About Me

 

 I am Dennis and live in a smaller community in northwest Wisconsin where I work as a Systems Administrator. My wife and I have three adult children, five grandchildren and enjoy spending time relaxing on our pontoon or taking unplanned road trips.

            I have been involved with computers since middle school, and at that time, we used modems to dial bulletin boards for online communication, and 9600 bits/s was fast.  I was proficient at math and physics in high school and enjoyed building formulas that would receive input and present the answer, not too many friends being from a farming community.  After high school, I went to trade school, where I graduated with a degree in Computer-Aided Design, where my class was the first not to use drafting boards.  After working with SolidWorks as a Product Design Technician for four years, I was offered a job as a Systems Administrator.  I have been in this position for the last twenty years.  I hope to familiarize myself with technology as taught in an educational environment and show my kids they are never too old to go back to school.

            My kids will never know a life without the internet or cell phones, and it is incredible the technological advances I have seen.  I can see a future where primary subjects in elementary school switch from the three R’s to programming or technology related subjects.  What we call specialized training today may be commonplace in the future to support the ever-increasing demand for a technologically skilled workforce because there won’t be anything that is not dependent on technology.

            I created this blog to be an informal dump of information and problems that I have come across and how I solved them focusing on applications running on vmware, Windows server 2019, 2016, 2012 R2, storage, and most recently, cloud based phone systems.  Another recent interest I have come to realize is coding.  While my current position doesn’t really require it, I do enjoy developing PowerShell scripts and Python scripts.  Some of my best days are when I reach out to my peers and realize they may have the same issue and talking thru possible solutions.  I hope this can provide the same to you.  Want to hear about my latest adventures in IT and latest opportunities, subscribe to my weekly newsletter where you can read all about them!