Systems Administrator
CurrentResponsible for the administration of the OSOS server environment, physical and virtual, which spans multiple sites across Western Washington, the State Data Center (SDC), and in the cloud (Azure). Install, configure, manage, backup and monitor server and LAN networking hardware and software using best practices, for critical systems supporting State elections, corporations and charities filings, and the Combined Fund Drive (CFD), amongst others. Work closely with application development and information security teams as well as external agencies like WaTech. Responsible for managing the Microsoft 365 environment to include Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. Managed projects in the areas of AD and group policy standardization/management, Hyper-V virtualization and consolidation, standardized imaging and software deployment/updating, access control, and Room Alert environmental monitoring.• Planned and executed the moving, installation and configuration of the Elections division’s network equipment, servers, telephony, environmental monitoring, power needs, patching, and access control from one physical site to another, installing and restoring services with minimal user disruption.• Participated in numerous upgrades and fieldings (Teams/CrowdStrike/OneDrive/Azure File Sync/access control/etc.) of software/technologies in the organization.• Rebuilt 40+ DC, DHCP, VM host, and file and print servers at multiple sites on modern Server 2022 operating system, following best practices, as well as various application servers (WSUS/MDT/PDQ/SolarWinds/etc.).