Christopher Fikes
Adjunct Professor at Lamar State College Orange
Silsbee, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Fikes is a pragmatic IT leader and open-source enthusiast with 10+ years managing complex network infrastructures across education and public sectors. As Director of IT for Evadale ISD and owner of FikesMedia, he designs and troubleshoots mixed environments using Cisco, RHEL, Windows Server, Exchange, and virtualization (KVM/VMware). He also teaches as an adjunct professor, translating hands-on operational experience into practical instruction. Christopher focuses on solving costly problems with maintainable, open solutions, and has a track record rebuilding local open-source communities like SeTXLUG. Known for simplifying complexity, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a knack for operationalizing resilient, low-overhead network designs. Based in Silsbee, Texas, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and institutional IT leadership to school districts and small enterprises.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Lamar Institute of TechnologyLamar University
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Github Skills (8)
fusion8
abaqus7
multicast7
frequency6
pbx5
cross-platform2
electron2
whiteboard2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cfikes/FusionBells
Apr 2017 - Dec 2018
Fusion PBX Multicast Bell System
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 8 months
pbxfusionabaqusbellmulticast
cfikes/R5TechRoundTable
Apr 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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