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About

Twenty-five years of making IT work

D5 IT Solutions is Anthony Dickerson's Arizona IT company — veteran-owned, locally rooted, and built on a 25-year career that runs from Air Force communications to enterprise platform architecture.

The principal

Anthony Dickerson

Owner · Enterprise Automation Architect

Anthony has spent 25 years in IT, since 2001 — twenty of them in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a Master Sergeant, and five more building automation and data platforms for enterprise companies in Arizona and across the country.

That mix is the point: the discipline of military service, the scale of enterprise infrastructure (IBM Z mainframes, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Microsoft 365 at thousands-of-sites scale), and the practical habits that make technology reliable — documentation, monitoring, and automation that actually gets adopted.

D5 IT Solutions brings that depth to small businesses and nonprofits that need IT handled by someone senior, accountable, and local.

Credentials

  • 20-year U.S. Air Force veteran, MSgt (ret.), 2001–2021
  • CompTIA Security+ CE
  • B.S. Computer Science — Southwestern College, Winfield, KS
  • A.A.S. Aviation Operations — Community College of the Air Force

Community

  • Board of Directors — Nexgen Leadership Council (Yuma)
  • Board of Directors — Vida Wildlife Rehabilitation
  • Deputy Commander of Cadets — Civil Air Patrol
  • Mentor — CyberPatriot (National Youth Cyber Education Program)
Track record

Career history

  1. 2025 – present

    Mainframe Systems Programmer — Hardware

    Ensono (Remote)

    Mission-critical IBM Z hardware operations plus automation architecture across Power Platform, ServiceNow, SharePoint, and Snowflake. Conceived the Enterprise Hardware Health Platform; primary mainframe representative for a CMDB and discovery modernization program.

  2. 2024 – 2025

    Project Manager

    Ensono (Remote)

    Enterprise mainframe hosted-services delivery in the PMO, including a z15-to-z17 disaster-recovery modernization program — scope, vendors, runbooks, and handovers.

  3. 2024

    Data Systems Manager

    Gowan Company — Yuma, AZ

    Evaluated laboratory and product-lifecycle platforms: requirements, integration strategy, statements of work, and vendor selection.

  4. 2021 – 2023

    Applications Analyst

    Gowan Company — Yuma, AZ

    Architected the company's Microsoft Power Platform environment and Center of Excellence; led migration of ~1,700 SharePoint site collections to SharePoint Online, with governance policies, admin guides, and training across 14 departments.

  5. 2021

    IT Solutions Architect / System Administrator

    City of Yuma

    Go-to person for advanced server troubleshooting; led requirements, demos, and evaluation of three unified-communications systems to replace an aging PBX.

  6. 2001 – 2021

    U.S. Air Force — retired Master Sergeant

    Twenty years of service

    Twenty-year career ending with retirement as MSgt; final assignment at Headquarters Air Mobility Command managing multi-year acquisition and test programs. Earlier career included IT system administration, including a scheduling-system migration rolled out Air Force-wide.

Why an enterprise background matters to you

The habits that keep mainframes and 1,700-site migrations running — change control, monitoring, honest documentation, tested backups — are exactly what most small organizations never had time to set up. You get enterprise practice at small-business scale, without the enterprise overhead.

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Work with a veteran who answers his own email

No call centers, no juniors learning on your dime — just direct access to the person doing the work.

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