Summary
Michael Mcdaniels is an Information Technology Specialist with 12 years of operational and instructional experience transitioning from a long military career into civilian IT roles. He manages enterprise desktop environments, Active Directory for 300+ accounts, VTC suites, imaging, and security coordination while holding an active Secret clearance. Comfortable supporting both remote and on-site users, he has delivered systems administration and lifecycle management for military and government customers at scale. Michael pairs hands-on hardware and OS patching expertise with instructional design experience—having taught and developed multi-hundred-hour programs and managed training assets worth over $52k. Currently based in Columbus, GA, he is building on CompTIA entry-level certifications to deepen his technical foundation and translate leadership, documentation, and security practices into IT operations. Notably, his background in armored vehicle maintenance and battalion-level coordination gives him practical resilience and systems-thinking that inform his approach to infrastructure reliability.
12 years of coding experience
Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer Science, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer Science at Columbia College