I lead the Windows Server team at Tyler Technologies — 1,500+ servers across VMware on-prem and multi-account AWS, supporting state and federal government platforms. 35 years in IT, U.S. Air Force veteran. I also run a homelab that actually ships products, and I write about how the infrastructure sausage gets made.
Bingo for the pit — generate a card for any artist and spot band shirts, crowd chaos, and show moments live at the venue. React + Vite, resilient multi-provider music-data chain, Cloudflare Pages.
concertshirtbingo.com →A live second-screen for baseball: auto-marking bingo cards driven by the real-time MLB feed, with a calibration simulator that replays historical games to tune card difficulty. TypeScript monorepo.
playballbingo.com — soonMy Kansas City music blog — concert reviews from the floor, local artist interviews, venue stories. Coming back to life for the city that taught me to love live music.
supplementalsound.com — soonA Tailscale-meshed fleet: Ryzen 9 / RTX 5070 Ti AI node running local LLMs, self-hosted photo/document/audiobook services, Pi-hole DNS edge, and uptime monitoring. Production discipline, hobby budget.
read the build logs →Hired by NIC (acquired by Tyler) and promoted through four roles: Senior Desktop Technician → System Engineer II (Payments) → Infrastructure / AWS Cloud Engineer → Team Lead. Today I lead the Windows Server team managing 1,500+ servers across VMware on-prem and 12+ AWS accounts hosting parks, recreation, and payment platforms for state governments (Missouri, California) and international clients (New Zealand). Seasonal capacity scaling for high-demand events like state hunting-license lotteries across CloudFront, EC2, and RDS; monthly patch cycles across five environments for the full fleet; Exchange, IronPort, and Proofpoint administration including the egov.com → tylertech.com mailflow migration; 24/7 Nagios monitoring with on-call rotation; CloudShell automation across accounts averaging $50K+/month.
One of two IT staff supporting 150 users across two offices — owned the full stack day-to-day: workstations, servers, network, applications, and end-user support.
Sole sysadmin across multiple offices: Windows Server, VMware, Exchange, and daily care of Autodesk design environments (AutoCAD, Revit, 3DS Max).
Built the firm's SCCM environment from scratch and rolled out MDT deployment infrastructure across branch offices nationwide — about 50% travel, leading rollouts on-site.
Data-center sysadmin at GSI Hosting (~2,000 physical servers, high-availability production, load balancing). Lead tech at Shook, Hardy & Bacon via Williams Lea — led 8 technicians supporting 2,400 users. IT specialist at Prolaw Software; clinical desktop support at Lovelace Health System. Technical Manager at Intel's Rio Rancho campus via ENTEX — promoted from technician to site manager, leading 12 technicians across 5,000 endpoints. U.S. Air Force before that. Thirty-five years of pattern recognition across every layer of the stack.
Active: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · Google AI Essentials
In progress: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701)