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Sioux Falls, SD, US

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Oversaw the merging of SingleHop, iWeb and INAP Managed Hosting systems engineering teams into oneteam.
• Successfully overtook systems from previous acquisitions which included building a team to administratea fully automated Openstack/Xen provisioning system.
• Coordinated efforts to consolidate three different CI/CD environments into one architecture to reducecomplexity and increase productivity.
• Responsible for validating the system architecture for all client cloud-based solutions that deviate fromstandard product offerings.
• Work with many large health care, banking and other large industries to improve their infrastructuredesign to overcome pain points and provide scalable solutions.
• Work with product management to design and validate upcoming product roadmaps.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Acquisition from SingleHop. Assumed same duties as previous

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Responsible for guiding Infrastructure & Security Engineering projects to remain in alignment withcompany goals.
• Responsible for vendor relations, reporting and compliance.
• Responsible for the operation and maintenance for all multi-tenant cloud system architecture.
• Oversaw and coordinated Nimble expansions.
• Worked with Human Resources to interview candidates and the hiring of successful candidates.
• Drafted and maintained company security policy guidelines.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Obtained and maintained VMware Certified Professional DCV 5 & 6 certification.
• Responsible for all servers and workstations responsible for company operations.
• Designed, deployed and maintained Ansible for internal system provisioning and configurationmanagement.
• Designed, deployed and maintained SCCM, AD, Agile Point, Nod32, MBAM and other centralized services toassist with IT automation.
• Designed, deployed and maintained VMware vCloud, NSX and vSphere cluster for multi-tenant virtualprivate cloud offering.
• Designed, deployed and maintained Veeam Enterprise Suite clusters for VMware and HyperV backups andmonitoring.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Main point of contact for support during business hours.
• Coordinate complex setups with coworkers to ensure tasks are completed as efficient as possible.
• MySQL replication with Master-Master, Master-Slave as well as multiple master & slave configurations.
• Linux clustering with RHEL using ipmi fencing, ServerIron load balancing, Kemp Technologies loadbalancing, Gluster, Lustre, GFS2, DRBD, heartbeat, multiple geographical locations and any applicationrequested by clients.
• Coordinate the development team with the company to complete desired tasks in a timely fashion.
• Write bash scripts required to complete day-to-day tasks to enhance the ability of the staff to completetheir job.

Managed Cisco routers in DoS protection, routing and ARP related issues.Constructed servers and setup desired software solutions based on customer needs.Managed and resolved abuse-related issues on the network.Performed requested upgrades on servers.Setup custom routing and subnetting.Performed emergency maintenance on the routers and switches.Allocated IP.

Provided software support for multiple organizations in first level to administrative level.Resolved issues involving CPanel and Plesk on Linux and Windows serversTrained new employees for providing support and technical repairs on Linux servers.Monitored servers for 73 companies to ensure all were online and all services were operational

Assisted in the drafting and finalizing of various white papers for the ResNet network.Provided on-site support for students with broken connections to the network.Assisted in the creation and deployment of the Purdue Game Server.Created a hot-fix cd that was used in the dorms to fix the blaster virus outbreak.