Technicians will often be asked these tasks:

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.

Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

• Performing data backups and disaster recovery operations.
• Maintaining and administering computer networks and related computing environments including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.
• Planning, coordinating, and implementing network security measures for protecting data, software, and hardware.
• Operating master consoles for monitoring the performance of computer systems and networks, and for coordinating computer network access and usage.
• Performing routine network startup and shutdown procedures, and maintaining controlling records.
• Designing, configuring, and testing computer hardware, networking software and operating system software.
• Recommending changes for improving systems and network configurations, and determining hardware or software requirements related to such changes.
• Conferring with network users about for solving existing system problems.