I have been an Systems administrator / Network Engineer (whatever you want to call it) for about 13 years. I started in my own business in 1992 in Fremont Ca, I sold that and went into consulting where I honed my skills in some very large environments. I have worked mainly with Microsoft products over the years. And for the last 8 years I have spent at least 70% of my time working with messaging systems (mostly Exchange). Along the way I picked up some serious scripting skills as well.
I left the consulting section in 1999 and went to work for a medium sized Bio-Tech company in Santa Clara, Ca. They went from about 250 people when I started to more than a thousand in about 2.5 years. I learned some very big lessons about IT and computing infrastructure growth and how to put scalable system together during my time there. I stayed there till 2005 when I moved to a Medical device company that is also on the move and growing rapidly. I think these fast moving and growing environments suit me well.
I found that many times I would be called by an associate or friend and asked to come to work for them, one of the first things I would be asked is "can you script this for us?" Being able to script even with batch files is a very powerful tool for any administrator, I would even go as far to say that it is a must have skill if you want to be successful in the IT industry performing system administration functions.
Other engineers, friends and co-workers are always asking for me for my utilities or to make a new one for them. Some say to me you need to put these out there for others to use! So I put this site together to put some of my scripts and programs "out there" for other admin's to use. So I hope you like them and they make your day easier!
