The Back Story

When I arrived at my current job three years ago I came upon a wealth of new career experiences. Not only did my position involve the same desktop support routine that my previous position contained, but also a relatively new responsibility of systems administration. I had done a little bit of tinkering with servers in the past and even setup a few systems for use by my colleagues at my previous office, but nothing on the scale of what I had encountered at my new job. Now this isn't to say that all of a sudden I had hundreds of servers thrown on my shoulders. It is a relatively small site that I was taking care of (less than 200 users), but due to the nature of the research going on server resources were in fairly high use at the site. To boil it all down when I got here there were about 15 servers being used for one thing or another. I am essentially the sole IT person for this site of the university I work for. I do have access to additional resources, people, etc. but for the most part I am on my own. Don't get me wrong it is a lot of responsibility and even more work, but I love it. I had a lot of learning to do, and I still learn more almost daily.