Hi all! 👋 I'm Todd, from Tampa I'm an old-timey IT guy and an entrepreneur of 30+ years. I started a dial-up ISP in the mid-90's with Linux and grew it to a post-dot-com-bubble cloud support company (pre GCP), but left IT in 2010. My experience for the last 20ish years has been in business development, spanning real estate, executive coaching, photography, and local government. I left public service in 2023 after the death of the commissioner I was supporting, and was promptly bitten by the ChatGPT bug. I'll be honest that I've been snookered by a couple of other "gurus" and their online communities, and I'm looking for a new online home that aligns with my goals. The financial cost aside, I'm working through the feelings that I wasted much of my time chasing what I was never going to be. What I have been doing is consulting for an SMB doing Claude Teams training and Skill building... I believe the new term is FDE, or Forward Deployed Engineer. I'm working through the Anthropic Academy and hope to be certified and become an Anthropic Partner - if/when they open it back up. Some of my time is building a 3-node Kubernetes cluster and a bare-metal, dual-GPU AI inference server on Linux and vLLM. (pic to catch your attention 😀) This started from my son's summer project - and briefly made me want to switch to DevOps, but now it's the platform for me to build my 2nd brain. I also (try to) balance all this with my love of hockey, being a USA Hockey youth coach for both a 16U travel team and our local JV and Varsity High School hockey teams. Besides being brilliant, my son is a pretty dang good hockey player. 🏒 🥅 So that's me in a nutshell. I'm happy to connect with like-minded people. (disclaimer: all hyphens, em-dashes, and oxford commas are mine. 😂) #AISChallenge