Jackson Burns
Jackson Burns

Personal Information

Professional Experience


TCI Wealth Advisors (July 2024 - June 2025)

Technical Support Consultant, Tucson, AZ

  • Administered Active Directory domain, managing user accounts, permissions, and group policies
  • Oversaw and implemented cybersecurity protocols, including email threat monitoring and phishing prevention
  • Traveled between office locations to set up and maintain network infrastructure and firewalls
  • Managed and deployed enterprise software tools, including Salesforce and other domain-integrated systems
  • Provided daily technical support across teams, resolving hardware, software, and network issues
  • Worked directly with vendors to troubleshoot issues, coordinate services, and procure IT equipment and software
University of Arizona (October 2021 - May 2024)

Technical Consultant, Tucson, AZ

  • Diagnosed and resolved hardware issues, including troubleshooting faulty components and performing repairs or replacements as needed
  • Supported a wide range of systems, including VPN, Office 365, Adobe, Outlook, Gmail, and printing services
  • Communicated technical concepts clearly and effectively to non-technical users, providing step-by-step guidance and troubleshooting support
  • Experience with Amazon AWS and Service-Now to effectively manage and escalate tickets
  • Trained new employees on the UA systems and how to deal with software and hardware issues
  • Recovered lost or corrupted data using software tools and data recovery techniques

Projects


  • BigTacToe - Play Game | Source Code
    A passion project I worked on based off a game I like to play with friends: Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe. Still a work in progress, but I have fun programming it.
  • Song Quotes - Releases | Source Code
    Desktop app built with JavaFX to save and manage song quotes from your favorite artists.
  • TCI Client Fee Scheduler - Website | Source Code
    Built for my role at TCI Wealth Advisors, this website calculates the billing schedule for clients of the firm.
  • C++ BlackJack - Source Code
    Built for a Comparative Programming Languages class, the purpose of this program was to be able to learn a new language and create a program within a small timeframe. This program lets the user play blackjack as a console game.
  • Movies Graph - Website | Source Code
    This website uses the d3 library to create graph visualizations based on an undirected movie dataset
  • Huffman Encoding - Source Code
    This program enables you to encode a string to binary using the huffman encoding algorithm. This algorithm uses significantly less space than encoding every character as 8 bits.

Skills


Programming Experience

  • Full stack web development utilizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP
  • Database management with MySQL
  • Object-oriented programming with Java, C, and Python

Technical Support

  • Experience troubleshooting hardware and software issues
  • Strong customer communication skills
  • Ability to solve most university system issues

Cloud Computing

  • Experience with AWS and EC2 instances
  • Experience with Docker containers