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I build systems that keep people moving.

Infrastructure, automation, web platforms, and operating discipline for small organizations that need technology to feel less fragile and more useful.

20+years building
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UPEscanaba, MI
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Mission
Goal: practical technology with human-weight reliability.
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Upper Peninsula Systems Builder

evan@systems:~$ ls capabilities

Terminal-grade work with retro discipline.

The work is not just code. It is the whole loop: design the system, ship the tool, monitor the edges, document the handoff, and keep improving after launch.

Infrastructure that survives the boring days.

Linux, DNS, reverse proxies, TLS, backups, Proxmox lanes, identity, and practical observability.

Tools that remove repeat pain.

Automation, internal dashboards, integration glue, and workflows that turn scattered operations into reliable routines.

$ automate --after-stability status: useful handoff: documented

Web delivery.

Fast sites, useful apps, clear content, and owner-friendly maintenance paths.

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Community tech.

Systems built for local organizations, care work, nonprofits, and real-world constraints.

Operations thinking.

Budget-aware planning, triage, documentation, delegation, and the calm habit of making messy processes legible.

principle: reliable > clever written > remembered

Security-minded defaults.

Private-first architecture, least-open exposure, evidence before confidence, and rollback paths before risky moves.

LinuxProxmoxAutomationWeb PlatformsBackupsIdentityDocumentationSmall Business Tech LinuxProxmoxAutomationWeb PlatformsBackupsIdentityDocumentationSmall Business Tech

evan@work:~$ cat experience.log

Responsibility, rendered as systems.

A practical timeline across care operations, media, freelance development, remote delivery, and infrastructure work.

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Manager / Coordinator

MDSCAA, 2025 to present. Applied systems thinking to human workflows, compliance-heavy processes, budgeting, delegation, and practical operational improvement.

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$ value --human-first --reliable --documented
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Founder and Operator

906.sh, 2025 to present. Building right-sized IT foundations for small businesses and nonprofits through infrastructure, identity, automation, backups, and clear documentation.

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$ deploy 906 --local-first --hardened
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Web and Systems Contractor

Freelance and remote work across web development, hosting, sales, marketing, and cross-functional delivery. The through-line is practical output over theater.

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$ ship --useful --maintainable
scene 004Sep 2022-Sep 2023Daily Press

Daily Press Multi-Role

Daily Press, September 2022 to September 2023. Worked across front desk, inside sales, accounting, editorial, and sportswriting while adjusting responsibilities around family caretaking.

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$ context --front-desk --sales --editorial --sports
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Freelance Web Developer

November 2016 to December 2019. Built websites and small-business IT stacks, helping a client scale from four figures to six figures per month through web development and marketing execution.

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$ grow --site --marketing --operations
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International Remote Contractor

2016 to 2018. Supported web design, app development, sales, and marketing across multiple divisions and international markets.

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$ collaborate --remote --multi-market
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Origin Story

Game modding in 2006 was the entry point: breaking and rebuilding systems, learning by doing, and developing the obsession with how things work under the hood.

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$ start --modding --learn-by-breaking
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The Invisible Years

A long stretch of caregiving clarified the values behind the technical work. In technology, uptime and reliability can sound abstract. In real life, they carry human weight.

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$ values --resilience --human-weight --clarity

evan@stack:~$ inspect loadout

A builder profile with four active stats.

Game modding started the obsession: break the system, learn the rules, rebuild it cleaner. The current version is more professional, but the loop is the same.

Systems

Web hosting and Linux fundamentals since 2008, self-hosted resilience since 2012, and current Proxmox, backup, identity, and edge operations.

Development

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Laravel, WordPress, app development, automation scripts, dashboards, internal tools, and practical full-stack delivery.

Operations

Reliable over clever. Document everything. Automate after stability. Build processes and handoffs that survive contact with reality.

Community

Technology grounded in Delta County, small organizations, nonprofits, care work, and local usefulness through 906.sh and community-scale platforms.

Reliable over clever. Written over remembered. Automated after stable. Built for real use, with failure modes kept visible.

evan@contact:~$ open channel

Need a practical system built or cleaned up?

Based in Escanaba, Michigan. Open to local projects, remote contracts, and conversations around infrastructure, automation, community technology, and resilient small-organization operations.

LocationEscanaba, MI
Company906.sh
StatusReady