Rick Buford
Manager, IT Infrastructure at The Stronghold Companies
Friendswood, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorRick Buford is an experienced IT infrastructure leader with 11+ years in network engineering and a 25+ year career history designing, deploying, and maintaining highly available enterprise networks. Currently managing IT infrastructure at The Stronghold Companies and consulting through Fulcrum Technology Solutions, he brings deep hands-on expertise with Cisco platforms, application delivery controllers (F5, Cisco CSM), and advanced failure/redundancy strategies. His background includes large-scale network operations, B2B integrations, and monitoring architectures using Riverbed and SolarWinds, coupled with strong security and PCI compliance experience. Known for bridging infrastructure and application teams, Rick combines systems-level thinking with practical implementation skills across routing, switching, DNS, Linux, and enterprise services. A long-tenured practitioner who has operated in both in-house and consulting roles, he often surfaces operational improvements that reduce downtime and simplify complex deployments.
11 years of coding experience
perl
Github Skills (4)
amazon-echo5
media-playback2
python2
serverless1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
teisha/dataPoker
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Investigating data sets for Python practice. Just a practice project
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
python
teisha/python-data-processing-practice
Jun 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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