1-Man IT Department

Things on my Mind

Hello again from the Deep South of Alabama. It has been 9 days since my last update so I thought that I would jot down some things that I have been thinking about lately.

Forgot to Mention:

I did forget to mention in my last post that I successfully completed the requirements for attaining my first IT certification. I talked about it in some previous posts that I was attending the SANS Institute’s Security Essentials Bootcamp in Sept 2007. In February of 2008, I took the requisite two tests and passed with flying colors (90 and 89). So now I am a GIAC Security Essentials Certified (GSEC) professional. I was quite excited since it is my first certification. My next goal is to get a Cisco CCNA. I am putting 4 new Cisco routers in my enterprise so I think that I need to get proficient in using them. I would like to complete the study for this cert in 2008 and have the cert by the end of the 1st quarter of 2009.

Back with a Vengeance!

Well, not really a vengeance because I am not really mad at anything. I have decided to try to kick start my blogging career on both my tech blog (what you are reading) as well as my productivity blog. I am starting here, with 1-ManIT, because there have been a lot more changes in my life in this area then any other. I will hit some of the highlights now with more meaningful posts in the following days.

Hello world!

This blog is a brand new venture for me. It will complement my other blogs: Black Belt Productivity, a blog I co-author about Getting Things Done, The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, and Rammblings, my personal blog.

This will be my blog that deals with my life in Information Technology. I am now the Network Administrator for the City of Northport, a small municipality in Central Alabama. I am also beginning to realize that my IT passion lies in Information Security (InfoSec).

Currently, I am pursuing a number of certifications. I am going to get my CompTIA A+, Network+ and Security+ certifications in my initial stages.

I am a new MacBook Pro owner, as well as a long time Microsoft Windows user. My decision to get the Mac was made in part so that I could learn a lot more about Linux, as well as my noticing that a lot more Security Professionals are moving to the Mac OS X platform. I have moved my main desktop machine at home to Windows Vista. I do like it a lot, and I will be talking about more later.