Skills by work function

Capabilities, with the evidence source visible.

This is not a keyword wall or a set of arbitrary percentages. Each group is tied to professional employment, public project work, or hands-on personal infrastructure operation.

Professional employment

Technical Support & Diagnostics

Support work where symptoms are incomplete, the next test matters, and the explanation must help someone act.

  • Remote technician support
  • Fault isolation
  • Symptom interpretation
  • Repair-path evaluation
  • Escalation context
  • Customer communication
  • Technical documentation
  • Case-management workflow

Professional & hands-on field work

Hardware, Electronics & Safety

Physical-system experience that reinforces measurement, safe isolation, service information, and verification after repair.

  • Appliance diagnosis
  • Electronics troubleshooting
  • Computer diagnosis & recovery
  • Component-level reasoning
  • Industrial compressors
  • Vacuum systems
  • Lockout/tagout practices
  • Amateur Radio General · KD7RUE

Personal infrastructure · Owner/operator

Linux & Infrastructure

Hands-on operation of a personal platform, clearly separated from paid enterprise employment.

  • Linux administration
  • systemd
  • Proxmox
  • Virtual machines
  • Containers
  • ZFS-backed storage
  • Docker & Compose
  • Service health checks
  • Backups & recovery
  • Resource troubleshooting

Personal infrastructure · Owner/operator

Networking & Secure Access

Network and edge-service practice focused on traceable behavior, narrow trust, and configuration that can be checked.

  • pfSense
  • VLAN segmentation
  • DNS
  • Routing
  • WireGuard
  • Firewall policy
  • TLS reverse proxies
  • Secure administrative access
  • Service exposure review

Open source & operational tooling

Automation & APIs

Small tools and repeatable workflows that remove manual error without hiding risk behind unnecessary complexity.

  • Shell scripting
  • Python
  • REST APIs
  • JSON & structured data
  • Git
  • Regression tests
  • Configuration validation
  • Idempotent operations
  • Release checks

Personal infrastructure · Applied practice

Self-Hosted AI Systems

Operational work around local model services and the resource, routing, health, and privacy questions that come with them.

  • GPU workloads
  • Local model serving
  • Model routing
  • Speech workflows
  • API-compatible inference
  • Service isolation
  • Resource-aware scheduling
  • Health validation

Across professional, project & personal work

Documentation & Recovery

Operational quality is not just making a change; it is leaving the system understandable and recoverable.

  • Runbooks
  • Rollback procedures
  • Change summaries
  • Backup verification
  • Post-change checks
  • Failure-boundary notes
  • Privacy-safe evidence
  • Trade-off documentation

Professional tool familiarity

Support & Collaboration Tools

Tools used in the recent remote-support workflow.

  • ServicePower
  • Avaya
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Outlook
  • Excel
  • Phone-based technical support

Best fit

Roles where support judgment meets systems thinking.

Strong matches include remote technical support, Linux and infrastructure support, NOC and monitoring operations, network troubleshooting, systems administration, automation, and self-hosted AI infrastructure support.