I'm a systems administrator at a state college with 15 years of practical experience (i.e. most of my knowledge comes from job learning and not book). I started as a student and helpdesk tech, then decided to stick around and clawed my way up from there. Since I'm a state employee, I don't really have a specialization, I know a bit of everything. I can build a Windows domain from scratch, and even setup a bit of the network. Honestly, I could probably test into a Systems Engineer certification, I've just never needed to. I also have experience with various third party applications, including CommVault enterprise backup solutions, Avaya phone systems, Cisco firewalls, and the Adobe Cloud suite (mostly its SAML configuration and user sync tool).

My degree is actually in computer programming, but after chasing a stray semi-colon for 3 days, I decided that administration was more my speed. My experience there (from 13 years ago), is C# and C++, a little Java from that "one instructor," and HTML/CSS. I couldn't code in any of those if I tried right now.

Lately I've been doing a lot of automation with PowerShell, which is why I joined this community. I've completely automated our student account creation, replacing a C# application that was doing it before, and have automated processes for employee OnBoarding and OffBoarding, which I'm working on moving into complete automation.

I don't consider myself a developer or a programmer, and feel my code is very...juvenile(?). It has lots of white space, and my commenting practices are atrocious (I don't comment very much). It gets the job done though, and that's what is important to me.

I hope to learn some new things from you all, and perhaps become a more seasoned PowerShell "programmer".