Now

What I'm doing
right now.

Last updated

Work
Active

CIO at a three-year-old MSP

Balancing the daily reality of keeping existing technology running, staying ahead of what's next, and making sure everyone on the team has what they need. The company just hit three years on April 1st. Still feels like we're building the plane while flying it — in the best way.

Perform
Active

Gigs with the Sherna Armstrong Band & SASS

Performing backup with the Sherna Armstrong Band — next up is Hard Rock Casino Tejon on May 14th. Also performing regularly as SASS (Sherna and Shayla Sing) at The Vault.

Learning bass in the background. There is an actual bass. Progress is slow and mostly theoretical.

Broadcast
Building

The Night Shift on @mspbackline

Live streaming my actual night shift — no production, no performance, just the work and whoever shows up. Working on building out the demo environment that I plan to construct live on stream.

Build
Learning

DaVinci Resolve & the home lab

Getting serious about video editing with DaVinci Resolve — planning to purchase. Running a home lab on the networking and infrastructure side, which feeds directly into the demo environment build.

Read / Think
Always

Books, politics, paying attention

Reading and listening constantly — books, audiobooks, whatever I can get through. Politically engaged, attending No Kings marches. Trying to stay informed without losing my mind.

This site
Building

Building out jalyahs.net

Migrated off WordPress onto a static site — cleaner, faster, mine. Adding pages as things become real enough to put on the internet. You're looking at one of them.

This is a Now page — a single page that reflects what I'm focused on at this point in time. Updated whenever things shift. No schedule, no pressure.