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About webwurld - The Story
Lake Eola Park, Orlando, Florida. Rick's hometown!
The Beginning!
Hi, I'm Rick. My first computer was a Sanyo MBC-550! For those who know PC's this thing sported an 8088/16 bit processor with a 4.77 Mhz clock - whoo hoo! But for a first and free computer that ol' Sanyo was the bomb. On it, I learned to program in Sanyo BASIC and GW Basic, learned WordStar and CalcStar, which were forerunners to WordPerfect and VisiCalc respectively, and mastered DOS 2.11 and 3.30.
During this time I was working as a Mail Clerk at the Tupperware World Headquarters in Kissimmee, Florida. The Mail Center was across the parking lot from the IT Center. I always wanted to work in that IT Center...
Ready. Set. Go!
Because of my interest in learning all I could about computers, software, hardware and even the history of computing devices such as ENIAC and punched card systems, I was able to land a job as a Help Desk Analyst at ... you guessed it! Tupperware World Headquarters in the IT Center!
Here I learned about IBM's 16/4 Token Ring, Ethernet 10 Base T and a bit of IBM MVS mainframe operating system. The star of the show (at that time) was Novell Netware 3.X. I jumped all over that network OS and learned all I could! It was at this time I decided to work as a Local Area Network (LAN) Administrator.
Tupperware World Headquarters, Kissimmee, Florida
University Corporate Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Making Forward Progress!
My time at Tupperware wasn't very long as my position was under contract, so when the term ran out I sought LAN Admin work elsewhere. This search brought me to Pepsi-Cola in Winston-Salem, North Carolina as an Uptime System Engineer monitoring over 300 Novell servers across the country. Eventually I would go on to earn my Certified Novell Administrator (CNA) credentials.
After leaving Pepsi, I started on a free-lance consulting career that would have me placed with many Fortune 500 companies to include Volvo/GM Heavy Truck, Sara Lee Direct, Coca-Cola, First USA, SunTrust Bank and many more...
The Last Frontier!
The family and I had moved back to Orlando. Back home I did a consulting gig for a local company in Maitland, Florida to perform a Y2K analysis on hardware and software compatibilty for the dreaded roll over!
After Y2K came and went and the Earth did not implode, I ventured into other industries but continued to learn HTM/HTML coding, website design, development and management on various platforms such as Wix, Weebly, Squarespace, Site123 and Square. Eventually Google Sites became my go-to website builder. And here was the begining of webwurld...
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The Wizard of webwurld, Richard "Rick" Kinsey has a very diverse background and evolved set of skills. Having worked many years in the commercial / industrial electrical trade, and in the automotive, retail, and information technology fields, has afforded Rick the ability to navigate through and thrive in almost any business environment. Today, Rick brings all his knowkedge, skills, and abilities together in webwurld to help your business or organization's internet presence succeed on a completely new level.
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