IT Professional, Technology Enthusiast, Sound Engineer, Creator, Eagle Scout
Please see Sound Page for details about Audio Mixing and, Live Sound, and Productions.
Work Experience
UB|MD Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
Jan. 2022 - Present IT Project Coordinator
Dec. 2019 - Jan. 2022 IT Consultant, PT
Freelance Audio Work
May 2020 - Present Sound Engineer, Live Audio Producer. Equipment provider.
Northtowns Cardiology, PLLC.
Jan. 2022 - Present Systems Administrator, PT Consultant
Oct. 2016 - Jan. 2022 Systems Administrator, Network Engineer
Omega-I, Inc.
Jan. 2017 - Present Vice President, Co-Founder, Engineer
New York Power Authority
May 2015 - Dec. 2015 Electrical Engineer Intern, Electrical Maintenance Dept.
West Herr Automotive Group
Nov. 2013 - Mar. 2018 Sales Assistant
June 2013 - Nov. 2013 Automotive Detailer, Lot Attendant
National Risk Assessments
June 2012 - Sept. 2012 IT Support Technician (Summer Position)
Williamsville Central Schools
June 2013 - Mar. 2018 Production Programmer, DigitalSky2, Work Study Program
Transit Station Hobby Shop
June 2012 - Feb. 2014 Sales Associate & Technician
Bethel Baptist Church
Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2013 Sound Engineer & Multimedia Technician
Accomplishments & Misc.
Eagle Scout, BSA 2012
National Youth Leadership Training - Selected Camp Counselor
National Honor Society 2011 & 2012
Technology Student Association - Chapter Co-Founder, VP 2010-2013
Hobbies
-Automotive work, especially on my 2004 Jeep Wrangler which has lead to learning skills such as welding, suspension geometry calculation, and differential gearing setup. It's continued restoration and upgrades know no rest.
-Computer building and Homelab. I maintain an Active Directory environment at home on a Hyper-V cluster using local and NAS storage hosting media and a variety of dedicated gaming servers using Ubiquiti, Avaya, and Cisco networking equipment.
-Camping and Backpacking, originally done through Boy Scouts of America but has continued with a group of both Eagle Scouts and other hobbyist friends.
-Photography, generally for my own entertainment, though I have done some voluntary work for weddings and other events with my personal Canon camera bodies and lenses.
-Travel when possible, domestic and globally. I've had the opportunity to travel abroad and visit Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Ireland and Canada, hopefully with more to come. This, especially, is where I love photography.
-Electronics development with a few friends involving microcontrollers such as Arduino, Atmel atmega and attiny, and Raspberry Pi. Co-founded electronics company Omega-I, Inc.
-Boating and powerboat maintenance on a 1988 Chris-Craft 19' open-bow. It's been my project for the last few years, having struck a great bargain, it's been improving ever since.
-PA sound equipment operation, repair, and collection has been a hobby which evolved into my side-gig: freelance sound work for events with local bands, backyard parties, weddings, conferences, and larger venues using my personally owned public address systems. QSC, JBL, RCF, Soundcraft, Yorkville, Allen & Heath, and Yamaha PA equipment.
-Hi-Fi and Theater audio. I've constructed my own home theater with brands including Mark Levinson, Marantz, Klipsch, Sansui, AudioTechnica, Yamaha, VMPS, Polk, Sony, JVC, Denon, and Pioneer. Vinyl Record collection.
Homelab
Inspiration for my career, my forever-changing homelab sever environment was the beginning of my technology-related roles. It has taken many shapes in its evolution, beginning as a spare laptop with a broken screen in a basement, currently existing on co-located racked enterprise hardware.
I continue to expand and experiment with hardware, currently hosting a Hyper-V cluster to run my home Active Directory domain and home automation environment.
My environment maintains data security through VLAN segregation by service and role, handled by namely Ubiquiti and pfSense routing appliances, served by Windows networking services, interconnected using IPsec, OpenVPN, and wireGuard.
Equipment
Dell PowerEdge R720 Nodes
Unifi UDM Pro SE firewall
Additional routing & VPN with pfSense
Unifi, Cisco, Nortel, & FS switchgear
Unraid, trueNAS, and Synology Storage
Services
Hyper-V
Active Directory
Home Assistant (Zigbee & Z-Wave)
Distributed file share and incremental backups