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Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Design and implement backend infrastructure for all company products, including The Elder Scrolls: Legends, supporting thousands of simultaneous users.• Manage all servers, storage, networking, and security for the entire company, including on-premises environments and AWS. • Design and implement technology strategies and policies, research new technology to improve company efficiency and security.• Improved build automation so much that Sparkypants was able to close the Build Engineer position and merge it with my own, greatly reducing costs.• Work directly with stakeholders to advise them of security vulnerabilities, best practices, and possible improvements and cost savings.• Domain administrator for a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain with 100 machines and 45 users.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Managed networking, intranet applications and file services on a WAN with offices in the United States and the Republic of Moldova.• Administrated 20 servers including Perforce, TeamCity, Nginx, OpenVPN, and a small network rendering farm.• Managed 10 TB of company data on 4 on-premises NAS units. Implemented incremental data backups and data replication between WAN sites.• Installed and maintained network hardware, managed DNS, DHCP, and network security.• Provided server and desktop support for 20 users in both locations.

Rockville, Md

• Personally assisted highest-ranking company executives in their offices and residences, addressing a wide variety of issues including computing, mobile phones, and audio/video.• Administered WDS server, created and deployed images for dozens of new workstations.• Provided hardware and software support for over 30 on-premises Windows servers.• Provided Tier 2 and 3 desktop, telephony, and mobile support for over 500 users.