Spearheaded the transformation and management of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, marking a significant milestone in the program's advancement towards cloud optimization and security excellence. This role demanded a blend of technical acumen, strategic foresight, and leadership, enabling me to drive the project towards achieving unprecedented levels of efficiency, security, and scalability within a government context.*Orchestrated the build, management, and deployment of over 300 RHEL AWS server instances and five VPC environments, establishing a robust, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure.*Led the development and implementation of more than 200 AWS policies, significantly enhancing system security and access control, and introduced RHEL9, achieving a groundbreaking upgrade for governmental cloud environments.*Directed a team of cloud engineers and developers in the deployment of critical applications, including the Navy’s version of the Databricks application, and facilitated the complex migration of RHEL servers from versions 7 to 8, demonstrating exceptional leadership and technical expertise.*Implemented user access solutions and resolved critical access issues, ensuring high customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Managed Linux servers, JBOSS application servers, RedHat ldap servers and AWS Databricks environments.Learned the AWS environment having previously worked with VMWare products

Coordinates and collaborates with various vendors, service providers, partners and customers to install, upgrade, configure, administer, automate and optimize data center physical and virtualized architectures and associated softwareServes as a technical expert in the investigation and diagnosis, troubleshooting, root cause analysis/restoration and recovery actions of virtualization and hardware infrastructure in a multi-site data center Manages HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) and Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) to manage HPE hardware and software defined network (SDN) architecture.Engineered deployment plan to migrate all HPE hardware into HPE OneViewDeployed Dell OpenManage to manage newly purchased tech refresh Dell hardware (R640s, R740s, and R840s)Exposed to various hardware and software technologies including, but not limited to: Compute Storage SoftwareHPE BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures (Gen9) HPE ProLiant DL rack serversDell PowerEdge rack serversNetApp AFF A-series (NAS)HPE 3PAR StoreServ (SAN)HPE 3PAR StoreOnce (Nearline)vCenter ServervRealize SuiteVMware NSX-T

Managed, maintained and deployed various data center infrastructure including, but not limited to: Brocade MLXe and Cisco Catalyst switches Windows Server virtual machinesBig IP F5 load balancersVMware virtual infrastructure (vCenter/ESXi) Engineered and implemented HPE C7000/ProLiant blade systems architecture Managed and maintain APC StruxureWare Data Center for environmental monitoring Served as SME Splunk Engineer for 400+ serversServed and performed Server Room Administrator roles

•Helped move PC’s and networking equipment from previous location to current location•Image computers for final deployment to end users•Install needed software for staff as requested•Helped install networking equipment to final location•Helped to install PC’s and network printers for end users use once open•Helped set up all printers on print server•Helped setting up IP phones •Help users by troubleshooting PC and printer issues•Complete and clear trouble tickets from our ticketing system

•Move trailers between Amway’s manufacturing facilities at the Fulton St. complex•Move trailers between Amway’s Fulton St. complex and Grand Rapids Amway contracted warehouse

•Received phone calls to create work tickets to pass to level 1 technicians•Received e-mails to create work tickets to pass to level 1 technicians

Receive phone calls to create work tickets to pass to level 1 techniciansReceive e-mails to create work tickets to pass to level 1 technicians

Helped people with computer and resource issues.

Stocked and organized shelves of dairy section

Drove, loaded, unloaded and strapped flatbed semi-trucks

Secured load to insure DOT compliance and made deliveries across America

Drive a refrigerated semi-truck

Drove across America while delivering refrigerated foods on time

Stocked and organized dry grocery shelves so customers could find products

Loaded and shot 155mm artillery shells, drove trucks to deliver ammunition to artillery tracks, deployed overseas to Iraq from January 2004-February 2005, NBC NCO, worked in supply room from about June 2005-October 2006