I'm a Cybersecurity & Network Systems Administration student at the University of Cincinnati. Doing the degree by day, running labs and reading writeups by night, and slowly figuring out which corner of this field fits me best. So far the answer is "wherever the infrastructure is most obviously held together by tape, documentation, and somebody's heroic 2014 PowerShell script" — and I mean that as a compliment.
Outside of class I've spent the last two summers doing internships across cyber operations and enterprise systems engineering. Between them I've gotten to put hands on the parts of IT that nobody puts on a brochure — endpoint imaging at scale, AD policy archaeology, on-prem-to-cloud co-existence, the cabling that holds an office together, and the strange, specific intimacy of debugging a backup job at 11pm on a Thursday.
"More human than human" is not a slogan. It is a specification. And specifications, in this profession, are the difference between a system and a wish.
I care most about the unglamorous parts done well — clean baselines, documented configurations, the small set of habits that make a system survive an audit and a Tuesday at 3am with equal grace. The flashy stuff is downstream of that. I would rather be the engineer who never has to explain why something failed than the one with the best war story.
This site is a working notebook. Background page is the formal record. Field Notes is where I write up things I've learned the hard way. The Archive is for the parts that don't belong on a résumé.