Daniel Epstein brings clients over 12 years of experience in secure heterogeneous network and computer systems integration. He began his IT career in the late 1990s as a systems administrator and later a network security officer at the University of Chicago. In these roles he maintained the computing infrastructure for the central academic computing centers and classrooms, provided security consulting and incident response services to the campus as a whole, and spearheaded the campus’s Windows 2000 Active Directory beta program. He then returned to school to complete a degree in Audio Production and Design at Columbia College, Chicago. While pursing his degree, Daniel worked as an independent consultant in audio and IT.
Following graduation, Daniel became a Senior Consultant in the Network Integration team at onShore Networks, providing LAN/WAN network design and systems consulting to small and medium business throughout the Midwest. In 2007 he accepted a position as Director of IT, Technical Services, and Support at Flashpoint Academy, a two-year digital media arts college in Chicago. Daniel designed and built the network and server infrastructure for the start-up school and worked closely with key members of the faculty and consultants to design the computing labs, post-production facilities, and film/audio production workflow at Flashpoint. Over the school’s seminal year, Daniel recruited and trained a four-person technical team to manage the facility, before leaving at the end of 2008 to focus on his own company, Rootlike Technologies, Inc.
Through Rootlike, Daniel combines his expertise in media production and information technology to deliver IT systems design, network architecture, and integration services to the media production, broadcast, and educational communities. Rootlike’s goal is to develop and implement secure, stable, and professionally run IT systems for creative professionals, with the belief that technology can and should enhance the creative process, and never get in the way of it.