I have been passionate about information technology and software engineering my entire life. Both my professional career and personal life and hobbies involve IT/software engineering. I am currently a software engineering team lead and architect in state government. I have been employed in the software engineering and IT field for over 10 years. I have experience in a variety of languages and frameworks, which includes web and desktop development utilizing C#/.NET, VB.NET, Java/J2EE, JavaScript (MEAN stack and others). Recently, I have also become familiar with IBM Mainframe technologies such as COBOL (batch and online), JCL, CICS, and others. My web development experience is in ground up full stack development, which includes database, back end, front end, web services (REST/SOAP), etc. Additionally, I have in depth experience with Windows Server and Linux -- primarily Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Ubuntu.