What I do
I'm a Systems Engineer at the University of Dayton, administering an enterprise fleet of more than 1,400 Linux and Windows hosts. I contribute to the Ansible and Terraform automation, delivered through GitLab CI/CD, that deploys, updates, and configures our 400+ Linux servers, and I built the self-hosted, GPU-accelerated AI node behind our AI-assisted development. Before that, I spent three years delivering IT for external clients and several more running operations for a small business.
Highlights
- client delivery
- Three years of external client work: a managed service provider serving higher education, finance, non-profit, medical, and manufacturing clients, plus two years running my own IT services business.
- automation
- Contributor to the Ansible and Terraform automation, delivered through GitLab CI/CD, that manages 400+ Linux hosts, supported by Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
- migration
- Moved a production application onto Linux and Docker with zero downtime and zero data loss, reusing existing hardware to avoid new spend.
- AI engineering
- Designed and deployed a GPU-accelerated inference node, integrated with OpenCode, that serves up to six concurrent users, keeps prompts and code on University infrastructure, and paid for itself in under six months through more than $4,000 in saved token costs.
- process
- A career-long habit of codifying how work gets done, from Kanban-driven continuous improvement to routing standards that cut misrouted support tickets by about 85%.
- business
- Operations Management degree, P&L analysis, strategy work with business owners, and recommendations presented to Fortune 500 executive leadership.
What I'm looking for
A solutions architecture, platform engineering, or DevOps role with a consulting or managed services firm, and I'm open to remote work. I want to design and run platforms for clients, own the outcome, and leave every environment more automated and better documented than I found it. I do my best work where a technical problem is tangled up with a business one, because I've spent my career on both sides of that line.