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Hampton, Virginia, United States

• Managed both physical and virtual servers (Red Hat Virtualization, VMWare) to supportmultiple NASA projects (CERES, SCOOL, ARGO) in a SAFE and AGILE environment.• Performed performance tuning, troubleshooting, and monthly software patching for servers,ensuring maximum uptime and security compliance.• Managed LDAP servers, account creation, group management, and password resets.• Transitioned seamlessly between contracts (Insight Global → SSAI → ADNETSystems)• Worked… Show more • Managed both physical and virtual servers (Red Hat Virtualization, VMWare) to supportmultiple NASA projects (CERES, SCOOL, ARGO) in a SAFE and AGILE environment.• Performed performance tuning, troubleshooting, and monthly software patching for servers,ensuring maximum uptime and security compliance.• Managed LDAP servers, account creation, group management, and password resets.• Transitioned seamlessly between contracts (Insight Global → SSAI → ADNETSystems)• Worked remotely with minimal supervision required.• Assisted with creating simple scripts in Ansible for automation of server changes. Show less

Lynchburg, Virginia, United States

• Supported more than 1300 Red Hat, Solaris, and CentOS servers across development, QA,and production environments.• Led security patching, volume management, performance tuning, and root level support forpackage management and installation.• Assisted in optimizing server hardware environments including Sun Sparc, HP servers, andCisco UCS blade servers.• Worked unsupervised in remote setting for more than five years.

Lynchburg, Virginia, United States

• Spearheaded a Macintosh pilot program• Created a master image, designed patching and deployment procedures, and Integrated 170Macs into existing Active Directory environment.• Configured Network Restore processes through both SCCM and internal software updateservers, and developed support processes for the new corporate Mac environment

Norfolk, Virginia, United States

• Recognized for excellent technical knowledge and customer service at Apple Retail stores.• Provided technical support and troubleshooting for Apple’s full product range• Balanced time between working face to face with customers and performing physical repairson hardware.• Helped maintain secure inventory of customer hardware and replacement parts.• Temporarily filled Lead Genius role as the store searched for a permanent replacement.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

• Provided desk side and network support for over 200 Macintosh systems.• Helped maintain the firewall, switches, LAN/WAN/WWAN, mail servers, meeting servers,database servers and VLAN configurations for a medium-size health organization.

Information Technology, 4.0

Took classes in Unix, Linux administration, Cisco networking, Active Directory, Network security

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