N8 Optics builds the connective tissue between your RFID readers, POS systems, network hardware, and everything else that refuses to play nice. For mid-sized operations scaling from 20 to 40 locations—when out-of-the-box software stops working.
Built a distributed monitoring system tracking reader health across 30+ retail locations. Store collectors poll hardware every 30 seconds, feeding a central dashboard that gives leadership real-time visibility into what’s actually happening on the floor.
Wrote the scripts that configure and deploy Zebra FX7500 RFID readers from box to production. A 7-stage automated workflow that handles authentication, firmware updates, network config, and cloud endpoint registration — turning a 2-hour manual process into 15 minutes.
Connected service management platforms, inventory systems, and shipping APIs into seamless automated workflows. When a ticket opens, the right people know, the right data flows, and nothing falls through the cracks.
Custom dashboards that extract and display data across an entire physical and digital footprint. Real-time health checks, historical trends, and the alerts that actually matter — built for the people who need answers at 2am.
JAMF and SOTI deployments for managing hundreds of devices across retail locations. Zero-touch provisioning, policy enforcement, and remote troubleshooting — so your floor staff has working tools, not excuses.
Microsoft 365 tenant management, security policies, and user lifecycle automation. From onboarding to offboarding, every access point is accounted for and every license is optimized.
3-2-1 backup architecture implementation — three copies, two media types, one offsite. Because the question isn’t whether you’ll lose data, it’s whether you can get it back.
Temporary infrastructure for pop-up retail locations and special events. Network setup, queue management systems, appointment booking kiosks, and POS deployment — built fast, torn down clean, nothing left behind.
Every engagement follows the same philosophy — understand the people, test in a sandbox, deploy with clarity.
I don’t start by looking at your servers. I start by talking to your people. The floor managers, the support staff, the stakeholders who live with the friction every day. I define the human problem before recommending a single piece of hardware.
Most consultants show up with a solution looking for a problem. I show up with questions.
I take your complex problem back to my own lab environment. I’ll tell you upfront: “I haven’t connected these two exact legacy systems before, but here is my methodology for testing it.” I spin up the virtual servers, run the containerized tests, write the scripts, and break things in a safe sandbox until the elegant solution emerges.
Transparency over ego. Every time.
I implement the solution, but I don’t hand over a dense technical manual and disappear. I translate everything into plain English. Your internal team understands how to use it, how to maintain it, and why it works the way it does.
The goal isn’t dependence on me — it’s independence from the chaos.
Every engagement starts with a flat-fee discovery phase. I map your current operational landscape — what talks to what, what doesn’t, where the friction lives — and deliver a strategic roadmap you can act on with or without me.
You get clarity and a plan. No surprises, no open-ended billing for undefined work.
For ongoing work, clients keep me on retainer. You’re not paying for a specific widget — you’re paying for my brain and my ability to execute. Each month, we tackle your evolving priority list together.
This model works because the problems I solve don’t come with a fixed scope. They come with a “we’ll know it when we see it” moment. The retainer gives us room to get there.
I’ve spent my career in the space between “it should work” and “it actually works.” As an IT Manager for a rapidly scaling retail brand, I’ve led everything from deploying RFID infrastructure across 30+ stores to building the monitoring dashboards that keep leadership from flying blind.
I’m not a consultant who hands you a strategy deck and disappears. I’m the person who spins up the virtual servers, writes the scripts, breaks things in a safe sandbox, and doesn’t stop until the elegant solution emerges. Project manager one hour, engineer the next—whatever the problem needs.
The operations I support have grown from a handful of locations to dozens, and every stage surfaced new problems that had no manual. That’s what I do best: figure out the problems nobody’s solved before.
N8 Optics is gearing up. Full services launching soon — but if your systems are already on fire, let’s talk.