Where I started
When I was 12 years old, my mother taught herself how to build simple websites and Visual Basic applications. When she wasn't using her reference books, I borrowed them and fell in love with HTML.
Programming didn't capture my attention until I found PHP and JavaScript two years later and was able to do more and more with my little websites. I've dabbled in various languages and applications over the years.
I started working as an IT intern after graduating from high school and worked my way up through Help Desk to a Systems Administrator position that allows me to do a little bit of everything; from desktop support to networking and server support to project planning.
Where I am
Systems Administrator, Nitto BioPharma, Inc.
Handling most of the IT operations for a pharmaceutical research and development company.
New Dad
Learning the ins-and-outs of raising two tiny human beings and how to work on little sleep.
Web Developer
Building hobby projects in PHP (often utilizing Laravel). Check out my latest project, Alphonic!
Where I'm going
Family will always be my first focus. With my kids growing up, I will focus on finding opportunities to teach them and encourage their curiosity.
Professionally, I hope to focus more on long-term projects and less on desktop/server support. In the meantime, I'm working towards a PMP certification in the near future.
Skills
- Back-end Development (PHP, Laravel)
- Software Design
- Database Design
- Technical Writing
- Windows Server management
- Windows desktop support
Guiding principles
- Quick to credit, slow to blame
- Fail fast
- Underpromise, overdeliver
Education
- B.S. Computer Science, California State University — San Marcos
- Certificate, ITIL Foundation, APMG International
Notable experiences
How I've helped
- Copying links from a specific protocol by default
- Behavior of the Windows COPY command when using wildcards
- Automatically restart a Windows executable after it crashes
- Querying items in Windows' Open With… list
- Changing the New Tab favicon in Firefox
- Opening multiple applications using Windows' context menu
- Removing all Windows wireless profiles except one
- Starting Windows troubleshooters from the command-line
- Replacing the Shutdown command in Windows
- Creating an on-exit command for the Windows command prompt
- Determining through the command line what files are scheduled to run with the Windows Task Scheduler
- Why Windows'
forfilescommand returns mysterious files beginning with~$ - Downloading a website's page source using PowerShell
- Setting the
doskeycommand to automatically run for every opened command prompt - Closing a specific instance of Chrome in Windows using the command-line
- Renaming RAR volumes based on their index number
- Installing Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance in Windows 10