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Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands

• Provided leadership, project management, and guidance to the IT operational team to ensure we met all security and operational requirements. • Redesigned VMware vSphere environments across three networks. This saw a drastic reduction in operational costs, as it standardized all environments, and helped create a more efficient means of maintaining the networks by the operational teams.• Recruited staff and ensured training was available to all members to help with their career growth.• Collaborated with internal customers to briefings on the capabilities of VMware vSphere and Horizon. This included multiple discussions around leveraging vGPU technologies for certain workloads that had previously always required a physical workstation. Resulted in substantial cost savings to the project.• Provided executive level briefing explaining the CapEx and OpEx savings of moving the enterprise to VMware’s Horizon VDI solution.• Automated security requirements through development of PowerShell modules reducing manual efforts by the IT operational achieving a 90% reduction in time previously spent on these efforts.

Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands

• Provided technical guidance on modernizing IT infrastructure across all government networks. The solutions that were developed were eventually bought off on by government stakeholders, and implemented. • Redesigned existing group policy structure. This helped to remove duplicates, streamline the login process, and fix numerous errors. Results saw login times reduced by over 50%. • Provided leadership in technical discussions and projects to ensure all customer requirements were met. Was able to effectively meet both internal and external customer requirements, while ensuring costs were under budget.• Successfully upgraded storage, server, and switches throughout three separate networks to standardize equipment, and ensure the operational team could easily maintain the environment. This saw an increase in the efficiency in the operation’s team ability to maintain the infrastructure hardware.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Provided insight and expertise on moving from standard LUNs to virtual volumes (vVOls). This provided more flexibility and lowered operational requirements around monitoring existing LUNs.• Worked to standardize the existing Cisco UCS servers throughout the environment to conform to VMware best practices for NUMA settings, based on physical memory and CPU socket configurations. Successfully got the vendor to fix several design flaws ensuring optimal operation of servers.

Broomfield, Colorado, United States

• Provided subject matter expertise for VMware solutions throughout the enterprise, including vSphere, Horizon, and Workspace ONE. • Provided vital documentation and knowledge that helped get a $1 million VDI project approved. Provided executive level management with the required information to make informed decisions, and showed a cost savings of over $850,000 over three years.• Designed, built, and managed the deployment of four vSphere 6.5 environments, running a Horizon 7 Pod spanning multiple sites. This included configuring the Nimble SAN, Brocade Fibre Channel switches, and working with our network administrator to ensure VLANs and port configurations were set up per our needs and best practices.• Maintained entire Horizon VDI environment across multiple networks and locations, and supporting over 500+ users.

Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands

• Used PowerShell to create scripts to automate numerous tasks including, logon scripts, reports, all Active Directory duties, software installs, and many different VMware scripts including server build automation, reporting on the virtual environment, deletion of virtual machines per DoD STIG requirements, and more via PowerCLI.• Rebuilt the Kwajalein school infrastructure from the ground up including upgrades to hardware, as well as migrated all servers from ESX 4 to ESXi 5.5 and migrated operating systems from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2.• Initiated, developed, and executed a successful project to migrate the Kwajalein School District from Exchange 2003 to Google Apps. This involved using SSO via Google’s implementation of OAUTH to connect back to our local Active Directory environment.• Perform data, system backup, and recovery• Administrate Windows Servers on several different networks including DCs, DHCP, DNS, File & Print services • Maintain, install, and configure HP and VM server hardware.• Migrated server infrastructure from Windows 2003 to 2008 R2, as well as hardened the operating systems to meet DoD requirements. • Create, modify, and deploy group policy settings.• Extensive experience with VMware ESX/ESXi and vSphere including versions 4, 5.1, and 5.5. • Deploy security patches and updates through PDQ Deploy, SCCM, and WSUS.

Boise, Idaho, United States

• I was responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting the Avaya/Lucent phone system, which required learning the UNIX system. • I was the primary backup to the Director of Technical Services, which involved performing tape backups, server maintenance and helping with other technical issues. • Helped repair and replaced any computer, components, and peripherals. • Assisted users in the Boise office to help resolve any hardware, software, or network problems. Installed new software and hardware as needed and compiled inventory lists for all hardware.

Master Of Science - Ms, Information Technology Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer/Information Technology Administration And Management