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From 2015 to 2019, I was entrusted to oversee the daily operations of a technology training school in Virginia Beach
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From 2015 to 2019, I was entrusted to oversee the daily operations of a technology training school in Virginia Beach
The SANS finding does not mean the talent conversation is over. It means the framing needs to shift from *how many* to *how ready*. That distinction changes what organizations prioritize, what hiring looks like, and what professional development is actually supposed to accomplish.
I learn best by doing. I can research a topic, take notes, and watch every video out there; but it doesn't really come together until I have an environment to work in. That's what a homelab is. And it's one of the most powerful things you can build before your IT career ever starts.
LXC containers on VPN-protected VLANs often fail to resolve external hostnames. The fix is to set DNS via the Proxmox host using pct set --nameserver — do NOT use chattr +i on resolv.conf inside the container. It will prevent the container from booting.
The same prompt. Two completely different results. The only thing that changed was whether a context profile was loaded. These two examples show what that difference looks like in real ministry tasks.
Before walking through how to build a ministry context profile, see what the outcome looks like. Here is what changed once the profile was built — and why the difference was not subtle.
Most ministry leaders blame their AI results on bad questions. The problem is that AI does not know them. Here is the difference between a prompt and a context profile, and why that gap changes everything for ministry leaders.
I learn best by doing. I can research a topic, take notes, and watch every video out there; but it doesn't really come together until I have an environment to work in. That's what a homelab is. And it's one of the most powerful things you can build before your IT career ever starts.
"Why the sequence matters: ITF+, A+, and Network+ before Security+. Drawn from experience training students and working as an Cybersecurity Practitioner."