About Me
I build things, explore ideas, and document what I learn.
Over the years I’ve worked as a Network Engineer, IT Project Manager, and IT Manager — but the constant has been building: apps, systems, experiments, and the occasional hardware mod.
This site is a record of that.
Blog
What I've been thinking about.
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Things I’ve built — apps, tools, and systems.
WallaceAndWang.com
Wallace & Wang was my own company, and the site still represents that chapter honestly.
AnotherLevel.Company
The customer wanted a simple modern website to give them more control on how their business was being advertised to the world.
David-Dickinson.com
A collection of collections. Projects, explorations, on-the-job work, all tagged consistently so the threads are visible across everything.
Work
Examples from my work history.
Designing Infrastructure From Almost Nothing
An exercise about security, infrastructure, and trying to build something predictable before the company outgrew itself.
Oracle WebCenter — Inheriting the Unmappable
a collaborative working environment with serious access controls and document security
When IT Stops Being Systems and Starts Being Strategy
There was a time when building a Linux server meant following a document.
Making Networks Predictable
Being asked to document a DR solution that only half existed.
Exploration & Experiments
Things I’m figuring out.
When Installing Linux Felt Dangerous
Fedora Core 2, Windows XP, crossed fingers, and the era before virtual machines made experimentation safe
The Parking Space Problem
a digital post-it note that probably didn't need to exist, but here we are
Building an Oracle WebCenter 14c Lab From Scratch
understanding the full stack
Oracle WebCenter — The OVA File
a prebuilt collaborative working environment
YouTube
Experiments and builds in video form.
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