Step one. Contact the two dozen or so recruiting companies and temp agencies. I've gotten many jobs from this source before at IBM, Tivoli, Haystack Labs, Sematech, and other very good companies. These are great companies and they treat you and pay you well. I had very good experiences at all these places. The list: http://adecco.com http://aquent.com http://austingoodwill.org http://burnetstaffing.com http://careeraustin.com http://ciber.com http://coolhires.com http://ctconsult.com http://dcri.net http://dottpt.com http://eurosoft-inc.com http://expresspersonnel.com http://hallkinion.com http://hirepros.com http://hrnetconnection.com http://jobs.volt.com http://kforce.com http://laborready.com http://leadingedgepersonnel.com http://logicapproach.com http://nhrg.com http://pdstech.com http://prostaff.com http://remedystaff.com http://sapphirena.com http://sp3group.com http://staffingsolutions.com http://stafflinks.net http://staffmastertx.com http://startupstaffing.com http://statesman.com/jobs/search http://thepersonnelstore.com http://todays.com http://trcstaff.com http://triangletechnology.com http://us.randstad.com Most have forms where you can post a resume. They all have contact information. Monday, that's tomorrow, I'll be doing followup on all these websites. Let the job search begin.

Addeco is first on the list. They have a page to post your resume. http://www.adeccotechnical.com/candidateCtr.cfm It was an easy task to go to my resume online which is , not surprisingly, at http://spring.net/resume and copy and paste it in to their box for candidate resumes. By the way, this is my resume which I am in the process of "tweaking": Resume - Paul Terry Walhus 182 Clover Rd Cedar Creek, TX 78612 512/699-4000 cell phone Email: terry@spring.net Homepage: http://www.spring.net Resume: http://www.spring.net/resume Skills System Administration - Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux, BSDI Unix, Windows NT/2000/XP, other Unix OS. Shell Scripting. Video Editing - Linear and Nonlinear Video Editing using standard equipment and digital video (DV) techniques. Firewire 1394, EditDV, Adobe Premiere. Tech Support - large SAP / research environment using HP, DEC, Sun and SGI. Manager of Computer Systems Tech Support at Sematech Website Design - website design and administration, html, Dreamweaver, FrontPage 2000 extensions, Apache, Netscape and IIS web servers and ecommerce tools (various). Sales and Marketing - Internet services and computer hardware/software/services Communications - wireless rf applications, networking tcp/ip, Ethernet Websites Designed/Hosted - http://www.spring.net , http://www.austen.com, http://www.firth.com and over 150 others Education University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science and Urban Design, Bachelor of Urban Planning. Academic scholarship. Graduated with Honors, recipient of Andrew Mellon Award for Academic Excellence. Academic specialization in computer graphics, computer modeling and simulation, systems analysis, flow charting, programming Fortran, SSUPAC and Cobol, statistical analysis, and architectural CAD. Assisted in one of the first GIS (geographic information systems) projects: an animation and simulation of the growth of towns along the Illinois Central Railroad. Department Valedictorian. 1966-69. Professional Experience Texas Association of School Boards, TASB - Senior Unix Systems Administrator, UNIX, SunOS, Solaris, Verity (search engine and portal) Windows NT, FrontPage 2000. November 2000 - present. eric.moore@tasb.org IBM User Centered Design (UCD) - System Administrator for UNIX, AIX, SunOS, Solaris, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, OS/2, JavaOS, and WorkSpace on Demand (WSOD) Systems. UCD Lab Management and Maintenance. Doug Bloch, Project Manager, UCD. drbloch@us.ibm.com . Feb 1998 - Jan 2000 IBM, 9442 Capital of Texas Hwy N Plaza I Suite 500, Austin, TX 78759. Webmaster and Software Verification Engineer. Output Management software for UNIX and NT based enterprise networks. 9/97 to 1/98. Manager, Roger Didio and others rjdidio@us.ibm.com http://www.ibm.com TradeWave Corporation, Austin, TX - Contract SQA on UNIX (AIX, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX,and other) systems and Windows NT 3.5 and 4.0. 3/97 - 2/14/98. Products: TradeVPI, a suite of authentication and client security products for electronic commerce. Carmin McLaughlin, supervisor. mailto:carmin@tradewave.com . http://www.tradewave.com Haystack Labs, Austin, TX - System Administration, SQA testing, hardware support on Windows NT, UNIX (AIX, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX and other) systems. Website design and html authoring. 7/96 - 3/97. Marta Zaricznyj, Head of Tech Support. Products: Stalker, Netstalker and Webstalker. mailto:marta@haystack.com http://www.haystack.com International Computer Systems - Technical support, management, sales in the computer industry. Internet access and service provider. Computer consulting, documentation, and software training services on PC, Unix, and Apple systems. The Spring ( http://www.spring.net ) is a virtual internet community of 5,175 members which includes an interactive world wide web site and conferencing via telnet. It has been written up in Newsweek, Texas Monthly and the Austin American Statesman. Also, established the Spring interactive website at http://www.spring.net and Spring Access dial in server. 3/90 - 3/97. Sematech - Manager, PC Support. Established major service and support contract employing four full time on site service and support technicians. Sold and installed 50+ station Novell network for finance and purchasing departments. Originated and implemented PC software and hardware platforms at Sematech. Implemented CAD and electronic publishing systems. Sun Microsystems consulting. Assisted in integration of local workstations and PCs with the wide area DEC VAX network involving peripheral sharing and electronic mail/ telephone voice mail management. Provided training to users on PC platform (Windows, Excel, Harvard Graphics, etc). References - Vaughan Akins, Quality Assurance and Del Doerr, Purchasing Department. 1988-90. ComputerLand, Entre, MicroAge and other computer dealers, Austin, TX. Sales, Consulting and Service. Sales in 1988 totaling over $1.8 million. Over $4 million in sales for first two years in sales. Specializing in high end document processing systems, CAD/CAM Systems, networks, and office productivity software platforms. Initiated strategy to sell and support Sun Microsystems computers as high end engineering and document processing workstations using Interleaf Publisher, Autocad and other software systems at Entre. 1987-90. BPI Systems, Austin, TX. Customer Support, Maintenance Programming and Marketing. Responsible for software support and troubleshooting, marketing and supporting products on a wide variety of platforms including Apple, MS DOS, and CP/M. 10/77- 3/79. City Planning Depts., Cities of Louisville and Minneapolis, employed as Urban Planner responsible for neighborhood studies and planning/zoning proposals and implementation. 1970-79. Small Homes Council - Building Research Council, Urbana, Illinois, Summer Job while attending University of Illinois. Responsible for design/production of books on home improvement and design. Writing, publication design and architectural rendering and plan production, and CAD activities. 1967-70. Areas of Expertise Unix Systems Administration Familiar with file systems, file directories, i/o redirection and pipes, shells, vi screen editor, electronic mail, network setup (server and terminals), internet, Usenet, uucp, tcp/ip, securing and administering a system. Strong point: communications protocols. Webmastering/Web Administration Servers - Apache, Netscape, IIS, NCSA, Cern, and Oracle Hardware - IBM x86 series, Sun Microsystems, Apple Macintosh, H-P, Dec, Digiboard, Livingston PM series, Ascend, and Cisco routers. Operating Systems - Windows NT, Unix (all flavors), Mac OS, OS/2. GUIs - Windows family, XWindows, Open Look Applications - All Microsoft products including SQL Server, Framemaker, numerous others. Networks - NT, Novell, BSDI Unix, Lan Manager, WFW, peer-to-peer. Websites that I have designed and/or implemented/hosted: http://www.spring.net http://www.direct-stock-market.com http://www.tvpc.com http://www.childrenstory.com http://www.austen.com http://www.firth.com Summary Experienced with skills in SQA, marketing, webmastering, system administration, technical writing, service and support. Team player. References: Roger Didio, IBM, Pervasive Computing, 914-765-3806. rjdidio@us.ibm.com Doug Bloch, IBM, User Centered Design, 512-838-2906 drbloch@us.ibm.com Bob Nagy, Network Internet Administrator, UT Botany Dept, 512/471-4286 nagy@mail.utexas.edu Carmin McLaughlin, TradeWave Corp, Austin, TX 512/433-5300. carmin@tradewave.com Mike Strong, Programmer, Vignette (formerly Tradewave), Austin, TX 512/339-6608. mstrong@vignette.com Gregory Kallenberg, Content Developer, http://www.powered.com formerly Technology Writer for the Austin American Statesman. Quote: "If you're looking for the best online gossip and chat in Austin and surrounding areas, you shouldn't miss Spring.net. On this site, you can talk about anything from art to Internet . . . It's edgy and cool."

Wonder what Gre's up to today. Gonna start soon on today's search.