Digital Transformation and the Cloud

Information Technology is not the same when I first started my career. When I started, 65536 bytes were all I had on my Atari 800 XL. Now 64k is about the size of packet over the air or on the wire. I built my own IBM-compatible computer like most people in my field but that has all changed.

Infrastructure is now code. No hardware needed...well almost no hardware. You just need a terminal that has a browser and can run HTML5, which you could run on a Raspberry Pi. You merely just need to define a piece of code to be anything: a network card, a virtual network, the number of CPUs, RAM and hard drive, which are mostly solid-state, and so on.

I.T. should stand for Infrastructure Technology. My career has switched from hardware to a software-infrastructure administrator. I can run packet traces, stream and record logs for performance and troubleshooting. I'm always learning with the ever changing pace of digital and cloud transformation.

Certifications

February 2022

Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

CompTIA A+

Work experience

August 2009 - Present

Texas Department of Public Safety

Windows Administrator-SCCM

  • Developed, deployed, and distributed +3500 in-car operating systems and application.

  • Coordinate security updates and patches for +14000 workstations

  • Adobe License and Support administrator

December 1993 - July 2005

Brocade

Software/Hardware Lab Engineer

  • Worked up from manufacturing, field-support to engineering

  • Senior Product Engineer for Fibre Channel, FICON, SAN, ESCON product lines

  • Awarded 'runner-up' for field service of the year

  • Migrated datacenter infrastructure and coordinate with customers and vendors.

  • Microsoft Access Developer

Education

June-2021 to January 2022

The University of Texas at Austin

Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing

  • Top 25

August 1988-June 1990

DeVry Technical Institute, Woodbridge-NJ

Electronics Technician Diploma