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Duncan RussellMy name is Duncan Russell. I have been married for 22 years, and together my wife and I have six children and one grandchild.

I have been in technology for nearly two decades. I started out by memorizing commands in a DOS 3.0 manual to try to land a job in technology at my then-current place of employment. My “commanding” knowledge of DOS didn’t help, but it demonstrated I was motivated and they eventually caved to my persistence.

I currently am using a Windows 7 desktop at work, and a 2008 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7.5 for personal use. I do a lot of tinkering in coding and scripts, mainly to make my work life easier.

Technology and systems I am currently (or recently have been) using:

  • ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS:
    System Center Configuration Manager 2012
    CA ITCM 12.5
  • DATABASES:
    Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (and 2008, 2005)
    mysql
  • SCRIPTING/DEVELOPMENT:
    PowerShell
    VBScript
    C#
    DOS batch files 🙂
    PHP
    HTML
    Javascript
  • WEB/E-COMMERCE:
    Magento Commerce
    Wordpress
    Zen Cart
  • CLOUD:
    Amazon Web Services (AWS) — mainly S3 storage, but had my hands in Fulfillment Web Services (FWS) and Merchant Web Services (MWS) for a bit

I have a handful of Microsoft certifications as well:

  • MCSE in NT4, Windows 2000, Windows 2003
  • MCSA in Windows 2003
  • MCDBA in SQL 2000