Gary VirkIT support / infrastructure

05 Controlled labs · independent review

Systems work,
with receipts.

These are small, controlled systems built to answer practical support questions. Each one includes a failure, the evidence used to isolate it, a bounded change, and a separate check that proves what happened next.

All environments are owned labs. Production, enterprise, and Windows claims are stated only where the evidence supports them.

Project index

01

IT support · PowerShell · Windows 11

Windows endpoint readiness

A read-only support utility that separates DNS-only faults from broader network-path failures and leaves an escalation-ready evidence bundle.

Validated

02

Networking · Cisco ACLs · Batfish

Network access-control change

A four-zone policy change tested as baseline, controlled regression, correction, rollback, and clean repeat.

Validated

03

Networking · Nmap · Evidence normalization

Network inventory drift

A fail-closed inventory analyzer that distinguishes new, missing, moved, and uncertain devices while retaining field-level provenance.

Validated

04

IT support · DHCP · Packet evidence

DHCP failure isolation

A disconnected service lab that traces no-offer, incorrect-option, and competing-server failures through real DORA captures.

Validated

05

Networking · TShark · Troubleshooting

Packet triage evidence library

Five small packet cases that connect a user-visible symptom to a decisive filter, bounded change, and different post-change capture.

Validated