Phillip Forbes Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As the Primary AWS Engineer for Quantcast’s Internal IT Department, I drive automation initiatives and mentor engineers and operational staff to improve our cloud infrastructure. I focus on creating scalable, efficient solutions with Terraform to manage AWS, ensuring consistency, best practices, and adherence to company standards. I utilize GitHub for version control, enabling seamless collaboration across the team’s Terraform codebase.▪ Implemented Terraform automation within our department’s AWS infrastructure, streamlining the provisioning of resources, reducing deployment times by 40%, and improving consistency and scalability in cloud resource management.▪ Developed and enforced infrastructure-as-code (IaC) standards that improved consistency and reduced the risk of errors in deployment, allowing the team to scale resources efficiently.▪ Led a project to automate the deployment and setup of Linux and Windows EC2 instances using AWS Systems Manager, Terraform, and Ansible playbooks. This process included joining instances to Active Directory, installing core software, and ensuring that machines were configured according to internal standards, reducing manual setup time by 50%.▪ Contributed to the development and testing of disaster recovery plans for AWS workloads, integrating Veeam Backup for AWS to streamline backup processes and ensure rapid recovery in the event of a failure, minimizing downtime and improving recovery efficiency.▪ Responsible for the creation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of reusable Terraform modules to standardize and streamline infrastructure provisioning, ensuring consistency and scalability within our department’s AWS infrastructure.▪ Collaborated with the team to identify and implement cost-saving measures in the AWS environment, such as rightsizing EC2 instances, optimizing EBS volumes, EFS storage, and S3 usage, leading to a reduction in cloud spending while maintaining performance.

Plano, Texas, Us

▪ Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging.▪ Implemented and Managed GitHub Actions workflows to deploy Terraform IaC to Azure.▪ Implemented and Managed Terraform IaC to deploy/manage/support core Fisher cloud platform technologies such as Azure Firewall, Policy, NSG, VM, Storage Accounts, vNets, and Key Vaults.▪ Implemented and Managed Terraform IaC to deploy Azure SaaS technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Analysis Services, On Prem Data Gateway, Synapse, and PostgreSQL Databases.

Plano, Texas, Us

▪ Sr. Engineer on Storage Modernization Project to shift storage technologies from Hitachi to NetApp storage arrays to take advantage of deduplication, enhanced recoverability options, and ease of management.▪ Managed and maintained multi-site/multi-country VMware environment of 230+ Hosts and 1800+ VMs.▪ Customized Powershell scripts to automate operational level tasks to help eliminate nonvalue added work.▪ Sr. Engineer on Backup Modernization Project to explore and architect new enterprise-wide backup solution to enable greater flexibility, and recovery options.

Bakersfield, Ca, Us

▪ Diagnose and troubleshoot IT issues, deploy hardware, and maintain IT system health in support of day-to-day business operations for a company in the oil & gas industry with 600+ TB of data and a distributed workforce of >1100+ employees ▪ Customized Powershell scripts to automate and revamp procedural communications with Tier 1 and 2 Help-Desk staff, preventing resource waste and eliminating personnel overtime▪ Installed and configured VMware vSphere in HA Clusters and standalone ESXi servers, reducing costs of power and cooling▪ Structured and implemented the migration of back-end enterprise storage from EMX NS480 to HP 3PAR 10800▪ Served as the Windows Expert on a Security project and identified opportunities to reduce environment vulnerabilities by 80% ▪ Installed, configured and upgraded CommVault software in preparing EMC data domain back-up disk▪ Eliminated the company’s DR copy of the backup to tape and replaced with Microsoft Azure cloud storage, preventing excess salary costs and reducing risk of data corruption

▪ Managed IT infrastructure in sustaining 1100 workstations on various sites for the City of Bakersfield▪ Performed troubleshooting on Windows server hardware and applications, solving network connectivity issues, resolving issues with email accounts, and configuring applications after installation▪ Installed, configured and maintained Sophos anti-virus software to mitigate risk and promote system health▪ Spearheaded VMware implementation for the City to reduce cost on hardware, power, and cooling

▪ Performed incident resolution and root cause analysis on the City’s Local and Wide Area Networks ▪ Tracked and documented all incoming inquiries, then identified and resolved concerns of all internal stakeholders, including employees of the City Police Department, City Hall, and Public Works▪ Maintained upgrades, troubleshoot issues, and deployed custom solutions to address 40+ daily tickets related to all software programs, hardware and peripheral support devices ▪ Trained end-users in the proper use of software and equipment, delivered phone & remote machine support in response to service ticket system inquiries, and monitored overall network health