Equal Parts Magic, Science, and Hope

It's what I was trained for

Not only is it what my degree is in, I learned it too.

My degree is from Ozarks technical community college. Which in my opinion is the best college to learn the material. The Teachers care and the material is geared towards industry leading certifications. if you apply yourself you will leave with a lot of skills and knowedge

And I am certified:

Comptia A+, Sec+, Server+, Net+ and some google Microsoft certs. 

I've used these skills and gained personal and professional experience, 

read below to learn more!

Enterpise Networking

I've had some pretty cool experiences

during my time as a systems engineer, I Got have a lot of experiences that afforded me an opportunity to learn and validate alot of skills. 

Some examples:

  • Maranatha village, toned cables, swapped switches, and re-terminated runs. 

  • hoffman supply - expanded DHCP scopes, setup network printers

  • Price cutter - assisted with the rollout of a cellular fallback network

  • legal services of the ozarks - cables entire building, 

Home Networking

I setup my network for my projects including getting my stuff on the web!

As a technologist and a avid lover of all things tech. I of course have several things that need out to the web to work. 

Some examples being: 

  1. this website!
  2. my filesharing application (filebrowser)
  3. admin access for my reverse proxy
  4. my VPN
  5. jellyfin 

and some other ones! check out my probably full list on the resources page

Printers and IOT

IOT, or the internet of things. Basically, anything that connects to the network that's not Vanilla. 

I have worked with, setup (for work and personal) printers of all kinds, cameras, credit card terminals, lights, phones, sensors and more.. and I had a good time(unless its a before mentioned printer) 

Different tech for different folks

all these things of course have to be setup to different standards and purposes. Pinpads on a secure vlan, camera's setup for web access, and so on and so forth. while they are all lumped into IOT, they are not all the same. 

Firewall and VPN

Tunnels for days

I've setup for personal use two different VPN's WireGuard (my current and fav, hosted from my server) and openVPN (my old one off my router)

I've also had to add rules and mess with other VPN's but its been a minute.