About
I'm an IT Infrastructure Engineering Manager in the Midwest with a Political Science degree, an in progress MBA, and eight years at the same company. This site lives at the intersection of engineering leadership, neurodivergent parenting, and the creative projects I build to keep my brain engaged after hours.
The common thread is systems thinking applied to everything: managing teams, raising kids, building homelabs, and trying to keep the whole operation running without burning out. I write about what's worked, what hasn't, and what I'm still figuring out.
A Note on the Family Stuff
I'm a parent of two elementary-aged kids. One has a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder level 2. I will never mention my children by name on this site, and I won't share details that could identify them to people who don't already know our family.
What I will share is what I've learned managing the operational reality of neurodivergent parenting: the routines, the systems, the sensory accommodations, the IEP meetings, and the places where management frameworks from work translate (imperfectly, sometimes usefully) to home. The perspective is mine as a parent and a systems thinker, not theirs as children. They'll tell their own stories when they're ready.
The Professional Path
The short version: Political Science undergrad, stumbled into IT through a CompTIA certification, spent six years as an infrastructure engineer, transitioned into management, and completing an MBA along the way. I've been at the same company long enough to have institutional memory that predates most of my peers, which is both an asset and a responsibility.
I manage a remote team of engineers working on infrastructure and operations. The leadership writing on this site comes from that experience: the messy, human, rarely-textbook reality of managing people, projects, and priorities in a mid-size enterprise environment.
What This Site Is
Eris Outpost is a weekly blog (The Dispatch), a curated reading list (The Library), and a small merch experiment (The Commissary). The writing covers five core areas:
| Leadership & Management | Neurodivergent Parenting |
| Projects & Homelab | Growth & Education |
| Work-Life Balance |
I publish weekly, batch-create content in advance, and try to write with the same specificity I'd use in a technical document: show the work, acknowledge what didn't go well, and scope claims to my own experience rather than prescribing universally.