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Status and Success story of surviving an acquisition  In November of 2019, Keeney was acquired by Oatey -It was a very emotional and challenging transition. The first 2 months were learning and embracing new technology and change at a rapid pace. I have always wanted to get the chance to work with newer technology that… Continue reading Been a while since an update: →

The company I work for has been sun-setting some old tech Wifi technology recently and has embraced the robust, single-pane-of-glass administration portal available in Meraki solutions. While I cannot disclose details about the devices and configuration of the enterprise level products we are choosing, I want to point out that you can get your hands… Continue reading Meraki fan – MR33 AP Setup →

To emphasize industry experience, research and project planning abilities, I've decided to post some work from Grad School. In some cases the papers had real legs and turned out to be actual projects. *Permission was granted for publishing on my blog by Dept. of Business Information Technology, Professor & Chair. ( Company name was changed… Continue reading Articles & Papers from the past -Post 1 →

I was recently brainstorming a way for our company to move 10 TB (27+ VM's) to an offsite data center on a 50 Mbps pipe. This is work in progress but I dig writing about trying new things. I will leave the company name out of course and I've "blurred" any tell-tale information on my print screens.… Continue reading Testing move of Datacenter VM’s with a Veeam Seeded backup →

During the Dale Carnegie leadership course I recently attended, one of our daily assignments was to give a talk on a technical subject that everyone could relate to and deliver with "non-techie spiel." Part I of this post outlines the talking points I used to just get the basics out there to my friends. Part… Continue reading 321 Backup Method… A basic backup method can help you distance yourself from Ransomware… →

These are some notes scraped from various sources and paraphrased for easy reading. I wanted a document that summarizes DNS and one option that you can do to tighten down security at home or at a small business. According to various site pages from OpenDNS,Cisco Umbrella: DNS Defined:  Domain Name System (DNS) is basically an… Continue reading DNS & OpenDNS for my friends at home and SMB’s →

An opportunity to dive into Tableau has presented itself. Desktop and Server is setup and I've been training & playing with it. Pretty cool. Business Intelligence with Tableau...... Is it a supplemental sidecar for reporting or the future? Either way, I am happy to get the chance to dive in. It seems to be a… Continue reading Tableau →

This was an inspirational 8 week course that I will never forget. Very powerful principles!