Dave Shields

By day I am the father of five children, married my high school sweetheart and have been together ever since (15 years), I am an IAM Engineer r for the federal government, an avid blogger, and run many WordPress sites. By night I am DJ6i, an indepdendent southern Electronica artist who has already created, produced, and released a 7 song EP that is available on iTunes, Amazon, Napster and almost any place you can name. I released three more songs for my new EP coming soon.

I am THE Retro Gamer Boy. I provide modern and nostalgic reviews for retro console systems such as the SNES, NES and PlayStation One. You can check out that blog if vintage tech is your thing.

I have been doing IT in various shades and formats since 2001 and clawed my way up the ladder from a mom and pop computer shop guy to an identity engineer trusted to aid our warfighers. I saw Yahoo fall and Google rise. I saw the DotCom boom and the DotCom bust and have been gainfully employed in IT through it all. Now I am turning my attention to the field of Information Security and Digital Forensics.

Faith in God has driven me through everything I have seen, he pulled me from the pit of despair and has vaulted me high above the world I had known and gave me a more beautfiul life than I could ever imagine. Because of this, I give my all to things He has led me to. I am a licensed Southern Baptist minister and have been a youth pastor in the past. I served the media/technology team at CrossPointe Community Church. On Wednesdays, I teach ESL English Level 6 to speakers of other languages including Spanish and Arabic.

I can be found hanging on the web at many locations (although rather infrequently) including G+, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and GaiaOnline. Sometimes I even show up on the World of Warcraft servers. However, I have been an internet entity since 1998 in the days of dial-up internet. Been everyone from neo21 to Aykon Silvers depending on the place.