About Me

I am a very motivated IT specialist who has completed my associate of applied sciences degree in the Information Technology/Systems Administration Specialist field at Northwood Technical College in New Richmond, WI. In addition to this degree I have also obtained my PC Support Technician certificate from Lake Superior College. I have spent three years working in the IT field with employers such as Lake Superior College and New Richmond Computers. I also spend extensive time working on expanding my skills through my personal home lab and projects. Which I discuss on this site.

My Personal IT Projects

I have spent extensive time creating my personal home lab testing environment as well as building out my home network. I have built a custom OPNsense router with many custom firewall rules to allow remote administration of my network and servers, as well as access to my custom websites. I have setup an Apache server and MySQL database in order to operate my handful of custom websites including services such as web file storage and access, as well as video playback. Including this website you're reading now. I have setup two Truenas servers with 4TB of storage to be used as a network share for accessing files and for remote video editing from my workstation, as well as an additional network interface for secure storage access through my VPN appliance. In addition, I have setup two servers with VMware ESXi and installed vCenter in my home lab environment, connecting them to my domain controller and Truenas VM for use with an iSCSI share.

My Server Rack

My full-size server rack includes hardware such as an HP DL360 G7, Dell PowerEdge R210, Cisco Catalyst 3560v2 PoE switch, Cisco 1841 Router, HP 2920-48G switch, Cisco Linksys RV042 VPN and a KVM console with display to quickly switch between which machine I am administering. I have also created a logical network diagram displaying the layout of my entire network.

Network Diagram