During my 37-year career in Information Technology, I always enjoyed nature photography as a hobby. Along the way, I became a real estate investor and enjoyed working with agents and others in the real estate and mortgage industries.I enjoyed the process of learning how to market properties for my own needs. Too often, I found plain, average or unrealistic photos and I wanted to provide a professional marketing product to make my own properties pop more than others.I wanted to learn as much as I could about how to make my own images stand out. I learned various aspects of lighting, geometry, positioning, content/composition and the best gear, techniques and technology to make that happen.I enjoyed this so much that I decided to focus my efforts on real estate photography. I’m always eager to help agents find better ways of marketing their properties.In addition to quality real estate photography, I’m also able to offer excellent quality 360/Virtual Reality (VR) tours including tour hosting, floor plan diagrams and dedicated property web pages which pull everything together nicely.I look forward to helping agents with their marketing needs by providing quality offerings.

Responsible for managing the IT Operations team. This team provides all design, maintenance, and support for the entire IT infrastructure including the building-specific network infrastructure, the data center, telecommunications (VoIP and cellular), security, and audiovisual environments as well as general help desk tasks. Responsibilities also include forecasting and maintenance of the capital and operating IT budget. The California Dental Association is a diverse organization that includes an insurance company, an insurance brokerage, a philanthropic foundation, and a property management company for the CDA-owned high-rise in downtown Sacramento.My team and I have:• Relocated a data center of more than 150 servers without production downtime for our users.• Upgraded our core networking technologies to support newer technologies.• Migrated an antiquated phone system to a state-of-the-art VoIP system, including three call centers.• Enabled the organization to reduce travel expenses by implementing virtual meeting solutions.• Significantly reduced costs and added features for our annual meetings by taking ownership of the technology in use.• Reduced technology-related costs by renegotiating maintenance and service contracts, migrating from older technology, enabling virtualization, enhancing remote access, and providing a mechanism for the re-sale of our retired equipment.• Designed a comprehensive disaster recovery solution to support the organization’s business continuity plan.

Provide support to multiple small companies to include infrastructure, security and remote connectivity support.

Responsible for the integration and security of new acquisitions and new sites globally. Requirements range from initial (first day) connectivity to the design for the final network connectivity with little or no downtime for either company. Also functioned in the capacity of third level support engineer for enterprise WAN switching and routing.

Working as a Senior Network Engineer in a diverse environment involving LAN and WAN design implementation and third level support ranging from a single small local site to the global enterprise focusing on acquisition integration.

Working in a team environment, responsible for planning, coordinating and installing networking technology for all acquisitions globally. This position required heavy domestic and foreign travel. My focus was network infrastructure using Cisco hardware however, the entire team functioned in all areas of IT during these projects.

Responsible for network design, implementation and support for the Folsom Campus consisting of over 180 multi-protocol subnets and more than 5000 users in a campus setting of 6 inter-connected buildings and multiple enterprise class data centers.

I was originally hired as the PC Coordinator reporting to the CFO. The 200 employee organization had only two PCs and used mostly midrange terminals, IBM Displaywriters and typewriters. In just over seven years, my title changed several times and I enjoyed many technical challenges and successes which are highlighted below:- Replaced all terminals, Displaywriters and typewriters with over 250 PCs- Designed, authored and supported the first computer registration system (Sess) for CDA Scientific Sessions which hosted more than 20,000 attendees – twice every year. This system which, replaced a manual typewriter registration system, became the foundation for registration systems used over the next few decades- Designed, authored and supported several other specialty applications which were used in the organization over several years- Relocated the organization from an old 4 story building to a new 19 story high-rise building including the design and implementation of the first CDA datacenter- Designed and installed the first organization wide network with connectivity to two satellite claims offices- Added the midrange system to the network and beta tested several systems to integrate the AS/400 into the networked environment- Introduced the Internet and Email to CDA for the first time, registered the first domain name (cda.org), installed the first Internet circuit and installed the first email system- Created, filled and managed 3 support technician positions and created a helpdesk system to better support staff’s needs- Selected, installed and supported the first imaging system (which is still in use)- Designed and authored a set of data conversion tools to extract IBM EBCDIC/ZDFdata from the midrange finance system, convert it to native data formats for Platinum and import (and balance) 5 years of data into the newly selected Platinum finance package. This saved months of time for the finance system consultant’s implementation schedule

Responsible for the maintenance and operation of multiple Tandem based systems linked to hundreds of other Tandem systems worldwide via satellite computer network. Duties included system configuration, hardware/software conversions, backups and troubleshooting.

Supervised EDP operators. Responsible for the daily maintenance and operation of data processing equipment as well as employee scheduling and training. Other responsibilities included training other EDP supervisors statewide. Coordinated data center relocations while supervising operators and normal operations at both locations.

Provide computer hardware and software support and maintenance as well as application development focusing mostly in the legal and real estate communities.