About Us – Victory Computer Services

Victory Computer Services, LLC is a computer systems and network infrastructure consulting company that provides network and computer hardware / software sales, support, and repair services to the small business community or individuals. We can provide our services after normal business hours at no additional cost. The typical small business cannot afford a full-time network administrator or hardware / software service technician. Our goal is to provide these services to the small business or individual for a reasonable cost. We can help the small business develop and implement a technology plan geared to embrace future growth.

We can install and maintain your technology solution – from servicing hardware / software problems, to providing remote desktop support, and network administration services. We can maintain your desktop / laptop computers, servers, printers, WiFi Access Points, network switches, routers, edge appliances, and other peripheral devices. Over his carrier, Emile has attended over 80 courses covering the repair and maintenance of electro-mechanical equipment, various computer systems, thermal printers, laser printers, and inkjet printers.

Victory Computer Services, LLC was formed in 2006 by Emile Victory, who has over 45 years experience in the computer and IT industry. Emile has worked with personal computers since before the original IBM PC. Emile holds several certifications and has several hobbies as listed below.

Certifications and Hobbies

Unlike other vendor-specific networking certifications, CompTIA Network+ Certification prepares you to support the network regardless of the platform. It forms the foundation you need before specializing in a vendor solution. Network+ validates the knowledge and skills needed to troubleshoot, configure and manage both wired and wireless networks found in companies around the world. CompTIA Network+ certifies a professional-level understanding of emerging technologies including cloud and virtualization technologies. Emile has good-for-life (GFL) status since December 2010.
CompTIA A+ Certification represents competency as a computer technician. It is a vendor neutral certification that covers various technologies and operating systems. A+ Certification earned accreditation from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 2008. By 2014, over one million people worldwide had earned A+ certification. Certification prior to 1/1/2011, is considered good-for-life (GFL) and does not expire. Emile has GFL status since July 1998.
The Microsoft Partner Network is Microsoft’s AI Cloud partner program. It was formerly known as the Microsoft Partner Program or MSPP. A Microsoft partner has been acknowledged and certified by Microsoft to offer a certain standard of sales and support services for their solutions. It is designed to make resources available to a wide variety of technology companies so they can build a business around Microsoft technologies. Emile (Victory Computer Services) has been a Microsoft Registered Partner since 2006.
Microsoft has certification paths for many technical job roles. Each of these certifications consists of passing one or more exams to earn certification. After you pass your first qualifying Microsoft certification exam, you are deemed a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP). MCP status provides access to various technology benefits from Microsoft such as a Microsoft Action Pack subscription. Emile earned MCP status in 2005.
As a hobby, Emile has built a Home Lab Server using the popular Linux-based Proxmox Virtualization Platform. With Proxmox, he can quickly deploy virtual machines, Linux containers, and Docker containers. He has installed Portainer to manage docker containers, Dashy (a launchpad home page app), Uptime Kuma to monitor various network devices, and Speedtest Tracker to monitor the Internet connection. He has used this virtualization environment to host apps that integrate with his home automation systems and provide virtual operating systems.
Emile has also enjoyed woodworking as a hobby since his teenage years. This included performing simple carpentry tasks to creating custom jewelry boxes with fingered joints. He has made custom computer tables, shelving units, custom storage boxes, cutting boards, and custom kitchen cabinets, just to name a few. Pictured above-right is a custom walnut and mahogany frame for a raspberry pi based touch screen controller. Pictured above-left is an oak cabinet on rollers that he recently constructed to hold 14 Harbor Freight portable parts storage cases. The cabinet could hold a maximum of 18 of the thinner storage cases. Or, the thicket storage cases can take the place of two thinner ones.
Emile has incorporated ten Raspberry Pi single board computers into his home automation systems. Some of the projects include several touch screen automation controllers, a 1-wire temperature and humidity sensors controller, a door controller. He has also used raspberry pi’s for dedicated server role functions such as an internal WordPress web site, an MQTT host, Unifi Controller, and a whole house generator home automation interface. Pictured above is the hardware for a dual door controller. It consist of a raspberry pi, a RPi relay hat, and a custom opto-isolated input hat.
Emile’s hobbies include electronics design and repair, 3D printing, woodworking, and (his favorite) Home Automation. He has been automating aspects of his home for over 40 years. He started using X10 products in the early days (40 years ago) of home automation. He utilized HomeSeer software for several years as the brain of the automation system. Eventually he phased out X10 devices in favor of Insteon devices and Universal Devices’ ISY controller. Going forward he is moving from Insteon to Z-wave based devices and possibly to the open source Home Assistant platform.