David Bolding — Resume

David Bolding is a Systems Engineer and Automation Architect currently serving as Director of IT Managed Services at Archangel Technology and Education in Miami, FL. Based in upstate South Carolina. He specializes in Microsoft 365 administration, PowerShell automation, Active Directory, network engineering, and IT systems architecture, with particular strength in combining technical work with emotional intelligence and mental health awareness. He blogs at therandomadmin.com and runs a home lab at dpb.one. Contact: david@bolding.us. Available for roles in IT direction, systems engineering, automation, and managed services consulting.

Experience summary

Core skills

Windows Server (2012, 2016, 2019), Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell, .NET, Power Automate, Graph API, Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, Teams, Identity, Defender, SharePoint, Intune, Universal Print), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Veeam, Azure Backup, Rsync, Cisco Meraki, Juniper, PFSense, Untangle, Cradlepoint, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, RADIUS, Palo Alto firewalls, VOIP (Avaya, ShoreTel, Mitel, FreePBX), endpoint management (Intune, SCCM, NinjaOne, PDQ), MFA, Conditional Access, Defender for Endpoint, IT compliance and auditing, emotional intelligence, staff onboarding, ticketing systems, knowledge base development.

Bolding.us
— Chapter I · The Recursive Admin —

David Bolding— systems engineer · automation architect

I build, break, and connect things — sometimes all at once. Engineering reliable systems for the modern world, automating the bridge between technology and people.

⟁ Director of IT Managed Services · Archangel Technology & Education ⟁
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The Operator

Family guy. Systems thinker. Tender of servers and people alike.

Portrait of David Bolding

Hi, I'm David Bolding — systems architect, automation engineer, and family guy.

I build, break, and connect things, sometimes all at once. I love working with different technologies, diving deep into IT systems, and creating order from chaos.

My most honored role is being there for my family and making technology work for people.

I write a technical blog with mental health sprinkled in — because the people running the systems matter as much as the systems themselves. Patterns interest me everywhere I find them: in PowerShell scripts, in fractals, in tarot, in the quiet work of tending a household.

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The Arcana

Each card a discipline. Tap one — the full reading is on the other side.

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The Vita

A working life — annotated. Each rung shaped the next.

Dec 2025 · Present

Director of IT Managed Services

— Archangel Technology & Education · Miami, FL

Leading IT managed services strategy and operations. Setting the direction for client systems, automation, and the team that keeps them running.

Jul 2025 — Dec 2025

System Engineer

— Tri-County Technical College · Pendleton, SC

Higher-education systems engineering — supporting faculty, staff, and student infrastructure across a community college environment.

Nov 2023 — Jul 2025

System Administrator

— Reliable Automatic Sprinkler · Liberty, SC

Day-to-day stewardship of Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, networking and endpoint management for a manufacturing environment.

Nov 2022 — Nov 2023

System Administrator

— Lincoln Energy Solutions · Greenville, SC

System administration in the energy sector — automation, infrastructure, and the unglamorous work of keeping users productive.

Nov 2020 — Nov 2022

Managed Service Engineer

— Fusion Managed IT · Greenville, SC

MSP work across many clients and many problems — the school where I learned to read unfamiliar environments quickly and fix what was actually broken, not what was loudest.

Jul 2014 — Nov 2020

System Specialist

— The Blood Connection · Piedmont, SC

Six years inside a regional blood center. Healthcare-adjacent work where uptime is not abstract — where I first understood that good IT is, ultimately, care work.

Earlier Chapters Best Buy · Greenville Technical College · Midlands Technical College · Pickens County School District · CVS Pharmacy · Pickens Middle School. The wide foundation that shaped the rest.
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The Oracle

A working terminal. Type a question — the oracle answers. help begins the conversation.

david@bolding.us — ~/recursive_admin
welcome, traveler. you've reached the oracle. it speaks plainly. type help to see what it knows.
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try: about · skills · stack · vita · contact · projects · fractal · tarot · mantra · clear

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Current Works

Side projects, the home lab, and the writing.

The Blog

The Random Admin

Technical writing on system administration, automation, and the human side of IT. Mental health sprinkled into the PowerShell.

therandomadmin.com →
The Lab

Home Lab

A personal infrastructure playground — where the ideas get tested before they reach production.

dpb.one →

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