About

When I was 19, I found out I was going to be a dad.

I wasn’t a computer science grad. I wasn’t on some carefully mapped career track. I was a kid who had been working since 16 — long hours, low pay, mostly under the table — trying to figure out how to build something real for my family.

That moment changed everything.

I needed a job that could pay the bills now and open doors later. IT felt like the answer. So I got my CompTIA certifications, saw a $10/hr internship posted on Reddit, applied — and got it.

That was the beginning.

It took me five years of working in IT before I even discovered PowerShell. And honestly? When I first started learning it, I felt like everyone else already knew something I didn’t. It was classic imposter syndrome — where you’re convinced that the people you look up to are somehow wired differently than you. At that time, I’d never even heard about imposter syndrome.

Then, in late 2017, I applied for a scholarship to attend the PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit. An all-expenses-paid trip across the country to learn from some of the best PowerShell minds in the world — people working at top organizations, writing the books, building the tools.

And you know what I realized when I got there?

They’re just people.

People who struggled, who Googled things, who made mistakes, who kept going. That trip rewired how I saw myself and what was possible. I stopped waiting to feel ready and started putting myself out there.

Since then I’ve become an author, a speaker, a blogger, and co-hosted hundreds of hours of the PowerShell Podcast. I’ve done hundreds of hours of live streams, built communities, and spent the last five years at PDQ — genuinely one of my dream jobs — helping sysadmins solve real problems every single day. I helped grow our Discord from zero to over 7,000 members: a place where sysadmins, PowerShell learners, and IT folks of all levels come to learn, vent, and grow together. I’ve gotten to see firsthand and mentor dozens of people take their IT careers to the next level.

I’m still that kid who needed support and guidance. The difference now is I get to help others find theirs.