I understand both sides of the wire — IT and OT. With 10+ years of hands-on technical field service, infrastructure work, and systems troubleshooting, plus a foundation in PLC/SCADA and self-built AI systems, I bring practical depth that's hard to find in one person.
Pursuing Network+ and CCNA. Targeting mid-tier IT/systems and IT/OT roles. Comfortable on the network, in the server room, on the plant floor, or all three.
I come in from two directions — and the overlap is where I'm most valuable.
Over a decade of hands-on technical field service — running cable, building infrastructure, troubleshooting systems under pressure. I self-host production services on Linux with Docker, manage VPNs and networking, and know my way around a server room as well as a factory floor. Actively pursuing Network+ and CCNA.
I understand both sides of the IT/OT boundary — not just conceptually, but practically. PLC programming, SCADA systems, HMI design, industrial networking (Modbus, OPC-UA), and the kind of field troubleshooting where downtime has a real dollar cost. I can bridge the gap between the network team and the plant floor.
Building end-to-end — from self-hosted AI knowledge bases to industrial predictive maintenance systems.
A live-deployed, browser-based dashboard that monitors up to four industrial weight indicators simultaneously — rail scales and truck scales — over TCP, presenting real-time readings on a facility display. Built for an industrial client and running in production.
Production RAG chatbot for industrial scale and controls documentation. Ollama + Chroma vector DB + Open WebUI. Answers equipment-specific questions by retrieving from actual manuals.
Multi-channel AI triage for support tickets — SMS, email, and web. LLM classifies, prioritizes, and routes issues. Integrates with Twilio and the knowledge base.
Customer-facing portal with AI dispatch logic — auto-assigns technicians based on issue type, location, and expertise. Customer NLP → scheduling engine → tech notification.
Computer vision pipeline that reads paper forms, extracts fields via OCR + LLM parsing, and auto-fills digital systems. Targets industrial inspection and compliance paperwork.
Hardware-in-the-loop bridge connecting real PLC/sensor hardware to AI pipelines via MQTT and HTTP. Raspberry Pi + Arduino sensor simulator feeding live data to ML models.
ML pipeline ingesting load cell readings, temperature, drift, and service history to predict equipment failure 7–30 days out. InfluxDB time-series + Isolation Forest + failure regression. Auto-triggers service dispatch.
Real-time vision inspection for manufacturing lines. Camera feed → CV model → pass/fail decision → PLC output signal to reject mechanism. Bridges AI inference and hard real-time control.
Three dedicated controls projects demonstrating PLC programming, HMI design, and industrial commissioning — the domain expertise beneath the AI work.
What I actually use — not a keyword list, a working toolbox. Networking leads, industrial depth follows, AI rounds it out.
I've spent over a decade doing technical field service work — the kind where you're on-site, under pressure, and the answer has to be right. That background gave me strong fundamentals in cabling, infrastructure, systems troubleshooting, and working across teams where clear communication matters as much as the technical fix.
On the industrial side, I hold a PLC programming certificate and have hands-on HMI experience. I understand how IT and OT systems interact — and where they don't, which is often where problems live. That IT/OT bridge perspective is increasingly what organizations need as plant floors get more connected.
Beyond that, I build. My self-hosted infrastructure runs Docker, Linux servers, VPNs, and reverse proxies — and I've built production AI systems on top of it. That self-directed technical depth is what separates me from candidates who have the cert but not the hands. Currently pursuing Network+ and CCNA to formalize what I already know.
Whether you're hiring for an IT/systems role, an IT/OT technician, or something that needs someone who understands both the network and the plant floor — I'm interested. Reach out and let's see if there's a fit.