Zack's Website

About Zachary Burns

Hello from SwanCreek Township, Ohio, USA.  My name is "Zachary Burns", but I go by my nickname "Zack Burns" most of the time.

   Current Employment

• I am the IT Manager and Senior Developer at a Midas franchise holder in the Toledo, Ohio area.
• I am the President of Burns Software, LLC.

 

    Current Professional Work

• My primary day-to-day duties consist of writing Microsoft Windows and Web applications using cutting-edge .Net Framework technologies.
• I also have expertise in emerging technologies from Apple such as iPhone and iPad development.  I currently perform development using these technologies in a social media and marketing setting.
• I have expertise dating back to 1982 with everything from Microsoft, Apple, and Unix based hardware and software design, development, and integration primarily for small to mid-sized businesses.
• Overall I'm passionate about technology and its uses to help aid people and business on a daily basis.

    My Personality Traits

• I am responsive to challenges in a practical, realistic and enthusiastic manner.
• I am a fact orientated person capable of providing help based on solid information.
• I am assertive, self-sufficient and individualistic.
• I am usually perceived as being rational and creative at the same time.

    Family and Personal Life

• I'm happily married and have a loving wife and daughter.
• I enjoy all sports but in my spare time enjoy skiing, golfing, and ice hockey.  The professional sports teams I track are the Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Indians and the Pittsburgh Penguins.

    Hobbies

• I've got plenty of stuff to keep me busy, but I've dedicated quite a bit of the site to those endeavors.
• Read about them here.

Want to contact me?  You can reach me via IM on one of the following networks...

• Twitter - zburns
• MeWe - zburns
• Facebook - TheRealZackBurns
• AIM - zacharyburns
• MSN - zacharyburns
• Yahoo - zburns
• Yahoo - zacharyburns
• Skype - zburns
• Reddit - zacharyburns
• GitHub.io
• I'm usually on my own IRC Server @ irc://irc.zackburns.com:6667 contact me there.

#chat
#familyroom (password protected)
#support (password protected)
					

• I also monitor the following Libra.Chat (I've moved away from FreeNode) IRC channels...

  ##algorithms
  ##c++-basic
  ##chat
  ##chemistry
  ##cs
  ##csharp
  ##digitalocean
  ##electronics, 
  ##guns
  ##hamradio, 
  ##hardware
  ##javascript
  ##linux, 
  ##php, 
  ##programming
  ##rtlsdr
  ##science
  ##security, 
  ##slackware
  ##windows
  ##windows-server
  #android
  #arduino
  #bash, 
  #freebsd
  #freebsd-ports
  #freebsd-social
  #gnuradio
  #homebrewing
  #learnprogramming
  #raspberrypi, 
  #robotics
  #swift-lang, 
  #ubuntu, 
  #ubuntu-server, 
  #wordpress, 
  #zfs
  					

Into Amatuer Radio?  Me too.  Find me on the W8ODR (Ohio Digital Radio Club) repeaters or if you're in the Toledo area I monitor the TMRA D-Star Repeater (444.750 - Port B) or the TMRA Analog Repeater 147.270/442.850.  Or you can try to contact me via Simplex on 145.670 which I monitor.  You can also find me on 20 or 40 meters outside the area.  My FCC Call Sign is N8ZAK.

And failing all that - you can contact me via methods used in "generations past" at this link which contains mail and phone information.

What more information on the Burns Family?

• Visit Amy's Page (my wife)
• Visit Sydney's Page (my daughter)

What Is With That Shirt? - It's an inside joke in our family.  If you've ever watched NYPD Blue you'd see that this is my Detective Sipowicz shirt - also popularized by Homer Simpson in an episode of The Simpsons....no I was never a high school math teacher!  (And no, I'm not missing an arm! - Just a proud American that stinks at Photoshop!)

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