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I am an Autistic Mainframer with experience in z/OS, Unix, Linux, z/VM, and vintage IBM Operating Systems. Typically I am interested in topics relating to security and hardware efficiency with a fascination for computer history and why computers are specialized as they have become.

In 2019 I graduated from [[https://sunypoly.edu/|SUNY Polytechnic Institute]] in Utica, NY with my Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Science. For a few years I was contracted by SUNY PI to redesign the services offered by the Computer Science Department. In lieu of a traditional capstone project, the Department itself became my capstone. We offered services for students and professors to use for classes and projects including: web hosting, in-house VPS hosting and management, responsive firewall protection, advanced email capabilities, hosted databases, VPN access, shared (NFS) storage, in-house standard distro, bulk lab management, a common development environment (SSH) and hardware purchasing. I still maintain a homelab based on the project but now integrated with IBM Mainframes and other modernization efforts.

Previously I've worked in the private sector for [[https://www.lolay.com/|Lolay, Inc]] and contracted with the Federal Government at AFRL in Rome, NY. Currently I work for [[https://its.ny.gov/|NYS Office of IT Services ]]as an IT Specialist 3 working with IBM Z Systems and Db2 Administration. In my role I have the privilege to advocate for accessibility and data transparency. Check out [[https://data.ny.gov/|Open Data]] for more!

In my free time I enjoy working on S370 related projects like [[https://vm.pubvm.org/|PUBVM]] and [[https://mvs.hugfreevikings.wtf/|HFVMVS]]. I also run z/VM and z/OS at home from [[http://academic.ibm.com/|IBM's Student Software Catalog ]]on Raspberry Pi via [[https://sdl-hercules-390.github.io/html/|Hercules]]. When not writing HTML and CSS using XEDIT on PUBVM, I enjoy building utilities for finance, automation, and data entry in COBOL or Go. My [[https://github.com/Rudi9719|GitHub]] has some projects, but because of some vintage systems not all of my source is available in Git.​​​​​​​