DevOps + AI-Agentic Application Development
I bring 20+ years of hands-on IT experience to growing organizations—connecting people, systems, security, and business priorities across every stage of the employee lifecycle.
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For more than two decades, I've translated business pressure into systems that are easier to secure, support, and scale. My work spans strategy and hands-on execution: architecture, rollout, documentation, vendor management, and the last mile of employee adoption.
The goal is simple: technology should feel dependable to the people using it and understandable to the people accountable for it.
I partner with leaders and employees to turn complex technology needs into secure, dependable systems people can actually use. Select an area to see the business impact and the tools behind it. Details are generalized to protect employer and infrastructure information.
Business impact
Created a more consistent onboarding, access-change, and offboarding experience by connecting identity systems, SSO, lifecycle workflows, and admin controls—reducing manual handoffs while strengthening oversight.
Business impact
Evaluated and delivered secure access for macOS and Windows users, balancing MFA, device posture, browser compatibility, and employee usability so distributed teams could work confidently from anywhere.
Business impact
Standardized enrollment, application delivery, security baselines, support, and offboarding for a mixed Apple and Windows fleet—giving office, lab, and field employees a more dependable first-day experience.
Business impact
Aligned collaboration, e-signature, email, and storage platforms with healthcare and life-sciences requirements through vendor review, policy, configuration, and documentation—supporting productive work without losing governance.
Business impact
Audited infrastructure, identified waste, and retired stale services while preserving business-critical workloads—turning a technical cleanup into durable monthly savings and clearer ownership.
Business impact
Connected endpoint protection, DNS security, email authentication, phishing exercises, and clear SOPs into a practical program—making secure behavior easier for employees and more visible to leadership.
Experience
I've spent my career close to the work: solving the immediate issue, finding the systemic cause, and turning the fix into a stronger operating model.
2026 — now
Freelancer
Building and improving applications through DevOps practices, AI-agentic development workflows, automation, and hands-on delivery.
2019 — 2026
Biotech & healthcare
Led day-to-day systems, identity, endpoints, collaboration, security, vendor operations, and multi-site support for a distributed organization.
2018
Technology operations
Connected infrastructure, delivery workflows, and business priorities in a fast-moving operating environment.
2017 — 2018
Higher education
Supported campus systems, endpoints, identity, and the daily technology experience for faculty, staff, and students.
11 years
Independent School Education
Built the IT function from strategy through support, including infrastructure, budgets, security, learning technology, and team leadership.
Capabilities
Broad enough to see the whole operating system. Detailed enough to own the rollout.
Web projects & experiments
Independent web projects keep me close to modern tools, sharpen my product instincts, and turn technical curiosity into useful resources for others.
Magnolia365 eCards
A free eCard website—browse, personalize, and send beautifully designed eCards for any occasion, from birthdays and thank-yous to holidays and more, delivered instantly by email. Styled with an AI-assisted illustration library and original artwork drawn in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Procreate.
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Ty1er.com - Tech Blog for System Admin
Practical technical notes, implementation guides, and reusable playbooks covering systems administration, security, infrastructure, and Ghost CMS—plus a growing library of 104 cheatsheets and counting.
360DNA - Domain Name Assets
A premium domain-name marketplace for discovering, reviewing, and acquiring memorable brand assets—searchable inventory with a clear path from listing to purchase.
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JudyMai.com — Artist Website Redesign
A complete website redesign for singer-songwriter Judy Mai, featuring a custom retro jukebox where listeners select a new release and watch its vinyl record load onto the deck, spin during playback, and stop where they left off.
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Claude + Claude Code Cheatsheet
Quick-reference guides for Anthropic's consumer app and terminal coding agent—models, plans, memory and settings, and common gotchas at a glance.
ChatGPT + Codex + ChatGPT Sites Cheatsheet
Quick-reference guides for OpenAI's consumer app, code-focused models, and the in-chat site builder—shortcuts, prompting patterns, API parameters, and the limits worth knowing before you commit.
Documentation Prompt for AI
The reusable documentation-first toolkit behind this site's own README, changelog, and coding standard—native source comments, a style guide, a security checklist, and theme-distribution guidance, portable to any web project and any AI coding assistant.
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IPBoat.com
A fast, approachable IP address and connection-information tool—designed, built, hosted, and maintained as an end-to-end web product.
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FGIQ.com
The Web Playbook for designers and developers—a curated directory of frameworks, tools, references, learning resources, and creative inspiration.
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Creative lab
Photography, drone video, illustration, painting, and hands-on design keep observation sharp and ideas tangible.
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