About Me

Z-Nerd. It's a play on my last name (Ziehnert - ZEE-nert). I think people used this pejoratively more than once when I was a kid. The joke's on them I guess... because I've made a great career out of being a "nerd."

I've held a few different jobs over the years (analyst, engineer, consultant, software engineer) but they've all stayed in the realm of device managability. Throughout my career I've blogged a decent amount, but then I had kids. I tried to keep blogging, but by the third kid and another new job (actual work, not the kid) I was pretty tapped out. You can read all those posts in my "archives." I'll eventually bring over the posts that I think hold the most value as time allows, but I wanted a fresh start because nothing helps my executive dysfuction more than starting something new.

At the moment I'm an "Endpoint Management Software Engineer" for HP, Inc. I can't tell you much about what I do... I can't even tell my friends in other departments at HP what I do. NDAs and all that jazz. I wouldn't have to kill you if I told you, but unemployment benefits don't seem like a good way to provide for my family. From my title however, I'm sure you can guess that I have continued in the device managability space.

You'll find me from time to time speaking at MEMUG and MMS. If you've got a user group or conference and you need someone to kill an hour of time with stupid memes and some mild (or sometimes deep) technical content in Azure, PowerShell, Intune, or MEMCM/ConfigMgr, I'm a guy (not THE guy or even YOUR guy, but sometimes you gotta stick with what's available).

None of any of that matters.

Stick around to read some fun(ny?) stuff.

Eat Arby's.