Cory Powell Email & Phone Number

Falls Church, Virginia, Us

Charleston, Sc, Us

Marietta, Georgia, Us

• Responsible for the administration and backup of over 3000 servers with a mix of Debian and Windows servers. • Manage user accounts for the core infrastructure assets for employees who are on/off boarding.• Daily backups using multiple technologies (Veeam. Dell Appassure, R-Snapshot).• Manage backups from adding and removing customers as needed. Troubleshooting daily failed backups. Ensure adequate space for growth. • Postfix Mail administration.• Scripting daily tasks using bash, perl, and python.• Barracuda Firewall administration.• Ensure all machines are setup properly in Icinga for monitoring.

Beverly Hills, Ca, Us

• Responsible for the administration and backup of over 3000 servers with a mix of Debian and Windows servers. • Daily backups using multiple technologies (Veeam. Dell Appassure, R-Snapshot).• Postifix Mail administration.• Scripting daily tasks using bash, perl, and python.• Barracuda Firewall administration.• PBX administration.

Charleston, Sc, Us

• Supported in depth troubleshooting of application deployments, severity 1 production outages/issues, disaster recovery drills and continuous monitoring. • On-Call System Engineer rotation for application support.• Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration.• Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 R2 Systems Administration.• Symantec Endpoint Protection Administration.• Automated RHEL builds using Kickstart and Puppet technologies,• Deployed and provisioned 200+ RHEL and Windows Virtual Machines using Verizon Terremark as the cloud provider that processes medical claims for the Veteran's Administration.• Worked closely with the information Assurance (IA)team to ensure the system was secure and there were no category I or Category II findings for the system.• Reviewed User Account Request forms to ensure the appropriate level of access was requested and sent for approval,

•Test, create, deploy, and maintain server patch upgrades for Distrubuted Common Ground system Marine Corps (DCGSMC) variant infratstructure and virtual machines to ensure that the IA standards and updated the Program Objectives and Miletones (POAM) and the systems remain on the network.•Perform Information Assurance and application security duties in a heavily virtualized agile environment with VMWare infrastructure and shared centralized storage•Provide input on Operating System, Application, Network, Database, Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) and enterprise-level security requirements. Scripted the application of security where applicable.•Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and documentation•Conduct host vulnerability scanning and remediation of findings•Familiar with the Agile software development process•Researched various continuous integration, automation, configuration, and Private cloud options for a new Development Operations (DevOps) team.•Implemented an imaging solution using Symantec ghost to deploy a software baseline of fourteen virtual machines. Automated this process by scriping the iso and burning of the DVD media.

Reston, Va, Us

Reston, Va, Us