Network engineer running platform infrastructure in production.

Finished in the top percentile of a 40-person team in Springfield, VA. Five years closing deals taught me to read a room, explain things quickly, and make a case to someone who doesn't share your context. That last one comes up constantly in technical work.

Passed Security+ and started taking the technical path seriously. What kept pulling me in was the infrastructure layer: how data moves, what controls it, what breaks when something goes wrong. Went after the CCNA next.

Tier-1 ISP backbone work out of Washington, DC. BGP policy, MPLS, the kind of outages where one misconfiguration affects downstream networks you've never heard of.

Remote support across hundreds of enterprise environments: SD-WAN, firewall migrations, cloud-connected infrastructure. Broad exposure to how different organizations actually operate versus what the design docs say.

Finished while working full-time at CDW.