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Denver, Colorado, United States

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

In this role, my major responsibilities are:I'm offering services as Security & Automation Engineer/System Engineer. I ensure rapid provisioning of SEIM and antivirus solutions across multiple datacenter sites, covering several hundred servers while creating Ansible playbooks for deployment of necessary software. Additionally, I drive compliance to industry standards by creating OS baselines, covering general hardening, tweaks, and required software through utilization of Ansible. Moreover, you can also know me for seamless functioning of cloudinfrastructure spanning multiple physical sites by rendering routine operations support.A small section of my key contributions for this role includes:• Utilized Ansible technique to drive automated deployment of Palo Alto firewalls.• Enabled rapid provisioning of cluster computer by delivering exceptional services in research and rollout of VMware vSphere auto-deploy focusing.• Minimized human error and creation time from up to three eight-hour days to approx. two and a half days by generating VMware vSphere templates for customer consumption using Packer.• Identified and resolved firewall related issues by offering on-call rotation expertise.• Improved performance and safety of equipment by performing preventative maintenance across multiple Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere environments.• Decreased provisioning time of firewalls from several hours to 10-15 minutes by improving efficiency.• Reduced human configuration errors and server provisioning time from hours to minutes by migrating infrastructure to VMware vSphere auto-deploy.• Achieved substantial cost efficiency in Microsoft licensing by transferring database system to highly available cluster.• Enabled company to remain PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and SOC2 compliant by eliminating several legacy operating systems from environment.

Wayland, Michigan, United States

During this tenure, I delivered expertise in successful datacenter migration to new government complex. deployed VMware vSphere Horizon virtual desktop systems. Furthermore, I designed and executed new primary datacenter for government complex by offering leadership support.Below you'll find my achievements:• Used VMware vSphere, Microsoft, and Juniper Systems to establish and replace entire tribal infrastructure, leading to increase from single server to over 150 virtual machines.• Determined cause of failures and prevented future downtime by monitoring approx. 200 campus-wide networked systems and hardware.

Bachelor Of Science In Computer Information Systems, Operations Management, Project Management, Financial Management, Accounting

Coursework completed: Quality Advanced Database Design/Implementation, Database Administration, Systems Development Lifecycle, and PHP.

Associate Of Arts Degree, Operations Management, Project Management, Financial Management, Accounting

Coursework completed: UNIX/Linus Administration, Unix Shell Scripting, Local Area Networking, Windows Server 2003 Configuration.