Welcome. I should probably say a bit about myself. I’ve been
paid for work in Information Technology for over 30 years now. Although my love
of computers goes back much further. I took my first class on computers way
back in the 1970s. It was the dawn of a new age. The personal computer was just
in its infancy. I’ve seen the field grow exponentially since then.
The 1990s saw me getting paid for playing with computers for
the first time. I was originally a Novel Netware Administrator. This introduced
me to the concept of client/server communication. I went from there into consulting
for a local firm. We spent many long hours doing prep work for the Y2K problem.
Don’t let anyone who wasn’t in the trenches tell you it was anything but a ton
of work by a lot of people that saved us.
The 2000s saw me move into a system administrator for a
company. Here I learned about SQL databases. Although I had been exposed to
them earlier, I really got into them here. I learned all about reporting and
data warehousing. It was also during this time that I started my move into
Computer Security. I earned a CISSP and parleyed that into a job with a startup
company in the 2010s. This wasn’t a good fit and saw me leaving and going back
to school for a time. I didn’t complete my degree yet again but did get a job
with IBM.
The 2010s saw me working in the security field for a pair of
companies. The first was IBM. The second was Optiv. I’ve been with Optiv since
2013. I’ve had the opportunity to do many things with this company and am now
moving into development work.
I hope you’ll join me as I explore this new field and talk about it with you. Of course, there will be stories about the old times in computers. Especially gaming. When I’m not working, I spend way too much time gaming. I remember the old days of BBSs and text based gaming. I’ve seen the good and the bad. So expect some talk on this as well as IT in general.
