Hire Richard: it's the right thing to do.
Seventeen years IT, twelve years systems, zero years web design experience.Very interested in red team, and more experienced than my blue-heavy resume suggests.
linderricky@gmail.com
Experienced
Experience in HIPAA, government, financial, and MSP contexts. Worked as a sole administrator at AOG and Elbert County, but also employed in larger specialized settings such as Ent.
Credentialed
CASP+ (aka. )
Associate of Science (A.S.), Security+, Network+, Server+, A+, Cloud Essentials, MCP.
Microsoft Fundamentals: Azure, 365, and Security/Compliance/Identity. AZ-900, MS-900, SC-900
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. From ESP32 mesh nets, to singing floppy drives and DefCon: I want to learn everything.
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 a 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, solving escalated technical issues, and 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;
* Built Hyper-v Cluster, Fog, Veeam, ticket system, & remote access
* Identified source of long-standing intermittent network issues.
* Built and then wrote most of Elbert County's knowledgebase
* 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.
Guy Hempelman
Owner/Operator: Hempeltech
Richard is an asset to any organization. As our lead security analyst, he provided a sense of comfort among our clients by delivering full reports on network, hardware, and software exploits, along with remediation steps. His processes allowed us to instruct clients on prevention. We were fortunate to have Richard and welcome his knowledge to this day.
Cyndi Windecker
Office Manager/Plan Reviewer: Elbert County
Richard rapidly responds to technical issues, is exceptionally thorough with solutions for all involved parties, and listens intently.
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.
