Joseph IV · keeper of this site
At a glance
- Parents: Joseph Sharmer III and Hannelore Auguste Sharmer (née Ahrens)
- Daughters: Katie, Rosie and Christa
Life story
The fourth Joseph Sharmer, and like the three before him, no middle name. He is the son of Joseph Sharmer III and Hannelore Ahrens.
Joe has spent some thirty years in enterprise IT, from IT manager and messaging administrator in the early 1990s to engineering and architecture roles at Hewlett Packard, eleven years at Seagate Technology, the U.S. Department of the Interior and Binary Tree. Since 2016 he has been a Principal Solutions Architect at Quest Software, where he specializes in Active Directory modernization, Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migrations. He holds a Six Sigma Black Belt and has completed executive education programs at Harvard Business School.
He gathered the letters, records and photographs on this site, transcribing them with recollections from his aunt Laurel. More about his work →
Photos
Family
- Father: Joseph Sharmer III
- Mother: Hannelore Auguste Sharmer (née Ahrens)
- Grandparents: Joseph Sharmer II and Ruby E. Wilson
- Daughters: Katie, Rosie and Christa
- Cousins: Jay Myron Sharmer Jr. and John Randall “Randy” Sharmer
