Burt Simpson Email & Phone Number

Clearwater, Florida, United States

• Developing CI/CD Pipelines in Azure DevOps that provide Development with end-to-end release cycles.
• Developing Deployment Pipelines to Kubernetes targets including on-premises and Azure Kubernetes.
• Working with Visual Studio to create Azure Resource Management Template projects that integrate into solutions.
• Manage Azure resources for the DevOps Environment.
• Creating Hybrid Worker infrastructures for Azure Automation both in the cloud and on premises.
• Administrative scripting in PowerShell and T-SQL.

• Conducting Solution Review calls (Pre-DevOps, People and Process Management) to architect and coordinate Platform (SQL and IIS) solutions across 400+ NBCU Applications spanning 16 Business Technology Groups.
• Work with various teams and projects to setup SharePoint Online Sites and implement Office 365, Microsoft Teams collaboration solutions.
• Work on team with passthrough of 200+ SQL instances per year averaging multiple TB per year of SQL storage.
• Microsoft System Center Orchestrator Runbook creation for automated installations of SQL, IIS.
• Administrative scripting in PowerShell and T-SQL and integration into SSIS packages.
• Setup, configuration and optimization of Windows IIS (6.0 – 10.0) application servers and SQL Servers (SQL 2005 through SQL 2016).

(YP.com, NBCUniversal)

• Microsoft System Center Orchestrator Runbook creation.
• Setup, configuration and optimization of Windows IIS web application servers and SQL Servers (2000 total) in horizontally load balanced environments.
• Work with the various internal teams to implement standards and best practices for development and production life cycles.
• Work in mixed environment of IIS 6.0 and 7.0 for front end and back end application farms. Includes setup, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Administrative scripting in VBScript and PowerShell.
• Documentation of operational standard and procedures.

• Developed hardware and documentation standard for MS SQL HA clusters. Clusters are a mix of SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012.
• Maintenance of SQL HA Cluster and SQL Mirroring in DR facility.
• Windows server setup, administration and maintenance and Linux administration.
• Worked extensively with internal Server and Client software teams as well as Database Administration to fine tune and execute development and production releases.
• Setup, configuration and optimization of Windows IIS web application servers and SQL Servers (200 production / 600 total) in horizontally load balanced environments. (All client traffic is processed through web.
• Administrative scripting in VBScript, PowerShell and Bash.

• Installation, configuration and setup of Microsoft Windows Servers.
• Working with the various development and QA teams to enable the delivery of company products to customers.
• Performed research and development support services including research lab maintenance, product testing, product analysis and documentation support.
• Maintenance of SQL Server Merge Replication environments in outsourced locations. Version used was SQL 2005.
• Manager of local IT staff, Helpdesk, Server Administration and Database Administration.
• Managing vendor relationships and outsourced co-location services.

• Interfaced between commercial desktop, commercial portable and enterprise customer service divisions and engineering divisions of Compaq Computer Corporation.
• Performed troubleshooting and resolution implementation of technical and service issues within Compaq and between independent hardware and software vendors.
• Install, setup, and troubleshoot business class applications.
• Developed and delivered technical program for Compaq Atlanta call center to strengthen relationship between first and second level service teams.
• Wrote and distributed technical information used in Compaq educational account recovery project.
• Wrote “how-to” documents for case management / engineering case tracking system.

Houston, Texas Area

• Pre-sales and post-sales service and support.
• Serviced customers at onsite locations within the greater Houston area.
• Install, setup, and troubleshoot business class applications and operating systems.
• Integrated with independent hardware and software vendors for product resolution.
• Install and test telephone and data wiring.
• Assembled, configured and maintained multiple name-brand and clone Intel x86 class systems.