Ian Wilson Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Leading and mentoring a team of Systems Engineers.Compiling VFX Platform software for the Systems, R&D and Pipeline teams.Researching monitoring systems and setting up the InfluxDB monitoring stack and Grafana instances.Auditing and hardening security systems for TPN compliance.Working with EMC Isilon and VMware hypervisor clusters.Setting up and administering Windows Servers: Domain Controllers, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, ADFS, and Certificate Authority roles.Creating formulas for the Saltstack configuration management system.Utilizing monitoring systems such as Sensu, Observium, and ELK

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Transitioned studio from Linux ISC DHCP and NIS to Windows Server DHCP and DNS.Deployed multiple wireless networks backed with FreeRADIUS authentication servers.Improved Windows image and application deployment.Deployed VFX software such as Maya, Houdini, and Mari.Assisted in building and maintaining render farm infrastructure.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Upgraded and improved a Ganglia deployment on multiple clusters.Implemented GPU monitoring on all Linux workstations.Configured and deployed a customized metrics monitoring tool on Linux workstations for end users to improve work-flow.Reduce bottlenecks and downtime by analyzing performance metrics and giving feedback to users.Assist in maintaining and upgrading Linux and Windows workstation images.Build and deploy RPM packages.Work directly with production staff to allocate resources appropriately.Create detailed documentation on procedures and components of the infrastructure.Help diagnose Maya, Nuke, Houdini, Vray, Mari, DMX, RV and Photoshop issues.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Primary desktop support technician for the Vancouver studio.Supported local and Teradici linked workstation setups.Colour calibrated a high volume of monitors with optical probes.Resolved hardware and software Linux and Windows issues throughout the environment.Gathered and analyzed workstation metrics to locate bottlenecks and workflow issues.Built and deployed RPM packages.Initiated a Ganglia project for a workstation cluster.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Purchased, organized, and deployed equipment.Resolved hardware and software Linux, OSX and Windows issues.RPM package building and deployment.Colour calibrated HP Dreamcolor monitors with PR-680 spectroradiometer.Local and remote workstation support.Hardware and software maintenance of render and storage nodes.Gathered workstation performance metrics.Set up and configured IP phones.Maintained tech room and equipment inventory.Helped support MoinMoin wiki documentation platform.Performed new employee technical orientations.

Vancouver

Helped to support 2 separate facilities.Supported Linux, Windows, and OSX environments.Colour calibrated HP Dreamcolor monitors with optical probe.Set up and configured IP phones.Researched solutions to stability and performance problems.Monitored and maintained uptime of workstation render farm.Logistics planning with different teams.Set up new user accounts and workstations.Maintained tech room and equipment inventory.

710 Granville Street, Vancouver

Diagnosing and repairing desktop computers and laptops.Warranty repair for Toshiba, HP, and Sony.Corporate sales.File recovery and TrueCrypt data backups.Virus and malware removal.Resolving technical problems over phone and email.Customer service.

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