About

Abraham has been working in IT for 25 years! He started out building his first computer; A pentium 90 that ran Windows 3.11 on top of MS-DOS 6. From there, Abraham progressed through many computers, both Windows and Mac computers, as well as a smattering of Linux machines as well. Around 2000, Abraham started his software experience with maintaining a basic HTML website with some PHP thrown in here and there. From there, Abraham continued to work with both hardware and software by building and repairing computers and creating websites for himself and others.

Flash animation and navigation was very popular in the early 2000s. Consequently, Abraham developed small Flash animations all the way up to entire websites done in Flash. When creating sites in Flash (and later with JavaScript) Abraham hated the fact that the forwards and back buttons did not navigate correctly. This is true even today and is one of the areas in which Abraham focuses on the small things to make everything just right. Forward and reverse buttons ought to take you forwards and backwards!!

Abraham also started working with Classic ASP, ASP.NET, Java, & C# at this time. Any technology was interesting to him and he has always felt that understanding all of the systems that go into IT solutions was one of the best ways to be able to design, develop, and implement full-fledged systems. Abraham has always been what's called a full-stack developer, meaning he does design, coding, database design and creation, and server management.

Around this time Abraham decided he really wanted to make IT his career path. To this point, Abraham was self-taught (before the internet contained all the great tutorials and videos it does these days!). Abraham decided a varied schooling was the best route. To that end, Abraham earned an Associate of Arts with a focus on Information Systems. He went on to earn a Bachelor of IT (his school was one of the first to offer IT degrees) with a focus on Programming. At this point, Abraham was on a roll and continued on to earn a Master of IT in Internet Security.

From this point on Abraham continued to work in IT part-time, full-time, as a contractor, and as a freelancer over the course of many years. Because of the diversity of projects, systems, and clients Abraham continued to gain experience in many different areas of the tech industry. From creating websites to display an entire business' home-building data across 20 monitors, to a system in Microsoft Access to manage a warranty repair company's clients, work orders, and financial data.

Abraham wrote SQL Queries for reporting systems, Windows-based software for bookstores, configured and managed NAS & SAN systems, managed physical and virtual servers, created automatic backup systems both in Linux and Windows, created data migration systems, created a system with Optical Character Recognition and MICR codes to read and process checks for a financial institution, created applications using barcode scanners on handheld devices that used local database storage that then synced with other devices to a central database system, & so much more!

One of Abraham's life-long goals has been to achieve a doctorate degree. In 2017 Abraham started on his doctorate journey. Abraham did not realize how much work would go into this degree. At this point in time Abraham was working part-time as an adjunct instructor for a technical college, working full-time as a software developer for a major university, volunteering at his local church, and trying to raise 2 kids as a single dad. These several years were the hardest years of his life.

But earning this degree was important to Abraham. Not just attaining the degree, but truly earning it. And to do it well. Abraham wrote hundreds of academic papers, developed a research study, executed said study, developed a model IT Project Managers, and wrote a dissertation (Alternate Link) on IT Project Management and the most common fail point: Project scopes. Abraham went all in on this degree and earned his degree in May 2020 with a 4.0 GPA! Dr. Westfall in the house :P

Abraham continued to focus on several areas by selecting courses in cyber-security, developing material for and teaching IT courses online, & IT project management. Thanks to Abraham's breadth of experience, he can help you determine what your IT needs are and achieve your IT goals.