Case Studies
Writeups of shipped work.
Design decisions, rollout notes, metrics, and the lessons that transfer. Written for fellow practitioners and hiring managers.
Physical Security
2025–2026
Replacing a 24/7 third-party security monitoring contract with a self-managed UniFi stack
Cut the Securitas contract. Built an in-house physical-security platform on UniFi Access + Protect. ~$40K/year recurring savings with better coverage.
Infrastructure
2024–ongoing
Multi-node Proxmox cluster replacing legacy Hyper-V boxes
Designed and built a Proxmox virtualization cluster with replication and a real failover path — hosting every internal web app the business runs on.
AI / ERP
2026
Putting an AI analyst in front of IQMS/Oracle ERP data
Built a Model Context Protocol server exposing read-only IQMS and dataPARC data to Claude. Plant questions answered in seconds, against live production data.
Infrastructure · Security
2024–2025
Network rebuild with OT / IT segmentation across two plants
Redesigned two-site network with full VLAN segmentation, plant systems isolated from office traffic, faster access, fewer outages.
Custom App
2025–2026
Employee Tech Documentation — an in-house replacement for spreadsheet IT
A custom Flask + React asset tracker with MSAL/LDAP auth, audit trails, and M365/UniFi integrations. Deleted the IT spreadsheets.
Personal Project · SDR · AI
2026
Radio monitor with speech recognition — solving a very specific plant problem
RTL-SDR + Whisper speech-to-text pipeline that listens to plant UHF radios and alerts when keywords are called. Built mostly to tell me when my name comes over the radio.