100's of Windows PCs

In 1996, Teen Mania moved our entire corporate offices with 30+ staff and 600+ interns from Tulsa, OK to Garden Valley, TX (NW of Tyler, TX).  We built a big call center with state-of-the-art phone system and 70 brand new Gateway computers for about $2000/each.  My family and I moved down to TX a month ahead of the rest of the staff to install all these computers and be there for Lucent Technologies to install our G3 phone system and about 250 phones.  We basically sold all of our Unix terminals and completely converted over to a Windows Server environment (except for our accounting server which stayed on Unix until sometime after I left Teen Mania).  We bought 3Com SuperStack network switches/hubs within days of them being offered to the public, saving over $50,000 in networking equipment.  We soon added another 55 Acer computers for $1800/each.  Here I am with one of the 70 Gateways in the Call Center.

I went to lots of Lucent phone system classes in Pasadena, Denver, Atlanta and Dallas to learn all about our phone equipment.  And I learned all about Windows Servers.  Managing Unix servers served me well and everything seemed a lot easier from a GUI interface rather than command line entries.  The Lucent phone switch was run by Unix so I was right at home managing it.

I managed an incredible team of interns for our Help Desk and a few exceptional staff members who did database programming and network administration.  It was incredible to work with such talented and committed people.