Welcome to the TechRail

Hi all, and welcome to the TechRail.

About the Site
The site's intent is to shed light on many of the idiosyncrasies of enterprise class IT.

I've been working in IT for 7 years now, and among the geeks there's always been talk of doing things the right way. Forever talking about how this tangled mess we call an enterprise got this way, and what we would like to do to fix it. It's usually a pretty narrow view of the environment and rarely includes things like financing, staffing, politics, and business.

In my blog I will likely pull many examples from my personal experience in IT. For the purposes of this blog well call the company I work for Third Rail Inc. While every IT shop has it's problems, Third Rails shop is more broken than most.

I'm all over the place with this little blip about what the blog is going to be about. That's partly because I'm still figuring it out myself, and part because IT is a messy complex place. But we will figure it out as we go, and hopefully make the mess a little more understandable.

About Me
Like I mentioned earlier, I've worked in IT for 7 years at two different companies. At my current company my official title is Help Desk technician, but my actual job is closer to Enterprise Desktop Administrator. Today I have played a major role in designing and setting up nearly every aspect of how we maintain our client machines. From the base configuration of the OS, GPO's applied, the whole imaging environment, all the applications we support and how we support them. Really from end to end on the technical aspects of client management.

In the 3 years that I've worked at this company I've won Employee of the quarter, and Employee of the year. I'm generally well liked and respected for my high level of technical knowledge, and strong work ethic. While Third Rail Inc. has a host of issues I generally like working here, and the environment isn't overly hostile.

I tell you this because I don't want to give you the picture that I am a renegade tech, who hates his job and thinks everyone is an idiot. I'm quite the opposite where I generally like my job and want to work within the system to make it a better place to work.