Work and Whatnot
I have a handful of things in the job realm. This will mostly read like a classic resume, sans the beautification required for a resume when actually sending it to a prospective employer. But really this is more of a "work-ish autobiography" and honestly that is more fun to write anyway.
For things outside of prior work and education, there will probably end up being a fair amount of exposition within specific posts. I'll almost certainly end up posting those ideas and prattlings-on under a decent tag like ramblings or complete-thoughts.
Work Experience
Senior Platform Engineer (November 2021 - Present)
Supporting middleware and integration services at the National Marrow Donor Program; serving as Critical Incident Manager, continuing to make buttons that push themselves automatically. See previous role.
Application Server Administrator (October 2019 - November 2021)
Supporting middleware and integration services at the National Marrow Donor Program; wrangling load-balancers, running enterprise monitoring solutions, and attempting to make buttons to do things. Ideally, the buttons will push themselves.
The breadth was wide, the depths were dark:
- AppDynamics
- IBM MQ
- WSO2 API Manager
- Oracle Weblogic
- TLS Certificate Management
- Atlassian Suite
- Redis
- Apache Tomcat
- F5 Big-IP
- Microsoft IIS
- Nexus Sonatype
Service Desk Consultant (January 2018 - October 2019)
Supporting way too many tools to count for the University of Minnesota. Video & Conferencing matter. Collaboration & Web Content stuff. Storage & Data Protection whatnots. Hosting things.
Video
Collaboration
Storage
Hosting
Desktop Support Professional (June 2017 - January 2018)
Mac and Windows whisperer for the University of Minnesota.
Several sweat-inducing phone calls. You know who you are.
Education
B.A., Computer Science — UMN Morris
Technology alone is not enough...
...it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
Secondary Education — Hibbing High School
"The Hibbing High School is significant because of its architecture, which is unusual for several reasons including its sheer sumptuousness but it is also significant for Hibbing and Minnesota Iron Range history because of its role in public education, in serving the needs of the iron mining industry for a better educated and skilled labor force, and as a symbol of the struggles between corporations and local municipalities for revenues in the period before 1933."