The résumé got shorter.
The roots went deeper.

Repair counters, server rooms, incident calls. Old résumés kept shedding whatever did not fit the next job. This is what stayed.

I’m looking for my next role.

Seeking a remote role

Professional IT since 2009. Systems engineering, infrastructure, Linux, automation, incident response. Work that needs someone to follow a problem all the way down—and explain what they found.

I work in long, concentrated stretches. The field notes tend to give me away.

Before the models

I have solved computer problems professionally since 2009. In 2006 I was already making house calls to transfer MP3 libraries. I was thirteen years into the career when the generative-AI boom began. The roots were already deep.

Dates & sources

Roles overlap because consulting, employment, business ownership, and volunteer work actually overlapped. Evidence labels describe what can be checked, not how impressive a claim sounds.

Referenceable: A retained third-party source or identifiable corroborator exists; this site has not independently verified the claim.
Self-attested: The claim survives in Casey’s records but lacks attached independent support.
Disputed dates: Surviving sources disagree; the disagreement stays visible.

Source documents stay private where needed. Their notes and disagreements remain attached to each role; corrections live in the record’s version history.

Career record revised August 29, 2026.

Availability updated September 13, 2026.

c. 2020—presentApproximate dates
Samaritan Solutions
Owner · Systems Architect · Chief Information Security Officer
Hamilton, Ontario · remote across Canada and the United States
Legal entity · formed 2024-11-13
Samaritan Solutions, LLC · New York
The consulting practice predates this legal entity; practice history and incorporation history are separate clocks.
Owner and technical lead for infrastructure, security, migration, and automation engagements. Client identities remain private where contracts require it.
In my hands
- Owned the consultancy and directed customer engagements.
- Held executive responsibility for Samaritan's security practice and client security decisions.
- Set technical direction for migrations, automation, security, and recovery work.
Work in detail
- Designed and deployed infrastructure across aerospace, manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare, fire-service, and museum environments.
- Built more than 600 PowerShell, Python, and shell automations across multi-client operations.
- Executed Windows migrations spanning more than 2,000 endpoints and administered a 150-user hybrid Microsoft 365 deployment.
- Performed ransomware response and long-term remediation for affected organizations.
Self-attested · dates & sources
The public company profile describes a partnership founded in 2020. An earlier operating boundary has not been substantiated.
Normalized from retained resume material. References and private client records can corroborate claims that cannot be published.
3 retained sources support this record.
2024—2025Approximate dates
Advance2000
Cybersecurity Engineer · Field Services Architect · AI Researcher
Buffalo, New York · later Canada-based remote
Security tooling, AI infrastructure, field architecture, incident response, and enterprise client continuity.
In my hands
- Served as field architect during enterprise incident-response engagements.
- Introduced security tooling and AI infrastructure into the operating environment.
Work in detail
- Introduced security tooling and AI infrastructure into the company's operating environment.
- Worked in the field on enterprise incident-response engagements across the northeastern United States.
Referenceable · dates & sources
The surviving records agree on calendar years but do not preserve month boundaries.
Employment and scope are referenceable; client and incident details remain confidential.
2 retained sources support this record.
2022—2023Approximate dates
GW Lisk
Senior NOC Technician
Phelps, New York
Network operations, plant-floor and office endpoint maintenance, automated provisioning, device management, and legacy intranet modernization.
In my hands
- Guided modernization of legacy intranet infrastructure.
- Built and maintained the automated Windows imaging and application-deployment path across multiple endpoint profiles, and operated the MDM platform.
- Promoted stronger patching, monitoring, asset and license management, and early practical use of GPT-4.
Work in detail
- Maintained and replaced computers supporting industrial equipment alongside ordinary enterprise endpoints.
- Built multiple golden-image and application-deployment configurations for different hardware and operating contexts.
- Directed work on legacy intranet modernization and operated the MDM service.
Referenceable · dates & sources
Calendar years recur across the retained records; month boundaries are not stable enough to publish.
Employment and responsibility are referenceable. A contemporaneous private workplace record supports role context and technical advocacy; implementation and internal workplace details remain private.
4 retained sources support this record.
2020—2023Approximate dates
Future Data Systems, Inc.
IT and Automation Specialist · Senior Network Engineer
United States
Automation and network engineering across several hundred client offices, including professional services, healthcare, housing, and other managed environments.
In my hands
- Held senior network-engineering responsibility across a managed-services estate.
- Designed automation used across many client environments.
Work in detail
- Wrote and configured ConnectWise Automate scripts and completed more than 80 hours of WatchGuard systems training.
- Handled VoIP, specialty applications, data and profile migrations, machine imaging, Exchange migrations, domain transfers, and operational documentation.
- Built an SNMP printer-supply workflow reported to save roughly 30 staff hours per month.
Self-attested · dates & sources
A 2023 career export supplies month boundaries; the public surface retains only the agreed years.
The role and dates recur in retained career exports. Employer corroboration has not yet been attached to the public record.
2 retained sources support this record.
2019—2020Disputed dates
TechGuru
System Administrator · Network Engineer · Cybersecurity Specialist
United States · remote and field response
Lead incident response across a managed-services portfolio serving more than 800 client organizations and sites.
In my hands
- Worked as lead technician, sent ahead of the team to assess and contain incident damage.
- Acted as the sole restoration engineer for a reported 150-server ransomware recovery.
- Designed monitoring and topology-mapping automation for a national hospitality wireless estate.
Work in detail
- Rebuilt Active Directory and DNS after domain destruction, then restored and stabilized 150 interconnected servers.
- Deployed to incidents in New York City, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Miami in partnership with an external response firm.
- Built monitoring and topology-mapping automation for wireless access-point estates across a national hospitality footprint.
Referenceable · dates & sources
Sources agree on November 2019 and disagree between January and March 2020 for the end boundary.
Employment and incident work are referenceable. Client names and operational records are private.
3 retained sources support this record.
2017 or 2018—2019Disputed dates
Netcom Business Solutions
IT Specialist · System Administrator · Computer Network Technician
North Carolina
Field repair, server deployment, and network support for public services, healthcare, construction, local government, schools, and regional businesses.
In my hands
- Served as the company's sole or primary networking technician.
- Held design and field-installation responsibility for a large industrial-site network.
Work in detail
- Configured servers and networking for fire-service, construction, municipal, healthcare, and education environments.
- Designed and led installation of a fiber-backed wired and wireless network across a large industrial site.
Self-attested · dates & sources
The retained records disagree between September 2017 and September 2018; both place the end in spring 2019.
Multiple retained resumes agree on responsibility and the 2019 end date but conflict on the start year.
3 retained sources support this record.
2015—2018Approximate dates
Casey's Computers Diagnostics and Repair LLC
Founder · Owner · Lead technician
Waldport, Oregon
Owned and operated a local repair and integration business serving residents, businesses, public services, and community organizations across South Lincoln County.
In my hands
- Owned the business and directed its customer work, with assistance on records, advertising, and customer interaction.
- Held final responsibility for diagnosis, repair, networks, and client delivery.
Work in detail
- Casey's Computers served more than 1,200 unique customers during the years Casey operated the business. This represents distinct customers rather than repair tickets or service interactions and excludes earlier and later technical-service work. Total lifetime service volume was materially higher, but has not been reconstructed to a defensible count.
- Operated a high-volume local repair and integration business whose demand eventually required restricted walk-in hours and deliberate separation between customer intake and bench work.
- Designed office and hospitality networks, backup systems, and a navigation-computer installation for a client preparing a yacht for extended travel.
- Provided pro-bono Active Directory support to a local fire department.
Waldport · 2015
I had a shop once.
Casey's Computers, Waldport.The rainbow was not in the business plan.
I signed the lease on January 15, 2015. Eighteen days later, we opened. By April I was repairing computers nearly around the clock. By July I was apologizing for the queue. In September I changed the hours so I could close the door, sit at the bench, and get people their machines back.
The counter was only the visible part. I made house calls, taught people to use their own machines, answered urgent questions when the shop was shut, and once followed a customer's problem all the way to the Apple Store in Portland. Computers, tablets, phones, Wi-Fi. Different arrangements of electrified rock.
People helped build the place. They came to the opening, sent their neighbors, and left more machines than I could return as quickly as I wanted. One customer later wrote that her iBook felt new again. That was the shop: local, busy, and answerable to whoever came through the door.
In 2020 I christened the remote work Samaritan Solutions. The page kept the old photographs. I kept answering the questions.
Public evidence · dates & sources
A contemporaneous resume and a dated employee reference support operation by 2015; later records disagree on the exact opening boundary.
Dated public posts, the storefront photograph, and customer comments document the shop, the queue, its service mix, and one repair outcome. A 2017 reference separately supports customer responsibility, network work, and community scope. They do not prove the separate count of more than 1,200 unique customers.
7 retained sources support this record.
2009 or 2010—2014 or 2015Disputed dates
Click Here, Inc.
Network Supervisor · Repair Technician · Counter staff
Waldport, Oregon
Retail computer repair, customer intake, diagnostics, operating-system migration, data recovery, and small-business support while still in school.
In my hands
- Later career material describes primary day-to-day shop operation while the owner was ill.
- Carried customer work from intake through repair, explanation, and billing.
Work in detail
- Began with unpaid learning before counting billable hours as the start of professional work.
- Retained sources disagree by roughly a year at both boundaries; exact payroll records have not yet been recovered.
Self-attested · dates & sources
One retained record says 2009–2014; another says 2010–2015. No payroll or employer artifact has resolved the difference.
The role is consistent across older resumes, but its dates and supervisory title still require independent corroboration.
2 retained sources support this record.
2011—at least 2017Approximate dates
First Baptist Church of Waldport
Volunteer IT Manager · Audio and visual lead
Waldport, Oregon
Volunteer responsibility for the church website, audio recording, projection, Wi-Fi, printing, and event technology.
In my hands
- Spearheaded selection and installation of projection and supporting technical systems.
- Maintained the church's web, audio, video, wireless, and event systems.
Work in detail
- Installed and maintained projection, sound, wireless networking, printing, and publishing systems.
- Travelled to assist a partner church with a related installation in 2016.
Referenceable · dates & sources
The role appears as beginning in 2011; two 2017 references corroborate active responsibility then. A defensible end boundary is not yet known.
Two independently written 2017 references corroborate the church technology work and installation leadership. The later end date remains unknown.
3 retained sources support this record.

Education record

Faith Evangelical College & Seminary

Approximately 3.5 years of undergraduate study. Degree status unresolved in the surviving record.

unresolved

Retained career documents conflict on completion status, and no primary institutional record is currently attached.

Samaritan Solutions

In my hands

Advance2000

In my hands

GW Lisk

In my hands

Future Data Systems, Inc.

In my hands

TechGuru

In my hands

Netcom Business Solutions

In my hands

Casey's Computers Diagnostics and Repair LLC

In my hands

I had a shop once.

Click Here, Inc.

In my hands

First Baptist Church of Waldport

In my hands

Faith Evangelical College & Seminary