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Blake Smith
theITguy@FlipFlopShops.com

Blake is our network administrator and web developer. He has more than twenty years of IT experience, which means that when he started supporting computers they had less memory than some people's key chains do today.

He's worked for Sprint, BellSouth, and NYNEX in roles that spanned support, engineering, large call-center roll-outs, enterprise-level hosted application services... Really, you name it and he's probably worked on it. Blake has had MCSE certification, and taught LINUX and PERL courses. He's vendor agnostic, and for much of his career he's focused on helping disparate systems talk to each other.

He wears his nerd-badge proudly. He prefers TOS to TNG, does not speak Klingon, and thinks that that the Star Wars movies should have stopped at ROTJ if not sooner. He's an avid reader, a critical-thinker, an excessive coffee-drinker and a pro-science activist.

Blake currently lives in Atlanta with his wife and three children. He's probably trying to make them watch a documentary right now.

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