Server Admisistration
I am a highly skilled Linux Administrator and Networking specialist with over 5 years of experience in Windows, Linux, and networking. My expertise includes network routing (BGP/OSPF) and application support of critical services and logging. In addition to my professional experience. As a System Administrator at a large hosting provider in Las Vegas, I managed day-to-day technical issues for thousands of customers. This included managing Linux, BSD, and Windows servers and troubleshooting networking and physical layer issues in the data center. I also contributed to the development of the company's provisioning platform, which used a stripped down Linux kernel via PXE to provision every OS on both physical and virtualization servers. Additionally, I created a non-domain based configurator for full configuring Windows XP to Server 2012 R2. My extensive experience with Linux includes compiling my own system from scratch and working with distros such as Gentoo, Arch, and Red Hat/Centos.Networking
Started working with networking around in around 2011 when studying to take the CCNA certification, then shortly after got hired at a local hosting provider. Who primary ran brocade gear, with some zxwall firewalls mixed in. During that time I learned a great deal and also began to translate a lot of what I know from Cisco into brocade. This allowed me to really under stand how the underlying protocol or network principal worked. Around halfway though my time at the hosting company I began to fully manage the network and added more redundancy and monitoring to all internal switches and routers as well as the primary contact for adding new BGP links on the brocade MLS routers. This and some corrections to rack cabling procedures were critical to operations to nearly eliminating on call and weeks end hours for data center staff. As issues could be found during the week and corrected before our client was impacted. Some of the critical correction I made to the network during my time were relating to spanning tree, and upgrading key systems to various switch stacking configurations as well as setting up SNMP for monitoring on an internal vlan. In addition the SYSLOG of all the network gear was sent to a monitoring server where again I setup more monitoring to detect things that should not be happening. That help me detect some config issues in the network relating to flapping ports, duplicated ip, port security, rouge dhcp servers and other hard to diagnose issues.Electronics
This is that project that marks that start of designing and fabricating electronics project. In 2012 a few users found some interesting what appear to be fully controllable RGB lighting string. In the forum thread I accidentally became the guy who was going to make the PCB. I just happen to be learning KiCad at the time. Before the next season, I created electronics kits and sold them to the members that wanted boards as well as published the manufacture files and source files. An offshoot of the electronics hacking project from 2013 this was an expansion on the code from the wm2999 and komby/RFShowcontrol projects, for adding interoperability with AC based Christmas lighting strings. This allows up to 12channels of dimming of ac lights in a small package over the same wireless link as the existing lights controllers.
After a bit of a break from working with electronics I resumed again in 2018 working with a start up company getting there cheap/disposable 2g tracking device up and running, as well as some IT related tasks. I helped get device up and running with new code that interfaced to a server backed via tcp that was used to locate the device on the cellular network. I then assisted getting the device though certification as far as was possible before board revisions were required to proceed. At some point it was decided to push this device for sensor capability, so I began implementing a one wire like protocol and interface pcb. This was a challenge because the device had no usable IO for this I ended up interfacing on exposed io pad for a led as a temporary solution until a revision could be made.
After I parted ways with the above company me and a few others started a new company in 2020 to work with an updated device focused on real uses cases rather than marketing fluff. Then fixed many short coming by vastly limited scope on what is possible and created a device that someone in IT might really use. I was responsible for both the hardware and firmware design of the device itself as well as the front end HTML of our portal. The sensor and tracker device we created is fully certified to run on a US wireless providers network and is available for limited sales today.
