I am originally from Canton, Ohio, now living in the New York City area. My passions are photography and information technology. I have over twenty years of work experience as a systems administrator, supporting companies in consumer products, managed hosting, and health care.
Currently I provide cloud consulting (AWS and Microsoft 365) and photography services to individuals and businesses in the New York City area.
Work History
Honeywell Sparta Systems – January 2022 to December 2023
Senior Advanced Software Engineer responsible for managing the operations of Sparta Systems’ Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) along with Jenkins for a team of 450 developers, testers, and contract workers.
I also spearheaded the migration of the data from these tools to Honeywell’s corporate instance.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – February 2018 to December 2021
Managed Linux and Windows servers used for processing medical research data. Project included:
- Migrating a 38 TB data warehouse from a legacy AIX system to a stand-alone HPE server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Upgrading Windows hosts from Server 2012 to Server 2016.
- Upgrading Ubuntu servers from 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS.
- Rolling out Zabbix monitoring for the department’s hosts to provide insight into performance and faster, proactive responses to server and application outages.
Datapipe – May 2012 to February 2018
Unix/Linux administrator providing Level 2/3 support to managed hosting company’s clients. These clients ranged from local New Jersey car dealers to Fortune 500 clients such as Nike and McDonald’s. Managed physical servers in the company’s data centers, as well as virtual servers (ESX) running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, SuSE, and FreeBSD. In addition, I managed AWS environments for a variety of clients.
American Greetings – April 2007 to May 2012
Managed front-end and middleware physical servers running CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for high-volume e-commerce site. Also managed F5 load balancers to ensure optimum site performance. Also responsible for managing domain names for the company’s intellectual property.
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) – August 2024
Languages
- English (native speaker)
- French (intermediate)
- Latin (basic/classroom instruction)
Education
Kent State University – Kent, Ohio
- Bachelor of Science in Journalism
Artist Statement
In an era where artificial intelligence blurs the line between truth and illusion, my work stands as an act of resistance—an affirmation of humanism and radical realism. I do not use AI to fabricate or distort reality; rather, I harness it to enhance what already exists. My approach is rooted in the belief that authenticity remains the most subversive force in contemporary visual culture.
As AI encroaches upon creative domains, automating and abstracting human expression, realism becomes a revolutionary act. In defying the trend toward hyper-manipulated imagery, I reclaim the integrity of the captured moment, grounding my work in the physical and lived experience. This commitment to realism—an unfiltered, unvarnished reflection of life—stands in direct opposition to the technological ethos of simulated perfection and algorithmic fabrication.
At its core, my photography is a confrontation with the dehumanization inherent in artificial intelligence. While AI can augment, refine, and accelerate processes, it remains incapable of understanding the soul behind an image. It cannot grasp the weight of a glance, the complexity of a gesture, or the subtle interplay of light that renders a fleeting moment extraordinary. In embracing realism, I challenge the status quo and assert that the human eye, the human hand, and the human heart remain irreplaceable.