User:Ardeljoseph

L. Ardel Joseph (Lyndon Ardel Joseph, Born in [Antigua & Barbuda] in 1975) is a native Caribbean Islander and Network Engineer from the island of Antigua. As an infant Ardel Joseph migrated to the country of his mother's birth, Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory. As a highschool graduate, in 1995 Ardel Joseph was awarded a three year scholarship in Structural Engineering by the United Nations Habitat for Humanity [1]([UNHCS]). The Structural Engineering program was offered at the University of Technology in Kingston Jamaica.

Upon completion of the course of study in Jamaica, Ardel Joseph immediately got married to his high school sweetheart Nicolette Adams and emigrated to the United States to attend Howard University and further his studies in structural engineering. While at Howard University, the love for computers and Information Technology led Ardel Joseph to abandon the family dream of him becoming another construction manager in the family but rather pursued his own dream of becoming a computer engineer.

In May of 2003 Ardel Joseph graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems and Computer Science with a concentration in Computer Networks. He has also gained the distinctions as a Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA) and a Cisco Certified Academy Instructor. Ardel Joseph spent the next eight years honing his skills at the Gospel Rescue Ministries as a Systems Analyst and then the I.T. Manager and on October 24th 2008 on his 33rd birthday he spent his last day at the Gospel Rescue Ministries as a full time employee. Just three days later on October 27th 2008 Ardel Joseph began his new full time employment with the Government of the District of Columbia as a Network Operations Center (NOC) Analyst where he and a team of other engineers monitor and troubleshoot all issues arising from network connectivity issues on all seven layers of the OSI model.