About Me

An enthusiastic troubleshooter, engineer, technologist, and team leader. I find myself constantly looking for the next challenge. I enjoy complex technological and social problem solving. Navigating the complexities of large organizations to create progress and forward momentum on complex projects are just some of the things I spend my days doing for organizations.

Standard IT services to cloud first cutting edge organizations, leading teams to achieve excellence is a requirement for leaders in todays market. The modern associate wants to be part of a team with a clear mission and vision, and that requires leadership they can invest in to be successful. A leader of teams who design, manage, and implement large scale e-infrastructure and applications. My expertise is at the nexus of cloud, networking, and security infrastructure. I turn big ideas into secure infrastructure at scale,

• Current Role: AVP Network Services at Marriott Vacations Worldwide

• GitHub

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” – T.E. Lawrence

Experience

Interest

• Green Technology and sustainable agriculture I am very active in the aquaponics community. This technology allows for the farming of fish as a protein source, while utilizing a porous stone or clay medium to grow vegetables. This allows bacteria to filter the waste of the fish, while generating Nitrogen fertilizer which the plant roots in readily absorb. This allows rapid food production with minimal footprint and efficient use of fish waste as a source of energy.

• Amateur Radio While not as popular as it once was amateur radio is still in the forefront of IOT networking, satellite communications, digital communications technologies. I have been licensed for over 20 years, my call sign is KG4OLW and I have communicated with people all over the world as well as volunteered and trained to help with emergency communications during natural disasters and other emergencies.

• Typewriters I love collecting and restoring old typewriters. I have a number of them and when I can find them I usually buy them and restore them. I don’t keep most of them I just sell them on, but I feel proud to help restore some of these beautiful specimens before they can be trashed. We live in such as disposable culture these days it’s nice to be able to touch a product made out of steel more than 100 years ago that is still functional and will last for generations to come.

• Writing I enjoy reading quite a bit and I have started by hand at novel writing. While most of those stories are just for me. Eventually I may end up publishing one if it meets my standards. for now the endeavor is a personal one. I like most writers feel the need to get the story out so it stops bouncing around in my head.

Certifications & Education

1. CCNA - 2003/2008
2. JNCIA - 2016 ID# JPR00232130
3. FIU 2003 - Finance
4. Florida Institute of Technology 2002-2003
5. Miami-Dade College 2000-2002

Web Applications

1. 2bit.pro
2. hammap.org