Mar 8


Well the site is customized about as much as I want it to be. For now. I may have went a bit crazy with some ads. I’m interested to see if it is really possible to still make money via web pages. Blogs are a fairly new thing for me and I haven’t been too hip lately. Although I am using blog software currently I may move to a different platform as this site develops.

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Trace and I work for an Energy company in Information Technology. I am Manager of Infrastructure Systems. A bit of a fancy title for what I actually do. I ‘manage’ every single bit of gear except for desktops and handhelds. All network gear, servers, and phone systems. I leverage many new technologies to allow me to be able to do my job with little to no staff. The company is worth over $4 billion and has under 400 employees. I feel I am a hybrid between management and technical. Previously I was with a large mobile telephone carrier with over 80,000 employees. My range of experience has been in enviroments that were a small room with a few servers on a table to multiple sites with datacenters the size of a house.

I would like to let you all know what to expect here. First of all I’ll try to keep everything as G rated as possible so that you can read it from work. I have a vision of posting many technical snippets of information that will help others who arrive at problems I have already faced and solved or found solutions for. Let me say that they may not all even be technical. I also would like to begin building a social network of people who are in the field. Eventually I should have some links to either blogs or sites for other engineers and administrators. I may also end up talking about non-technical office issues and other items of interest as they pretain to information technology. In conclusion, I’m sure some views into my thought process and ideas will be here for the world as well.

I appreciate you stopping by and please check in from time to time.