Welcome to Techtone This blog is a place where I write about what I do in tech and what I tinker with in my lab. I’ll be sharing projects I work on for personal learning, along with technologies, ideas, and experiments I find interesting. My hope is that some of you will find them useful or at least interesting too. But first, a little about me. I started my career in 2005 doing helpdesk work for a telecom company in the Midwest. I learned a lot about troubleshooting dialup and DSL internet, and webhosting. In 2007, moved to a call center company I had previously worked for, this time joining the IT department as the lead network services technician. I was responsible for all of the workstations, servers, networking gear, and telecom equipment in the building. This was also an extremely valuable time in my career where I learned so much about networking, software, mass PC imaging, IP telephony and many other projects. I spent about seven years in that role working through a wide r...
