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Raymond (Yar) Fortier

Schamon ... I'm talking to you!!!

About Me

Well here goes I have two boys (Tyler-11 and Collin-9). The older one I haven't seen in sometime; the younger one visits regularly during the summer and school vacations...
I'm currently living in Salisbury with my dad and sisters, in a house I'm buying with my older sister.. Thank good we all have are own living rooms :-)
My younger sister (Lee-Ann), her husband (Bruce) their son (Josh) and new daughter (Madison) all live downstairs with my Dad right now. Lee is finally trying to get a place of her own, but I don't see it happening anytime soon with how expensive everything is.
Terry, our friend Chris, my girl friend and I are all living in the up stars at the moment, but if Lee does move out I get to move downstairs and finally have my own apartment.
I work for:
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Information Technology division (ITD)
Telecommunications Department
My title is Sr. VoIP Systems Engineer
I get to work on really exciting project that has been able to getting mutable branches of government to work together for the grater good of advancing the states technology and saving over a million dollers yearly.... over $100k of it is from a project I developed and am the project manager of.
One of the projects is to upgrading the states core network from frame rely to MPLS making is simpler integrate more agencies into our network at a lower cost. Another project is the Telecommunications Shared Resources Project, this is the one that I came up with and my manager put me in charge of. This is something the had been tried before, but no one could work though all the logistics to make it work.... well no one but me ... I event have been able to get 25 agencies to agree on sharing the same service provider all in about one year... my first year here and already creating miracles ... :-D ...
My last job just didn't have a clue what they where letting go... TOO BAD FOR THEM ... not!!

My Interests

science fiction, technology, computers, Star Wars, Star Trek, RPG, amiga, avaya, Star Wars, Star Trek, anime, scifi, fantasy, Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Firefly, Serenity, Angel, Buffy, The Lord of the Rings, photography, video games, ascii, computer programming, Computer Programming, SIP, VoIP, H.323

I'd like to meet:

Everyone

Music:

~Ways to Fall~, Pearl Jam, Jamiroquai, Bjork, Pink Floyd, Rush, the Doors, The Indigo Girls, Tori Amos, Ani, Enya, Moxy Fruvous, Dashboard Confessional, All-American Rejects, American Presidents, Mr. Vertigo, Evanescence, Tool, Deftones, Bush, Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, Talking Heads, Dave Matthews, Led Zepplin, The Ramones, Fiona Apple, Weezer, Dashboard Confessional, Coldplay, Queen, Radiohead, blondie, they might be giants, Ani Difranco, Dashboard Confessionals, Greenday, Frank Sinatra, Hanson, Averi, Fallout Boy, Metallica, Nickelback..... and many more

Movies:

Braveheart,The Crow, Willow, Princess Bride, Legend, Dark Crystal, Neverending Story, Labyrinth, Contact, Dances with Wolves, The Lord of the Rings , Stand By Me, Better Off Dead, The Fifth Element, The Matrix, Blade, Nightmare Before Christmas, Moulin Rouge, Fight Club, Finding Neverland, My Cousin Vinny, (there are a lot more)

Television:

Heroes, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Alias, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, the OC, ER, House, (its a start)