Fast Fun Facts
👨‍💻 IT infrastructure staff at The National Marrow Donor Program.
đź—ť District Administrator for Key Club
International.
⚠️ Hobbyist automator.
🔥 Tempering technology on the daily.
If you don't know me
I take pride in the work I do, though it's not always great.
Sometimes, just getting the work out the door is as good as you can do, and that's
okay.
And I try not to get caught up in making things perfect.
I aim for better than yesterday (even though I struggle at this).
Working hard at work is good, but I want to work harder to make my community a
better place.
Taking some time to appreciate the people who make up my community is important
to me.
Never underestimate the power of a thank-you note.
It doesn't need to say a lot; just put words of kindness on the paper and a
stamp on the envelope.
So forget learning more about me.
Go out into the world and do well,
but more
importantly,
do good.
Work Experience
Senior Platform Engineer (November 2021 - Present)
Supporting middleware and integration services at the National Marrow Donor Program; serving as Critical Incident Manager, continuing to make buttons that push themselves automatically. See previous role.
Application Server Administrator (October 2019 - November 2021)
Supporting middleware and integration services at the National Marrow Donor Program; wrangling load-balancers, running enterprise monitoring solutions, and attempting to make buttons to do things. Ideally, the buttons will push themselves.
The breadth was wide, the depths were dark:
- AppDynamics
- IBM MQ
- WSO2 API Manager
- Oracle Weblogic
- TLS Certificate Management
- Atlassian Suite
- Redis
- Apache Tomcat
- F5 Big-IP
- Microsoft IIS
- Nexus Sonatype
👉 Don't scroll down yet.
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Service Desk Consultant (January 2018 - October 2019)
Supporting way too many tools to count for the University of Minnesota. Video & Conferencing matter. Collaboration & Web Content stuff. Storage & Data Protection whatnots. Hosting things.
Advanced Support Consultant and T2 Administrator for:
- Cisco WebEx Meetings and WebEx Webinars
- Zoom Video Conferencing support and administration
- Google Hangouts, Google Meet
- Kaltura Media
- In-House media hosting applications
- On-site event audio and videography
Advanced Support Consultant and T2 Administrator for:
- Drupal CMS
- Content strategy consulting, DNS cutovers/changes, TLS management
- Google Workspace/GSuite (Drive, Sites, Apps, etc)
- Perceptive Content (ImageNow)
- WorkflowGen
- Legacy Content Management System
Advanced Support Consultant and T2 Administrator for:
- CIFS/NFS Share Creation
- CIFS/NFS Quota Management
- Xythos/Netfiles Legacy Support
- Google Drive, Shared Drives (Team Drives)
- Storage best practices and tooling consulting
- File/data restoration
Advanced Support Consultant and T2 Administrator for:
- Linux (RHEL) and Windows Server support
- GitHub Enterprise On-Prem
- JFrog Artifactory
- MySQL/MSSQL/Oracle Database Support
- Apache site migrations on central webhost service
- Creation of misc. automations for processes and routine jobs
Desktop Support Professional (June 2017 - January 2018)
Mac and Windows whisperer for the University of Minnesota. Several sweat-inducing phone calls.
Education
B.A., Computer Science — UMN Morris
Technology alone is not enough...
...it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
Secondary Education — Hibbing High School
"The Hibbing High School is significant because of its architecture, which is unusual for several reasons including its sheer sumptuousness but it is also significant for Hibbing and Minnesota Iron Range history because of its role in public education, in serving the needs of the iron mining industry for a better educated and skilled labor force, and as a symbol of the struggles between corporations and local municipalities for revenues in the period before 1933."