Serving small-business clients since October 2025; formalized as an LLC in February 2026. Managed IT services covering network setup, endpoint support, and website deployment. Deploy and maintain containerized applications and VPS infrastructure behind an Nginx reverse proxy.
Douglas Irwin
IT Systems Administrator
Douglas Irwin
IT Systems Administrator
About Me
Hi, there! 
I keep infrastructure running in places where downtime has consequences - a county government, a state judiciary spanning ten courthouses, a city, and a community services district. Servers, networks, endpoints, phones, and the courtroom AV that has to work at 9:00 a.m. whether or not it worked yesterday. The work I am best at is the work nobody volunteers for: the intermittent failure that will not reproduce, the vendor who stopped returning calls, the manual process quietly eating an hour a week until someone packages it away. My passion lies in delivering quality results efficiently and accurately.
- Location: Idaho Falls, ID
- Availability: Immediate
- Open to: Relocation & remote
- Languages: English, Spanish
Fun Facts
5+ Years in Public-Sector IT
10 Courthouse Sites Supported
6 Organizations Served
7 VLANs in My Homelab
Resume
Experience
Feb 2026 - Present
Principal Consultant / Founder
UplinkSync LLC
Jan 2026 - Aug 2026
IT Systems Administrator
Madison County, Idaho
Promoted from IT Support Specialist within the first week. Administered server, network, and endpoint infrastructure countywide; installed and integrated courtroom digital evidence presentation equipment with an audio handoff into the Idaho Supreme Court system; ran AV, videoconferencing, and VoIP across county facilities.
Apr 2023 - Jan 2026
Field Service Technician, 7th Judicial District
Idaho Supreme Court
District point of contact during the July 2024 CrowdStrike outage, restoring 9 of 10 county sites by end of day and the last the following morning. Supported four courthouse construction projects, drafted cabling layouts from floor plans for all ten counties, managed a district-wide hardware refresh and county-to-state email migration, and built a custom MSI installer that cut 55+ minutes per deployment.
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
Information Systems Technician
El Dorado Hills CSD
Advised and supported district users on IT systems, maintained hardware and software inventory, and ran AV for weekly public meetings.
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Field Service Technician
CRI Advantage
Imaged, deployed, and repaired desktops and laptops in a government business enterprise environment. Completed Dell warranty-repair training and performed in-warranty component replacements. Tracked support in ServiceNow.
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
IT Support Technician
City of Rexburg
Diagnosed and resolved Windows issues for city employees, set up new hardware and software, and applied city data-integrity and access-control standards.
Education
2022 - 2027 (expected)
Western Governors University
Online
B.S. in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
2015
DevMountain
Provo, UT
Web Development Bootcamp
Certifications
Current
FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
2021
Google IT Support Professional
2022
CompTIA A+
Skills
Systems & Infrastructure
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Windows Server & Active Directory
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Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace
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Linux, macOS, Windows
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Proxmox, VMware, Docker
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VPS administration, backup & recovery
Languages
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English
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Spanish (working proficiency)
Automation & Scripting
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PowerShell
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Bash
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Python
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JavaScript
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Git & GitHub
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MSI packaging
Network & Security
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LAN/WAN & VLAN configuration
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Structured cabling & patch panels
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VoIP, AV & videoconferencing
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Endpoint protection & incident response
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Backup & disaster recovery
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Nginx reverse proxy