As an IT professional and technology generalist with 15 years of industry experience, I apply my versatility and adaptability to systems administration, site reliability engineering, DevOps, and people leadership. My combination of outstanding technical and soft skills has resulted in a track record of exemplary end user experience, increased system reliability, and resolution of complex issues. I am experienced in network administration, cybersecurity, technical writing, project management, and many IT frameworks and methodologies. In my spare time, I am an avid homelabber and tinkerer, keeping on top of emerging technologies through the time-honored tradition of breaking stuff and figuring out how to fix it.
Nov 2022 - Present
St. Louis, MO
Edward Jones is a leading North American financial services firm.
Nov 2022 - Present
March 2022 - August 2022
Kansas City, KS
The Purple Guys specializes in IT Support Services, providing Backup & Disaster Recovery, Cloud Services, Cybersecurity, and IT Consulting.
March 2022 - August 2022
July 2018 - March 2022
Lawrence, KS
The University of Kansas is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas.
July 2018 - March 2022
May 2017 - July 2018
Lawrence, KS
Managing the risks of computers, cloud, and cybersecurity for businesses that depend on Apple, Microsoft, or Google.
May 2017 - July 2018
March 2012 - April 2017
Cupertino, CA
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California.
March 2012 - April 2017
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Modernized recovery processes for a mission-critical legacy faxing system (Kofax) with no internal SME or vendor support.
Self-hosted, low-latency virtual tabletop (VTT) platform for 10+ concurrent users with custom WebRTC integration.
Self-hosted Discord bot serving 100+ users across 5+ servers with custom CI/CD-like automation pipelines, acting as a microcosm of distributed systems engineering.
Globally deployed, responsive portfolio site showcasing recent work and accomplishments, written in Go and following infrastructure-as-code best practices.
Teaches students portable and hardware specifications, troubleshooting techniques, technician safety, take-apart procedures, and service-specific guidelines and resources. This certification is for the repair and diagnostics of all Macintosh desktops, portables, and servers. This certification is required to perform warranted hardware repairs for an Apple Authorized Service Provider.
The Apple Certified Support Professional certification recognizes the knowledge needed to support and troubleshoot Apple devices in a large organization as a level 1 or 2 help desk professional.
The CompTIA IT Fundamentals (ITF+) exam focuses on the knowledge and skills required to identify and explain the basics of computing, IT infrastructure, software development and database use.
The Linux Essentials certificate validates a demonstrated understanding of the following: FOSS, the various communities, and licenses. Knowledge of open source applications in the workplace as they relate to closed source equivalents. Basic concepts of hardware, processes, programs and the components of the Linux Operating System. How to work on the command line and with files. How to create and restore compressed backups and archives. System security, users/groups and file permissions for public and private directories. How to create and run simple scripts.