Performing general maintenance, repair and restoration on the museum's vintage diesel locomotives.

Senior Enterprise Architect for Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, a system of 24 Technical and Community Colleges and seven State Universities spanning the state of Minnesota, serving 400,000+ students and 17,000 faculty at 80 sites.Created formal non-functional requirements framework, formalized architecture artifacts.

Technical and solutions architect for the Enterprise Infrastructure group. Managed non-functional requirements for IT projects, designed highly available systems and solutions, managed infrastructure and disaster recovery projects.

Lead the team of system administrators, database administrators and network engineers that provided enterprise wide services to a state-wide higher education system of 400,000+ students and 17,000 faculty at 80 sites. The team implemented and hosted a high availability and business continuity protected enterprise e-learning application serving 100,000 students per day, implemented and managed high availability databases, and designed, built and managed high availability hosting environments.Managed state-wide network backbone. Lead the team that transitioned the system to a state-wide, enterprise class, voice/video/data converged wide area network built in partnership with the State of Minnesota. Provided managed firewall services to campuses.Served as consultant to campuses.

Local and wide area network administrator, Novell Netware and Groupwise administrator.Migrated the system office from CC:Mail to GroupWise. Merged three separate state-wide networks into a single WAN. Served as consultant to campuses.

Created and taught network management courses to community college students. Topics included root cause analysis, change management, configuration management, network monitoring and management, and incident handling. Served on IT advisory committee.

Designed and built student records & finance RDBMS software for the college that covered the student life cycle from prospect to graduation.Designed and built student grading system.Designed and built room scheduling system. Designed and built campus local area networks.Migrated college from paper and memo based workflow to e-mail based workflow.

Taught basic machining, CAD/CAM and CNC programming in open entry, competency based instructional environment.