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Developed and enhanced tooling for Ansible content certification. Certified Ansible content from over 70 industry partners, including Cisco Systems, Amazon AWS, and Microsoft Azure.Led initiatives to enhance the quality and reliability of Red Hat Ansible's certified content, implementing best practices and standards.Designed and implemented a comprehensive review process for Ansible validated content. Facilitated primary communication between cross-functional teams involved in the validation process, ensuring alignment and timely resolution of issues.Led the Ansible PE team as Team Lead and acted as Product Owner from January 2024 to June 2024, assisting with day-to-day operations, mentoring team members, and achieving project milestones on schedule.

Spearheaded the development and implementation of enterprise-wide infrastructure projects aimed at enhancing network security, stability, and automation.Orchestrated a 2020-2021 initiative to standardize configurations across a network of over 350 Juniper SRX routers using Python and Ansible, resulting in improved operational efficiency and consistency.Innovated and deployed new automation frameworks to streamline infrastructure maintenance processes, facilitating configuration rollouts and efficient security updates.Managed administrative operations for Palo Alto Firewalls in data center environments such as security policy configuration.

Mulberry, Fl

Managed Tier 2 and Tier 3 IT Networking responsibilities encompassing:- Administration of Windows and Linux servers, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.- Execution of VMware processes for virtualization management and resource allocation.- Configuration and maintenance of Juniper products to support network infrastructure and security.- Remote systems management to ensure continuous availability and performance optimization.- Active Directory administration for user management, group policies, and system configurations.

Assisted with major IT rollouts, infrastructure updates, and automating network processes.

- Served as a student advocate for leadership initiatives and funding for major university projects supporting research and education.- Worked at university Board meetings, professional university events, and gave tours to facilitate donor interest in student research.

Lakeland, Florida Area

Held a position as a Teaching Assistant for the Florida Polytechnic Programming 2 Course. Responsibilities included:- Encouraging and sustaining student/teacher communications- Grading projects or examinations- Providing tutoring services - Assisting instructional staff as needed

Lakeland, Florida Area

Designed, built, and researched Cyber Security projects with a focus on network security. Implemented Red-Team style exercises for student instruction and university research. - Accomplished design and deployment of a CentOS Hadoop Cluster to perform big-data security testing. - Instructed students in security and technology concepts in several workshops and hosted multiple Capture-The-Flag security events.