Sean Hairston

Sean Hairston has a wealth of work experience, beginning in 2004 when they were a Retail Store Manager at Family Dollar. In this role, they were responsible for accumulating daily reports, maintaining payroll, satisfying customers, supervising other employees, and managing daily functions of a retail store. Sean'sachievements included a minimum of 10% sales increase from the previous year each week, and their store was second in district out of 12 stores in total sales during their tenure. In the same year, they began working as a Retail Store Manager at Fred's Inc., where their responsibilities included accumulating daily reports, maintaining payroll, supervising other employees, satisfying customers, and managing the daily functions of a retail store. Sean was promoted from Assistant to Store Manager after six months with the company. In 2008, Sean began working at Howard Industries as a Computer Operator, where their responsibilities included editing and running jcl programs for the company using VSE operating system for the IBM mainframe through BIMEDIT and FAQS/ASO, performing various tasks and/or problem solving via phone, verbal, or email, and making sure various web servers are running correctly on the mainframe. In 2017, they began working at PTS Solutions, Inc. as a Software Support Analyst, where their main responsibilities included resolving customer inquiries and issues regarding PTS software products using the tools provided via screen connect and remote desktop connection, and continually developing product expertise by reviewing new functionally, testing product issues, and utilizing internal resources. In 2018, Sean began working at Avant-Garde Consulting Services as an Information Technology Manager and Information Technology Technician. Finally, in 2021, they began working at General Informatics as a System Engineer, where their responsibilities include assisting with client IT needs onsite or remotely including PC hardware, software, printers, servers, management of shoretel phone system, Active Directory, Microsoft Office Administration, networking, patch management of pcs and servers, interviewing potential IT techs for the company, and supervising IT techs at the location they are stationed at.

Sean Hairston received a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) from Mississippi State University in 2003, majoring in Business Information Systems. In 2020, they obtained a CompTIA Network+ certification from CompTIA. In 2021, they obtained a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) certification from Microsoft, and in 2023, they obtained three Fortinet Network Security Expert certifications from Fortinet.