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I build websites with color, movement, and personality, and I build them to be fast, secure, and genuinely fun to land on. Ten years in engineering, the last six securing hundreds of federal systems, taught me how to make things that don't break; I spend the rest of my time making things people actually enjoy looking at.

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01

Who is GenieSolos

$ whoami --verbose

Systems Engineer, U.S. Federal Government. Six years federal, ten in engineering. I own the health of a fleet measured in the hundreds of servers, and I refuse to touch any of them one at a time. Everything I do turns into code: provisioning, patching, hardening, evidence collection. If it happens twice, it gets automated once.

$ cat philosophy.txt

Security isn't a scan you pass. It's a property the system holds while nobody's watching. Automation is how you make that property survive contact with reality: consistent baselines, repeatable configuration, and a paper trail that writes itself.

$ cd ~/web-development && ls

authentic-creations/   macedonia-baptist/   geniesoloscloud.com/

This is the part I'd do for free. Too much of the web is beige: templates in a row, stock photos, five shades of grey and a contact form. I build the opposite: sites with color, movement, and personality, where something delightful happens when you scroll and the whole thing still loads fast and holds up under scrutiny.

Every site I touch gets vibrance and a little bit of fun. A church should feel warm before you read a word. A therapist's page should feel calm the second it opens. That feeling is the actual product. The code is just how I get there.

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  • B.S. CybersecurityOld Dominion University · 2020
  • M.S. CybersecurityOld Dominion University · 2024
  • CISSPISC² · 2024
  • Secret ClearanceActive
02

The Toolkit

Four disciplines that compound: build the web, automate the fleet, prove the compliance, extend it all into the cloud.

Software Engineering

Websites built to be fast, safe, and genuinely enjoyable to land on.

  • Web Design & UI
  • Full-Stack Development
  • Web Security
  • AI Integration

Automation & Linux

Fleet-scale configuration management. One playbook, hundreds of hosts, zero drift.

  • Ansible
  • Python
  • Bash / Shell
  • RHEL / Linux Admin
  • systemd · cron · logging

Security & Compliance

Hardening to standard, then producing the evidence that proves it.

  • DISA STIG Hardening
  • SCAP / Compliance Scanning
  • Tenable / Nessus
  • RMF & ATO Packages
  • Vulnerability Management

Cloud & IaC

Infrastructure declared in code, versioned like software, deployed like software.

  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Terraform
  • Docker / Containers
  • CI/CD Pipelines
03

Receipts & Credentials

CISSP

ISC² · Certified Information Systems Security Professional

The gold standard of the profession: eight domains, and the years of hands-on practice the credential requires behind every one of them.

2024

Security+

CompTIA · Dec 2019

CySA+

CompTIA · Cybersecurity Analyst · Jan 2022

Solutions Architect

AWS · Associate · Mar 2022

Security Specialty

AWS · Sep 2022

Azure Administrator

Microsoft · AZ-104 · Mar 2023

04

Selected Work

Original · Games

GenieSolos Games

Small browser games I design and build end to end. The first, Holy Seven Seconds, started as a Bible-order game for a church site and now has sound, saved best scores, and sharing.

  • JavaScript
  • Web Audio
  • Accessibility
  • Game Design
games.geniesolos.com

Client · Handmade Retail

Authentic Creations

An online home for a handmade crochet studio, where every hat and bag in the shop is stitched by hand. Product listings for hats and accessories, a blog on the craft, and community crochet-circle events, all wrapped around one maker's story.

"Find you in whatever you do."
  • Responsive
  • E-commerce
  • Blog
  • Events
authenticcreationsco.com

Client · Community

Macedonia Baptist Church

A full digital home for a congregation in Arlington, Virginia: service times, event calendar, giving, and church history, with YouTube and Facebook Live streaming wired in so members who can't make it in person still have a seat.

"Reaching Higher Heights in the Lord."
  • Responsive
  • Live Streaming
  • Events
  • Accessibility
View live site

Federal · Ongoing

Automation at Scale

Hundreds of production servers under management, driven by code rather than hands. Configuration baselines, patch orchestration, STIG hardening and compliance evidence, each one a repeatable job instead of a repeated afternoon.

  • Ansible
  • Python
  • PowerShell
  • STIG
  • SCAP

U.S. Federal Government · details generalized

Platform · Education

GenieSolos Cloud

A cloud-learning platform built from my own path into the field. Hands-on AWS and Azure project tracks, plus study guides for every certification I've earned, structured so someone can follow the route instead of guessing at it.

"If you dedicate one year of your life to getting better at something, at the other end of that year your life would be changed forever."
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Cert Prep
  • Curriculum
  • HTML/CSS
geniesoloscloud.com
05

The Path

Two degrees and six certifications, every one of them earned while working full time.

  1. 2016

    Tech career begins

    Started in IT for a warehouse: troubleshooting whatever the floor sent up and running Windows 10 upgrades across every machine on site. The unglamorous end of the work, where systems break in front of people who need them working.

  2. 2020

    B.S. Cybersecurity, Old Dominion University

    Completed the bachelor's degree while working full time, turning four years of hands-on work into formal security fundamentals.

  3. 2020

    Federal work begins

    Working with the U.S. Federal Government as a Systems Engineer, trading the warehouse floor for mission systems that have to stay available, patched, and defensible.

  4. 2024

    M.S. Cybersecurity, Old Dominion University

    Master's degree, again alongside the day job. Depth in security architecture, risk, and the governance side of the discipline.

  5. 2024

    CISSP certified

    The credential that requires the years behind it. Master's and CISSP in the same year: the theory and the practice, validated together.

  6. NOW

    Scaling the fleet while building for others

    Managing hundreds of systems through automation code that makes them run better and safer, while building websites for small businesses through GenieSolos Tech.

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Grants

Grants and programs that can fund your website, your tech, and your mission. I keep the list current.

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The Upgrade

A reduced monthly rate on an online store, for a business I believe in. Apply, we talk, and if it fits I build your store at a rate set for your situation.

Apply for The Upgrade

Not a grant of money. Only for the online Storefront plan.

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Games

Small games, built with the same care as every client site: fast, colorful, and made for any phone.

GENIESOLOS GAMES

Holy Seven Seconds

Tap the books of the Bible into order before seven seconds run out.

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Bring It To Life

Let's build something with a pulse.

I build websites that are clean, fast, mobile-first, and designed so the first impression does real work for you. Tell me what you do and I'll tell you exactly what I'd build.

Hiring, collaborating, or just want to talk shop about automation and security? Same inbox.

geniesolostech@gmail.com 240-321-9004

SELF-SERVE

Plans are priced in the open, from $299/month. Build a cart, check out, done.

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