About

Hi. I’m Virgil Aurand, I’m an I.T. Consultant & developer, and currently live in northern Idaho.


In addition to my I.T., networking, cloud & security work, I’m currently working on Python and Data Science projects.


I’m also an artist and woodworker, currently focusing on woodturning, carving and furniture. Some of my work is here.


Expertise

I.T. Infrastructure Engineer/Consultant

Assessment, architecture and secure implementation of information systems in Internet, e-Commerce, Client/Server, VMWare, LAN/WAN/WLAN, and Remote-Access computing environments

I.T. Cloud Engineer

Expertise with Amazon, Google, Microsoft cloud solutions.

Programming & Scripting

HTML, CSS, Python, Javascript, PowerShell, SQL


Experience

Principal Consultant at the VCO Project

2014 – Current
I.T. Engineering & Support, Infrastructure Consultant: Servers / Networking / Security.

Manager Information Technology at Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

2012 – 2014
Managed a team of very sharp professionals that provided solutions such as SharePoint, Exchange, Virtualization, Citrix, Endpoint and Security engineering.

Principal Consultant at Sun Mountain I.T.

2005 – 2012
I.T. Engineering & Support, Infrastructure Consultant: Servers / Networking / Security.

Sr. Network Security Engineer at NCC Networks

2004 – 2005
I.T. Engineering & Support, Infrastructure Consultant: Servers / Networking / Security.

And More… Sr. Network & Security Engineer jobs from 2004 – 1995


Let’s make something
great together.