Technology Career Sonar
1993–present
A working record
The work, and what came of it.
Thirty-two years in technology. Nineteen of them at a consolidated city-county government of 9,000 employees — senior network engineer, then network infrastructure manager, then Chief Technology Officer from 2008 to 2010, and from 2010 senior enterprise architect holding technology governance for the City and its independently elected agencies, on a $48M to $62M technology budget built and defended in public.
Consolidation merged the governments; it did not merge the technology. Five countywide constitutional officers — the Sheriff, the Clerk of the Circuit Court, the Property Appraiser, the Tax Collector and the Supervisor of Elections — were elected independently of the Mayor. The State Attorney and the Public Defender answered to the state. The courts were a separate branch again. And inside the City itself, Fire and Rescue, Public Works and the libraries each held their own budget and their own IT staff.
Several ran substantial technology organizations of their own, the Sheriff's Office among them. But the charter put the City's technology division in a governance role across all of it — the independent authorities aside, which stood outside it: JEA, the aviation and transportation authorities, and the school board. And every one of the rest also had some part of its estate running on the City's. A charter remit over bodies nobody could direct, and shared infrastructure underneath all of them — that is the shape of the problem, and the reason it was worth doing.
Nothing published could be mandated to any of them. Every standard issued by the Enterprise Security Committee, chaired from 2009 to 2012, and by the governance bodies that followed it was adopted voluntarily by people who were free to decline. That is the condition the rest of this record was formed under, and it is why the work is argued rather than asserted.
Since 2024 the same discipline across a portfolio instead of an estate: eighty-eight numbered engagements in two years, twenty-plus concurrent, an architecture practice of up to fourteen, and a thirty-six-month post-quantum cryptography program originated rather than assigned. Either side of that, enterprise architecture, network engineering, public safety radio, intelligent transportation, operational technology and commercial aerial work — across local and state government, healthcare, defense, utilities, industrial manufacturing, financial services, education, gaming, broadband and hospitality.
This is the reference copy, and it is organized the way a reference work is organized rather than the way a résumé is. Every technology has its own entry, and every entry lists the projects that used it, the career periods it spans and the credentials that attest to it. Every project names the technology it drew on. The links run in both directions, so you can enter from either side — start from a technology and find the work, or start from the work and find the technology.
The obsolete entries are kept on purpose. Token Ring and Frame Relay, NT 3.51, WORM optical archives, MicroStation drafting — a record that quietly drops the technologies a career began on misrepresents its shape, and the habits formed on constrained, expensive links are the ones that made later designs assume a circuit would fail rather than hope it would not.
Nothing here identifies a client. Engagements are described by sector, scale and outcome. Configuration, topology and assessment findings belonging to a customer are not reproduced.
Where to start
- Technology — 101 entries across 20 domains.
- Projects — 146 entries, most recent first.
- Business Architecture & Governance — 72 entries: the committees, assessments, budget ownership, emergency operations and records obligations.
- Timeline — the chronological spine, era by era.
- Equipment — 82 manufacturers behind the work, and what each declaration rests on.
- Credentials — 21 certifications and qualifications in the order earned, from 1993 onward.
- Documents — white papers, reference designs and curriculum.
- A–Z index — everything, alphabetically, including alternate names.
Recent work
- Modernizing Legacy Industrial Systems with AIAn unsupported industrial application whose analysis was still right and whose reference data was not — rebuilt from its inputs, without altering a line of its code.
- Career Reference Record — Design, Build and Publishing PlatformA cross-linked reference work built as a derived graph: edges declared once, every index, backlink and chart generated from them, published static with per-document access control.
- Enterprise Networking Practice LabThree repurposed servers being rebuilt into a 2.3 TB virtualized network emulation cluster, funded on a cost-per-month argument against a six-month procurement lead time — and the end of a practice running on engineers' own hardware.
- Commercial Site Rebuild and Live Domain MigrationTwenty pages moved off a hosted page builder onto a static build, and a live domain repointed to a new host without touching any of the six records carrying its mail.
- Enterprise Agreement Pursuit — Global AutomotiveCisco services subject-matter expert on a bid for a global automotive manufacturer's North American arm — a two-day clarification window, an affiliate's engineering bench as the differentiator, a loss, and a headquarters meeting four weeks later.
The long programs
Ranked by how long each ran, because duration is the half of a record that a reverse-chronological list hides.
- The Utility Relationship: Twenty-Five Years, Two EmployersSubject-matter expert to the same municipal utility from October 1999 to January 2024 — first as its consultant, then as the City's counterpart to it, because JEA is an authority under the city charter.
- First Coast Radio SystemRegional shared public safety radio across three system generations — original, retrofit, and full P25 replacement.
- Reliability Engineering PracticeA reliability toolchain bought for one utility engagement in 2000, carried into a city estate, and still running twenty-three years later — availability as a computed number rather than a drawn assertion.
- City Council Chamber AV and IT ArchitectureAudio, video, voting and broadcast systems for a chamber where proceedings are a public record — owned for twenty-one years.
- Enterprise Core NetworkThe city's core network across nineteen years — architecture, standards and, when it mattered, hands on the equipment.
- Jacksonville Intelligent Transportation SystemCommunications and network infrastructure across more than one thousand signalized intersections for a consolidated city-county.