided Sales, Service and Support. Constructed and maintained relationships with all major manufacturers and vendors. Maintained certification levels for manufacturers and vendors requirements. Purchased, delivered and installed all equipment and software as scheduled. Managed materials, supply chain, value analysis and budgeting.
- Maintained Servers: Windows NT-2008, Exchange, Virtual, Communications, AS400.
- Managed Databases, accounting systems, CADD, OLTP, order processing and manufacturing. Configured future data processing needs for budgets (ROI), and system audits. Mapped out information flow strategies. Designed and implemented custom software—database, web design.
- Provided On-going Support. On- and off-site training programs. On-going consulting to keep clients abreast of the latest technology and how to effectively utilize IT in their organizations.
____________________________________Education ____________________________________
Associate of Arts – Valencia Community College (Orlando, FL)
Associate of Science – Computer Programming, Southern College (Orlando, FL)
Bachelor of Science – Business Management, University of Phoenix (Phoenix, AZ)
Master of Arts – Business Entrepreneurship, U of Western NC- (Cullohwee, NC)
Certificate – University of Central Florida Business Entrepreneur, Technology Incubator
____________________________________Accreditations _________________________________
Programmer of year DPMA (RPG), Novell CNE, Microsoft Solutions Provider, Netscape Channel Partner, Microsoft OEM, Seagate-OEM, Proxim Wireless Engineer (Orinoco)
Certifications: Calcomp, AutoCAD (+lisp), UNIX systems engineer
Certified Dealer: Borland, Citrix, Lotus, Microsoft, Oce’ Graphics, Intel Processor
Certified Reseller: Silicon Graphics; Tech Data VAR, NEC; NCR VAR, Digital Reseller
Certified Trainer: AutoCad, Calcomp, Microsoft Office, Orinoco Wireless, Peachtree, more..
___________________________Application Working Knowledge________________________
Software: Blackboard, Moodle, Webadvisor, AutoCad (other electrical & engineering), Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Office/ Windows Desktop (all versions) OS, Windows Server (NT, 2000 Adv, Exchange, SBS, SQL Server, IIS), UNIX, Linux, Peachtree, Access, Sybase, Dream Weaver, Paradox, Ultradev, Corel (all), Adobe (all), Symantec (all), Medisoft, Medical Manager, Solomon, Great Plains, Cougar Mountain, POS,COBOL, RPGII, BASIC, VISUAL STUDIO, Act, Easy ACCT, Taascforce, LaCerte, Visual Basic. .NET, Crystal Reports, Groupwise, many more..
Hardware: Built custom white box computers/network servers, all type and brand names systems, Fiber Optic, RAID (hot swap), Intel Processors, IBM 36, AIX, voice processor (Bitcom), wireless (wi-fi) systems, Cisco routers (most other brands), communications servers (ISDN, DSL, FIOS, VOIP, satellite, T-1, OC3-OC12), high end graphics (Silicon Graphics), UPS, digital backup/storage, mass storage/video servers, much, much, more