A journey of growth and learning in the techology field, with an emphasis on virtualization, cloud, and security
A journey of growth and learning in the techology field, with an emphasis on virtualization, cloud, and security
Hello, World!, isn’t that how you are supposed to start these types of things? My name is Lee Abner and I have been working in technology for close to 30 years now. I have seen a lot of technologies come and go. I have seen enough to know that change is the only constant and this blog is my journey of change and learning.
I have a beautiful wife Jennifer and two children, Sarah and John. Jennifer and I are now empty nesters, living in Central Illinois. The line between work and hobby often gets blurred for me, since I love technology and learning new things, it often doesn’t feel like work. Outside of technology, I love to read and enjoy going to sporting events, especially Chicago Cubs games. I am slo a Big Walt Disney World Fan, hence my twitter handle, BigOnDis. I have been going to Disney World since it first opened in 1971.
I started, like most IT professionals that have been around for a while, building and supporting personal computers. After college, my first job was working for my local municipality supporting their desktops, network, and server. I moved on to a consulting role, with a mid-sized accounting firm here in the midwest, doing mostly the same stuff, but for clients. I also was able to do some work on the corporate network, which exposed me to different technologies. This is all back when Novell was the server operating system of choice. I then moved to the company I am at now, which is a small community bank in the midwest , and have been here for the last 18 years. I started out as a server admin and moved up/survived to be the Director of Technology Services / Chief Information Security Officer. In this time period I did some work as a consultant at a large insurance company in security, specifically in cryptography, but I was only there for about a year and came right back to the bank.
As part of a small IT staff, there are only five of us in IT, we all have to wear multiple hats, so I guess I am a bit of a Jack of all trades kind of person. My role in general is responsibility for all the servers, desktops, networks and security at the bank. I spend most of my time focused on the servers and security side of things.
If you would like to contact me, the best way is to reach out to me on Twitter or on LinkedIN.