- Mikel King
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Mikel King 
Personal details Born Chad Michael King
March 7, 1968
Chelsea Naval Hospital, Chelsea, MassachusettsNationality American Political party Independence Spouse(s) Lori King Children Brittany (b. 1995), Jarett (b. 2000) Profession Technology Expert Website MikelKing.com Military service Years of service 1986–1997 Rank Petty officer, second class Battles/wars Desert Storm Awards USCG Commandant's Letter Of Appreciate,USCG Achievement Medal,National Defense Medal,USCG Humanitarian Services Medal Mikel King [1] technology innovator, veteran,[2] author,[3][4][5] entrepreneur, political activist,[6] home brew aficionado and an active member of the BSD community.
Mikel King has been a leader in the Information Technology Services field for over 20 years. Currently he is serving as the VP of Systems Engineering for Walker Digital Table Systems. The Company developed and patented a RFID based intelligent Baccarat casino table. To date the company has installations of this remarkable project in Macau, China and Genting, Malaysia. The ingenious casino table tracks real time player statistics during game play.
An accomplished public speaker and author, Mikel has given talks and written numerous articles on the subjects of Social Media, Social Networking like Twitter/LinkedIn, Open Source technology solutions like FreeBSD and leadership development. An accomplished public speaker, Mikel King makes numerous public speaking events throughout the year. In addition he often lectures about the benefits of youth leadership groups such as the Boy Scout of America as well as the value of veteran's serving in organizations like the American Legion.
He founded and served as the CEO of Olivent Technologies,[7] a professional creative consulting services partnership in NY. Although a small company Olivent has made a name for itself as a respectable and sincerely forthright IT solutions provider. Under his leadership the company expanded by acquiring a small traditional graphic design studio thus expanding the company into the arena of web design, branding and marketing.
He is a strong believer in supporting community initiatives. Mr. King has organized numerous clothing, food and recycling drives throughout his local community. These efforts are general aimed at helping disabled Veterans or homeless families.
Additionally he is currently serving as the Secretary of the BSD Certification group as well as a Senior Editor for the BSD News Network and an active blogger.[8] In addition Mr. King is an accomplished public speaker and has developed a considerable dedicated following on twitter regularly attending social media conferences and meetups. Finally he is served as Adjutant of his local American Legion Post [9] and a Unit Commissioner in the Boy Scouts of America.
In late 2010 Mr. King innovated the first release of the bash library [10] also known as blib. Mikel authored the bash library as an extension of the current bash scripting language to facilitate features and methodologies that enhance the process of writing a scripts. The library is progressing towards it's 2.0 goal.
Mikel King launched his career in Information Technology while serving in the U.S. Coast Guard. Serving from 1986 to 1997 he was assigned to various units in a computer programming or other technical capacity. I was during his 11 years of military service that he developed his trademark exceptional leadership style that have enabled him to establish himself as a leader in the industry. It was this same leadership that earned him several medals and awards while serving on active duty. Two of his most notable were the Commandants' Letter of Appreciation and the Coast Guard Achievement Medal. In addition, he often filled a position several grades higher than his rank. For instance, during the early days of U.S. Activities New York, Mr. King was assigned as Acting Electronics Material Officer for nearly 3 months prior to the arrival of his replacement.
He served as the Chief Information and Technology Officer for OCS/Tech Alliance for approximately 12 years. While in that role he successfully lead the company through numerous infrastructure consolidations reducing overhead and cutting costs by nearly 50% each time. In addition he lead the charge into virtual private server hosting and deployments further reducing the operating overhead by 30%. Finally he lead the company to deploy Open Source FreeBSD based servers replacing costly Microsoft products, improving operational stability by 85% allowing ht company to meet or exceed contracted service level agreements (SLA).
In 2006 while serving as the CITO, Mikel was offered a position writing for Daemon News (http://daemonnews.org) as well as the original BSD News (http://bsdnews.com). Eventually advancing to senior editor and was instrumental in sustaining the two resources until the sites went offline in 2008 as a result of internal conflicts between the founding members. Later in 2009 Mr. King was fortunate enough to find that the domain name http://bsdnews.net was available and worked tirelessly to launch the 'BSD News Network' from the ashes of the former resources and set forth at filling the void they left behind.
Mr. King has been a regular columnist for BSD Magazine since it's inception in 2008. He has provided numerous articles, news pieces as well as his regular column for the publication. In the October 2009 issue he produced two articles and one collaborative piece with Dru Lavigne current President of the BSD Certification Group.
In November 2008, Mr. King enter the political arena by entering his name in a bid for the junior senate seat of New York state. For an unknown he was able to rally over 1000 supporters across New York state who sent letters to Governor David Paterson voicing their support of his bid. Unlike the other interested parties who utilized the public media to bully the governor Mr. King chose to ask the people to demonstrate his sincere interest in serving the citizens of New York. He drafted numerous conceptual proposals to explain his stance on critical issues. Mikel King is the author of the Individual Retirement And Health-care Savings Account (IRAHSA) proposal. A system aimed as improving and merging IRAs and HSAs into a single entity aimed at helping small businesses and the self employed especially.
Mr. King is a centrist believing in fiscally conservation yet compassionately liberal politics. He believes that our local and state governments need to tighten their belts, reducing waste and overlapping offices. He has stated, "The government needs to make serious cuts in operating expenses before they consider raising taxes. Fiscal responsibility is of the utmost importance."
As a home brew aficionado Mikel King has mad many different kinds of ales and lagers over the years. He has often stated that he prefers to make ale especially a Scottish Fraoch Ale. The URL http://twitpic.com/me4p7 leads to a picture of his latest lager.
- References
- Sources
- http://mikelking.com - Mikel King's website
- http://olivent.com - Website of Olivent Technologies, llc
- http://Post1848.org - American Legion John R. Cacioppo Post 1848 Medford, NY website.
- http://BSDMag.org - BSD Magazine
- http://BSDNews.net - Current BSD News Site.
- http://jafdip.com - Just Another Frakkin Day In Paradise Blog.
- DaemonNews.org - Repository of BSD related articles
- http://TechAlly.com - Tech Alliance NYC site.
- ocsny.com - Optimized Computer Solutions (OCS) website.
- BSDNews.com - Old BSD News Site.
- http://jafdip.com/?p=511 - BLIB 1.1 The bash library release notice
Categories:- 1968 births
- Living people
- People from Chelsea, Massachusetts
- American computer scientists
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