Technical Skillset

Skill Level Legend

Skill Level	Explanation

Beginner

Just started learning about this topic and have barely used it. I don't have the knowledge to setup from scratch or manage on a daily basis without significant additional research/assistance in the short term. Uncomfortable with configuring, managing, implementing, or securing this topic. Will learn new things about this topic including implementation, management, configuration, securing, and new features being implemented regularly or even daily. Proficient

Have utilized in my day to day, either in my homelab or various employers. I don't necessarily have the knowledge to setup from scratch or manage on a daily basis without additional research/assistance in the short term. Still relatively uncomfortable with configuring, managing, implementing, or securing this topic. Actively learning about this topic including new features being implemented regularly or even daily.

Advanced

Heavily utilized in my day to day, either in my homelab or various employers. I have performed setup previously, or on a regular basis, and would need little or no research involving this topic. Very comfortable with configuring, managing, implementing, or securing this topic. Regularly learning about this topic including new features being implemented.

Expert Heavily utilized in my day to day, either in my homelab or various employers. I have performed setup previously, or on a regular basis, and would rarely need research involving this topic. Incredibly comfortable with configuring, managing, implementing, or securing this topic. Very little left to learn about this topic outside of new features implemented. Master

Heavily utilized in my day to day, either in my homelab or various employers. I have performed setup previously, or on a regular basis, and would almost never require research involving this topic. Extremely comfortable with configuring, managing, implementing, or securing this topic. Almost nothing left to learn about this topic outside of new features implemented.

Operating Systems

Windows Client OS

Technology	Date Acquired	Acquired From	Skill Level	Skill Still Used

Windows 3.1

08-01-1993 Personal interest Advanced No

Windows 95

01-01-1996 Personal interest Advanced No

Windows 98

01-01-1999 Personal interest Advanced No

Windows ME

11-01-2000 Personal interest Advanced No

Windows XP

08-25-2001 Personal interest Expert No

Windows Vista

01-30-2007 Personal interest Expert No

Windows 7

08-22-2009 Personal interest and various employers Master No

Windows 8/8.1

08-17-2013 Personal interest and various employers Expert No

Windows 10

07-29-2015 Personal interest and various employers/Homelab Use Master Yes

Windows 11

01-01-2023 Personal interest and various employers/Homelab Use Master Yes

Windows Server OS

Technology	Date Acquired	Acquired From	Skill Level	Skill Still Used

Windows 2000 Server

08-01-1993 Personal interest in computers Proficient No

Windows Server 2003/R2

04-24-2003 Personal interest in computers Expert No

Windows Server 2008/R2

02-27-2008 Tech Team Global Expert No

Windows Server 2012/R2

01-30-2013 General Motors Master Yes

Windows Server 2016

10-12-2016 General Motors/Homelab Use Master Yes

Windows Server 2019

08-30-2019 Syncreon/Homelab Use Master Yes

Windows Server 2022

04-04-2022 Pinion/Homelab Use Expert Yes

Linux Client OS/Distributions

Technology	Date Acquired	Acquired From	Skill Level	Skill Still Used

Ubuntu

08-01-1993 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes

Fedora

01-01-2008 Personal interest Expert Yes

Red Hat

08-01-1996 Personal interest Advanced Yes

Manjaro

01-01-2015 Personal interest Advanced Yes

Arch

01-01-2015 Personal interest Advanced Yes

Garuda Linux

05-01-2020 Personal interest Advanced Yes

Pop!_OS

01-01-2019 Personal interest Expert Yes

Zorin OS

01-01-2019 Current Primary Desktop Expert Yes

Parrot OS

01-01-2019 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Advanced Yes

Kali Linux

01-01-2019 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Advanced Yes

Deepin

01-01-2019 Personal interest Advanced No

NixOS

01-01-2019 Personal interest Proficient No

OpenSUSE

08-01-1995 Personal interest Advanced No

SteamOS

01-01-2017 Personal interest Expert Yes

EndeavourOS

08-01-2019 Personal interest Advanced No

elementary OS

01-01-2015 Personal interest Expert No

Debian

10-01-1993 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes

Linux Server OS/Distributions

Technology	Date Acquired	Acquired From	Skill Level	Skill Still Used

SUSE Enterprise

08-01-1993 Personal interest Advanced No

Red Hat Enterprise

12-01-2015 General Motors Advanced No

Ubuntu Server

12-01-2015 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes

Networking Techologies

Technology	Date Acquired	Acquired From	Skill Level	Skill Still Used

UniFi Access Points, Switches, and Routers 08-01-2015 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes Cisco Nexus 3000 Switches 02-05-2023 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Advanced Yes Cisco Catalyst 3000 Switches 08-15-2023 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Advanced Yes pfSense Firewall 02-16-2023 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes pfSense High Availability and ISP Failover 02-16-2023 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes FortiGate 03-01-2022 Pinion Advanced Yes FortiManager 03-01-2022 Pinion Advanced Yes UniFi Gateways 05-01-2018 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes UniFi Switches 05-01-2018 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes UniFi WiFi Access Points 05-01-2018 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes UniFi Site Management 05-01-2018 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes UniFi Site Magic 12-16-2023 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes UniFi Protect/Camera Security 05-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes Zscaler Internet Access 03-01-2021 Syncreon Proficient No Zscaler Private Access 03-01-2021 Syncreon Proficient No Routing 08-01-1993 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes DNS 08-01-1993 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes DHCP 08-01-1993 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes Remote Access 08-01-1997 High School Master Yes LAN/WAN 08-01-1993 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes

Storage Technologies (Hardware and Software)

Technology	Date Acquired	Acquired From	Skill Level	Skill Still Used

Synology NAS 08-01-2015 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes Synology NAS High Availability and Failover 08-01-2015 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes FreeNAS/TrueNAS CORE 05-01-2017 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes TrueNAS SCALE 05-01-2021 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes QNAP NAS 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Unraid 01-01-2017 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes Ceph 01-01-2022 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Proficient Yes

Virtualization Technologies

Technology	Date Acquired	Acquired From	Skill Level	Skill Still Used

VMWare ESXi 12-01-2015 General Motors/Homelab Use Expert Yes VMWare vRealize Operations 12-01-2015 General Motors/Homelab Use Proficient Yes VMWare Horizon 04-01-2019 Meridian Health Proficient No VMWare vCenter 12-01-2015 General Motors/Homelab Use Expert Yes Proxmox Virtual Environment 01-01-2018 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes Proxmox Virtual Environment High Availability 01-01-2018 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes XCP-ng 01-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Proficient No Microsoft Azure 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop 03-01-2022 Pinion Proficient Yes Docker 03-01-2018 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes Docker Swarm 03-01-2018 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Advanced Yes Portainer 03-01-2018 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes

Azure/Entra/M365

Technology	Date Acquired	Acquired From	Skill Level	Skill Still Used

Microsoft Azure 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Microsoft Azure SAML 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Microsoft Azure SSO 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Microsoft Azure Enterprise Applications 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Microsoft Azure Update Manager 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop 03-01-2022 Pinion Proficient Yes Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Microsoft Exchange/M365 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Microsoft Exchange/M365 Mail Flow Configuration 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Entra Conditional Access 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Microsoft 365 Admin Center 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Microsoft Security Admin Center (Defender XDR) 03-01-2022 Pinion Advanced Yes Microsoft Purview Compliance Admin Center 03-01-2022 Pinion Advanced Yes Microsoft Intune 03-01-2022 Pinion Proficient Yes Microsoft Intune Admin Center 03-01-2022 Pinion Proficient Yes Microsoft Sharepoint 06-01-2013 General Motors Proficient Yes Microsoft Sharepoint Admin Center 06-01-2013 General Motors Advanced Yes Microsoft Teams 06-01-2013 General Motors Advanced Yes Microsoft Teams Admin Center 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes

Security Tools

Technology	Date Acquired	Acquired From	Skill Level	Skill Still Used

Blumira (SIEM + XDR) 07-01-2021 Homelab Advanced Yes Wazuh (SIEM + XDR) 07-01-2021 Homelab Advanced Yes Crowdstrike Endpoint Security Platform 03-01-2022 Pinion Advanced Yes Crowdstrike Endpoint Security Policies 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Crowdstrike Host Setup and Management 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Crowdstrike IOC and IOA Management 03-01-2022 Pinion Advancced Yes Mimecast Platform (Email Security) 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Mimecast Email Gateway Policies 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Mimecast Cybergraph 03-01-2022 Pinion Master Yes Mimecast Impersonation Protection 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes Mimecast Secure Messaging 03-01-2022 Pinion Advanced Yes ADManager 03-01-2022 Pinion Master Yes ADAudit 03-01-2020 Syncreon Expert No Action1 (Patch Management and Vulnerability Remediation) 08-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes OpenVAS 08-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use/Pinion Advanced Yes Cloudflare 09-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Advanced Yes Cloudflare DNS 09-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes Cloudflare Domain Registration/Management 09-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes Cloudflare Email Security 09-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes Cloudflare Magic WAN 09-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Proficient Yes Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway 09-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Advanced Yes Cloudflare SSL/TLS 09-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes Cloudflare Tunnels 09-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes Cloudflare WARP 09-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Advanced Yes

Cloudflare Web Application Firewall

09-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Advanced Yes Cloudflare Zero Trust Network Access 09-01-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert Yes

Frameworks and Regulatory

Frameworks

Technology	Date Acquired	Acquired From	Skill Level	Skill Still Used

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) 12-01-2015 General Motors/Homelab Use Advanced Yes NIST Cybersecurity Framework 12-01-2015 General Motors/Homelab Use Advanced Yes SOC 2 08-15-2023 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Advanced Yes CIS (Center for Internet Security) 12-01-2018 Syncreon/Pinion Advanced Yes CIS RAM v2.0 (Center for Internet Security) 12-01-2018 Syncreon/Pinion Advanced Yes

Regulatory

Technology	Date Acquired	Acquired From	Skill Level	Skill Still Used

HIPAA 08-01-2012 Beaumont Hospital Advanced Yes GDPR 12-01-2018 Syncreon/Pinion Advanced Yes

High Availability and Clustering

Technology	Date Acquired	Acquired From	Skill Level	Skill Still Used

Windows High Availability and Clustering 12-01-2015 General Motors Advanced Yes Proxmox Virtual Environment High Availability 01-01-2018 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes pfSense High Availability and ISP Failover 02-16-2023 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes Synology NAS High Availability and Failover 08-01-2015 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes Crowdstrike Host Setup and Management 03-01-2022 Pinion Expert Yes haproxy (Load Balancing) 08-01-2015 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Advanced Yes

Programming

UncategorizedLanguages

Technology	Date Acquired	Acquired From	Skill Level	Skill Still Used

Bash

02-16-2013 General Motors/Personal Interest/Homelab Use Proficient Yes

HTML

02-16-2001 Personal Interest/Homelab Use/Various Employers Proficient No

Java

02-16-2001 Personal Interest/Homelab Use/Various Employers Proficient No Powershell 02-16-2013 General Motors/Personal Interest/Homelab Use Advanced Yes Python 02-16-2020 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Proficient Yes

Uncategorized

Technology

Date Acquired Acquired From Skill Level Skill Still Used

Discord

02-16-2017 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes Discord Server Management 02-16-2017 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes Discord Bot Installation/Configuration/Management 02-16-2017 Personal Interest/Homelab Use Master Yes Graylog
02-16-2020
Personal Interest/Homelab Use Proficient
Yes ~~UniFi~~NetBox ~~Site~~(Data ~~Management~~Center Management)
3-01-2021
Personal Interest/Homelab Use Proficient Yes phpIPAM IP Address Management 02-16-2020 Syncreon/Personal Interest/Homelab Use Expert
~~UniFi Site Magic~~

~~Expert~~
~~UniFi Protect~~

~~Master~~
~~NetBox~~

~~Proficient~~
~~phpIPAM~~

~~Expert~~
~~HTML~~

~~Proficient~~
~~Powershell~~

~~Proficient~~
Yes