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      Ken Fister aka zapanig @ irc.buttes.org + irc.hardchats.com
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      Owner, FECOR, LLC
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      Charlottesville, Virginia Area
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      Current:
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              * Owner at FECOR, LLC
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      Past:
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              * Senior Staff Engineer at Cisco Systems
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              * Technical Analyst at LandAmerica Commonwealth
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              * MIS monkey / punching bag at Sentara Healthcare
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              * MIS at General Electric
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      Industry: Automotive
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      Ken Fister’s Experience:
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          * Owner
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            FECOR, LLC
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            (Automotive industry)
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            2007 — Present (3 years )
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            FECOR provides solutions for environmental mitigation and operating cost reduction to the transport industry. FECOR reached profitability during its first operating quarter. We enjoy relationships with first-class component suppliers and contract manufacturing facilities around the world and with customers in over 40 countries.
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          * Senior Staff Engineer
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            Cisco Systems
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            (Public Company; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)
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            May 2000 — January 2007 (6 years 9 months)
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            Provide engineering, product development and project management services for telecommunications and utility operators worldwide. Pioneered development of "Video on Demand" and "Fiber to the home" architectures.
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          * Technical Analyst
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            LandAmerica Commonwealth
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            (Public Company; Real Estate industry)
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            1998 — 2000 (2 years )
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            Development and management of business operations and production applications/systems
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          * MIS monkey / punching bag
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            Sentara Healthcare
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            (Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)
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            1997 — 1998 (1 year )
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            Work on MIS projects which were unnecessary for operations but necessary because this large regional hospital chain desired to retain its "Non Profit" status.
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          * MIS
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            General Electric
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            (Public Company; GE; Renewables & Environment industry)
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            1996 — 1997 (1 year )
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            Work to promote "mission creep" and "overbuilding" phenomena so that General Electric employees who make purchasing decisions would receive larger bribes from IBM.
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      Additional Information
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      Ken Fister’s Groups: IEEE
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      Ken Fister’s Honors: Numerous
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      Interested In:
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          * career opportunities
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          * consulting offers
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          * new ventures
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          * job inquiries
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          * expertise requests
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          * business deals
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          * reference requests
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          * getting back in touch