raymonpowers

I was born on March 14, 1971 in Fremont, California. I was raised in San Jose, California and love the Bay Area. I went to school in northern california at Leigh High School. I went to college at U.C.L.A. majoring in Computer Science. I have worked for JPL, N.A.S.A., UCLA, DMX, TVN, and IBM during the day... And worked in the Entertainment Industry in the evening. (Which means I never slept.) I have danced, acted, managed, networked and produced within the Entertainment Industry. The work Bio.. I have worked in technology for over 20 years and started his career in technology at Jet Propulsion Laboratories, N.A.S.A. in 1989 providing technical support for the Optical Telecommunication projects for Space Shuttle and Satellite communication. After finishing the N.A.S.A. projects, he then worked on the Eduquest project for I.B.M., rebuilding the server and network infrastructures on the U.S.C., U.C.L.A., and Pepperdine Campuses. Noticing my technical expertise and accomplishments, IBM offered me an opportunity with I.B.M. Global Services to manage the tech support team supporting the West Coast locations of Texaco North America. I was then offered an opportunity to work with technology within entertainment. Seizing that opportunity, I built the Back Channel and Video On Demand Networks for TVN which connects Music Choice, DMX, XM, and Sirius Music channels for Time Warner, Charter, RCN, Insight, MediaCom, Atlantic, Blue Ridge, Bright House, Cablevision, Cox, Comcast, and other national cable networks. I then took on the network stabilization and rebuild project for Teleflora and POM Wonderful companies for Lynda Reznick thru Creative Circle in 2004. Creative Circle then asked me to build the network infrastructure, and help grow the company into the multi-million dollar enterprise it is today. After building the technology infrastructure for Creative Circle, I was asked to build the network/server infrastructure as the Director of Technology for Creative Technology, an international audio/visual event staging company, and built the LAN, WAN, MPLS, and VOIP networks and technical infrastructure, and provided technical support for Creative's events (Summer/Winter Olympics, Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, VMAs, National Auto Shows, major music concerts, etc.). I continue to provide network and systems consulting for companies in the Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, and Houston Metropolitan Areas.