Blair Wright

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Systems Engineer III @ Premera Systems
Taylorsville, KY, US
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I have large scale enterprise infrastructure experience from working in some of the world’s cutting edge IT companies. I have worked for IBM (Global Support), WaMu (Washington Mutual), Microsoft (Passport & MMS), Kindred Healthcare (Corporate Data Center) and the Walt Disney Internet Group just to name a few Fortune 500 companies I that I have worked with as a Systems Engineer / Consultant Some of my professional experiences include designing and deploying a secure 5 domain Active Directory forest and integrating the forest with 4 other AD forests across 5 data centers throughout the US. I then migrated all the Walt Disney Internet group properties to the new PCI compliant “secure” Active Directory forest. Other WDIG achievements include assisting in the design and deployment of critical DisneyMobile.com (MVNO) backend component services that were critical for the launch of the global MVNO service. I also helped launch a new Microsoft property MMS (Microsoft Managed Solutions) where I was part of a small “Tier III Ops” team that designed, deployed and managed “in-house” large scale Active Directory backend solutions for global corporations.Another position I had the honor of being a part of was Microsoft MSN passport. There I provided Tier III secure operations support (SecOpsIE) for MSN Passport (Windows Live ID). I worked incident response for 700+ load balanced IIS servers that provided login and SSL authentication for the primary MSN authentication portal for all Microsoft properties. If my experience sounds like it may be a good fit with your organization, please contact me and I would be happy to send you my resume. Thank you for your consideration.Specialties: My specialties include Server 2008,2003, Active Directory, IIS7.0, SCOM, SCCM, IPsec, Performance and Infrastructure Optimization, Hyper-V, Wintel Infrastructures, plus large Enterprise IIS web /publishing environments (including MVNO’s)DNS, WINS, DHCP, IIS, HP/Dell Server hardware, Terminal Services, Tomcat, Barista, SiteScope, OVOW,Server Clustering, NLB, Server Load balancing Citrix, Cisco, Nortel, MS Exchange, MS SharePoint Portal Server .

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Premera Systems

Premera Systems

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Systems Engineer III
Taylorsville, KY, US
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premera.com
Employees:
3432
Blair Wright Work Experience Details
  • Premera Systems
    Systems Engineer Iii
    Premera Systems
    Taylorsville, Ky, Us
  • Premera Systems
    Systems Engineer Iii
    Premera Systems Jul 2013 - Present
    I work as a Systems Engineer designing and deploying complex business systems and infrastructure related applications and processes to the Premera Enterprise.My current work responsibilities include defining Windows Server standards, troubleshooting high level operational issues for Windows Servers to include load balancing and clustering, connections to alternate datacenters, performance and optimization. Additional responsibilities are to define server lifecycles, end of Life as well as planned retirement and migration cycles. Assisting in script driven virtual and physical server Windows based operating systems to multiple datacenters and operating environments. I am currently working on automating deploying Server 2016 to our new datacenter as well as with external vendors and a small Premera IT team to facilitate deploying operating systems from Cisco’s Cloud Center (C3). For me this involves defining the deployment processes and requirements for the Windows O/S, defining the custom branding requirements of these servers, as well as assisting in the automation scripting for Server 2016 GUI and Core, Server 2012, then on to Server 2019.Other tasks included but not limited to defining software, hardware, business application process’s and disaster recovery standards, operations requirements, upkeep/maintenance as well as decommission / environmental planned obsolescence. This based on customer’s needs, requirements, business needs and requirements as well as IT lifecycle.
  • Microsoft
    Senior Systems Engineer
    Microsoft Feb 2009 - Present
    I work as a Production Systems Engineer and technical lead for Microsoft Managed Platform Service & Delivery Infrastructure Team “MPSD-ILS”. My responsibilities include enterprise architecture for SCCM Physical and Virtualized solutions and standards. Engineering enterprise performance and optimization standards, I am also responsible for all ILS global Tier III production support escalations for all MSIT regions (Europe, Asia, Latin America, North America and Puget Sound) in addition to Microsoft's MPSD external customer(s) and sites globally.My primary functions include engineering virtualization solutions for Microsoft SCCM, ConfigManager (SCCM 2010 beta), Microsoft OSD (Operating Systems Deployment) for Windows7, Mobile7 and Windows8, as well as virtualization solutions for MPSD SQL database consolidation and virtualization solutions for Microsoft customer site servers (SCCM distribution points).I am also responsible for operations management, performance and optimization for the entire MSIT and external customer SCCM infrastructure. My primary expertise includes Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hypervisor (SCVMM), SCCM, SCOM, IIS, Active Directory, IPsec and DNS. NLB, Performance and Infrastructure network optimization.Currently I am working on architecture and deployments for hardware and O/S refresh for all of Microsoft’s SCCM internal infrastructure and Microsoft’s global SCCM external customers. This includes hardware and infrastructure recommendations, deployment documentation. Network and hardware performance optimization. Virtualization (virtual machine and Host) optimization and performance. Leveraging DFSR capabilities to customer sites with minimum bandwidth utilization. Designing and building automated deployment strategies and solutions for hardware and operating systems inplace upgrades, while managing any/all associated deployment incidentals.
  • Nic Global
    Systems Analyst / Systems Engineer
    Nic Global Jan 2007 - Oct 2008
    My projects included AD expansion. Design and deployment of SiteScope, Kayako helpdesk solution. Design and deployment of Desktop Authority. I was also responsible for the design, construction and management of the new website nicglobalms.com. In addition recently I was given the responsibility of rebranding from National Industrial Concepts to NIC Global. I was in charge of every facet, from the design of the logo to designing the lobby / building signs, posters, banners, t-shirts and branding our vehicle fleet. My day-to-day responsibilities include management of AD, Server Hardware, Nortel and Cisco routing and switching networks, WatchGuard VPN & Firewalls. Support of the Citrix Presentation 4.0 server farm and CAG (Citrix access gateway). Maintenance and support of the corporate LAN / WAN. Support for the WinTerm’s, Predator - data funnel stations / Amada turrets and the Cisco WiFi controllers / AP’s.
  • Walt Disney Internet Group
    Senior Systems Engineer
    Walt Disney Internet Group Feb 2006 - Nov 2006
    Contract position via StarTechnical Consulting: My position at WDIG had me performing a split role. For the 1st half I participated in the deployment and later supported Disney Mobile (disneymobile.com / MVNO) later for the second half of my contract I was asked to design and deploy a secure 5 domain AD forest for PCI compliance. I was also responsible for inter-domain connectivity to all existing WDIG domains. Finally I coordinated migration of all Disney online website to the new compliant forest. The contract was completed successfully.
  • Microsoft Managed Solutions (Mms)
    Systems Engineer
    Microsoft Managed Solutions (Mms) Jun 2005 - Feb 2006
    Contract position via Ciber Consulting: Primary responsibilities are to provide tier 3-4, 24/7 support for all assigned MMS servers (and their respective services) associated with MMS ISS enterprise environment. (Including Domain Controllers, AD, DNS, Terminal Services, AV and GMAS) Contract ended when mandatory 100 day hiatus started.
  • Microsoft Msn
    Systems Engineer
    Microsoft Msn "Passport" Feb 2005 - Jun 2005
    Contract position via Volt Consulting: Primary responsibilities were to provide tier III, Platinum 24/7 support for 700 Auth, Login and Misc servers associated with Passport Secure Services W2K3 enterprise environment. (Front end web server and associated property / application support) This was a contract for my Tier 3 support during the deployment of Passport 3.0. My contract ended when the deployment was completed successfully.
  • Ibm / Washingtom Mutual
    Systems Engineer
    Ibm / Washingtom Mutual May 2003 - Feb 2004
    Contract position via Tek Systems to WaMu: Primary responsibilities were to provide tier 3, Platinum 24/7 support for a 2800+ server NT / Win2K / W2K3 enterprise environment, for IBM Global Services, and Washington Mutual.My day-to-day duties entailed deploying new hardware peaked servers. Migrating literally hundreds of servers from other Data Centers and consolidating / redeploying them at the Sabey Regional Data Center (SRDC) in Tukwila Washington. In addition other tasks included Tier 3 Platinum (3 hour) support for all regional “WaMu” N_Servers. (NT and Novell)
  • Kindred Healthcare Data Center
    Systems Engineer
    Kindred Healthcare Data Center Mar 2002 - May 2003
    Contract position via Tek Systems to Kindred: My duties were to build, deploy and support a 3200+ server NT / Win2K enterprise environment, for a fortune 500 company. My day-to-day duties entailed deploying hardware peaked servers to custom specifications for corporate divisions such as SAP, Novadigm, Intellinex, Kintana, Symposium, Citrix, Medatech, Portal, as well as SQL and MS Exchange servers which required specially tuned or clustered active/passive, active/active configurations.Other duties performed included Tier 3 support of all the local data center servers, as well as our 750+ remote locations. Additional responsibilities included troubleshooting and analysis of NOS configuration and infrastructure, in order to increase performance throughout the enterprise.
  • Micro Computer Solutions (Mcs)
    Senior System Engineer
    Micro Computer Solutions (Mcs) 1999 - 2001

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