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Five years of owning the environment
Servers, networks, identity, security, cloud, vendors, and budgets for small technology businesses, plus the outages, incidents, and teams that come with them.
01 / roles
Role history
Newest first. Several roles were remote and ran at the same time.
to present
Founder and CEO
Blue Devil Development · Michigan, remote
- Own technology strategy and operations: Linux servers, cloud infrastructure, DNS, identity and access, monitoring, backups, security, and vendors.
- Run Ubuntu production environments, Dockerized services, UFW host firewalls, CI/CD, and separate staging and production.
- Designed and built BDOS v3: 146 canonical models across 14 domains, with JSON Schema validation and generated documentation.
to
Technical Operations and Systems Lead
Certified Bice Ltd. · remote
- Owned the full technology environment: 6 employees, 10 websites, Windows Server 2019, Active Directory, Group Policy, and Google Workspace.
- Managed a $150,000 technology budget and delivered about $250,000 in annual savings through new workflow and operational systems.
- Recovered a corrupted website database during a hosting migration, then wrote the migration SOP and trained developers on backup and recovery.
to
Fractional Chief Technology Officer
FelonyDiscrimination.org · remote
- Led technology strategy, secure platform development, accessibility, and team coordination for a nonprofit supporting reentry and anti-discrimination work.
to
Senior Technical Analyst and Technical Project Manager
Twin Designs and Tech · remote
- Ran Agile delivery across teams in the Philippines and Pakistan, reducing project delays 25% and improving operational efficiency 20%.
- Restored production after a deployment exhausted server resources; added monitoring and a documented recovery procedure.
- Investigated a suspected bulk data exfiltration through Workspace access logs, revoked the account, tightened download alerts, and briefed leadership.
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Project Manager and Lead Developer
OurBytes · remote
- Directed full-lifecycle application projects and introduced workflow changes that raised development speed 15%.
- Lead trainer in the apprenticeship program for junior developers and project managers: 95% job placement on completion.
Software Application Developer
Auctioneer Software · Grandville, Michigan
- Maintained React, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL auction software and the physical servers it ran on.
- Configured Cisco and pfSense networking: firewall rules, VLANs, routing, and intrusion detection.
02 / infrastructure_record
Systems I have run
- windows_serveronlineWindows Serverserver os · directory · identity
- linuxonlineUbuntu Linuxserver os
- containersonlineDockercontainers · staging and production
- hypervisoronlineVMwarevirtualization
- hypervisoronlineHyper-Vvirtualization
- perimeteronlinepfSensefirewall · routing · segmentation
- budget_ownership
- $150K
- Technology budget managed across vendors, procurement, licensing, and renewals.
- src: Certified Bice Ltd., 2023 to 2025
- delay_reduction
- -25%
- Fewer project delays through infrastructure optimization, automation, and stakeholder coordination.
- src: Twin Designs and Tech, 2023 to 2024
- framework_alignment
- NIST
- Continuity, recovery, and risk procedures informed by NIST practices.
- src: Blue Devil Development, 2025 to present
03 / skills
Areas of expertise
infrastructure
- Windows Server
- Ubuntu
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- Docker
identity and collaboration
- Active Directory
- Group Policy
- DNS · DHCP
- Google Workspace
networking and security
- Cisco
- pfSense
- VLANs
- Intrusion detection
- NIST practices
operations and leadership
- Incident response
- Backup and recovery
- Vendor management
- Budgeting
- SOPs and training