I am a IT professional with experience in academic research and writing as well as building managerial financial plans.
I have a Master of Arts in Communication Studies with an entirely research-based thesis. I have continued to research and write through my professional career.
Starting in the IT field I built expertise around scripting languages (python, perl, and php) and became an expert in managing networks, systems, and applications. I have extensive knowledge of both open-source and off-the-shelf solutions for availability, incident, and performance monitoring of the entire infrastructure, including data center solutions and cloud solutions.
After growing in IT and becoming a Subject Matter Expert in the network, systems, and application Performance Management field I moved to a new opportunity to build a Network Operations Center (NOC) from scratch. This gave me exposure to financial modeling, budgeting, management, and leadership.
Along the way I also kept a keen interest in photography as an artistic outlet, and is still a hobby I enjoy enough to turn into a small cottage-industry.