James Mckenzie Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

United States

Linux systems administrator for Desktop Engineering

During my 8 years at Maxar, I have had to wear many hats. I’m a leader of my team, trainer, logistics courier, system administrator, backups engineer, storage technician, data processing analyst, network operations technician, and data center engineer. While my main job has been data center engineer, I have helped take the load off other teams by doing tasks they don’t have time or the headcount for.My day-to-day was never boring as there was always a wide variety of tasks. A standard day could include drive replacements, tape rotation, troubleshooting networker backup system, decommissioning systems, troubleshooting layer 1 to layer 3 network issues, collecting weekly performance metrics, training system administrators or network engineers on how to use DsView or Avocent systems, coordinating with other teams to deploy new hardware, in-depth troubleshooting of hardware, asset auditing, and creating excel documents to process various forms of data.Some of my accomplishments in this role include.· Helped create solutions to authenticate Linux systems against multiple AD forests with one-way trust.· Saved 2M by deploying a Netapp filer, so that we could turn off ageing Hitachi storage solutions.· Elevated pain points during COVID staffing shortages by performing daily checks on storage systems for the system administration team.· Saved 2k per year by rebuilding our entire DsView system from the ground up and reducing the number of licenses required.

I started with Maxar (formerly DigitalGlobe inc.) as a contractor. I was converted to a full time employee after a year. During this time, I was trained in daily operations of the facility. My daily tasks included:• Troubleshooting, Repair, and Maintenance of Dell Enterprise PowerEdge Servers• Drive replacements and repair of Netapp, Hitachi, Tintri, and Dell EMC Islion storage systems• Tape library operations including Tape rotation, Documentation, Ejecting and Injecting tapes via cli• Decommissioning and disposing of retired hardware

1350 Ken Pratt Blvd #4B, Longmont, Co 80501

After college I spent some time working at a local repair shop. During this time I learned some new skills and honed old ones. Daily tasks included:• Repair customer's apple devices such as iPads, iPhones, and iMac's.• Provide support to customers with questions and concerns with iOS, OSX, and occasionally Windows

Longmont, Co

While I was attending Front Range to earn my associates, I took a part-time job at the college to gain experience in IT. I preformed help desk duties and ran the front desk while the Full-Time Help Desk technician was away or on break. The education I received was reinforced by working here. Daily tasks included:• Resetting passwords in Active Directory• Receiving support calls, emails• Preparing and responding to tickets• Troubleshooting windows 7 or Mac OSX problems as they occur• Provide on demand support for classroom and computer lab technology• Deploy and maintain new equipment in classrooms and computer lab

Associate Of Applied Science (A.A.S), Computer Information Systems (Wide Area Networking), 3.31

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa Honors

High School Diploma, High School

While attending high school I completed a certification course at the career development center (cdc) of Longmont in Accounting