{"id":726,"date":"2004-01-01T15:19:35","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T20:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=726"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:20:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:20:51","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":">whois"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For 32 years I helped build some of the largest companies in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina.\u00a0I was smart enough to marry a woman a decade younger than me and we have three boys. They&#8217;re grown up so we&#8217;ve gotten rid of the mini-van for high performance sports sedans and SUVs.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"264\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SM1-2-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4278\" style=\"width:168px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Since I began this blog in 2024 I founded the IT department of 1-800-Pack-Rat, designed The American Kennel Club&#8217;s new global data center, and built Icon Protection, an employee-owned company taking revenue from $50 million a year in 2008 to half billion by 2025. I&#8217;m still involved with several manufacturing and supply chain technology initiatives and projects originating from the RTP including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Building ZTS\u00b5, <a href=\"https:\/\/ztsmicro.com\">ztsmicro.com<\/a> where I am an employee-owner designing and deploying high powered servers for Agentic AI LLMs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Acting as Chief Technology Officer for the <a href=\"https:\/\/bigbox.bot\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bigbox.bot\">bigbox.bot<\/a>, an Agentic AI model for retail and industrial supply chain data integration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mastering Digital Supply Chain Management<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Managing and learning data models for ERP systems including Dynamics AX, Infor M3, Epicor, SAP, NetSuite and others<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Electronic Document Interchange (EDI) partnership development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>iPass integrations for data endpoints, SOAP and REST APIs, and EDI X12 and EDIFact document translation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Barcode and label automation for GS1 vendor compliance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Building IT teams of top-level SMEs <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In my career I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to deploy and manage a history of technologies such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Zero Trust authentication, SASE, SSO, MFA security measures, and Disaster Recovery<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enterprise Wide and Local Area network communication, secure WAP, SSID and Handheld RF deployments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Firewalls, port management and network gateway security configurations including BGP and HA SD-WAN<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remote application deployment and configuration (Citrix ICA Gateways, VPNs)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hypervisors and they&#8217;re respected VMs (VMWare, MS Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enterprise SQL database deployment, maintenance and administration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Business Intelligence systems deployment and report development (Business Objects, Qlikview, QlikSense, MS Power BI)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Storage Area Networks and Compute Resources (NetApp, EMC, Nimble Storage)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And of course Active Directory and Microsoft 365 Administration. 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