Daggernet History...

By: Dagger Created @TMB Office Jeddah Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

February 9, 2011

The Daggernet - Service Center was established by Dagger mid of 1995. He started a center with very small capital with two personal computers and two printers. That time the operating system (OS) versions available were windows 3.1, 3.11 and Windows 95. The Internet access was so limited, difficult to acquire. The shop was near Baliuag University where he was working as a Computer Laboratory Custodian and College Computer Instructor in ITCC (Information Technology Computer Center). Unfortunately Dagger's 1st attempt in business did not turn well; many odds and hindrances were met. Finally he decided to end up his computer shop which lasted only more than a year.

To pursue on to his economic life, He found himself in another academic institution as Academic Head in STI College Baliuag. This profession was innate for Dagger for he loves to share and teach new knowledge to his students. 

An opportunity to work in Saudi Arabia reached him on February 15, 2007 as DPC (Data Processing Coordinator). The company is Al-Qussie International Project in Amana, at Jeddah Municipality Building, Operation & Maintenance Department. The Municipality is use as department the E.R.P System CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System). Trainings and seminars were undertaken, like IBM Maximo 60 training with certification which was done for one month. The training was so dull and basic that lessened the enthusiasm to learn. The high expectation was narrowed because of the communication barrier. The trainer's Arabic accent was mixed with his little knowledge in English that made it too difficult to understand. After the training Dagger was appointed as System Administrator with little knowledge in the technical aspect and managing of the system. He dealt more on clerical work for the project manager of the said department for three years. There was no technical problem resulting to non-operational for it was very well maintained, based on the procedure which was use to follow in maintaining the system. 

The transitions from Al-Qussie International to Al-Momayaz was one of the biggest changes in Daggers three professional years in Saudi Arabia he was forced to transfer to new sub-contractor company last August 15, 2010, This was done in order to save the existing CMMS software and as the consultant of Jeddah Municipality obliges his new company to upgrade the CMMS IBM Maximo 6.0 to IBM Maximo 7or another CMMS software to adapt or it will be fix to the same software only modification and do advance training to its pioneer staff. 

Dagger in his search for an extra income had his prayers answered by a call from a friend. A company was in need of a part timer, I.T Support the Company is already in the process of embracing innovation of Information Technology. This job opens again his idea about Information Technology. He starts working to maintain the website of TMB under the web provider network solutions. He works there as I.T Support with limited access in some new gadgets and software updates. With the motivation that was in-parted to him by the managing director and the knowledge in unfamiliar software that his boss brother, he was able to revive his enthusiasm to learn more. His boss brother whose expertise in E.R.P (Enterprise Resources Planning) and other business solution software like SQL-LEDGER Double-Entry Accounting that to be supported by the following software programming like Apache HTTPD, Strawberry Perl, DBI, DBD-Pg, PostgreSQL or Postgres Server. All of these learning were acknowledging slowly and continuously in gradual approach, gives him a zest and motivation in the field of technology. 

In-spite of the unfamiliarity of such advanced stuff to him, Dagger's regular routine is to maintain the network system, monitoring each computer workstations and server performance using Windows Server 2003, reformatting operating system like XP, Vista & Windows7, scanning for probable attacks of virus, hardware & software speed performance maintenance and maintains the company website, also outlook emails and its social network site Facebook, mostly template modification. His interests in web page design and web programming awakens but still lack in resources, there is no available expert"guru". Basically it was only a Google dependent learning with perseverance and self reliance- (RTFM) Read the Friendly Manual.