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In this role, I lead a team of experts who are responsible for Blue's cloud management, datacenter operations, identity and access, PKI, unified communications, storage, backups, and privileged access. We support technologies which enable engineers to design, manufacture, and fly rockets and people to space!

Responsibilities included leading a team of experts who were developing and implementing organization-wide IT infrastructure, including compute, storage, virtualization, collaboration, communication, and backup/recovery platforms, as well as continuing to support technical aspects of Blue's external broadcasts of our New Shepard Launches. Blue Origin grew tremendously during these years, from 1,000 people to well over 10,000. All aspects of the IT infrastructure had to grow with that added demand.

I provided computer system support to our rocket engineers and staff, managed critical information technology infrastructure, and supported a company building and flying space vehicles. I built out and supported a variety of systems including our virtual environment, storage platforms, authentication, MFA, and a variety of automations. I was also honored to technically lead our external facing live productions starting in 2017, ensuring successful video signal delivery onsite and to our broadcast and live-streaming partners for some 20 New Shepard launches from the West Texas Launch Site. This effort cumulated in the live broadcast of our First Human Flight on July 20, 2021, a show that was taken live by at least 6 national broadcast stations and Prime Video. During this time, I traveled to 17 straight New Shepard launches to support these efforts.

As the Lead System Administrator at Globys, my responsibilities included oversight of the internal IT department and all client systems, applications, and supporting infrastructure. I also actively supported our datacenter systems, virtual infrastructure, client facing production systems and infrastructure, as well as supported and trained our enterprise customers worldwide, traveling abroad regularly.

As the 13th employee, I helped build all the computer systems which ran the business including end user support, corporate systems, and datacenter operations. Eventually, my role focused on product deployment and operations while maintaining existing systems such as email, firewalls, the and authentication.

After earning an MCSE, I began working in the Certified Technical Education Facility (CTEC) setting up and supporting the classroom environments at Keane. I was quickly promoted into the IT department as a Hardware Technician then to the Network Admin role for the 500 person office.