Built from the infrastructure up.

Daniel's career began close to the metal: workstation support, server administration, network troubleshooting, backups, recovery, and the day-to-day work of keeping systems alive for real users. That foundation still shapes his approach.

Over time, his work moved through network administration, senior engineering, network management, team leadership, and security-focused architecture. He has led and supported multi-site environments involving routing, switching, firewalls, VPN, wireless security, segmentation, IDS/IPS, NAC, monitoring, disaster recovery, carrier coordination, vendor negotiation, and lifecycle planning.

His current public-facing role is described as Network Architect / Team Lead at a Private Multi-Campus University. That abstraction is intentional. Public material should establish professional authority without exposing employer-specific names, internal architecture, sensitive systems, or operational details.

Daniel is also the founder of Tekmyster Industries, LLC, an independent technology company used to support infrastructure research, network and security testing, lab development, and technical consulting.