Notes & Writing

Field notes from the desk and the homelab

Tutorials, troubleshooting guides, and the occasional 'here's what I'd do differently.'

March 22, 2026 8 min read

VLAN Segmentation at Home: What a UDM Pro Max Taught Me About Enterprise Networking

Six VLANs, a Tailscale overlay, and a reverse proxy later — lessons from building real network segmentation in a homelab.

NetworkingHomelabLinux

August 4, 2025 6 min read

Rolling Out Enterprise AI on a Service Desk (Without the Hype)

Notes from training a 3-person Service Desk team on Claude Enterprise — what actually moved the needle and what was noise.

AILeadershipDocumentation

February 11, 2025 7 min read

Building an Idempotent PowerShell Onboarding/Offboarding Pipeline

How I turned a manual, error-prone account lifecycle checklist into a repeatable PowerShell suite for a 3-person team supporting 1,500 users.

PowerShellAutomationActive DirectoryMicrosoft 365