This site is 20 years of life lessons and rants from a 30-year IT veteran working in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina.  I have a beautiful wife and three boys. They’re grown up now so we’ve gotten rid of the mini-van for high performance sports sedans and SUVs.

I am currently involved with the following manufacturing based technology initiatives and projects originating in RTP, expanding globally:

• Building Icon Protection. where I am an employee-owner.
• Zero Trust authentication, SASE, SSO, MFA security measures and Disaster Recovery
• Digital Supply Chain Management
• Managing ERP systems including Dynamics GP, Infor, Epicor and others
• Electronic Document Interchange (EDI) partnership development
• EDI document translator configuration and administration (Gentran, Lexicom, Vantage Point)
• Multi-source processing into various ERP and SaaS systems
• Wide and Local Area enterprise network communication
• Firewalls, port management and network gateway security configurations
• Remote application deployment and configuration (Citrix ICA, VPNs)
• Hypervisors and they’re respected VMs (VMWare, MS Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer)
• Enterprise SQL database deployment, maintenance and administration
• Business Intelligence systems deployment and report development (Business Objects, Qlikview, QlikSense, MS Power BI)
• Storage Area Networks and Compute Resources (NetApp, EMC, Nimble Storage)