Professional FAQ
Answers for recruiters, hiring leaders, and prospective clients.
This page explains role fit, resume selection, experience context, work arrangements, consulting scope, certification status, and the most useful next step.
What roles are the strongest fit?
The strongest matches combine technical depth, operational responsibility, architecture, automation, cybersecurity, and leadership.
- Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer or Senior Platform Engineer
- Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or Architecture Lead
- Infrastructure or Technology Manager
- Director of Infrastructure, Automation, Technology Operations, or Managed Services
- Senior DevOps, reliability-oriented infrastructure, network automation, or cybersecurity roles
- Appropriate consulting and contract engagements through Lighthouse Digital Logistix
Which resume should be used?
Engineering ATS Resume: use for technical infrastructure, automation, platform, DevOps, Linux, cloud, network automation, cybersecurity, and architecture positions.
Leadership ATS Resume: use for management, director, consulting-lead, architecture-lead, service-delivery, and technology-operations positions.
The matching long-form master resume supplies supporting detail for customization, interviews, and qualification review.
Is David primarily an engineer or a leader?
Both dimensions are material. The background combines senior hands-on engineering and architecture with team building, managed services, service delivery, vendor management, incident leadership, business operations, executive communication, and technology strategy.
The appropriate emphasis depends on the role rather than forcing all experience into one label.
How is enterprise production experience separated from lab work?
Experience is deliberately classified by context:
- Enterprise production: regulated, mission-critical infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, automation, incident management, and service operations.
- Consulting and operating-company production: real business systems, support, automation, websites, identity, SaaS applications, integrations, security, and continuity.
- Product development: CharterVantage requirements, architecture, workflows, databases, integrations, testing, deployment planning, and human-approval controls.
- Lab and technical validation: current Linux, Docker, Kubernetes/K3s, heterogeneous compute, AI-agent, container-image, logging, and secrets-isolation work.
Lab experience is not presented as primary enterprise production ownership.
What is the context for cloud, containers, Kubernetes, and AI work?
The background includes enterprise automation and cloud-capable infrastructure work, plus current hands-on consulting, software-product, and technical-validation work involving Linux, Docker, Kubernetes/K3s, GitHub Actions, GitHub Container Registry, APIs, AI agents, and human-in-the-loop controls.
Specific depth and production context should be evaluated from the Engineering Resume and case studies rather than inferred from a keyword list.
What consulting work is available through Lighthouse Digital Logistix?
Appropriate engagements may include infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity assessment and improvement, automation, AI-enabled workflows, software and website solutions, technical support, systems integration, documentation, operational process improvement, and practical technology strategy.
Engagements should be clearly scoped around objectives, deliverables, timing, access requirements, risk, budget, and approval controls.
What work arrangements are considered?
- Remote opportunities across the United States
- Appropriate hybrid roles in Central Ohio
- Selected onsite work or travel when requirements are reasonable
- Full-time W-2, contract, contract-to-hire, and consulting
Current availability is time-sensitive, so recruiters and clients should confirm it through the contact form.
Which certifications are current?
Currently held: CompTIA Security+, ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC), and ITIL v3 Foundation.
Previously held / expired: VMware VCP5-DCV, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCNP Enterprise, CCDP, CCSE, CCNA, and CCDA.
Historical or expired credentials are disclosed accurately and are not represented as active.
Can a role-specific resume be provided?
Yes. The appropriate ATS master resume is used as the factual baseline, then tailored to the actual job description without inventing qualifications, changing chronology, or overstating production experience.
Are professional references available?
Multiple professional references are available upon request. Reference contact details are shared privately at the appropriate stage rather than posted publicly.
What is the best way to make contact?
Use the professional inquiry form and include the role or project, work arrangement, compensation or budget when appropriate, expected timing, key requirements, and the desired next step.