George Strother Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Mo

Orchestrated organization’s transition from manual processes to “DevOps” mindset including teaching a python/Ansible course and starting an organization wide Technical Working Group to help developer/admin communication and collaboration. Built and automates a wide variety of datacenter and cloud technologies, including a REST API wrapper around Microsoft Certsrv which cut SSL certificate issuance times from 1.95 days down to 479 milliseconds. Also manage the Storage Branch, covering over 32PB of data, supervising 13 staff. Oversee contracts and financials of over $30M/year, including reducing capital spend in 2021 by $4 Million by pitting vendors against each other.

Wiesbaden, Germany

-Team lead of 3 Civilians and 10 contractors, efficiently managing a large-scale virtualized infrastructure across three data centers and multiple networks. -Work with higher headquarters as a virtualization subject matter expert (SME). -Design, Operate, and Monitor over 140 VMware ESXi hosts and 3 Petabytes of NetApp & EMC Storage (NAS & SAN). -Wrote PowerShell and bash scripts to automate security configuration and enhance operations. -Oversaw migration from VMware vSphere 5 to 6 (60 hosts to 140) and NetApp 7-mode to Cluster Mode (8 nodes to 20 nodes), both greatly enhancing infrastructure redundancy and performance. -Provide oversight to teams including storage, disaster recovery, windows, Active Directory, and virtualization as a resident expert. -Apply a wide array of knowledge over different technology areas to ensure success for both projects and incident resolutions.

Wiesbaden, Germany

-Designed, Planned, Implemented and Managed a large scale virtualization infrastructure. Worked with internal and external entities to design and migrate from VMware vSphere 5 to VMware vCloud 6. This infrastructure provided high availability and disaster recovery to internal and external customer workloads.-Gathering customer requirements and performing technical assessments of projects including providing feedback to leadership and directly to customers on appropriate actions. This also often involves translating customer requirements into technical requirements to ensure customers, and we as their provider, are on the same page.-Work with higher headquarters as a virtualization subject matter expert (SME) on infrastructure as a service (IAAS) plans.I have implemented and trained technicians on the following tasks:- Installing/Upgrading operating systems and firmware including major version changes and security patches. After this ensuring systems are still full operational, or restoring operations if changes were required.- Applying and monitoring Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGS) both manually and by automated scripts.- Built and maintained a set of templates to quickly deploy virtual machines for customers and internal use.- Isolating and resolving issues with the virtualized infrastructure. This involves identifying source devices or applications that may be outside of our scope as root cause.- Monitor and troubleshoot performance and capacity issues.- Planning, scheduling, conducting preventative and on-demand maintenance.

Anchorage, Alaska Area

- Active Directory Domain Admin for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. - Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) Administration for user data, server and desktop virtualization including managing the deploying two new EMC VNX Series Arrays, and managing two NetApp Arrays.- Managed three VMWare vSphere virtualized environments on multiple different classification networks.- Developed the headquarters (Alaskan Command) strategy for optimal use of virtualization products.- Designed, Built and deployed VMWare View 5 environment from scratch.- Deployed Zero clients out to users including a wire array of troubleshooting.- Trained other technical staff on VMWare Management and View troubleshooting.- Maintained Symantec Backup Exec tape server.

Managed Helpdesk for MWR and 673FSS. Migrated services during Joint Basing from Army to Air Force.

Manage windows and linux systems and provide support to users. Primary domain administrator for the Alaska Region.

Worked as an information management officer for Morale Welfare and Recreation. Provided IT support for 300+ users and computers. Managed computer labs, point of sales, workstations and servers.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

In Progress

Cs Coursework, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Networks And Security, 3.87