Michael Laforest
Director Of IT at Ocean Downs Casino
Berlin, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Laforest is a results-driven IT leader with 15 years in technology and over a decade managing projects, vendors, and cross-functional teams. Currently Director of IT at Ocean Downs Casino, he has a track record of delivering complex infrastructure and network builds from design through go‑live across manufacturing and production environments. At Mountaire Farms he led a 12-person distributed IT team, modernized plant networks, delivered a custom warehouse management system, and consistently closed capital projects on time and under budget. He combines hands-on network engineering and systems work with strategic planning, cybersecurity improvements, and vendor negotiation to improve uptime and compliance. Known as a pragmatic troubleshooter, he has a knack for turning support teams into project- and service-focused groups and for reducing operational reliance on manual IT interventions. Based in Maryland with a Computer Science degree from Salisbury University, he brings both deep technical chops and practical leadership to mission-critical operational IT.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Salisbury University
Github Skills (27)
napalm10
altium-designer10
diagramming10
network-visualization10
4g10
cytoscapejs10
netmiko10
discovery10
openflow10
network-automation10
python9
firefox8
ethereum8
plug8
chrome8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MJL85/natlas
Jul 2015 - May 2019
natlas - Network Discovery and Auto-Diagramming
Contributions:3 releases, 73 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 10 months
netmikopythonopenflownetwork-automationdiagramming
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