From Gaming PCs to Enterprise IT
Command & Conquer and World of Warcraft on my brother's PC turned into a career in IT. This is how that happened.
My interest in computers started with games. I played Command & Conquer and World of Warcraft on my brother's PC, and I was hooked.
Games led to people, and people led to hardware
Playing online, I met people with the same interests. Talking with them got me asking how things worked, and eventually I started building my own PCs.
From PCs to servers
Building PCs led to home servers and hosting multiplayer games.
Harvey Norman
I worked in the computers department at Harvey Norman from 2015 to 2018, as a sales assistant, a computer technician and in printing services. That was where a hobby became a practical skill. I helped customers, diagnosed hardware problems, did repairs and installed software.
Enterprise IT
From there I moved into enterprise IT, starting on the service desk at Opteon in August 2018. I have since moved through senior service desk work into a systems role, working with Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune and PowerShell automation.
Still a hobbyist
I still build, host and tinker. My homelab, my software projects and my interest in making things all come from the same curiosity that started with those games.
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