Bob Wicksall
Computer And Network Services Manager at OWWL Library System
Town of Geneva, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Wicksall is a seasoned Computer and Network Services Manager with 13+ years of hands-on experience designing, administering, and securing mixed OS and network environments for regional library systems. Based in Geneva, NY, he combines deep Linux (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch) and Windows expertise with virtualization (VMWare), Meraki and SonicWall networking, and server/database stacks (Dell, Apache, MySQL, Postgres, Zimbra). Having progressed from systems support to long-term leadership roles at Pioneer Library System and OWWL, he’s skilled at stretching limited public-sector IT budgets into resilient, user-focused services. Bob’s practical blend of infrastructure, email/collaboration, and DNS/proxy (Squid) knowledge makes him a reliable problem-solver for operational continuity and incremental modernization. Notably, his career reflects sustained commitment to libraries’ IT needs—balancing legacy systems and open-source tools to keep public services running smoothly.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at State University of New York College at Potsdam
Github Skills (13)
dms9
pdf9
optical-character-recognition8
django8
react8
document-management8
archiving8
paperless7
angular7
ocr7
typescript7
machine-learning7
documents5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
bwicksall/php-sip2
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
PHP class library to facilitate communication with Integrated Library System (ILS) servers via 3M's SIP2.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
ilsphp-classintegrated-library-systemintegratedclass-library
evergreen-library-system/Evergreen
Jun 2012 - Jun 2016
Evergreen ILS
Contributions:7 commits in 3 years 11 months
ilsreactevergreentypescriptevergreen-ils
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