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Strategic Print Management & Archival System

Custom Print Management System

Company: Gold Business Technologies Ltd.

Developed a custom Linux-based print middleware that bypassed proprietary ERP limitations, automating the conversion of PCL print streams into searchable PDFs and increasing document accessibility by 100% through a custom archival pipeline

Setting up a reverse proxy with PfSense®

HaProxy - highly configurable proxy package

Company: Personal Project

I needed to protect and build a front end to serve many sites that I have behind the one IP my current location has been assigned. Haproxy offered that very solution with its highly manageable and high performnace load balancer which is included as a package avaliable in pfsense.

Custom pfSense Firewall Deployment

Open-Source Network Gateway Upgrade & Multi-Site VPN Integration

Company: Gold Business Technologies Ltd.

The company's networking infrastructure relied on outdated gateways and Cisco equipment, which incurred high costs due to complex licensing models, limited scalability, and expensive maintenance. With multiple remote offices, there was a pressing need for a cheaper, more effective replacement that could securely segregate traffic, connect all sites seamlessly, and integrate with cloud resources in Azure—particularly for the legacy ERP system, which remained a traditional client-server application not natively designed for cloud environments.

Cloud Migration Project

On-Premise to Azure/M365 Infrastructure Modernization

Company: Gold Business Technologies Ltd.

The company's IT infrastructure had evolved from a fragmented collection of on-premise VMware servers into a more consolidated VMware data center environment. However, maintaining physical hardware posed ongoing challenges: high maintenance costs, scalability limitations, downtime risks during physical relocations, and inefficiencies in disaster recovery. Lessons from past data center moves highlighted that physically relocating servers often disrupted users, increased costs, and introduced unnecessary complexity—making a full cloud migration the optimal path forward.

Cacti Intropage Plugin Enhancement

Improved NOC Dashboard & Visual Monitoring Summary

Company: Gold Business Technologies Ltd.

As a long-time contributor and supporter of Cacti—a widely used, open-source network monitoring and graphing solution (often compared to Nagios for its flexibility and depth)—I identified an opportunity to improve one of its popular plugins.