IT‑IS Networking

Timeline

The chronological spine. Each era links through to the projects and technology that sat under it.

2021–present · Jacksonville, Florida

Founder and Principal Consultant

Young Tech Systems, LLC

Independent advisory practice run concurrently with the roles above — enterprise and security architecture, continuity planning, and Part 107 aerial inspection. Twelve clients.

2024–2026 · United States

Director of Services, Enterprise Networking

NRI North America (formerly Core BTS)

Built and led a fourteen-person architecture practice at a global technology services provider, and stood up the post-quantum cryptography lab with NRI Japan.

2024 · United States

Principal Architect, Hybrid Infrastructure

NRI North America

Hybrid infrastructure and network architecture for enterprise clients across data centre, campus, WAN and security domains.

2004–2024 · Jacksonville, Florida

Chief Technology Officer / Enterprise Architect Senior

City of Jacksonville

Twenty years as CTO and senior enterprise architect for a consolidated city-county government of 9,000 employees, on a $48M–$62M technology budget built and defended in public.

2004–2021 · Jacksonville, Florida

Founder and Principal

MYT, Michael Young Technologies

The predecessor practice, run alongside the City of Jacksonville tenure and succeeded by Young Tech Systems in 2021.

1999–2004 · Jacksonville, Florida

Senior Network Engineer / Senior Network Architect

Coleman Technologies (subsequently acquired; now Presidio)

Regional systems integrator serving enterprise, government, healthcare, industrial, utility, cable and hospitality clients. Where the CCIE was earned and where the breadth was built.

1997–1999 · Jacksonville, Florida

Chief Systems Engineer / IS Manager

StorComm, Inc.

Clinical imaging company serving hospital customers. Chief designer of the StorComm PACS platform, and architect for HIPAA-compliant hospital information management systems.

1996–1997 · Jacksonville, Florida

Engineer

CompuCom

Hardware and software engineering and technical support, including large-scale workstation rollout techniques.

1996–1997 · Jacksonville, Florida

LAN Administrator / Desktop Support Specialist

The Prudential Insurance Company

Server engineering, SQL database administration and lead desktop support — including two years on a scanning, imaging and workflow programme.

1996 · Jacksonville, Florida

MicroStation CAD Developer

JIM King (leased to CSX RPI)

Digitising CSX railroad property maps dating back to the 1800s, with MDL application development against the MicroStation platform.

1994–1995 · Gainesville, Florida

AutoCAD Technician and Network Support Specialist

Chance & Causseux Engineering

Site design across Florida in AutoCAD Release 12 and 13, with Ethernet and LANtastic network support, carried alongside engineering coursework.