Hi! I’m Beta. I’m a former utility DCS field service engineer that had 34 years in before I quit with benefits (aka retired, but that doesn’t really fit). I’m furry adjacent, queer, and trans.

Currently, I’m being a NEET in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts. I play with my network and devices (“We test in production!” is our motto) while my kitties “help”, watch anime, read manga, listen to hard rock and metal music. Love all things sciency, with favs being geology, physics, astronomy, biology.

So what does a field service engineer do? We are the epitome of the saying “Jack of all trades, master of none.” We do demolition of old equipment, installation of new, upgrades, maintenance, modifications of control schemes, troubleshooting (and hopefully fixing) things. We load PCs with hardware, OS, and software, configure networking devices, work with the customer on interfacing to third party devices, modifying control schemes, control tuning and more. Within all that, we each have our specialties, mine was system networking and interfacing.

If I could find something, I’d be open to part time IT support work, but jobs are tough to come by, especially for graymuzzles.

About my logo

During my career, many people said what I did was magic. It sometimes scared people (including myself), so I decided that I was a witch of sorts, and made my logo. It incorporates the various tasks I did (in a general sense), with the tag line being in the center, because at the end of the project, that was all that mattered.