About

At one point, I thought I’d do web design and development. I had a Mac, I was creative, right? Despite badly flaming out in one interview with an industrial consultant a few weeks prior, I decided to give it a go with a local IT firm, figuring that surely, they would need someone who knew how to speak HTML.

It didn’t really work out. I sat through a 30 minute interview, surrounded by the whole of the company’s systems engineers (all 5 of em) and was grilled about my knowledge in deploying Windows XP.

Remember, I had a Mac. I reinstalled Windows 95 once, on my parent’s computer. Gun to my head, I could probably identify a master and slave IDE device. Maybe.

Fortunately, those folks were desperate, and my reference sold me pretty hard, so by the end of the summer I did actually know how to deploy and administer Windows XP.

That was the fall of 2007. Through sheer serendipity, I wound up doing some web design and consulting work, some on my own, and some through school, but by the fall of 2009 it was pretty clear which direction I was headed in. As soon as the marketing consultant I subcontracted through moved on I did the same, and from that point forward it was all Windows, all the time.

These days, I’m a senior systems engineer at the same company I stated out at. We’ve gone from 5 engineers to about 50. I’ve done lab work deploying Windows to workstations, to onsite work, I’ve worked the help desk, and then I moved on to our professional service team, which handles large scale implementation jobs.

I’ve spent over 10 years in IT, and I’ve known what I’m doing for at least half that. I still count the guys from Car Talk as my inspiration and the source of my method, which Socrates would shudder to claim as his own.

In a previous life I was an avid cyclist and (emphasis on amateur) amateur coed soccer player.

I bought a house in 2015 and recently completed a major renovation, and I’m excited to see what comes next.