High School Diploma
Secondary Education
Completed high school before entering the professional workforce. My technical career began during these years rather than after a traditional four-year degree.
ABOUT BRAD
The person behind the résumé.
I am a husband, father, technology builder, former first responder, business owner, and lifelong hands-on learner. I grew up in Central New York and now live in Valdosta, Georgia. Technology has been a constant thread through my career, but so have public service, communications, problem solving, and building things that people can actually use.
My professional path has been experience-driven rather than degree-driven. I started building technical depth early, continued through vocational technology education and professional training, and kept learning through real systems, real outages, real users, real customers, and increasingly complex operating responsibility.
EDUCATION & TECHNICAL FORMATION
A practical, vocational, and continuous learning path.
Vocational Technology Education
Vocational / Technical Program
Attended vocational technology training as part of regular high-school coursework, gaining specialized technology education and early professional certifications while building broad experience across Linux, Windows, macOS, and server administration.
Continuing Technical Education
Professional & Self-Directed Learning
Continuous learning through vendor documentation, professional training, hands-on labs, production systems, incident response, engineering projects, software development, and operating real infrastructure.
A note on education
I do not hold a traditional four-year college degree. My education came through high school, vocational technology training, early professional certifications, continuing technical study, and nearly three decades of hands-on work. I believe formal education has value; I also believe demonstrated competence, judgment, and the ability to keep learning matter enormously in technology leadership.
INTERESTS & HOBBIES
What I build, study, and explore outside the job description.
Amateur Radio
Licensed amateur-radio activity, antennas, radio systems, propagation, communications, and the technical side of RF infrastructure.
Weather & Satellite Monitoring
Weather observation, satellite data reception, GOES/HRIT-style workflows, forecasting data, and public weather communication.
Aviation & ADS-B
Aircraft tracking, ADS-B reception, SDR workflows, receiver software, mapping, and aviation-data systems.
3D Printing & Maker Projects
Designing, printing, testing, and refining practical parts and enclosures, with an emphasis on solving real problems rather than decorative output.
Broadcast & Audio
Radio automation, streaming, station imaging, audio routing, distributed playout, synchronization, and broadcast continuity.
Homestead Technology
Networking, cameras, sensors, automation, infrastructure, weather systems, communications, and self-sufficiency projects around Gigabyte Grove.
HOW IT CONNECTS
Curiosity is part of the job.
The hobbies may look unrelated on paper, but they reinforce the same habits I use professionally: signal analysis, systems thinking, experimentation, automation, fabrication, communications, documentation, resilience, and the willingness to learn how something actually works instead of treating it as a black box.