Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

I stepped off the national consulting bus in 2008, flew and hiked around the world for two weeks, cared for my late spouse during the final months of her battle with cancer, dove into the mobile wireless/video system project at Philadelphia's transit agency, and swam clear to northern Virginia and computer support services. So, I'm back to doing what I enjoy again, without the headaches of airline travel!

It has been fascinating to see technologies like adaptive beamforming and GPS, once the closely held knowledge of my Navy days, enter the consumer marketplace, and astonishing to see the paradigm shift that virtualization is bringing to how we provide reliable business computing services.

These days, I am still hammering away -- but my weekends belong to my fiancee. Life is looking better all the time!

Work History

• Optimal Networks
• Network Engineer
• August 2011 to Present

• Computer and network support services to small and mid-sized businesses, associations, and law firms.

• Southeastern PA Transit Authority
• Sr Tech Support Programmer
• April 2008 to July 2011

• Field engineering and testing for WiFi and WiMAX systems; data center support for VMware and Hyper-V prototypes

• Unisys Corporation
• Consultant
• Febuary 2002 to March 2008

• Consultant assignments for system rollout and upgrades -- Microsoft Windows desktop support systems, server migration to Microsoft Active Directory, migration to Microsoft Office, WiFi deployment packaging.