IT Service Provider | Small Business Owner | Field Technician | Cybersecurity Professional & Researcher | Homelab Tinkerer
I run Pacific Northwest Computers, an IT services business in Vancouver, WA serving the SW Washington and Portland metro area. With 20+ years in the trenches of small business IT, I build the tools I actually use day-to-day. From Windows deployment automation and system auditing scripts, to self-hosted infrastructure, and embedded security projects. Everything here comes out of real client work or my own homelab.
- 🔧 Owner/Operator @ Pacific Northwest Computers: Onsite & remote support, computer repair, network configuration, and cybersecurity consulting for residential and small business clients.
- 🚀 Active Projects: DeployWorkstation (zero-touch Win 10/11 deployment), SystemTester (portable Sysinternals toolkit), and Pi-SocialMedia-Poster (self-hosted FastAPI cross-poster).
- 📡 IoT / RF: ESP32_HA_CarAlarm — DIY vehicle security via ESPHome + Home Assistant. Also building out PNWC_MESH, a Reticulum LoRa mesh network on LilyGO T3S3 hardware.
- 📖 Documentation: Maintainer of the ULTIMATE Cybersecurity Master Guide and a Jekyll-based IT field handbook.
- Self-hosted stack: TrueNAS SCALE, Proxmox, OPNsense, UniFi, NPMplus, Tailscale — replacing SaaS where it makes sense.
- Pentesting hardware: HackRF One, Flipper Zero, WiFi Pineapple, Bus Pirate 5, Pwnagotchi, GreatFET One — for client security assessments and learning.
- LoRa / mesh networking: Reticulum, Meshtastic, RNode firmware on Heltec & LilyGO boards.
- Amateur radio: GMRS repeater work and HF wire antennas (active operator).
- Small business IT: Real-world pain points, client communication, documentation workflows.
- Windows deployment & automation: PowerShell-first toolkits for MSPs and field techs.
- Homelab security: Hardening self-hosted services, reverse proxy auth, network segmentation.
- Field-side cybersecurity: Practical incident response, malware remediation, security audits.
| Category | Tools & Technologies |
|---|---|
| Scripting | PowerShell, Bash, Python (FastAPI) |
| Infrastructure | TrueNAS SCALE, Proxmox VE, OPNsense, UniFi, Docker, LXC |
| Security | Kali Linux, Tsurugi, Sysinternals, Wireshark, Nmap |
| IoT / Embedded | ESPHome, Home Assistant, Reticulum, RNode, MMDVM/WPSD |
| Docs / Web | Jekyll, GitHub Pages, Markdown |
- 🏢 Business: pacificnwcomputers.com
- ✍️ Blog: blog.pacificnwcomputers.com
- 🌐 All links: linktr.ee/pnwcomputers
- 📧 Email: jon@pnwcomputers.com
"Twenty years in, still fixing computers and learning new ways to break them."