Hello, my name is Ryan and I have gone by DarkSeedRA for the last 13 years but I have been using computers since Jr. High (1983). I built all my home systems for the last 20 years. I started working professionally with computers in 1992 for Pacific Bell. I have been an Windows Systems Engineer and contractor since 2005 and have worked for Activision / Blizzard, POM Wonderful, Fiji Water, Robbin's Brothers, Skechers, and others. My current assignment has been 5 years at Toyota's US headquarters in Southern California. I have worked with every Microsoft operating system since DOS 2.0 and was one of the first 500 people in the world to receive the MSCE certification in Windows 2000. I guess it is about time to get certified in Windows 2008 R2.
I am heavy into all types of PC gaming (even ran a few Half-Life DM servers in 1999-2000), programming (BASIC / Fortan / COBAL / Pascal / VBScript / Visual Basic / PowerShell / and a few others), 3D rendering (trueSpace / 3DS Max), 2D illustration (Adobe CS / AutoCAD), video, and system virtualization (VirtualBox / VMware / Hyper-V).
I am in the process of finishing the build of my latest system: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Intel 4-Core I7-2600K | Antec Kuhler H2O 920 Liquid Cooling | Asus Maximus IV Extreme v3 Motherboard | 32GB G.Skill Ripjaws X (4x 8GB) | 2x EVGA Geforce GTX 550 Ti 1GB (SLI) | Seagate 300GB (SAS 15K) + 6x Dell 146GB (SAS 10K) RAID5 + 5x WD Caviar Black 1TB | LITE-ON SATA DVD Burner | Cooler Master Silent Pro 850W PSU | Cooler Master CM Storm Trooper Case | Asus MK241 24" LCD Monitor
Intel 4-Core I7-2600K | Antec Kuhler H2O 920 Liquid Cooling | Asus Maximus IV Extreme v3 Motherboard | 32GB G.Skill Ripjaws X (4x 8GB) | 2x EVGA Geforce GTX 550 Ti 1GB (SLI) | 6x Dell 146GB (SAS 10K) RAID5 + 5x WD Caviar Black 1TB | LITE-ON SATA DVD Burner | Cooler Master Silent Pro 850W PSU | Cooler Master CM Storm Trooper Case | Asus MK241 24" LCD Monitor