By day I engineer mission-critical audio-visual systems in our brand-new Downtown HQ. Downtime directly impacts operations — this is a white-glove role. By night I run a full production home lab — Cardano stake pool, hybrid AI systems with GPU and edge hardware, and fully automated infrastructure. I don't just use technology; I build what it runs on.
Whether it's a conference room or a Cardano block producer, I treat every system like it's mission-critical — because in my world, it usually is. I document, monitor, automate, and plan for failure before it happens. That discipline doesn't clock out.
As an elected DRep in Cardano's governance system, I vote on protocol parameters, budget proposals, and constitutional changes. I've built open audit tooling to track how the ecosystem spends its treasury — because public money demands receipts.
I've built an AI-assisted operations layer that handles daily status reporting — texting me summaries from node sync data, flagging anomalies, and surfacing what needs attention before I've had my coffee. Less babysitting infrastructure. More building.
Live, production systems I maintain every day — not side projects collecting dust.
Chicago-based single pool operator at 0% margin — built on transparency and maximum delegator rewards. Full-stack management from bare metal to block production, with automated health checks and KES key lifecycle management.
Open standard and cross-platform viewer for publishing permissionless, immutable data on Cardano. No chain indexing, no gatekeepers, local-first architecture. Proven with the Bible, Bitcoin Whitepaper, and the first video stored permanently on-chain.
Audit dashboard tracking ₳150M+ in distributed funds across 2,217 Catalyst proposals. Built to demonstrate how AI has collapsed software development costs while treasury spending continues at pre-AI pricing assumptions. Public accountability, on-chain.
Full ownership of enterprise audio-visual and collaboration infrastructure across corporate HQ. Scope includes system design, deployment, vendor coordination, day-to-day operations, and rapid incident response in a high-visibility, executive-facing environment.
Chicago-based Cardano stake pool at 0% margin. Full-stack infrastructure ownership — block producers, relay nodes, KES key rotation, 24/7 monitoring, security hardening, and open-source tooling. Elected DRep participating in on-chain governance.
~13 years of hands-on experience across networking, system administration, cloud services, infrastructure deployment, A/V engineering, end-user support, and automation.
Combining deep infrastructure operations with blockchain systems engineering, AI deployment, and decentralized governance.
Cisco WebEx, multi-site AV support, enterprise conferencing, executive-facing environments.
VLANs, firewall rules, private subnets, network segmentation for blockchain, AI, and IoT traffic.
Proxmox, bare-metal Linux, Docker, VM orchestration, automated monitoring stacks.
Cardano node ops, relay/block-producer topology, Midnight validators, KES key lifecycle.
AI-assisted operations, automated reporting pipelines, hybrid cloud and edge inference.
DRep participation in Cardano on-chain governance, treasury audit tooling, public accountability.
Whether you're hiring, collaborating on open source, or want to talk infrastructure and blockchain — I'd love to hear from you.
Open to local, hybrid, or remote roles in IT infrastructure, A/V engineering, or blockchain systems. Chicago-based, but the work speaks for itself.
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