Jared Busch is a Senior Consultant with 13 years of IT experience based in the Greater Chicago Area, blending hands-on VoIP expertise, network administration, software development, and SQL DBA work to support small and mid-sized businesses across the Midwest. He built deep telecom and network skills managing Avaya PBX systems, Cisco/HP infrastructure, firewalls/VPNs, and migrations from legacy GroupWise systems to Active Directory/Exchange. Comfortable switching hats, Jared pairs practical field experience installing access control and security systems with backend development chops—he’s contributed C++ and Lua fixes and features to the popular open-source EQEmu EverQuest server project. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, cost-conscious solutions that improve operational efficiency, and he often surfaces process automation and reporting improvements from frontline technical work.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
A.A.S, Eletrical Engineering Technology, A.A.S, Eletrical Engineering Technology at ITT Technical Institute
B.A., Information Technology, B.A., Information Technology at Lindenwood University
A Fan-Driven Server Platform Preserving the Legacy of a Legendary MMORPG for Over Two Decades and Going
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:16 commits, 1 comment in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily contributed to the server-side logic of the EverQuest emulator. Their work included fixing bugs related to item summoning, stackable item handling, and spawn conditions. They also added new features like retrieving characters in an instance and enhancing spawn condition functionality. The user demonstrated proficiency in C++ and Lua, modifying code related to core game mechanics and scripting.
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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