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Kenneth Turner is a seasoned network and system administrator with extensive experience in managing and supporting various IT infrastructures. Currently serving as a Network Engineer L2 at Half Price Books and a Cloud Support Engineer at Veeam Software since 2021, Kenneth also holds a position at Aspcares as a Network and System Administrator, where responsibilities include managing and installing networks across 31 branches, utilizing tools such as Nmap and Wireshark for network monitoring and penetration testing. Past experience includes a role as a contractor at TexasLending.com, providing Active Directory and Exchange Server support, and as an L2 IT Technical Support Engineer at Fonality, where troubleshooting VOIP issues was a primary focus. Kenneth holds a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of North Texas and an Associate of Science in Computer Engineering.
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“Be fair to customers and our employees, promote literacy, be kind to the environment and remain financially viable so we may continue.” — Our Mission Statement in the words of HPB Co-Founder Pat Anderson It was 1972. Corporate dropout Ken Gjemre and fellow bibliophile Pat Anderson opened a used-book shop in an old laundromat in Dallas, Texas. They ran ads in the local paper, declaring “We Buy Books,” and soon found themselves with a few thousand books and hordes of customers. “You could stir them with a stick,” Ken said. And now? With more than 120 stores across the country, plus a website with customers and sellers around the globe, we’ve become America’s largest family-owned retailer for new and used books. Our founders coined the phrase, “We buy and sell everything ever printed or recorded (except yesterday’s newspaper).” And if you’ve been to one of our stores, you know that’s true. Ken and Pat weren’t just talking about our enormous selection, but about our refusal to censor products. As Ken said, “We don’t let others, or ourselves, determine what our customers should read.” To this day, we’ll shelve and sell just about anything, from The Diary of Anne Frank to The History of Farting. We might chuckle at the titles, but we won’t censor them. Half Price Books is committed to the community. We've been supporting literacy and environmental groups for more than 40 years and will continue working together to carry on the mission and causes of our founders. Each day when we go to work, we hope to do two things: share our favorite things with our friends, and help make the world a little better. That includes recycling and donating more than a million of our overstock books each year to local nonprofits and organizations around the world. Learn more about how we give back. Our goal of helping to make the world a little better also touches each and every HPB employee. This employee-centric culture began at inception with the notion of sharing profits with the staff