Summary
Nick Bright is a seasoned IT and network leader with over two decades in the ISP industry and a decade in senior engineering and management roles, currently serving as Director of Information Technology. He combines deep hands-on expertise in wireless networking, RHEL, Cisco, Mikrotik, and virtualization with strategic responsibilities for Azure, Hybrid Entra, Microsoft 365, and cybersecurity readiness. Nick has built and led cross-functional teams across DevOps, systems administration, and network operations, driving provisioning automation and platform selection at the executive level. His background includes running billing and hosting platforms, integrating disparate systems via APIs, and overseeing large network integrations and migrations. Based in Iola, Kansas, he pairs practical field experience designing 802.11 networks with enterprise IT governance—an operator who still dives into packet-level troubleshooting while shaping long-term cloud and hybrid architectures.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer