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In 2018 I was honorably discharged from the United States Navy. Subsequently, like so many other veterans, I entered the commercial workforce and fell flat on my face. The following two and half years were spent relearning how to be a regular person and trying to find where in the world I fit in. After constant trial and error, battling with mental health, and hours of research I finally found my place in the Tech industry; and oh what a place it is!I was exposed to PowerShell pretty early on in my career, and that sparked a passion in me for automation. I've since become a huge proponent of, in the word's of a mentor of mine, "making the robots do the work." What started as finding out how to manually remove profiles on several hundred mobile carts has turned into writing full workflow automation scripts that are currently being converted into custom Ansible modules for Lockheed Martin. I tend to get really excited when I start talking about PowerShell, and it's entirely possible you'll get sucked into a mad-scientist level rant about it if you bring it up around me... you've been warned!Anyone interested in automation will inevitably be drawn to Cloud technologies as well, and I'm no exception. I acquired the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate certificate in June of 2022, and it has beautifully integrated with my previous knowledge of on-prem environment architecture. I've used that aggregated information to assist in making design recommendations, and carrying out the deployment of those designs in my current role as an infrastructure administrator.Thanks to my exposure to Cloud tech, I've also started tinkering with Hashicorp Terraform, RedHat Ansible, and Python. I see infrastructure as code as the only logical way forward, and I'd love to find ways to adapt it to environments that may not be able to use a standard cloud platform for whatever reason. I've heard good things about RedHat OpenShift to that end, and I'm planning to add it to the list of things I'm tinkering with as time permits.Cloud technologies aside, I have extensive experience with on-prem solutions. I use some part of VMware literally everyday, setting up and maintaining Active Directroy domains has become second nature, and I've used several different backup solutions.All in all, I'm ready, willing, and able to support your organization in the design, deployment, and maintenance of the systems you need for internal support as well those needed to support your customers. If you'd like to work together, feel free to reach out to me at any time!

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