WFH Experience
B. Travis Wright, MPS is a work-from-home veteran with more than 15 years of WFH experience leading geographically dispersed technology departments and remote teams. Travis was working remotely before, during, and after COVID.
HOME OFFICE SPECIFICATIONS FOR REMOTE WORK
• Home office worker with 18+ years of experience working remotely—and with no distractions (only a 3-year-old dog, no children)
• Dedicated, secured, and fully paid-off 286 ft² home office (physically separate from my home) with several privacy signs posted to ensure uninterrupted focus
• Multiple motorized workstations for sitting/standing configurations with anti-fatigue mats; X-Chair executive chair for long duration tasks; two dozen Philips Hue color bulbs for tying alerting conditions to visual cues
• Xerox multifunction color duplex laser printer (30 ppm color) with flatbed and ADF duplex scan-to-email capabilities at up to 1200 dpi; separate flatbed scanner for extremely high resolution scans up to 12,800 dpi
• Hot and cold lamination system for up to 12″ x 18″ documents; thermal label printer
• Cisco Meraki enterprise stateful firewall with an advanced security licensing; 1.2 Gbps download/upload and dual WAN uplinks to terrestrial and satellite internet with automatic failover capabilities; in the event of a prolonged internet outage, can tether via an iPhone 17 Pro with a 5G Ultra Wideband connection.
• Multiple Starlink dishes (standard and mini) for redundancy.
• 125 amps of dedicated power; over 10,000Wh of battery power for unlikely extended power outages.
• Cisco Meraki four-stream 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless with MU-MIMO support; 2.5 Gbps network speeds; PoE for VoIP phone(s); eight 4K/5K screens; multiple full HD webcams; studio lighting; lapel, handheld, and boom microphones; 60-watt desktop Bang & Olufsen active loudspeakers; three computers with 320 GB RAM total
• 4K ultra-bright projector, 100-inch projection screen, and greenscreen; permanent Bang & Olufsen 700-watt loudspeaker setup; 1,300-watt Thump portable loudspeakers with stands for events outside of the home office; also have a 65-inch 4K HDR flat panel television for outdoor, tented events
• Collaboration space with a Nespresso coffee maker, SodaStream, refrigerator/freezer, and toaster oven
• IPSec client VPN for remote access secured with a 55+ character randomized password and multi-factor authentication; ability to establish up to 75 site-to-site VPNs
• Well-maintained, late model vehicle for occasional offsite meetings
