Resume, hobbies, social media links, and other tomfoolery
I'm a cloud engineer with 25 years of Linux experience in large scale enterprise production environments. On the side, I'm a hobbyist game dev.
I strongly believe that truth matters, humanity matters, reality matters and is eroded by generative AI, and that equality and justice can be achieved in our time.
Managed over 1500 virtual machines in various environments, including colocation hosting, AWS, and Oracle Cloud
Managed 200+ virtual machines in various environments, including colocation hosting, customer premises, and AWS
Provided day to day IT support for a 125 seat call center; mentored 10 local IT representatives at branch offices
Maintained heterogeneous computer environment including Linux, Mac and Windows
Client-facing internet telephone and email technical support, escalations management and peer support
Major: English, Minor: Sociology. 5 yrs study.
The Orbit - ongoing maintenance and hosting, Wordpress themes, custom PHP
Skepticon - ongoing maintenance and hosting, Wordpress themes, custom PHP
Giant If - maintenance and hosting
Minnesota Atheists - maintenance and contract work
- And of course, this site!
When the EvoLisa project was a viral hit in the science community in 2009, showing that a picture could "evolve" into the Mona Lisa, I took issue with the methodology and made a Python project to explore what I thought the project should have been like. See my blog post about this project, or go check out the source code. Coded over about two months, using Pygame.
I haven't yet released any of my most recent experiments, but I've been a hobbyist game dev for as long as I've been able to type. My first project was likely in GW-Basic on my Tandy 1000 EX, being a simple turn based resource management game. I've worked on RPGs, platformers, puzzle games, and tools for game makers, and maybe one day I'll even release the above-pictured Word Woods, which I'm working on in Godot.
Part of pursuing indie game dev involves figuring out how to Do An Art. I've done some 3d modeling using Blender, like the above Evil Uno which I modded into AEW: Fight Forever, painted in Adobe Substance Painter; and on the right is Dorothy, the main character for the game I really, really want to make... eventually. I'm also doing music for my games using LMMS (although calling my results "music" might be a bit of a stretch at the moment).
