About Me

Information Technology Enthusiast, Husband, Father, and Numismatist.

Thanks for visiting my website. Below is some info about me including my skills, experience, and accomplishments.

Technology

Here is a list of Technologies that I've become pretty versed in over the years:

  • PowerShell
  • VMware
  • Office 365/Exchange
  • VoIP
  • Microsoft Server Ecosystem
  • Networking
  • Operating Systems
  • APIs
  • Veeam Backup

What I'm currently learning:

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • GitHub
  • Azure

My Accomplishments

Listed below are technologies I've implemented and developed to solve business challenges.

Payment Processor Script

I developed a PowerShell script to perform the following functions:

  • Query Payment Processor API for the previous day transactions.
  • Output data into a custom CSV format for consumption by a lease processing software.
  • Create various reports for different departments on dollars collected and reconciliation.
  • Script performed API error handling, logging, and email notification.

Office 365 Migration

Migrated userbase of 70 users from Exchange 2013 to Office 365. Features included easily deployed monthly channel updates for Office 365, Azure AD Connect, SSO, Microsoft Teams, and two factor authentication.

VMware Virtualization

Implemented a two host ESXi cluster with vMotion and supported 20 Windows Server VMs and 5 Linux VMs.

Personal Projects

Here are some things I'm working on in my free time

PFSense + OpenVPN

I built my own PFSense firewall/router back in 2017 but only recently decided to tap into the OpenVPN setup. I configured a site-to-site VPN to a family member's router utilizing OpenVPN as well as created a personal VPN to connect back into my home network when I'm mobile.

FreeNAS

I repurposed an older Dell Core i7 with 16GB RAM for my FreeNas server and I added in a PCIe SATA card so FreeNAS can have direct access to the Drives. The server for now has 2x 2TB Gold WD drives and is a 1 disk redundancy dataset within my zpool. I've also setup SMB for file sharing in my local network.

Pi-Hole + Unbound

In my local network I'm using the opensource software Pi-Hole for ad blocking as well as Unbound for my own recursive DNS server. Both Pi-Hole and Unbound run on an Ubuntu VM that sits on an Intel NUC running ESXI 7.0. With this setup I can load a list of domains in Pi-Hole so that all my local clients can use network wide ad blocking via DNS without any special software running on them. Pi-Hole will then utilize Unbound for DNS requests as Unbound will query the root DNS and nameservers.

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