💻 Senior Network Administrator | Cloud, Security & Automation Enthusiast
🌐 Based in Merrimack Valley, MA | 20+ years in IT | Passionate about hybrid infrastructure, networking, and self-hosted projects
- 🔧 Experienced in systems administration, networking, and cybersecurity
- 🏗️ Skilled in hybrid environments (on-prem AD + Azure/Entra ID)
- 📦 Automating with PowerShell, Intune, and GitHub
- 🛡️ Focused on endpoint security, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and Zero Trust
- 🧪 Always experimenting in my homelab
- Infrastructure: Proxmox | VMware | Hyper-V | QNAP NAS | pfSense | UniFi
- Containers: Docker | Docker Compose | Portainer
- Cloud: Azure | Microsoft 365 | Intune | Autopilot | Entra ID
- Automation: PowerShell | Graph API | GitHub/GitLab CI
- Networking: VLANs | VPN (WireGuard/Tailscale) | Nginx (Reverse Proxy/WAF)
- Self-Hosted Apps: Plex | AdGuard | Home Assistant | RustDesk | Pi.Alert
- Security: Wazuh | Cloudflare Zero Trust | IDS/IPS (via UniFi) | pfSense Firewall | T-Pot Honeypot
- 🔹 Homelab Dashboard – Centralized monitoring & management
- 🔹 PowerShell User Provisioning – Automating M365 + AD onboarding
- 🔹 Cloudflare + Zero Trust Setup – Secure remote access for self-hosted services
- 🔹 Pi.Alert – Device presence monitoring & alerts on my network
- 🔹 RustDesk Remote Access – Secure, self-hosted remote desktop alternative to TeamViewer
- 🔹 AdGuard + Unbound DNS – Network-wide DNS filtering and encrypted recursive DNS
- 🔹 Wazuh SIEM Deployment – Security monitoring & endpoint protection in the homelab
- 🔹 Proxmox Virtualization Lab – High-availability virtualization with PBS backups
- 🔹 Home Assistant Smart Home – Automating IoT devices with VLAN isolation & dashboards
- 🔹 UniFi Network Segmentation – Multi-VLAN setup with firewall rules & DNS security
- 🔹 Uptime Kuma Monitoring – Service uptime tracking with alerting across your homelab and external
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⭐ Always learning, building, and securing IT environments — one project at a time.