I'm an IT and web professional with more than two decades of experience working with technology in one form or another. My background has taken me from computer repair and small-business IT to systems administration, network support, enterprise workstation support, and, more recently, web implementation and project coordination.
Today, much of my professional work involves helping businesses get their websites up and running. I work directly with clients to understand what they need, coordinate with designers and developers, and handle the technical details involved in getting a site launched and working properly. That includes things like website configuration, analytics and tracking, SEO, URL redirects, third-party integrations, and troubleshooting issues that inevitably come up during a project.
My earlier experience was more focused on traditional IT. I've worked with Windows and Linux systems, servers, Active Directory, Cisco networking equipment, virtualization, hardware, and a variety of business applications. I've spent a fair amount of my career troubleshooting problems where there isn't necessarily an obvious answer—figuring out what's actually wrong and finding a practical way to fix it.
I tend to enjoy the technical side of things, but I also enjoy figuring out how technology fits into the bigger picture. A good technical solution isn't particularly useful if it's difficult to maintain, doesn't solve the actual problem, or doesn't make sense to the people who have to use it. Much of my work has therefore involved translating between the technical and non-technical sides of a project.
Outside of my day-to-day work, I like to keep learning and building things. This site is partly an outlet for that. I spend time working with Linux, programming, electronics, networking, amateur radio, and various hardware projects. I'm particularly interested in understanding how things work rather than simply knowing which button to push.
That's really what this blog is about: learning, building, troubleshooting, and documenting what I discover along the way. Some of the projects here are practical, some are experiments, and some are simply things I find interesting.
If you're here because you're interested in my professional background, the short version is that I'm comfortable working across a fairly broad range of technology. I can work with clients and project teams, troubleshoot a computer or network, dig into a Linux system, work with a website, or sit down with a technical problem and figure out how to approach it.
I'm always interested in learning something new and, when the right opportunity comes along, putting that experience to work on interesting problems.