Summary
Joel Carlton is an IT audit and compliance manager with 12 years of hands-on experience bridging security, operations, and DevOps across networking and enterprise systems. Based in Greenville, SC, he has progressed from systems administration and DevOps to leading IT audit programs, bringing deep practical knowledge of Cisco networking, Red Hat, Ansible automation, Splunk, and scripting in Python/NodeJS. He’s known for integrating disparate systems—everything from Kronos and Honeywell WinPak to Active Directory—while building automated patching, provisioning, and centralized authentication solutions. Joel combines a developer’s mindset (PHP, MySQL, AWS) with audit rigor to deliver secure, auditable operations and measurable controls. A former principal of a small design and photography business, he also brings a creative perspective to problem solving and user-focused tooling.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at Bob Jones University
Diploma General, Diploma General at Trinity Christian School
AAS Networking, AAS Networking at Greenville Technical College
php, java script, python, java