Experienced and detail-oriented system administrator driven by quality and process to create, automate, document, and maintain a highly available infrastructure for applications and services with monitoring and alerting in place to tackle issues proactively in order to prevent unplanned downtime. Looking to leverage this experience and technical background to strengthen or create a robust environment for continuous delivery of software deployments.Specialties: 20+ years experience in IT/IS with an emphasis in the areas of network and server administration as well as hardware and software support. Systems Administrator with experience in Windows & Linux OS & application support, managing hosts, resources, and supporting infrastructure in VMware virtual environments. Automation of software deployments and system provisioning of virtual machines with Ansible, Jenkins, using PowerShell & bash. Background includes six years in the automotive industry supporting development teams providing robust DMS solutions and participating in an on-call rotation, working for a global provider of real-time business collaboration and communication solutions, as well as a smaller accounting/custom software firm. Strengths include adaptability, working within cross-functional teams for process improvement. Built, configured, and implemented servers forweb services using IIS, mail, databases, internet, storage, backups, host applications, as well as other network services. Ability to interact with various levels of management through training, instructing, and analyzing data for problem resolution.Additional experience includes 14 years using and supporting Unix / Linux. Client applications support for Avaya Proactive Contact solutions. Troubleshooting in a mixed Windows and Unix / Linux environment. Configured, and implemented servers for mail, databases, internet, storage, backups, host applications, & other network services. Continually learning new products and technologies. Experience with Microsoft Operating systems, workstations, and servers (installing, configuring, troubleshooting). Setting up, troubleshooting, and maintaining small networks and network resources. Troubleshooting and administration of HP-UX Unix. Building and maintaining PC workstations & servers. Support on proprietary hardware and software for Avaya Predictive Dialer call center solutions. Previous experience with Microsoft Exchange servers, MS Office applications. Some exposure to Oracle and SQL databases running queries and client applications. Personal experience using Mac OS.