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Curriculum Vitae
Coast
Two Data Recovery - History &
Experience
Independently
owned and operated.
Based in Eugene,
Oregon.
Serving the West
Coast’s basic and forensic data recovery
needs.
1979 through the early
1980’s, Ross was working with computers in BASIC,
FORTRAN, Machine Language and DATA STORAGE STRUCTURES and had
multiple projects published by a national computing publication. By
1984, Ross had been performing data recovery
on 5 & 1/4 inch floppies (and still has the original
tools). In the early 1990’s ‘Computer Advisors’ was
started as a company that performed on-site service in the region.
Further specializing and a narrowing focus led to a name change in
the late 1990’s to PC PRO and included Disaster
Recovery service, which led to greater demand for the data recovery
aspects of disasters and the latest incarnation now named Coast Two
Data Recovery, which began forming in
1999.
Since the early
1990’s (through 2015) these
entities, collectively, have performed thousands of service calls
for contract, subcontract and emergency computer work; for
corporations, medium and small sized businesses and individuals in
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, California, Alaska,
Hawaii, Texas, North Carolina and more.
Business
customers/jobs have included:
- Weyerhaeuser
- Staples
- CMC Group (Denver, CO)
- DBM Productions
(Colorado)
- Oregon Health
Science University Hospital in Portland (multiple
recoveries)
- AirBC at PDX - Portland International
Airport (multiple)
- A national
bank (based in North Carolina)
- Oregon Dept. of Fish and
Wildlife (multiple)
- United States Dept. of Agriculture -
Forest Service
- University of Oregon
- Administrative (multiple)
- University of Oregon
- Bookstore
- University of Oregon
- other Depts.
- Portland Community College - faculty - Rock Creek Campus
- The
Oregonian (Portland, OR)
- The Register Guard
- Freightliner
Corp. (multiple)
- South Lane School District
- Dari-Mart
Corp. (RAID Server rebuild)
- Best Western Motel -
RoomMaster database recovery
- AvenueA-Razorfish (Portland, OR)
- Blackwell's Book Service (Lake Oswego, OR)
- Wildish Construction (Eugene,
OR)
- BodyBuilding.com (Boise, ID)
- Capital Medical (Olympia, WA)
- Digital Archive Services
(Portland, OR)
- Kinesis Corp. (Bothell, WA)
- Microvision (Redmond, WA)
- CESCO (Meridian, ID)
- Oregon
Heating
- US Airconditioning (Boise, ID)
- Western Oregon Web Press
(Albany, OR)
- Homestead
Mortgage (multiple,
Kirkland,WA)
- First Horizon Home
Loans (Lynwood,WA)
- Holgate Terrace
Apts. (Portland, OR)
- Doctors (including at least two plastic surgeons’ lost client
photos)
- Medical billing
company databases (multiple)
- Servers
(multiple)
- RAID arrays for
ISP’s (multiple)
- RAID-5 CHALLENGE! 4 drives total, 1 dead
and 2 damaged, 100% recovery!
It can be done.
- Lawyers (client & personal) (multiple)
- Radio
stations (lost music) (multiple)
- Architects (AutoCad
'.dwg' & more) (multiple)
- Automotive shops
(Mitchell's database & more)
- Veterinarians
(Cornerstone database & more)
- Betsey's Bonnets (Seattle, WA)
- Williams Bakery
- Food For Lane County
- Shorewood Packaging
- Eterra (Alaska)
- Many more ...
Consumer jobs have
included:
- family photos
(JPGs)
- videos
- Word, Excel,
Outlook
- Quickbooks
- Family Tree
Maker
- school work (many a thesis!)
Forensic jobs
have
included:
- Civil cases
- Plaintif/Defense
- Divorce/custody
- Employer/employee disputes
- Other
- Criminal cases
“usage audit” of
employees, spouse and kids’ computers
In Oregon,
Washington & Idaho (many in Boise & Ada
County)
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I have been interviewed multiple times
(including ‘on air’ for a few newscasts) as a media consultant on
Data Recovery and computer technical issues by KMTR-TV
(NBC) and KVAL-TV
(CBS).
Ross A. Johnson,
Owner, Coast Two Data
Recovery
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