My Skills¶
Hard Skills¶
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Python¶
Years of professional experience: 6
Example Work Deliverables:
- Configuration CI/CD Pipeline
- Push-Button Network Task Automation
- WAN circuit utilization monitoring and alerting service
- Network device configuration compliance verification service
- Store-wide network migration automation - eliminating a planned year of night work and speeding up a project completion by nearly a full year
- Over a dozen infrastructure management platform API integration custom modules and classes
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Ansible¶
Years of professional experience: 6
Example Work Deliverables:
- Configuration CI/CD Pipeline
- Push-Button Network Task Automation
- Network device configuration backup service
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Software Development Lifecycle¶
Years of professional experience: 6
Example Work Deliverables:
- Configuration CI/CD Pipeline
- Push-Button Network Task Automation
- WAN circuit utilization monitoring and alerting service
- Store-wide network migration automation - eliminating a planned year of night work and speeding up a project completion by nearly a full year
- WAN circuit utilization monitoring and alerting service
- Network device configuration compliance verification service
- Network device configuration backup service
Other Experience
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Containerization¶
Years of professional experience: 2
Example Work Deliverables:
- Configuration CI/CD Pipeline
- Automation framework buildout
- Automation image create and update mastery
Other Experience
- This Website
- Most of my self-hosted services are run on Docker containers
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Service Monitoring¶
Years of professional experience: 6
Relevant Education:
- IT - Network Specialist Associate
Example Work Deliverables:
- Monitoring and automated actions setup for entire categories of network equipment
- Log-based automated incident response setup
- Script creation and implementation responding to certain service metrics breaching SLOs
- SLO design and implementation across core and security stacks of the network
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Computer Networking¶
Years of professional experience: 7
Relevant Education:
- IT - Network Specialist Associate
- Information and Communication Technologies Bachelor of Science
Example Work Deliverables:
- Design and implementation of core routing and switching components of major greenfield datacenter
- Low-level network troubleshooting, often solving high-impact network problems with the pressure on
- Wireless network coverage surveying, design, and implementation
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Linux System Administration¶
Years of professional experience: 7
Relevant Education:
- IT - Network Specialist Associate
Example Work Deliverables:
- Configuration CI/CD Pipeline
- Ansible Execution Environment container definitions
- Systemd units and timers used by many unattended automation services
Other Experience:
- This Website
- Multiple home lab Linux VMs
- Raspberry Pi appliances (websites, AD controllers (Samba), retro gaming boxes)
- Daily drive Arch Linux main workstation at home
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Firewall Administration¶
Years of professional experience: 7
Relevant Education:
- IT - Network Specialist Associate
Example Work Deliverables:
- Hundreds of firewall rule changes to accommodate hundreds of projects and other requests
- New firewall stand-ups and replacements
- Firewall vendor research for service replacement and consolidation
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Network Load Balancing¶
Years of professional experience: 6
Relevant Education:
- IT - Network Specialist Associate
Example Work Deliverables:
- Critical automation platform load balancing components for high availability and clustering purposes
- Many small to large-scale load balanced service creation and enhancements
Soft Skills¶
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Leadership¶
Years of professional experience: 7
Example Work Deliverables:
- Configuration CI/CD Pipeline
- Push-Button Network Task Automation
- Nearly all the work within my current role at Menards
- Net Rollout - A network device provisioning and replacement automation project
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Communication¶
Years of professional experience: 10+
Example Work Deliverables:
- Configuration CI/CD Pipeline
- Push-Button Network Task Automation
- All major deliverables in my current position
- Had a large presenting role in a recent presentation with the c-suite about my work
Other Experience:
- University of Wisconsin - Stout 2024 Public Speaking Showcase 3rd Place Winner
Me mid-presentation.
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Problem-Solving¶
Years of professional experience: 10+
Example Work Deliverables:
- Configuration CI/CD Pipeline
- Push-Button Network Task Automation
- All major deliverables in my current position
- Net Rollout - A network device provisioning and replacement automation project
- Firewall vendor research for service replacement and consolidation
- Wireless network coverage surveying, design, and implementation
- Log-based automated incident response setup
- Store-wide network migration automation - eliminating a planned year of night work and speeding up a project completion by nearly a full year (project has completed and this is now unused)
- WAN circuit utilization monitoring and alerting service
- ... and SO many more!
Other Experience:
- This Website
- OPNsense home firewall network appliance setup and troubleshooting
- Taking over maintenance of my church weekly livestream
- Setting up and fine-tuning my Arch Linux main workstation at home