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Clearwater, Florida · Tampa Bay · @nftmatt

Matt Weatherilt Windows, security, and automation for Tampa Bay operators

IT Manager, Walker Ford. Owner, Radix IT Consulting. Windows, security, and automation.

Currently: Radix IT Consulting, the CTO seat for businesses that already have IT.

I run information systems for a family-owned Ford dealership that has been in Clearwater since 1957, and I have operated Radix IT Consulting since 2001.

The work is the same in both places: keep people productive, keep systems boring, and fix problems before they become a Monday morning outage.

That means Windows environments that actually get maintained, identity and endpoint control that sales and service can live with, backup that is verified instead of assumed, and monitoring that tells you something useful.

I spend a lot of time on the unglamorous layer. Event Logs, Defender noise, GPO and Intune, SQL and file servers, vendor systems that have to stay up when the store is open.

I am not looking for every conversation. I am useful to people who own operations: dealership groups, long-running local businesses, and IT leaders who want practical security and automation instead of a slide deck.

Based in the Tampa Bay area. If you have a systems problem that has been hanging around for years, that is usually the interesting one.

On X I write about Cardano. Governance, upgrades, and what is actually happening. Longer notes go on the blog.

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What I help with

IT Consulting
Practical help for Windows operations, security, and the systems small and mid-size organizations actually live on.
Backup & Recovery Systems
Backup that is verified instead of assumed, including disaster recovery paths.
Network Support
The network edge and stack the store depends on: firewalls, access, and day-to-day reliability.

Experience

Owner, Radix IT Consulting

September 2001 – Present · Clearwater, Florida

Independent IT consulting focused on Windows operations, security, and the systems small and mid-size organizations actually live on.

  • Long-term relationships rather than one-off projects. Most of the value is in environments that have to stay up after the consultant leaves the parking lot.
  • Hands-on work across Active Directory and identity, Windows Server, endpoint management (GPO / Intune), backup and disaster recovery, and practical security controls.
  • Diagnostics first: Event Logs, failed logons, Defender and EDR noise, memory and SQL pressure, update failures, and “it was fine on Friday” problems.
  • Automation that operators will use. PowerShell, scheduled checks, monitoring. Not tools that look good in a demo and die in production.
  • Translate technical risk into decisions owners can act on: what is urgent, what can wait, and what is theater.

Acronis backup and protection packs offered through Safe Cyber Promise.

IT Manager, Walker Ford Company

November 2013 – Present · Clearwater, Florida

Responsible for MIS and day-to-day IT for Walker Ford, a high-volume, family-owned Ford dealership in Pinellas County covering sales, service, parts, collision, and commercial.

  • Own infrastructure and operations the store depends on: Windows endpoints and servers, identity, file and line-of-business systems, backup and recovery, and security posture.
  • Keep a mixed environment running through long hours and high transaction volume. Showroom, service drive, parts, and back office do not pause for IT projects.
  • Standardize what can be standardized (updates, endpoint policy, monitoring, access) so issues are visible instead of tribal knowledge.
  • Work with vendors and internal managers on reliability, audit-ready processes, and incident response without turning every ticket into a project.
  • Use scripting and automation where it removes repeat work: log review, health checks, maintenance, and alert noise reduction.

Certifications

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Contact

Email is best. LinkedIn, GitHub, and X work too.

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