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Bonney Lake, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

-Manage self-hosted GitLab Enterprise deployment with GitLab Geo site and geo-replicated PostgreSQL database.-Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines to streamline the development, testing, and deployment processes for Engineering projects. Maintained and improved these pipelines to meet evolving business needs.-Maintained and optimized AWS infrastructure, including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and other services, to support the needs of Engineering and other departments.-Built highly scalable and reliable infrastructure on a daily basis using Ansible and Jinja2 templating.-Leveraged Prometheus and Grafana to fine-tune applications and infrastructure, improving their overall reliability and performance.-Deployed containerized applications with Docker in traditional infrastructure deployments, as well as integrating infrastructure rollouts with Docker in CI/CD pipelines.-Proactively supported RMAs and conducted root cause analyses of hardware failures from customer sites, identifying and addressing underlying issues to enhance the reliability and performance of our products.

Seattle, Washington, Us

-Streamlined the deployment and management of Engineering resources through the creation of idempotent Ansible playbooks. Designed one-touch automated configuration of contract manufacturing servers to facilitate scalable deployments at additional partners.-Served as the primary point of contact for Engineering in all contract manufacturing projects involving network booting (PXE) technology and spearheaded the re-architecture of the infrastructure for partner deployments. The effort focused on enhancing portability, scalability, and resilience, resulting in improved efficiency and performance.-Implemented and managed a suite of high-availability technologies, including self-hosted HA Artifactory, GitLab Geo for disaster recovery, and highly available VMware and oVirt virtual hosts.-As the go-to expert in infrastructure management, I played a crucial role in rapidly transitioning our entire Engineering department to remote work at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic by automating the administration of nearly all datacenter infrastructure.

Seattle, Washington, Us

-Spearheaded contract manufacturing automation with network boot (PXE) and scripting, while leading initiatives to downsize the physical infrastructure for better portability, scalability, quality control, and cost savings.-Led the planning, deployment, and administration of our company's first deployment to a colocation facility, including frequent on-site work and heavy use of Dell iDRAC and OpenManage for remote physical asset administration.-Managed physical Dell servers, performing administration, patching, and even the occasional dive into the dumpster to retrieve valuable hardware. Acquired deep knowledge of Dell enterprise equipment and rehabilitated discarded hardware, leading to significant cost savings for the company.

Seattle, Washington, Us

-Led troubleshooting and maintenance efforts for contract manufacturing automation processes.Managed all aspects of the Engineering Team's VMware environment as the primary administrator.-Oversaw the deployment and maintenance of data center hardware for software engineering R&D teams.-Conducted comprehensive QA testing on R&D hardware products to detect any bugs, defects or inconsistencies, and collaborated with the development team to rectify these issues.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Short-term contract hire to assist with significant OEM hardware refresh and QA testing. Duties included unboxing Dell servers and PXE building them to test contract manufacturing processes, as well as data center maintenance and organization.

Small business that specialized in the sale of ballistic protective eyewear.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

-Responsible for price and purchase of IT supplies and equipment-Maintained and developed new infrastructure for two of three manufacturing facilities across the USA-Supported end-users with hardware and software issues-Responsible for self-dispatching and maintenance of ticket system-Deployed three IP PBX solutions at two of three manufacturing facilities-Researched and developed asset tracking solutions with vendors-Extensively volunteered for company functions and charities

Onsite and remote support of client employees and equipment, including but not limited to servers, switches, wireless technologies, accounting software, desktops and laptops, multiplatform mobile technologies, and disk-based backup solutions.

Aas, Aas, Computer Network Administration / Desktop Support

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas), Network And System Administration/Administrator