Scott Chandler 813 connections

Name: Scott B. Chandler

Age: 50 or 51… ( I forget sometimes)
Height, etc.: 6 foot, 207 pounds, blue eyes, desperately good looking & not too kinky

Favorite Phrase: “Find the path that has heart & then follow it breathlessly”

Thing to do: Dirt Bikes, Mountain Bikes, Hiking, Skiing, Flying, & Skydiving (if the flying doesn’t go so well), Hang Gliding and Parasailing, Shopping, Reading, Computers, Sport Cars & Women though not necessary in any order of preference.


-1st Life-
Having grown up snow skiing from the age of 4, my first career, at age 17, was a Ski Bum. As a Ski Bum I spent many years in various ski communities out west & taught skiing from the age of 18 until the ripe old age of 27.
I got my college degree in Ski Area Management at the prestigious, (Yea Right), Colorado Mountain College (CMC).
I became National Ski Patrol at the age of 27 & patrolled A-Basin ski area full time until I was 30 & part time until I was 35.

Of course when the snow melted each spring I needed to find something else to do so each summer I traveled the Mid-west with a variety of jobs such as:

1. Oil Field Derrick Rigger
a. (Oil Field Trash)

2. Waste Water Truck Driver
a. (Oil Field Trash)

3. Marine
a. (Da Few, Da Poor, Da Marines)

4. Seasonal Harvest Crew
a. (Traveling Texas to Canada, chasing the coming fall, harvesting Wheat & Corn)

5. Cattle Feed Yard
a. (Cowboy with a eastern accent & fun to laugh at, at the local rodeos)

6. Tow Truck Driver
a. (AAA but the highway accidents scared me away)

7. Telephone Line Man
a. (More of a Line Boy really)


-2nd Life (Briefly)-
At the age of thirty I was talked into moving from the mountains I loved to the east coast again to manage a family own Ski Shop. I was told I could live in this cute community of Germantown, Maryland &, envisioning things like cute German doilies on the houses & people singing off the mountain tops, I moved out east. I rapidly realized my mistake but vowed to give my new job 1 full year then return to the Colorado Mountains. But, of course life happens. I met a lady, got down on my knees & asked her to be my first wife. So my 1 year out east turned into a bit more.

Even though I was managing a Ski Shop & was becoming a sponsored skier getting free gear, earning a fair living from the Ski Industry & becoming repeatedly invited to be an environmental educator & conference leader with the National Wildlife Federation throughout the U.S., hosting environmental tours & radio spots for VOA in Indonesia my wife thought maybe I could do more, (wives are like that).

Well I had always been a closet computer geek building my first computer long before Apple was Apple & before IBM though a home computer might be a good idea. All my meager spare money & spare time was spent with this “hobby”.


-3rd Life-
So I enrolled into a local collage to learn all about “them there” computers.

After two weeks at the collage my instructor and I both realized I knew more than he could teach me & the collage hired me to program for them and paid me more money than I had ever seen before as well as paid for my education. Four months after that I was put in charge of their IT department & I never looked back.

Of course, shortly after that, because I was now earning lots of money but no longer going skiing & going to all sorts of neat places teaching & being an environmentally cool dude & all, my wife dumped me.

But, in spite of, or because of, that my IT career was taking off with projects like:

1. Hurricane Andrew - (Rebuilding computer system in tons of damaged offices in Dade County Florida while hanging out in the keys on weekends, drinking margaritas & forgetting about my x-wife)

2. Department of Defense (DOD) – (Training Russian Troops Netware & Networking…What!?)

3. Hartford Community Collage – (Design, Install, & Train the staff on how to use their new, great computer network. My first management role in a large scale project of 11 building, 8 servers, 600 workstations)

4. American University – (Novell’s first Netware 4.x install of over 10,000 users. In fact that install had 30,000 users & we interfaced directly with Novell for months until they figured out all the bugs of how to support 30,000 users in the NDS which, in turn, taught me everything I ever wanted to know about distributed networks and user management)

5. AMTRAK – (On-call for emergency repairs as a subcontractor to IBM for which IBM charged AMTRAK ridiculously high hourly fees. Even Lawyers wished they could charge that much)

6. Census – (Designed their National Input System, Installed it & provided Nationwide Training)

7. Citibank – (Managing their National Research Lab in Reston, Virginia)

8. Panasonic – (Supporting LANMAN, as if anyone remember what that is except me)

9. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) – (5 years as a trainer & board membership on their Network Infrastructure Advisory Board for over 40,000 users, over 1,200 offices, over 5,000 servers based on Netware, NT, Banyan)

10. Airbus – (All their W2K issues with their entire USA IT infrastructure. Cool place to work with free Perrier & everything)

11. Small Business administration (SBA) – (Western States Region roll-out & training for Exchange/Outlook)

12. Westinghouse – (Netware installs in all their West Coast Nuclear Facilities. Scary but cool stuff)

Like so many in my field of expertise I moved through or serviced a variety of companies. Some you might have heard of but most of them just a few letter of the alphabet such as DRG, SCI, NOVA, Citibank, SAIC, Natek, CRM, DoD, INS, MTC, UNCF, ASH, HK, IIC, WANG.

I started Acorn Micro Corporation in the mid 1990s.

I met my partner in 1999 as I was training her INS Miami Office WANG staff. I couldn’t afford to hire a high level engineer so I asked Denise to marry me.

We re-incorporated in 2003 under the name of AcornNET.com.

Our house, our business, and everything we ever had burn to the ground 12-4-2003 at 2:00am on a cold snowy morning.

But the past is the past and even though we have not fully recovered, (insurance companies are not our friends), we reach settlement with them about 2006 & started to work to get our business & lives back whole again. By 2009 we have just about gotten everything taken care of.

In 2006 we merged AcornNET.com with TeamLogic IT & have grown in capabilities & the expertise we can offer our clients.
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But enough with the sales pitch. Denise & I are still leaping over tall buildings in a single bound & loving it.

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