Jon Diercks, IT Consultant
I provide professional Information Technology Consulting services in a variety of areas. With more than 15 years of experience supporting successful organizations in software development, education, finance and other fields, I offer a breadth and depth of skills that will make a positive impact on any IT project.

My rates are reasonable and flexible based on the type of work requested, and I am available for remote/telecommute projects or on-site at your location. Call or email me for a free quote or preliminary consultation.

services -- some examples of services I can provide:

  • application analysis -- reviewing your technology tools and processes, finding ways to improve effectiveness.
  • data recovery/conversion -- drilling down through legacy or damaged data to extract and preserve its value
  • process automation -- streamlining your most tedious and labor-intensive procedures by providing scripts and tools to do the repetitive work for you
  • problem diagnosis -- tracking down the sources of misbehavior in your systems
  • performance optimization -- finding the bottlenecks in your hardware and software, tuning your systems for maximum efficiency
  • documentation and training materials - producing professional user guides and tutorials for your system or product - including screencast videos with voiceovers and background music.
buzzwords -- platforms, protocols, operating systems, languages, tools, applications, utilities, technologies, etc., that I know/use/like.
Adager - Apache - AutoIt3 - awk - Backup+/iX - BIND - boxbackup - C - CamStudio - Camtasia - ChurchCommunityBuilder (CCB) - Colleague - CommuniGatePro - Datatel - dd - DNS - duplicity - Firefox - FreeBSD - GNU MailMan - HP Image/SQL - HP3000 - HPBasic - HTBasic - Java - Knoppix - Linux - Logical Interchange Format (LIF) - Mac - MPE/iX - mpe/ix system administration handbook - MySQL - nmap - Opera Web Browser - ORBiT Software - OS X - Oswego Software - partimage - Perl - PHP - PuTTY - Query/iX - Samba - sendmail - Software Research Northwest (SRN) IRIS - Speedware - SSH - SunGard Bi-tech (SBI) IFAS - Suprtool - SysPrep - Thunderbird - TiddlyWiki - TikiWiki - Tudumo - Unidata - Windows
background -- see my resume

even more -- see my personal home page

Jon Diercks
jon@diercks.net
877-293-9073

"Jon's analytic skills are some of the best I've seen. ... invaluable in strategic planning ... able to grasp problems and business processes quickly and translate them into solutions."
--Marvin G. Dunn, CIO
California College of the Arts
"Jon is a unique and talented individual ... He is more than capable of undertaking the most difficult of projects."
--Mark Klein
Vice President, Technology
ORBiT Software, Inc.