Work

• Working for Washington University in St. Louis as a Network Architect:
  • After working from home since March 2020, I started going back to the office in Jan 2021.
  • Creating a plan to upgrade the university network from a 10G core to 100G or 400G.
  • Leading a project better protect endpoints on our medical campus.
  • Designing a parallel network to be NIST-800-171 compliant.
  • Working to support our medical, research, and students so they can focus on studies, treating patients, and finding solutions for the COVID-19 crisis

Family

• Raising 2 teenage kids:
  • Starting the process of university selections for the oldest.
  • Helping my youngest succeed as a freshman in high school.
• Supporting my wife (and family) as she battles stage 4 breast cancer:
  • Right now everything is mostly normal. She is receiving chemo therapy every week and tolerating it fairly well.
• My son and I are preparing for a 100 mile backpacking trip with the Boy Scouts at Philmont in 2022.

Hobbies

• Run, walk, or strength train everyday.
  • I cut back running significantly because of Osgood-Schlatter disease. Hopefully PT will fix the problem.
• Reading or listening to books:
  • Currently reading:
    • Being Geek
    • The Darkest Web (not sure about this book yet, it is bit too dark even for me)
  • Recently finished (2021):
    • Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (No, I have never read this book before)
    • American Kingpin
    • Recursion
    • Why Buddhism is True
    • Being Mortal
    • A Promised Land
    • Bossy Pants
    • Becoming
• Nerdy stuff:
  • My hobby life revolves around Internet technology.
  • I spend a lot of time tinkering in my home lab.
• Write something every day for this website.