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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)
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• Worked remotely with minimal supervision required.

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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