Reflections

Below are links to earlier posts on only a handful of the projects and life experiences I've worked on and gone through from early adolescence until now under the realms of IoT, Linux, Virt, Windows, Programming, and overcoming challenges and defeat while learning and exploring new topics that may offer guidance or perspective to your own projects.

Younger me wasn't quite the documentarian so these are from the perspective of present day and condensed for your times sake. In IT I always see resumes galore on sites like these, but I seldom see how someone ended up in technology or their journey to today. Hopefully this provides some context.

Old Projects and Reflections

I'll be adding more to these over time as I feel they may provide relevant context, but click the collapsing buttons below to read more about my earlier projects.

Technology community building while 19 years old; transparency with non-IT stakeholders, and learning what motivates me.

After working in a school district where my office was based out of the elementary school helping kids obtain easier and reliable access to technology, I learned what was a great motivator for me in a position. Helping connect people; to information and comprehending signal vs noise. While I was

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At 21: managing a team of 5, ~10K devices, and my sanity, as a new people manager.

After spending years in my first district and growing to the bounds of that position, I was set on a few parameters for my search in a new position: * Education Technology related * Knew I was motivated by helping people * I wanted to mentor technicians or be a team lead over

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My first consulting clients, and their shock that I was a 4th grader.

When I was in 4th grade I advertised “computer tune ups” doing cache clearing, temp file removal, folder cleanup, AV scans, (and then set the mouse 15% faster) for $30 in my local paper, humbly referring to myself as the Chief Computer Doctor at Hampton’s Computer Doctor. To my surprise,

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First enterprise technology project, after telling the IT director I just hacked the PC’s credentials.

I was in 5th grade at the time and I had a year of “consulting” fairly regularly in my small town area under my belt, so I was feeling bold. I approached my elementary schools IT director after noticing an issue with the sound card drivers in our windows machine.

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First project to overcome failure, and prevent my Grandpa from fishing.

When I was in early high school, I had saved the entirety of my consulting money for a while and tried to build a small unmanned submarine. I set the budget I thought was appropriate (went absolutely all in on it) and I knew that I’d would have to be

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First jump into the deep end with Linux, and almost lighting my house on fire.

I was in early middle school while trying to recreate “JARVIS” with what little help I could find online after watching Iron Man 2. I was going for Tony Stark back then, but Phony Stark accurately describes how this system worked. The project used broken and mangled bits of various

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Streaming, Storing, and Suffering over Mikeflix

As mentioned in my earlier post on JARVIS where I discussed the personal automation platform I had built, there was a few specific mechanisms connected that allowed me to stream on my local network. This project is what lead me to meet my mentor, mentioned in my first post. I

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