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Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Designed and built multiple imaging solutions in AWS for EC2 (AWS SSM and Image Builder).
• Wrote automation to migrated servers from on-prem data center in VMWare to AWS EC2 instances.
• Worked with application teams to create their apps in AWS AppStream.
• Created Cloud formation stacks with yaml that were deployed with Azure DevOps pipelines.

Greater Seattle Area

Cloud Engineer consultant with a focus on Azure and Google GCP. Worked with clients to help migrate to the cloud or from one to another cloud. Major Projects included:WideOrbit - Terraform automation to support a migration from Azure to GCP.Puget Sound Energy - On premise email migration from 2010 to 2016.

Greater Seattle Area

• Design, build and deploy Azure Service Fabric clusters
• Automation with PowerShell and templates
• Tier 3 support for Azure issues
• Infrastructure Engineer for Duels of the Planeswalkers and Magic the Gathering: Arena

• Engineered and deployed a highly available VPN solution with Windows RRAS using certificates for authentication and encryption.
• Lead the project to migrate all the VMs to our new Hyper-V servers and into Azure (IAAS)
• Deployed Solarwinds Application Monitor for additional monitoring.
• Managed 300+ Windows virtual machines using PowerShell & SCVMM
• Provided Tier3 for operational issues.

Greater Seattle Area

• At Amazon I worked on the Corporate Systems (CorpSys) team that provided core services to Amazon employees. During this time I owned all of Windows imaging, Corp DHCP and Hyper-V at Amazon as well as our CorpSys VPC in.
• Lead engineer for project to prepare and update CorpSys services for Network Regionalization.
• Engineered and deployed a solution to replace our legacy hardware imaging built in 2008. This used WinPE5 and PowerShell to deploy 2012 server images.
• Provided Tier3 and on call support for operational issues.
• Administered 200+ DHCP servers and 300+ Hyper-V servers

Greater Seattle Area

• Supported a System Center Orchestrator 2012 platform for automating server builds in a subgroup of MSIT. This automation performed all steps of the build including imaging, NIC teaming, IP addressing, joining to the.
• Patched, upgraded, and maintenance of Orchestrator servers.
• Investigated root cause of failed builds and recommend solutions.
• Wrote additional PowerShell scripts to aid with monitoring and trouble shooting.

• Member of the operations team at Microsoft Video Lab (VidLab) supporting ingesting and processing of video content for the Zune marketplace. Highly secure environment due to the raw content coming from movie and TV.
• Supported and maintained our standalone 2007 SCCM environment. 600+ endpoints spread out in 3 buildings.
• Built and deployed new OS images using OSD in SCCM.
• Responsible for keeping servers up to date with Windows patches and Forefront updates.
• SCCM to push out new applications and patch others.
• Also administrated our intranet site hosted on SharePoint 2010.

• Tier 3 Engineer that supported Microsoft’s Outlook.com which has currently 800+ Exchange 2010 servers in 7 datacenters.
• Built out and maintained new data centers using Exchange Datacenter and PowerShell scripting.
• Responsible for upgrading servers and troubleshooting any issues.
• Worked with developers implementing the new R5 environment and Site Resiliency testing.
• 24x7 on-call rotation.

• HP at MicrosoftWorked in GamesIT providing Tier3 support for MGS’ online services in both production and lab environments
• Supported; Lead engineer for multiple XLSP deployments including Gears2, VP2, FASA, Panorama and XNA.
• IIS6 website administration of Ageofempires3.com, Xboxlivetournament.com, Xna.com, and others.
• 24x7 on-call rotation, taking escalations from Tier1 & 2. Accomplishments:
• Game credits include Gears of War2, Lips, Banjo, and Viva Piñata 2.
• Designed and setup Panorama version 2, an XLSP deployment for Games for Windows Live

• System and network administrator for GamesIT in the Red West and Willows labs
• Windows 2003 Server administrator.
• Build, rack and cable HP and Dell servers in the lab.
• Maintain and support lab servers including patches and reboots.
• Password and Active Directory administration and trouble shooting

• Day to day support, monitoring and troubleshooting of multiple environments for Microsoft Game Studios
• Monitored production and lab servers and hardware via Microsoft MOM 2005 and Site Scope.
• Responsible for ensuring issues are resolved in a timely manner, tracked and/or escalated to the appropriate groups.
• Wrote documentation / procedures and trained new employees.
• Lobby administration for Zone.com

• I supported about ~5k Windows 2000 and 2003 servers in the Saturn data center. Also responsible for building, racking, cabling, imaging, and hardware/software troubleshooting. Also took over lab admin duties in bldg 116.
• Installing and configuring of new servers.
• Upgrading and patching of new and existing machines.
• Troubleshooting, repairing and maintenance of various types of servers including HP, Compaq, and Dell.
• Provided phone and email tech support to the property owners.
• Used Altiris Deployment software to image servers.