IT Support Professional

IT Network support enthusiasts

Hello All, My name is Dean Taunton and I have enjoyed network design and support since before the cloud! I am using Ansible to deploy and maintain my home network and Github to review and backup the Ansible playbooks.

What I’m working on

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Front-End Developer

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Projects

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Always evolving home labs

• Building home labs from decommissioned enterprise equipment • Installing Wireless routers and access points for home networks • Installing Fiber Optic cables from ISP Provider box to Lan cabinets • Correcting network issues to maximize speeds for working remote • Converting PC’s to Linux now that Microsoft no longer...

Experience

Home Lab and home networking enthusiast
Taunton Home Tech, Home network designer
McKinney Tx US | May, 2020 - January, 1970

My personal home lab has a 4U server with dual Xeon 2695v2 12 cores, 128 gig ram, multi hot swap drives. I chose Proxmox VE as the hypervisor for its added security of individual firewalls around each LXC container or virtual machine. Ansible is used to deploy and maintain the servers. Within the primary server are;

    Pihole ad blocker and recursive DNS VM;  this protects the entire home network OpnSense Firewall / router VM;  all routing of wireless and wired traffic with packet inspection TrueNas Core backup VM;  all backups for the networks ZoneMinder Surveillance VM;  controls all camera traffic and recordings JellyFin home media server VM,  manage and share digital media files to network devices

Certifications

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Excel CEO Master Course

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Education

Updating home equipment for friends and family over 25 years
January, 1970 - January, 1970

After a successful supply chain career, its time to focus on my passion for all things IT. Updating windows and writing dos scripts before that, now focusing on my passion for IT hardware and software. Updating Asus home routers to WRT-Merlin or Open source Linux based tools, adding sub-nets, filters, and closing security vulnerabilities.