Work

Recent projects for businesses I support

From a local auto shop's server to a national association's registration site. Every business is different; the goal is the same: technology that keeps working.

  • Emergency
  • Network
  • Equipment

Auto repair shop

Back in business the same day

Black Forest Automotive

  • When the shop's server locked up and work stopped, I rebuilt it and had them running again that day
  • Then moved them to a sturdier setup with new equipment and an upgraded network, so it would not happen again
  • Still the call they make when something goes wrong
  • Server
  • Computers
  • Website

Dental office

A new office setup without closing, then a new website

Doug Evans Dental

  • Replaced the office server and every computer while the practice kept seeing patients
  • Then built the practice's new website
  • On call for day-to-day problems
  • Data center
  • Cloud
  • Vendors

Colorado newspaper

Sorting out a data center nobody could explain

The Gazette

  • Took stock of every server and service when their previous IT provider could not say what they had
  • Consolidated their equipment into half the space and moved it to a new data center I found and recommended
  • Found and recommended a new IT support company for better ongoing help
  • Managed their internal servers, the data center and their cloud hosting, first on staff and now under contract
  • Website
  • Domains
  • Email

National member association

Keeping a busy registration site running while rebuilding it

Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association

  • Keep the website behind event registration and membership running day to day
  • Rebuilding it on modern, supported software, with every change tested before it goes live
  • Brought all their web domains under one provider they control
  • Set up a new business email system and planned the move from the old one
  • Email
  • Training

Logistics company

Business email set up right, and the owners running it themselves

GJSAC Logistics

  • Set up the company's business email and file sharing
  • Trained the owner's team to add people and handle everyday changes themselves
  • On call when something needs a hand
  • Servers
  • Laptops
  • Support

Medical spa

A full equipment refresh, with support behind it

Aesthetics by Design

  • Replaced every server and laptop in the spa
  • Ongoing support after the switch
  • Research
  • Software
  • Website

Counseling practice

Everything a new practice needs, from research to website

Life is Lemons Counseling

  • Researched local practices and rates, and put together the business plan
  • Compared and recommended the practice software: scheduling and records, video sessions, phone and texting, payments and bookkeeping
  • Built the website and set up business email on the practice's own domain

From the workbench

Tested at home first

I run my own servers, network and tools the way I would for a small office. New ideas prove themselves here before they reach my clients.

Data protection

Backup solutions

Servers and computers back up automatically, with versions to roll back to and a way to rebuild a machine from scratch.

  • Versioning
  • Recovery

Infrastructure

Redundant servers

The services I rely on run on redundant servers that keep copies of each other, so a hardware failure is an inconvenience, not a disaster.

  • Virtualization
  • Replication

Network

Segmented, secure network

Separate zones for family, smart-home, guest and server devices, with firewall rules between them, filtering where needed and remote access only through a VPN.

  • Firewall
  • Filtering
  • VPN

Development

CI/CD for local development

Self-hosted source control and build pipelines: every push deploys to a staging site automatically, and secrets come from a vault instead of the code.

  • Source control
  • Pipelines
  • Staging

Internal app

Internal project tracking

A tracker I am developing around my own workflow: projects, tasks, decisions and progress in one place, so nothing slips between jobs.

  • Web app
  • In development

Smart home

Home operations dashboard

One screen for the whole house: climate, power use and the network, pulled together from separate systems with controls in the same place.

  • Integration
  • Monitoring

Want results like these?

Tell me about your office or your website. I usually reply the same day.