Biography

What brought you to the path you’re on today? Are you still growing?

Nostalgia sets in when I look back on the path that led me here. Access to electronics, games and computers didn’t just change my life; it changed nearly everyone’s. In the ’90s, a strong pull toward architecture and design gave me the chance to take a different path, but I kept coming back to technology. The architecture still shows in my appreciation of style and art.

I took my first C++ programming classes in the late ’90s and kept at it through 2004, learning languages and how to talk to and command computers. In 2004, I landed among like-minded people who built software and art that filled players’ televisions and monitors. I didn’t write that software myself; I served the people who did. In my spare time, I built databases and improved workflows while studying at university. Eventually I was invited onto a team working with lab robotics and security. I challenged the team, and myself, to automate the lab’s workflows, refactoring scripts and code so computers did what humans had been doing by hand. That meant C# and C++ automation that tied robotics, SDKs and databases together to fingerprint and deliver game builds.

Since then, my roles have taken me through application support, systems administration and systems engineering, including the IT behind a global energy-storage company. I have always automated workflows and learned the latest technology to help plan the business’s next steps. Along the way I picked up the basics of a few spoken languages, plus the computer languages that bridge the gap between people and technology. Note taking and task tracking have sharpened my project management over the years.

Over the last several years, my work has moved deeper into security and privacy. I’ve investigated vulnerability and detection findings, validated false positives and worked high-priority escalations with security teams. More recently, I’ve supported enterprise data privacy and security platforms running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch and hybrid infrastructure. Privacy is now a core part of my toolkit: consent management, Global Privacy Control and cookie scanning. I leverage AI tools to analyze logs, refine tooling and validate findings, while keeping the decisions and testing with me.

Today, I enjoy helping others build solutions with project management skills and technology, with reliability, security and privacy built in from the start. Discovering and adapting workflows with the latest technology, then applying them to real systems, is what I enjoy most, and I’m proud that those improvements make life better for the people who use them.

My practice doesn’t stop at work. I like improving the experience of my trusted colleagues and anyone who will lend me an ear. Entertainment, especially gaming, is the muse that sparks my curiosity about how to bring ideas to life. These days that means running LiLBastardsClub, a gaming community I host on my own Linux server, complete with custom Discord bots, live server monitoring and a privacy-conscious player reporting system.

This site is my cubby for bits and bytes about technology. I hope you enjoy the content!

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