I embarked on my Information Technology career in 1999, right on the cusp of a new digital era. Over the last two and a half decades, I’ve navigated the ever-evolving tech landscape from the ground up, moving from traditional physical server rooms and corporate datacenters to complex virtualization and cloud architectures. This deep, hands-on journey has given me a comprehensive perspective on modern infrastructure.
While my focus has shifted toward high-level strategy, architecture, and leadership, I remain deeply connected to the technical foundations that started it all: systems engineering, enterprise networking, storage, and virtualization. As a lifelong learner, my philosophy is simple: lead by example, support and mentor the next generation of IT professionals, and deliver robust technology solutions that drive value.
What is AltBrain?
As the name implies, this site is quite literally my alternate brain. Having had the opportunity to touch a lot of enterprise tech and prosumer gear throughout my career and while exploring my personal interests and hobbies, I’ve amassed a mountain of notes. Instead of leaving these insights scattered across text files and notebooks, I’m bringing them together as blog posts here at altbrain.net. My goal is to clean them up, format them, and share them with the wider IT community, complete with the real-world context, technical color, and lessons learned that only decades in the trenches can provide.
What I aim to accomplish:
- Shared Knowledge Base: A library of technical notes, write-ups, and lessons learned, for the IT community.
- Single Source of Truth: One central, organized repository to replace my scattered files and repetitive searches.
- Having Fun: If it’s not enjoyable, what’s the point. I genuinely like writing about what I’m thinking about, and this site serves as a creative outlet for that.
Whether you were directed here seeking something specific, or a fellow systems engineer or administrator wandering in from a search engine, I hope the content here saves you some time, spares you some grief, or proves to be mildly entertaining.
Beyond all things technical, I’ve got plenty of stories from my decades in IT, along with a few outside interests, so expect a bit of non-tech content sprinkled in along the way. I hope you find something useful, interesting, or uniquely helpful during your visit.
Thanks for visiting!