003 / RESUME & EXPERIENCE

A career built around
making things work.

Joel’s background spans field technical work, independent support, infrastructure, and hands-on R&D. The current focus is building useful systems across the line where software meets physical constraints.

Professional experience

01 / 2018 – Present

Senior Researcher & IT Consultant

Albon Tech R&D — Elkville, Illinois

Hands-on research, infrastructure, consulting, and prototyping work spanning applied AI, automation, networking, self-hosted systems, and physical/digital systems integration.

  • Designed and implemented secure network infrastructure and provided systems administration and troubleshooting support.
  • Built and tested automation, cloud migration, and AWS/Azure research environments alongside self-hosted infrastructure.
  • Expanded the work beyond conventional IT consulting into R&D, product/invention prototyping, applied AI, and rapid technical problem solving.

02 / 2010 – Present

IT Support Specialist

Freelance / Project-Based IT Support — Remote & On-Site

Independent technical support work overlapping with research and consulting projects.

  • Remote hardware and networking troubleshooting.
  • Cloud-based system support and infrastructure setup.
  • Network security assistance, home-lab experimentation, and ongoing technical learning.

03 / 2004 – 2008

Field Technician

Multiband Corporation — Paducah, Kentucky

Residential and commercial field work centered on connectivity, installation, troubleshooting, and practical technical support.

  • Installed, configured, and maintained networking equipment, modems, and routers.
  • Diagnosed connectivity and system-performance problems on site.
  • Provided customer education on system maintenance and network-security best practices.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

Organized by the work,
not inflated buzzwords.

Infrastructure

ProxmoxLinuxDockerVirtualizationContainersSelf-hosting

Networking

LAN/WANTCP/IPRoutingSwitchingVLANsVPNFirewallsResilient connectivity

Automation / Development

PythonBashWorkflow automationn8nGitGitHub

AI / Vision

Local inferenceAgent experimentationComputer visionFrigateDetection workflows

Hardware / IoT

Raspberry PiArduinoMQTTSensor systems3D printingElectronics prototyping

Cloud / Hybrid

AWSAzureGoogle CloudHybrid environments

EDUCATION

Liberty University

Computer Engineering / 2024 – Present

Elverado High School

High School Diploma / 2004

Ongoing education is self-directed and project-based: reading documentation, building test environments, troubleshooting systems, and following a question until it either works or teaches something useful.

NEXT / SELECTED WORK

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