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Faris
Consulting Group
PO Box 3904
Chester, Virginia
23801
chris @ farisnetworks.com
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Chris Faris
A Summa Cum Laude graduate of ECPI Technical College, Chris completed his major in IT/Networking with a 4.0 GPA and member of the Deans List. Chris was also elected into the National Vocational – Technical Honor Society as a result of his achievements at ECPI. These honors were the culmination of his early work with computer systems dating back to the late 70’s with education in the programming language BASIC (On punch card and punch tape no less.) and Probability Sciences at the Mathematics and Science Center in Richmond. As time went on, more experience was gained working with the early versions of the Reynolds & Reynolds ERA and ADP systems, later becoming administrator for the Bell + Howell electronic Parts Catalog while working for local new car dealers. Becoming an independent consultant in the 90's, Chris spent thousands of hours in study and hands on work to keep up with the rapidly changing technology. Current accomplishments include the creation of two sole proprietorships and two Limited Liability Corporations, all involved in computer networking and includes a host of vendor partnerships and relationships too long to list.
Christopher Faris (Part Time Consultant)
Christopher's experience started early, having grown up around computers and networks all his life. His experience grew at an even faster rate with the popularity of PC games. No other type of computer genre has pushed PC technology forward more than PC Games and Christopher was right there in the thick of it. Being the avid gamer Christopher constantly tweaked and upgraded his machines to continue to allow him to play the latest and greatest games on the market. Taking advantage of his expertise in PC's he was able to comfortably move into systems hardware installation, repair, and recovery involving Virus, Malware and Spyware common on today's systems and continues to be the best in area on systems recovery. Christopher has worked as a service writer at a local technology store and carries CompTIA’s Network+ certification. His currently works in tech support for Wells Fargo/Wachovia.
The Servers
While also providing the standard services that most computer servers perform, the server hardware here at Faris Consulting also donate CPU cycles to Stanford University’s Folding @ Home project. F@H is a distributed computing project that takes individual PC’s, servers and even the Sony Play Station 3 and turns them into a giant super computer. Instead of having thousands of processors in one big machine, this project uses thousands of processors all over the world by dividing up work into individual units that each system can work on. The goal of this worldwide super computer is to simulate a process were proteins assemble themselves ( Also called folding ) and use this data in research in diseases such as Alzheimer's, Huntington’s, and Parkinson’s.
Over the years our servers have run over 4000 individual work units.
