About
About Me
I'm a Senior Systems Administrator based in Houston, TX, moving deeper into IAM engineering and DevOps automation. Over 10+ years in IT operations — including four years in the U.S. Army as an IT specialist — I've found the same pattern everywhere I've worked: find the painful manual process, engineer it out of existence, and leave behind automation, monitoring, and documentation that scale. As service owner for the identity stack and SaaS portfolio behind 650 employees at HCSS, I've built in-house automation that replaced paid SaaS appliances, run production infrastructure changes with zero downtime, and stood up production LLM workloads on Vertex AI, Bedrock, and Azure AI Foundry. Outside of work, I build native macOS tooling and developer utilities — proof that I stay hands-on with code and systems, not just process. Open to senior roles in IAM engineering, DevOps, platform & cloud operations, and infrastructure automation — Houston or remote.
Right Now
Updated July 2026- Owning identity & SaaS platform operations for 650 employees at HCSS
- Building agentic AI tooling — MCP tool servers and RAG assistants for enterprise use
- Running and tuning a local, self-hosted multi-model LLM inference rig
- Expanding this site with new personal and professional case studies
Skills
- Okta / Microsoft Entra ID (SSO, SCIM, RBAC, MFA)
- Python / PowerShell / Bash
- Microsoft Graph API & REST integrations
- Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
- AWS · Azure · Google Cloud
- CI/CD pipelines
- Swift / SwiftUI / Go / TypeScript
- LLM-assisted & self-hosted AI workflows
Certifications
- Microsoft Certified – Azure Fundamentals (2023)
- Google Cloud Certified – Cloud Digital Leader (2023)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- CompTIA A+
- Apple Certified Mac Technician
Interests
- Identity & access management automation
- Self-hosted / local AI (LLM deployments, dev tooling)
- Native macOS & Apple Silicon development
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)