but then wither away -Lao Tzu
About Me
I am Tim
A hacker, maker, tinkerer who is almost constantly fascinated by the world around me. I have aspirations to be an engineer, teacher, inventor, and all-around cyberpunk wizard.
Born and raised in NH. Did all of my schooling at Franklin Public Schools, and participated in a large list of extracuriculars and clubs. Boy Scouts, Grange, Little Leauge, rec-center basket ball, Archery, Odysey of the Mind, Destination Imagination, Student Leadership, Drama, and Chorus.
I moved to the Rocket City in January 2008, and met up with an amazing group of fellow creatives and engineers at Makers Local 256. We worked on wild and crazy projects, helped teach and learn electronics, programming, and rapid prototyping. I started attending InfoSec conferences, and building on my skills and experiences.
Education and Certification
L2: cPanel Professional Certification: Technical
2015 - university.cpanel.netAssociate of Applied Science
2009-2013 - Attended Calhoun Community College, Huntsville, AL(incomplete)
Digium Certified Asterisk Profesional (dCAP)
2010 - Huntsvile, ALComputer Service and Repair course
2001 - Huot Technical Center, Laconia, NHWork History
DevOps Engineer
November 2018 - presentAlteryx, Broomfield, CO
Expanded deployment of Zabbix Monitoring, Grafana Dashboards, and ELK log agrigation and searching.
Planned and executed migration of Artifactory from on-prem to AWS.
Supporting CICD Pipelines in Jenkins and Gitlab.
Working with Alteryx data analytics workflows and machine learning.
Systems Administrator
July 2014 - July 2018Alpha Hosting (formerly Simple Helix), Huntsville, AL
Provide internal support and escalation for our Support Technicians.
Respond to alerts for outages, diagnosing the issue and working to resolve it.
Find and test new software and services to evaluate usefulness for the company.
Worked rotating shifts for 1st, 2nd, and 3rds, as well as on-call admin as needed.
Travel to conferences to represent the company to potential customers and partners.
Install, cable, and manage server equipment within a Teir III data center. (HP/Juniper)
Worked as a part of admin team to migrate all services to a new datacenter.
Filled in for sales calls and emails as well.
Troubleshoot customer issues over email, phone, and live chat.
Troubleshoot server applications such as: Apache, Lightspeed, Mysql, Exim, and DNS.
Troubleshoot various web software platforms including: Magento, Wordpress, Mediawiki.
Received “Tech of the Month” award 3 times.
Promoted to System Administrator from tech support.
Programmer Technician
April 2015-July 2015National Scale Mesurment Speciallists, Huntsville, AL
Assisted with building and updating an internal application from Delphi to QT.
Helped to configure and deploy Ethernet to serial interface for CNC machines.
Logistics Technical Specialist
April 2014-July 2014Digium Inc. Huntsville, AL
Flag repeat issues to investigate possible quality assurance or hardware design issues.
Work with Technical Support to improve troubleshooting procedures.
Work with Hardware Engineering to improve products.
Warehouse Technician
January 2014-April 2014Wide Open West, Huntsville, AL
Planned and documented DTA equipment testing procedures.
Assists with additional warehouse operations as needed
Co-founder / Hardware Engineer
August 2010 – April 2015Meatstand Electronics (self), Huntsville, AL
PCB Layout in Eagle and gEDA/PCB.
Assembly of electronics and kits.
Provided hardware design for 2FA token and various other prototypes.
Developed and sold Soldering class training kit.
Developed and sold Guitar amplifier module.
Technical Support Technician
March 2010-June 2013Digium Inc. Huntsville, AL
Answered customer questions and concerns regarding products.
Actively worked with other departments to solve customers' issues.
Rotated to third shift to receive international and emergency calls and resolve issues.
Read and comprehend international telephony standards and guidelines.
Sought additional responsibilities maintaining the department's computer lab.
Pharmacy Technician
May 2008-July 2009Sunscript, Huntsville, AL
Preparation, printing, and sorting of delivery totes and manifests.
Occasional repair of fax machines.
Computer Consultant and Repair Tech
September 2006-January 2007Franklin Career Academy, Franklin NH
Administrator over the school’s Active Directory and Window Server 2003.
Trained faculty and students on various systems and software packages.
Worked on-call hours for resolving emergency issues.
Delivery Driver
June 2005-December 2007NeighborCare, Pembroke NH
Freelance Computer Repair
July 2002-2008Technology Coordinator's Assistant
May 2002-June2002Franklin School District, Franklin NH
Warehouse and Service Technician
June 2000-August 2001NeighborCare, Pembroke NH
Service and repair of home medical equipment for rentals.