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Reston, Va, Us

Primary roles included administration of: VMware, vSAN, VMware Clusters, VMware VDI/Horizon, VMware AppVolumes, and stretched clusters. Additional experience includes: Forescout, CallManager, Cisco Unity, Cisco ISE system administration, Gigamon, IDS implementations, DICES implementation, and Linux RHEL administration.

Madison, Alabama, Us

Planning Madison Academy's technology needs and strategy. Responsible for developing, implementing and supporting both short- and long-term information technology plans. Also responsible for creating and administering IT policies and procedures, and audit information system use for compliance and security.Works closely with administrative staff, and works to improve existing systems by reviewing users’ requests for changes, analyzing needs and budgets, and making recommendations for updates, replacements or enhancements. I am also responsible for managing the contract negotiations, purchase and installation of new systems.Also responsible for consulting with administrative staff, teachers and support staff; supervise the IT department staff, including hiring and training; provide technical support; and conduct feasibility studies for information technology projects.

Albertville, Alabama, Us

Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and Linux OS administration. Participated in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure. Assisted with technical issues in the Initiation and Planning phases of large projects. These activities include the definition of needs, benefits, and technical strategy; research & development within the project life-cycle; technical analysis and design; and support of operations staff in executing, testing and rolling-out the solutions. Participated on projects that was focused on smoothing the transition of projects from development staff to production staff by performing operations activities within the project life-cycle.As a Linux System Administrator I was tasked with supporting the following systems that were critical to day-to-day business activities:• IBM Synergy—RHEL v.5/7• MATLAB -- SUSE• TeamCenter 8-10 -- RHEL v.5/7• StarCCM—RHEL v.5/6• B2B Key-Based SFTP ACH Transfers – RHEL v.6/7• Oracle DB Clusters – RHEL v.6/7 & Oracle Linux 7• NetBackup for Linux• Test, Development and Production Linux server creation. • Maintained & configured TIDAL and ORSYP task schedulers for Linux (SOX Requirement)o No cronjobs allowed for any users• Worked with developers to design new physical server environments if virtual servers were not applicable. This included intercontinental server deployment and purchasing.