What I actually spend my time doing
Self-assessed, grounded in real project work rather than a certification checklist.
Leadership
Building technicians into teams that outperform their staffing numbers.
Systems Administration
25 years of keeping mixed fleets patched, imaged, and out of the way of the people using them.
Cloud
Identity-first cloud administration, with hybrid environments as the default, not the exception.
Automation
If I do it more than twice, it becomes a script.
Programming
Practical, ops-grade code — built to run unattended and fail loudly when something's wrong.
Networking
VLAN segmentation, reverse proxying, and overlay networking — mostly learned by running it at home first.
Documentation
"Memory is volatile. Markdown is durable." — undocumented systems are unfinished systems.
Security
Identity governance and network segmentation as the day-to-day baseline, not a once-a-year audit.
AI
Early, practical adoption — not hype. If it saves the team real time, it stays.