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# Education

Bachelor of Science—**Network and Communication Management**, *DeVry University
of Kansas City*

Graduated *Summa Cum Laude*, October, 2008

Awards and Scholarships:

* DeVry University Dean's Scholarship
* DeVry University Presidential Scholarship Alternate
* ARRL Irving W. Cook, <span id="n0">WA0CGS</span> Scholarship


# Key Strengths

* **Systems Integration**: Connecting applications between systems and across
  environments to facilitate the flow of information through and between
  organizations
* **Automation**: Using and building tools to make simplify complex tasks and
  remove human error from software testing and deployment
* **Software Engineering**: Solving problems with software in many languages,
  including *Python*, *Rust*, and *C*
* **Infrastructure-as-Code**: Ensuring consistency and reliability of IT and
  DevOps infrastructure using configuration management, version control systems,
  and continuous integration pipelines
* **Team Leadership**: Training new hires, facilitating discussions, defining
  and organizing tasks, and growing enjoyable and productive relationships


# Skills

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## Programming Languages

* Python
* Bash/POSIX Shell
* Rust
* Awk
* Groovy
* JavaScript/Typescript
* Lua
* C
* C♯
* C++
* Java
* PHP

## Applications & Software Stacks

* AMANDA
* Apache HTTPD
* Atlassian Bitbucket (Stash)
* Atlassian Confluence
* Atlassian JIRA
* Bitwarden
* BURP
* Elasticsearch
* Frigate
* Gitea
* GlusterFS
* Grafana
* Graphite
* Graylog
* HashiCorp Vault
* Home Assistant
* Jenkins
* Koji
* Nextcloud
* nginx
* Mosquitto
* PostgreSQL
* Prometheus/Victoria Metrics
* RabbitMQ
* Redis
* Synapse (Matrix Server)
* Sonatype Nexus
* Zabbix

## Cloud & <abbr title="Platform-as-a-Service">PaaS</abbr>/<abbr title="Infrastructure-as-a-Service">IaaS</abbr>

* Amazon Web Services
  * Amazon Machine Images
  * CloudFront
  * <abbr title="Elastic Block Store">EBS</abbr> Volumes, Snapshots
  * <abbr title="Elastic Compute Cloud">EC2</abbr> Instances
  * Elastic Beanstalk
  * Elastic File System
  * Elastic Kubernetes Service
  * <abbr title="Identity &amp; Access Management">IAM</abbr> Roles, Policies
  * <abbr title="Simple Storage Service">S3</abbr> Buckets, Policies, ACLs
  * Virtual Private Cloud
  * Web Application Firewall
* Microsoft Azure
  * Resource Groups
  * Virtual Machines
  * Virtual Machine Images
  * Image Galleries
  * Virtual Networks

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## Frameworks, Libraries, & SDKs

* Python: [asyncio]
* Python: [FastAPI]
* Python: [SQLAlchemy]+[Alembic]
* Python: [pyudev]
* Python: [dbus-python]/[dbussy]
* Python: [Celery]
* Python: [python-ldap]/[bonsai]
* Python: [boto]/[boto3]
* Python: [pyVmomi]
* Python: [WebOb]
* Python: [Django]
* [Cython]
* JavaScript: [Vue.js]+[Vuetify]
* JavaScript: [MooTools]
* JavaScript: [jQuery]
* Rust: [Tokio]
* Rust: [Rocket]
* C♯: PowerShell

## Systems & Network Infrastructure

* Active Directory Domain Services
* Active Directory Certificate Services
* Ansible
* Certbot
* collectd
* dnsmasq
* Docker
* firewalld
* FreeRADIUS
* HAProxy
* HashiCorp Terraform
* `iptables`
* ISC BIND
* ISC DHCPD
* libvirt/QEMU+KVM, `virt-manager`/`virt-install`
* MIT Kerberos
* `nftables`
* NUT
* Podman
* Postfix
* radvd
* rsyslog
* Samba Domain Controller
* Samba/Winbind
* strongSwan
* Squid (Caching Proxy)
* systemd
* VMware vSphere
* Windows Deployment Services
* Windows Network Policy Server
* Windows Server Update Services

## Operating Systems

* Buildroot
* Debian Linux
* Fedora Linux
* Gentoo Linux
* Microsoft Windows Server
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

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[asyncio]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html
[boto]: https://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/
[boto3]: https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-python/
[fastapi]: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
[sqlalchemy]: https://www.sqlalchemy.org/
[Alembic]: https://alembic.sqlalchemy.org/
[pyudev]: https://pyudev.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[dbus-python]: https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
[dbussy]: https://github.com/ldo/dbussy/
[Celery]: https://docs.celeryproject.org/
[python-ldap]: https://www.python-ldap.org/
[bonsai]: https://bonsai.readthedocs.io/
[WebOb]: https://webob.org/
[Django]: https://www.djangoproject.com/
[Cython]: https://cython.org/
[Vue.js]: https://vuejs.org/
[Vuetify]: https://vuetifyjs.com/
[MooTools]: https://mootools.net/
[jQuery]: https://jquery.com/
[Rocket]: https://rocket.rs/
[Tokio]: https://tokio.rs/
[pyVmomi]: https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi
