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Enterprise Experience. Small Business Focus.

I'm David Fields — and I bring over 35 years of hands-on IT experience to every client engagement. My background includes DoD defense contracting, Fortune 500 banking and retail, datacenter and large-scale enterprise infrastructure. Today, I apply that expertise to help small businesses in Ohio and beyond solve real technology problems — without the complexity, jargon, or overhead of big IT firms.

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Background: Where I've Been

  • Senior Network Automation Engineer for a national financial institution — built native Python and ServiceNow automation solutions that resolved 100K+ incidents per year

  • Cisco Systems, Inc. Systems Engineer designed, implemented and supported base-wide military-grade networks for US military installations across the country

  • DoD IT defense contractor at Wright-Patterson AFB — led enterprise perimeter security rollouts and backbone network migrations, held a Secret clearance, still clearable

  • Network and security engineering roles across banking, retail, manufacturing, and government

  • Former Cisco Network Academy CCNA, CCNP, CCDP and CompTIA Security+ Instructor — with 10-years teaching technology to students and organizations

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An educational background is why I can explain what's happening with your systems in plain English — not because I'm dumbing it down, but because I've spent years helping people understand complex technologies.

Education

  • Master of Science, Information Security & Assurance — Norwich University, Northfield, VT

  • Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems — DeVry University, Columbus, OH

Current Certifications (or in process)

  • CompTia Security+

  • VMware Certified Professional (VCP5-DCV)

  • ITIL v3 Foundation

  • CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator (in progress)

Former Certifications (held previously)

  • ISACA & ISC^2 CISSP, CISM, CISA

  • Cisco CCNP Enterprise, CCDP, CCNA, CCDA

  • Checkpoint CCSE NG-AI

Technical Expertise: What We Work With

  • Operating Systems: Windows, MacOS, Linux, & Unix

  • Networking: Cisco, Arista, Juniper, and many others

  • Security: Aruba, Checkpoint, Cisco, Palo Alto firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, endpoint protection, SIEM/SOAR, Zero Trust architectures, and more

  • Cloud, Containers, Virtualization & Orchestration: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, Docker, Kubernetes and more

  • Automation, CI/CD & DevOps: Python, Golang (Go), Ansible, Terraform IaC, Git/GitHub, REST APIs, Bash Scripting and more

  • Storage & Backup: NAS & SAN (Iomega, Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS), cloud backup solutions, iSCSI and others

  • Business Platforms: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, ServiceNow and others

  • AI and Automation Tools: OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Co-Pilot, Google Gemini, n8n, Make, Zapier and more

  • Software Development and Scripting Languages: Python, GoLang/Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, C++, Bash Scripting, Assembly, HTM/CSS, and more

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