Selected work

Russell County Board of Education

Seale, Alabama
Systems Administration / Network Administrator Consultant | Remote | 2024–Present
Systems Administrator / Network Administrator | 2021–2024
Technical Systems Support Specialist I | April 2017–September 2019

Systems administration and infrastructure support for an enterprise education environment with more than 5,000 technology devices, including Windows and Linux servers, network infrastructure, endpoints, and virtualized systems. Active Directory, Group Policy, Google Workspace, and user access permissions support FERPA compliance and the protection of confidential student and staff information. Google Workspace covers more than 3,500 students and 300 faculty members, in an environment with more than 3,500 Chromebooks.

Software deployment for more than 800 computers uses Windows Deployment Services (WDS) and the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). Physical and virtual servers run on VMware and Hyper-V, including configuration, upgrades, maintenance, and issue resolution. Network work includes Ethernet cabling and a PBX system supporting more than 300 SIP phones and speakers. PowerShell, PHP, SQL, and VBScript scripts automate account provisioning and synchronize information across systems.

Technology inventory application

A PHP/MySQL application built for the Russell County Board of Education tracks district equipment and supports IT asset management.

Mando America

Opelika, Alabama
Technical Systems Support Specialist | October 2019–May 2021

IT support in a manufacturing environment covered PCs, audiovisual equipment, phones, printers, and related technology. The work included hardware and software upgrades, user accounts, network resources, Ethernet cabling, and physical network infrastructure. IT inventory and budgeting covered end-user computers and software. Incidents and service requests went through an electronic help-desk ticketing system.

Home lab

NoctumDesign keeps the notes on the home lab. Posts compare Proxmox and Unraid as two ways to run a home server, describe Proxmox on its own, and describe Unraid as a place to keep a media library and a Plex server. The rack began around 2005 as five PCs on the floor. Python notes on the same site cover scripts for servers at work and at home, and a script written while pulling Windows PCs out of a school district.

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