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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

- Work closely with DevOps and cloud infrastructure architects and engineers to design, implement and manage secure, scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure environments - Lead engagements with customers to validate existing infrastructure security, performance, availability, and make recommendations for improvements and optimization- Act as the.

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By stitching together advances in Cloud, Automation, Operations, Security, and DevOps, we help clients deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

Built and maintained newer version of company website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.Responsible for building out entire web application for planned business expansion, primarily utilizing Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, JavaScript, and various REST APIs.Utilized infrastructure as code, deploying Terraform to cloud providers including AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Morrisville, NC

Morrisville, NC

-Become SME on all new products set for future releases.-Create training materials for support organization.-Work with Product Management and Engineering teams daily to identify potential bugs and issues in Beta versions. -Work with customers and sales team to support beta installations and proof of concept environments.-Stand up lab environments for.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

-Conduct remote sessions to assist customers with the troubleshooting and configuration of their internal technical environment.-Work with technical infrastructures to install/configure Exchange and Active Directory; troubleshoot Exchange server; building out Windows Server in new environments; setting up/configuring new domains, and NetApp/EMC storage.

Code Immersion Student

Full time code immersion student building full stack web applications with Ruby on Rails.Established a strong foundation in other development tools including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Ruby, Git, Github, and various APIs and Databases.Completed a group project utilizing an API to automatically populate time-consuming real estate forms in a simple.

Cary, NC

Consult directly with customers and vendors to support and maintain enterprise level data-center environments. Responsibilities include collaborating with team members to provide support for a wide range of products including: Cisco UCS (B-Series and C-Series) and other IOS devices, Symantec NetBackup software, Symantec NetBackup Appliances, Symantec.

Herndon, Virginia

- Primary contact for resolution of network and hardware related issues for over 300 sites across the country.- Responsible for upkeep, configuration and installation of Cisco ASA VPNs and Linksys switches for all sites.- Assist remote IT contacts with issues related to connectivity, routing, DNS, latency and bandwidth, in addition to replacing faulty.

Herndon, VA

-Provide phone Tier 1 support for HSPD-12 program with over 600,000 end users.-Took on the role to provide specialized support for our Light Activation software, as well as networking and hardware related issues.

Fairfax, VA

Assisted with a variety of hardware and software issues. Replaced computer components as well as imaged machines for new school year.

Ba, Communications

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa PhiActive in Non-Profit organization Push America. Social Chair for Pi Kappa Phi 2008-2009

Code Immersion Program For Winter 2016., Computer Software Engineering, Software Development

Activities and Societies: Blog contributorImmersive, intensive coding school, gaining the fundamental skills for: Web Design, Ruby, Ruby.