Hire Richard: it's the right thing to do.
Seventeen years of IT experience; essentially no web design experience.linderricky@gmail.com
Experienced
Working IT non-stop, and industry certified since 2007. Engaging in diverse technical environments, including HIPAA, government, and MSP. Working with tons of hardware and software as a one-man show at the AOG and Elbert County, supporting basically everything at MSPs, and in small to multi-national scopes.
Credentialed
CASP+ (aka. ) Associates in Science (A.S.)
Security+, Network+, Server+, A+, Cloud Essentials, MCP.
Azure, 365, and Security/Compliance/Identity Fundamentals.
Skilled
Knowledgeable in defensive and offensive security, AD, Group Policy, Endpoint Management, Exchange (EMC/Shell), 365, Azure, IIS, virtualization, storage, and more. See more skills.
A Proper Nerd
I am learning, growing, and building nerdy things when I'm not at work.
Senior Systems Administrator
Elbert County Government (12/23 – Present)
Migrate all servers from physical or VMWare to Hyper-V. Architect and configure high availability network and storage. Manage networking, including gateways, vLANs, IP Helpers, and PXE-boot imaging. Our four-person team saved the government well over 0.5 million per year while improving services, availability, security, and response time.
Senior Systems Administrator
Ent Credit Union (9/22 – 12/23)
Managing Hybrid environment, Group Policy, local/Azure Active Directory, audit response, upgrades, process improvement, and most infrastructure impacting end-users. Audited and removed over half the Group Policy objects in production; created standards and documentation on the remainder. Audited and removed nearly 300 stale accounts; resolved OneDrive failures, frequent disk space issues, and massive logon times.
Systems and Information Security Administrator
US Air Force Association of Graduates (4/21 – 7/22)
Perform all system, network, and security tasks for the organization, including architecture, upgrades, management, backups, monitoring, and threat analysis and response. Provide hardening for all systems, and serve as a Help Desk escalation.
Security Consultant/Systems Administrator
Hempeltech (1/19 – 2025; date overlap due to consulting work after leaving primary employment)
Providing guidance on Information Security, writing and implementing audits, and solving escalated technical issues; also, helping clients understand why security is in their interests.
Systems Administrator
Stepping Forward Technology (11/14 – 12/18)
Proactively auditing risk, security, speed, usability, and sustainability in a variety of environments with countless systems and software, including HIPAA-covered entities. Assisted with user and vendor support both on-site and remote. Served as escalation tech for Help Desk and other Systems Administrators.
And other tech jobs going back to 2008. Including Help Desk/Systems Administrator at Young Life (10/2011-7/2014); Owner/Repair Tech at Richard’s Computer Maintenance and Repair (8/08 – 10/2011)
* Migrated all VMWare/bare metal devices to Hyper-V
* Got every server in the county to a supported OS in under two years;
(about half were obsolete when I started)
* Built Fog, Veeam, ticket system, knowledgebase, & remote access
* Identified source of long-standing intermittent network issues.
* In summary: crushing it
Caden Orewiler - Asst. Director of Development: AFA Foundation
Richard's passion for not only correcting the issue, but educating our staff in simplified terms throughout the process, enabled us to fix future problems. You will receive a self-driven, passionate, and punctual individual who enriches a positive environment for those around him.
Kate Law -
Data Integrity Specialist: AOG
Richard is a phenomenal IT professional. He's not only highly skilled, but goes the extra mile to anticipate and explain; even a non-IT human can understand. Seriously: hire him. And don't judge him by his dangerous sandwich theories.
