Joseph Blake Email & Phone Number

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

At Logility, I lead a worldwide team of 5 cloud operations engineers and analysts who work around the clock to maintain the Logility Cloud Platform running on Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities of our team include everything related to the security and reliability of our platform, cost management and reporting, technical support and incident response, and working hand-in-hand with our development team to continue building a modern cloud supply chain platform.Additionally, our team supports other internal IT systems and teams with Azure cloud services supporting the company mission

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

As the Azure Administrator for Logility, I am the primary technical resource for our growing Software as a Service platform. Since joining the company we have significantly shifted our hosting platform from a legacy datacenter to Azure, leveraging new technologies to improve security, increase reliability, and offer new capabilities to protect our customers' uptime

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

At Georgia Tech I was responsible for Linux systems administration at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. My primary areas of responsibility were maintaining and providing end user support for the department's HTCondor based HPC cluster and a growing OpenStack virtualization infrastructure

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

At Hibbett Sporting Goods, I was a member of the Windows Infrastructure team. Our team was responsible for all Windows-based services, VMWare infrastructure, and enterprise storage infrastructure. My primary responsibilities were supporting our MS SQL infrastructure, Control-M job scheduling, and Active Directory infrastructure including AD DS, DNS, DHCP, and RADIUS. Additionally I worked with the team on VMWare and SAN maintenance and projects. A large focus of effort was also continuing our process automation initiative through PowerShell development

Montevallo, Al, Us

Responsible for datacenter operations for the University of Montevallo. This includes management of the University's two VMWare clusters and SAN infrastructure. Applications managed include Active Directory, Exchange, Netbackup and Veeam, RHEL, VMWare View, and various line of business applications.In this role I planned, managed, and implemented a complete datacenter remodel and systems refresh replacing hardware after years of deferred maintenance and increasing square footage and physical capacity for future growth. This included construction/remodeling, HVAC, electrical, racks, new compute and new storage

Birmingham, Al, Us

Responsible for both the administrative and technical management of the IT infrastructure for Intermark Group, a Birmingham-based advertising agency & software development firm. As IT Director, I was responsible for all internal technology services, including end user computing, networking, and administrative and line of business applications as well as supervising one Network/Desktop support technician. I was also responsible for the hosting environment for digital clients of the firm, made up of a co-located datacenter located in Atlanta, GA as well as Amazon Web Services. A major focus of my tenure was finalizing the migration of remaining clients from the legacy datacenter into the AWS environmentSpecific technologies managed include Windows and Mac endpoints and management tools, VMWare vSphere, EqualLogic and EMC SANs, Windows and Linux web servers, Active Directory, Exchange, Amazon Web Services, and Office 365

Birmingham, Al, Us

Served as the IT Manager for the Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology in the UAB School of Medicine. In this role I managed all aspects of technology as it relates to the department, including desktop support, data security, firewall management, server management, web content management, audio-visual support, and IT support related to scientific equipment. In addition I managed many administrative aspects of IT for the department including procurement of equipment and services.

Houston, Texas, Us

As a static analysis operator, I performed static source code analysis of customers' applications using HP's proprietary Fortify SCA tool. Using this tool, we provide customers with detailed, audited analysis of potential security vulnerabilities in their applications.

Birmingham, Al, Us

Provide primary support for the server and storage infrastructure for the UAB College of Arts and Sciences. The College of Arts and Sciences is made up of over 500 faculty and staff along with 6500 students. The infrastructure I help maintain includes a mid-sized storage area network and virtualized infrastructure. Primary applications include file servers, licensing servers, remote support applications, and desktop systems management and deployment systems. I also assist with various special projects including lab upgrades, major construction and remodeling projects, and security issues within our area. I am also responsible for supervision of the student assistants within our department.

Birmingham, Al, Us

Responsible for primary IT support for the School of Education within the UAB College of Arts and Sciences. The School of Education consists of two departments and approximately 70 faculty as well as four computer labs, and miscellaneous server infrastructure. Also responsible for supervising student workers working throughout the CAS IT organization

Birmingham, Al, Us

Member of the AskIT Helpdesk within the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology at UAB. Provided level 1 telephone support for faculty, staff, and students with campus-wide services such as email, Blackboard, Oracle eBusiness, and network services as well as providing all telephone technical support for departments under contract with UAB's central IT services. Also assisted with several special projects, such as implementation and maintenance of our remote assistance application and major upgrade of our ticket tracking system.

Birmingham, Al, Us

Student Technical Director for UAB's BlazeRadio, a student-operated internet radio station. Responsibilities included launching and maintaining a new Icecast-based streaming server, launching and maintaining a new Apache-based web server, and modernizing and maintaining studio equipment within a very tight budget. Also provided technical support and maintenance of studio computers, including PCs and Macs.

Sales, service, consulting...little bit of everything at McKinney Technologies/cafe.mac: An Apple-focused IT consulting company in Homewood, Alabama. Particular focus on our Windows-based customers and internet-facing services such as web and email hosting.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Lead supervisor and manager for front-end operations at a Wal-Mart Supercenter store. Responsible for supervision and scheduling of over 75 cashiers, greeters, and other personnel.

Birmingham, Al, Us

Level 1 technical support for faculty, staff, and students with a variety of issues including email, Blackboard, campus wireless, and more.