Greg Lirette, founder of Notary Geek.

Founder background

Experience behind the service.

If you want to know who is behind Notary Geek, start here. These are public interviews, profile sources, and background points connected to Greg Lirette and the work behind Notary Geek.

Greg's background combines notary work, military procedure, and enterprise technical escalation. He was a Texas notary in the early 2000s while living in Texas, became a Florida notary in 2022, and became a Florida online notary in 2023.

Before Notary Geek, Greg worked in Microsoft and Citrix escalation roles, including Microsoft Windows Active Directory and Directory Services escalation work involving Active Directory, Certificate Services, X.509 certificate infrastructure, debugging, and complex enterprise support cases. His broader technical background also includes Dell, Perot Systems, and consulting work across virtualization, Windows, Citrix, cloud, and customer environments.

He also served on an internal Microsoft Windows Terminal Server team before release, maintained the internal TSTECH alias used for Remote Desktop and Terminal Services coordination, and under a formal Microsoft-Citrix relationship became the Microsoft-side point person for escalations that had to move officially between the two companies.

That experience matters because online notarization, digital certificates, identity proofing, audit trails, and apostille routing all depend on trust infrastructure and careful process. Notary Geek's work is built around checking the source, understanding the route, and avoiding shortcuts that make documents harder to rely on later.

Greg has direct experience pushing back on incorrect document rejection and notary misconceptions, including contested situations where documents were later accepted after he challenged the position. That background is part of why Notary Geek focuses so heavily on source-based accuracy, document acceptance, and getting the details right the first time.

If you want to see how Notary Geek handles common misconceptions, start with the law, the state notes, and the source-standard pages. They make the contrast clear between what the law actually says and what people often repeat without checking.