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Littleton, Co, Us

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 lead engineer in 2024.● 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.● Planned and executed migration of Atlassian Jira and Confluence from datacenter to SaaS.● Changed DR strategy from Pure Storage snapshot replication to ActiveDR async replication on write.● Migrated from NetApp FAS to NetApp AFF and converted to SVM replication for DR.● Planned, managed, and conducted a highly successful disaster recovery test twice for Advisor Servicesbusiness unit.● Migrated from F5 LTM physical appliances to F5 LTM Virtual appliances.● Planned and executed AIX 7.1 to 7.3 migrations and live partition mobility to new Power 10 hardware.● Planned and executed Data Domain migrations to new systems.● Implemented Puppet Enterprise for Axos Financial to manage all Linux servers in the rest of theenvironment.● Lead role in disaster recovery configuration and testing for Axos Financial.

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.● Migrated production from older IBM pSeries hardware to new pSeries hardware with minimal downtime.● Implemented numerous data protection and disaster recovery services○ EMC Avamar○ Storage array replication○ Zerto Virtual Replication● Migrated AD from physical 2008 to virtual 2016 domain controllers.● Supported numerous integration projects with E*TRADE.h E*TRADE.

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.● Assisted in the deployment and implementation of over 100 servers to support McKesson applications.

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 sustainment of effort.

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 missions. Served as Information Management and Telecommunications Officer, Safety Officer, and Nuclear Biological Chemical Officer.● 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 associated equipment worth in excess of $11 million. Responsible for the welfare of 22 individuals including direct oversight for training, supervision, coordination, and rapid deployment. Served as assistant Information Management and Telecommunications Officer, Safety Officer, and Nuclear Biological Chemical Officer.Telecommunications Officer, Safety Officer, and Nuclear Biological Chemical Officer.● 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.