Cymen's Blog

I currently am employed as a web developer with Webitects in Chicago focusing on ASP.NET MVC.

I have a diverse background in IT that began after high school working for a small consulting company in Chicago with projects ranging from website development, Lotus Notes programming, network setup and server management. I continued my education in Wisconsin graduating from the University of Wisconsin at Madison with a B.S. in Computer Science.

While in Wisconsin, I spent approximately 4 years working for an Internet Service Provider named Berbee. Madison Dearborn Partners brought the company from Jim Berbee and merged it with CDW. At CDW-Berbee, I worked with the internal application development team that created and maintained tools used by the engineering staff. My primary focus was monitoring which is essential at a Managed Services Provider. The monitoring platform was and still is built upon Nimsoft (the product was formerly known as NimBUS but that name has been dropped). Under the direction of Keith, I developed probes to monitor diverse technologies and worked on a custom report configuration creation backend.

Outside of work, I enjoy photography, cooking and the outdoors. I think the Colorado Plateau is a often beautiful and enchanting area of the United States. One day I’d like to leisurely sail around the world. The nomadic lifestyle is something I’d like to try one day on land or water.