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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

• Integrate IDPA backup appliance for 5-node VxRail infrastructure• Assisted in engineering new Windows Standard Image via Microsoft Autopilot / Intune for 36,000+ users• Research new projects/builds

Englewood, Colorado, United States

• Created and maintained firewall rules on Multi-tenant Palo Alto Firewalls• Created new documentation as well as maintained old resources on team internal wiki• Monitored endpoints on ScienceLogic EM7• Performed mission critical image and file restores using EMC Avamar and CommVault• Provisioned storage via HP 3Par and Nimble storage arrays

Englewood, Colorado, United States

• Monitored company assets and customers via Solarwinds MSP• Patched mission critical Linux and Windows systems, including COINS and Skype for Business• Performed backups via Symantec/Veritas Backup Exec• Provided phone support on weekends

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

• Deployed new ESXi infrastructure, replacing hodgepodge of other hypervisors• Migrated active VMs across hypervisors (XenServer/HyperV to ESXi)• Upgraded computational servers to new operating systems and increased productivity• Fixed a long standing issue with a core company SAN, tripling throughput and number of concurrent connections• Deployed new Cisco ASA Firewall as part of ISP change• Deployed Spiceworks helpdesk and inventory management• Archived more than 300 TB per month to tape via CommVault and LTO tape storage• Restored several multi-TB projects from tape• Upgraded CommVault from version 5 to version 6• Balanced storage infrastructure to help production team better utilize space• Shipped hard drives as part of service delivery• Maintained more than 100 physical servers including a Beowulf cluster• Created new power policies to help fully leverage computational power

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

• Planned and wrote guidelines for a high resiliency ESXi cluster for sensitive mission parameters• Evaluated SSD performance and brands for deployment in harsh environments• Tested CPUs across various families to meet mission specifications• Evaluated third party and custom hardware for systems integration

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

• Planned and deployed ESXi 5.1 upgrade from version 4• Consulted, planned and deployed a new company wireless network• Moved two server rooms across town over a weekend in each case, restoring more than 95% of services the following Monday morning• Frequently traveled to remote sites in California for upgrades and face time with remote employees• Worked with team to deploy Unitrends backup appliance• Fully recovered twice from ransomware attacks • Engineered ad-hoc cooling solutions for smaller datacenters• Worked with team to deploy Citrix ShareFile

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

• Utilized Tidal Software and other dedicated in-house software apps to schedule Siebel CRM appointment booking services for customer• Part of team which ran over 14,000 processes daily on a Windows Server 2003/2008/Unix Server farm• Facilitated communications during outages and server crashes. • Worked under strict Service Level Agreements and facilitated customer communications.• Promoted to Team Lead in January, 2009.