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Centennial, Colorado, United States

• The Axos Advisor Services DevSecOps team lead primarily responsible for implementing, upgrading, andmaintaining server, storage, and devops infrastructure. Merged into the enterprise systems engineering team as the.
• Primary technical architect for the separation from E*TRADE/Morgan Stanley and integration with AxosFinancial for Advisor Services.
• Adapted Puppet code base to support numerous application and infrastructure changes including RHEL 8/9.
• Used Puppet to enforce Axos Financial STIG hardening standards for RHEL.
• Lead infrastructure hardware refresh replacing all Vmware ESXi servers and Brocade/Broadcom FC SANswitches with zero downtime.
• Maintained and troubleshot any issues with devops infrastructure including Gitlab and Jenkins pipelines;AWS SSM, IAM, EC2, S3, Glacier.

Centennial, CO

Team lead primarily responsible for implementing, upgrading, and maintaining server, storage, and devopsinfrastructure. E*TRADE Advisor Services was acquired by Axos Financial in August, 2021. Accomplishments for this position posted under Axos Advisor Services employment.

Centennial, CO

• Primarily responsible for implementing, upgrading, and maintaining server and storage infrastructure.
• Repaired, upgraded and made reliable IBM Tivoli Storage Manager backups.
• Replaced tape vaulting with Data Domain storage appliances with replication.
• Merged 3 separate Brocade Fiber Channel fabrics into one.
• Migrated block storage from IBM DS8800, EMC Clariion, and Netapp FAS to Pure Storage with almost nodowntime.○ Migrating striped LVM volumes to non-striped on AIX required minimal downtime.
• Rebuilt Vmware vSphere environment to be reliable and responsive to support production move from AIXto Linux.

Lawrenceville, GA

• Infrastructure architect and managing a team of 10 administrators running the IT infrastructure for the hospital system. Also provided tier 3 support.
• Selected, designed, and migrated two hospital data centers to a remote co-location facility.
• Managed transition of Technical Services team to all new senior leadership with new processes of changemanagement, organization, and workflow.

Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States

• Backup system, storage, UNIX/Linux, Windows, and Active Directory administration. Team training and mentoring; senior technical advisor; and IT infrastructure architecture and design.
• Implemented QA process for all server builds.
• Improved team’s effectiveness through direct mentoring and training of team members.
• Wrote server implementation and decommission checklist to improve consistency of work from thedepartment.
• Saved the company $45,000.00 over 3 years by negotiating and arranging transfer SSL certificates toanother vendor.
• Accomplished numerous successful upgrades of SAN, Enterprise Storage, Storage Virtualization, andVmware infrastructure

Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States

• Backup system, storage, UNIX/Linux, Windows, and Active Directory administration.
• Upgraded HP EVA5000 storage array with zero downtime to attached servers through host basedreplication.
• Expanded SAN fabric, implemented disk storage arrays, and tape storage.
• Implemented SAN fabric based virtualization with IBM SAN Volume Controller.
• Implemented HP Medical Archive Storage.
• Implemented Onstor NAS Gateway.

Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States

• Backup system administration, storage administration, UNIX/Linux administration, and all automation for the Information Services Operations department.
• Upgraded and expanded SAN fabric to include a new datacenter off of the hospital's main campus.
• Installed additional HP EVA5000 Storage Array in the new datacenter.
• Implemented VMware ESX servers on IBM BladeCenter servers.
• Implemented Servers Alive network and server monitoring tool.

Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States

• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and daily maintenance of hospital information system servers and terminals. Helpdeskadministration. Hardware installation and repair (Severs, switches, cables, etc.).
• Drafted an Operators Standard Operating Procedure for others to follow. No written standard waspreviously in place.
• Implemented IBM Tivoli Storage Manager as the enterprise backup solution.

Norcross, Georgia, United States

Business Account Executive: Outside sales professional for the nation’s largest and most advanced wireless network. Responsible for prospecting, selling, and servicing corporate accounts in a five county territory.

Fort Campbell, Kentucky, United States

• Managed all coordination between military and civilian organizations. Performed the duties of InformationManagement and Telecommunications Officer. Performed the duties of superiors in their absence.
• Responsible for procurement, setup, and configuration of organization IT systems and networks.
• Drafted and reviewed key procedures and operational documentation including the procedure for the designand conduct of civilian role-play for military training exercises.
• Personally re-established vital working relationships with numerous organizations.
• Through personal coordination, acquired and managed training assignments to schools for the three majororganizations not previously performed by the section. Used these schools as a method of reward tore-enforce.

Fort Campbell, Kentucky, United States

• Executed the long range planning, training preparation and execution, supply functions, logistical support, and readiness of 85 soldiers, capable of deploying within 36 hours in support of worldwide contingency.
• Designed and executed a wide range of detailed project plans.
• Successfully managed military hardware assets valued in the millions of dollars and creatively extendedtheir useful function.
• Supported 15 workstations, 7 notebooks, and over 40 users in a MS Windows NT 4.0/2000 LANenvironment. Responsible for troubleshooting numerous common and proprietary desktop applications.

Fort Campbell, Kentucky, United States

• Managed and supervised a group of 22 soldiers capable of deploying within 36 hours in support of worldwide contingency missions. Responsible for the maintenance and operation of major military hardware, and all.
• Under my close management, my unit consistently set the highest standards in the organization.
• Responsible for drafting and implementation of the unit Standard Operating Procedures, thereinestablishing my platoon as the yardstick for others to meet.
• Aided in the design, procurement, implementation, and user training of a small business network consistingof 15 workstations, 7 notebooks, and several routers/switches.