Background
I started in Military Intelligence in the U.S. Army, where keeping networks secure wasn’t optional. It was the mission. That’s where I learned to think about IT infrastructure the way I still do: figure out what’s actually happening on the wire, lock down what needs locking down, and keep things running no matter what.
After the Army, I worked my way up through the full stack. Help desk, residential repair, business systems administration, then into network engineering and enterprise storage at scale. I’ve touched every layer of IT that exists, from swapping hard drives in someone’s living room to managing core switching infrastructure at a regulated financial institution.
These days I work in IT Operations at a mid-size bank in the Wichita area. I manage switching, firewalls, routing, wireless, enterprise storage, and backup infrastructure. I work across every major vendor platform: Cisco and Juniper for enterprise networking, MikroTik when the budget matters more than the logo on the box, Veeam for backup and disaster recovery, and I’ve been pushing OpenShift and OKD as the answer for organizations looking to get off VMware without landing on something half-baked.
I’m also the person who builds things on the side just to see if they work. Homelab experiments, automation scripts, weird configurations nobody asked for. That tinkering mindset is how I stay sharp, and it’s why I tend to have answers for problems that fall outside the usual playbook.
Why I do this
I kept running into the same story. A friend’s dental office was paying an MSP thousands a month and still had a consumer router from Best Buy as their firewall. A church had Wi-Fi that dropped every Sunday when more than 50 people connected. A law firm got a cyber insurance questionnaire and had no idea what half the questions meant.
These are all fixable problems. They don’t require a $3,000/month managed services contract. They need someone who actually understands networking to come in, look at the setup, and either fix it or explain what needs fixing.
That’s what I do.
What I’m not
I’m not an MSP. I don’t have a sales team, a tier-1 help desk, or a fleet of branded vehicles. I’m one person with real network engineering experience who shows up at your office and helps you solve your specific problem.
If you need 24/7 monitoring and a dedicated help desk, you probably need an MSP. If you need someone to audit your network, fix your Wi-Fi, help you answer a cyber insurance questionnaire, or just give you an honest assessment of where your IT stands, that’s me.
Where I work
Wichita, Haysville, Derby, Andover, and anywhere in Sedgwick County. I come to you.