Skills
Strong:
- Git
- Hardware troubleshooting/remediation
- Linux
- macOS
- nginx
- Windows
- vSphere/ESXi
- XenServer/XCP-ng
Comfortable:
- Active Directory
- Bash
- Docker
- KVM
- MySQL/MariaDB
- PostgreSQL
- PHP
- PowerShell
- VDI
Eventually learning:
- AWS (and IaaS as a whole)
- C
- Go
- Python
- Rust
- SCCM/WSUS
Work
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~11 years of end user support experience
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~13 years of customer service experience
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~11 years of semi-serious to professional server administration experience, mostly Linux with some Windows
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Assisted in launching multiple game server providers
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Assisted in managing infrastructure for a large gaming community (~1100 active members)
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Solely managed infrastructure for a medium size gaming community (~150 active members)
Project History
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- Owner - Admin - 2019-Current
- Hosting 5 Twitch bots for friends
- Not very exciting
- Owner - Admin - 2019-Current
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SmashErie
- Tech Team Lead - 2018-2020
- Worked on most of these projects with Chris
- Implemented NDI based multibox streaming setup, using vMix for the heavy lifting
- Configured and maintained an email/collaboration server
- Tech Team Lead - 2018-2020
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KickinRad.TV
- Owner - Admin - 2014-2017
- Set up a handful of game servers for various games (CS:S, CS:GO, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 1/2, Sven Coop, Doom)
- Maintained a custom build of MyBB forums software
- Had assistance from Ice and breadworms to absolutely break MyBB
- Maintained a Mumble server for voice chat
- Learned that you need more than 0 backups to ensure you don’t lose all your data overnight
- Owner - Admin - 2014-2017
Useless Facts
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Daily driver?
- MacBook Air M1 (Late 2020)
- M1
- 16GB RAM
- 256GB SSD
- macOS 14 Ventura Beta
- Desktop
- Ryzen 7 5800X
- AMD RX 6900XT
- 32GB RAM @ 3200
- 800GB SSD (Oracle F80), 240GB SSD, 2x 1TB SSD
- Windows 11
- Literally only used for gaming, so I stream from it remotely using Moonlight
- MacBook Air M1 (Late 2020)
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Favorite editor?
- Visual Studio Code with Vim emulation
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Favorite artists?
- Les Savy Fav, Death From Above, Bear Vs. Shark, and HORSE the band right now and mostly forever.
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Favorite albums?
- At the Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
- Bear Vs. Shark - Right Now, You’re in the Best of Hands
- Busdriver - Temporary Forever
- Death Cab For Cutie - We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes
- Death From Above - You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine
- Fall of Troy - Doppelgänger
- Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
- FWA - WHY DO YOU LOVE ME SATAN?
- HORSE the band - The Mechanical Hand
- Japanther - Skuffed Up My Huffy
- Les Savy Fav - EMOR: Rome (Written Upside Down)
- Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
- No Age - Snares Like A Haircut
- Q And Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep
- Radiohead - In Rainbows
- You Love Her Coz She’s Dead - Inner City Angst EP