I've been a hard-core Libertarian since the mid-90s and nicely surprised by your political savvy and acumen.
Curriculum Vitae
- Civilian Professional IT background (Decision Information Systems) with 25 years experience.
- Professional experience running small data centers (~ 100 servers) from equipment purchase, power management, networking, and tape backups.
- Previous experience in C# .Net, MS SQL Server, Hadoop (Pig and Hive), Java, PHP, and MySQL development.
- Currently employed creating cloud based data engineering solutions using Python.
- Running Ubuntu Servers and Mac OS on the home network.
- US History buff from The French and Indian War through the Civil War, then the Progressive Era, WWI, and WWII.
- Recent HAM Technician licensee.
- Tanya Metaska and Wayne LaPierre revoked my lifetime NRA membership after I distributed flyers at the convention in Phoenix in 1995 describing how they made a deal with Bob Dole to help write language and pass the Omnibus Crime Act that banned ugly semi-auto rifles for 10 years along with the Brady Background Check.
- Skills in comms, medical, and intel gathering. I would like to find relatively local 1 - 2 day training due to limited travel options at this time.
- Need to expand my local network -- I can count on one hand the number of trusted people I could rely on to watch my 6 within a 30-minute drive. Local HAMs have all taken the jab, or cannot wait to take it and lick the boots that gave it. PrepperNet is kind of a joke for HAM and is all about DMR. AmRRON contacts in the area are all stale.
- I've been a "Gun Nut" since I was first introduced to shooting 30 years ago and have taken various handgun and carbine classes, but never trained in a team operating environment.
- How to sell the wife on investing $$$$ in night vision without disrupting marital harmony.
