About Me

My Personal History

I was born and raised in Central New York (Syracuse).  Central New York was great.  Before leaving home, I earned my Eagle Scout and a college degree.  When I left, I took with me a lot of fond memories.

I moved to Cincinnati for a job in my early 20's.  While there, I met my future wife Rebecca at a Yoga class.  After a few years of dating, we married on the summer solstice and raised two boys of whom I am very proud.

After twenty years in the Cincinnati area, we decided to move to Woodland Park.  I absolutely love it here.  The air is cleaner.  The people are nicer.  I am constantly surrounded by the woods.  My stress level has never been lower.

We have a "1970's spectacular" home behind Manitou Lake off of Route 67.  Sometimes Rebecca and I take short hikes around our property with our three chihuahuas.  Tails up, noses down.

In my spare time, I tinker.  I repair stuff.  I play Airsoft.  I run a cluster of servers at home.  This web site that you are currently reading is hosted out of my home.  

My History With Computers

Around 1990 I became interested in computers.  I spent more time learning how to craft autoexec.bat and config.sys files to play video games than I did actually playing the games.  After high school I attended college for Computer Engineering Technology and later Computer Science.  While studying at SUNY Institute of Technology, I was employed by the IT department to service staff and faculty workstations, and also help out with various network projects.

In 2003, a friend offered me a job at the ORAUCOC project, which was being run by NIOSH, a division of the CDC.  I moved from Syracuse, New York to Cincinnati (Northern Kentucky).  While there, I took care of servers, desktops, networks,  supported the developers, and started learning process automation.

In 2010, I made the jump to Accenture where I focused on process automation and relational database design.  This is where I met Chris, the best boss I would ever know.  Together we toppled mountains and outperformed other groups within Accenture that were 10x our size.

After five years, Accenture downsized and I moved over to Great American Insurance Group.  I became one of their Cloud Automation Engineers.

After less than two years I was lured by Chris to Logicalis.  Logicalis let me really spread my wings.  I spent almost all my time working projects or process automation for the IT department.  I loved every minute of it.

However, an extended life at Logicalis was impossible because they were forced to downsize.  Fortunately, I would again follow Chris to a different company, CenterGrid.  At CenterGrid I have used all of my skills and talents and I continue to be employed there today.

My full, professional resume is available here:  Full Resume