What's even more fun than huge multi-terabit networks? Huge mulit-megawatt cryptomines. I oversee the deployment of power and networking from the top to the bottom. Favorite thing -Designing power infrastructure from the primary disconnect down to "distribution" and then seeing it real lifeLeast favorite thing -Railroads

AGN was a global, multi-terabit scale IaaS company based in Tempe, Arizona.

This position places me responsible for the entirety of the architecture that goes into DicomGRID, a medical imaging storage company located in Phoenix, Arizona.As with all architecture level positions, I constantly have to keep up on all of the latest technologies pertaining to security, storage, systems and networking. Thus far I've implemented a variety of different technologies at this company that has made a marked impact on performance, end user satisfaction, and most importantly, reliability.I've had the chance to work on some amazing projects here thus far such as;Designing a cutting edge software defined networking stack deployed on commodity grade Supermicro hardware with over 70gbps capacity, eschewing Cisco and Juniper options that would literally be an order of magnitude more expensiveBuilding an all SSD clustered file system for ESXI. Secure systems against attackers with kernel based hardeningAdding SSD caching to storage systemsWork with vendors to get the best solutions at the best cost possibleTake our appliances from stale to amazing - our lowest spec system has more throughput capacity than our original top-tier enterprise grade systemEvaluate the latest builds of Openstack on enterprise grade hardwareDesign,build and implement massive multi petabyte storage systems from the ground up

Role focused in system infrastructure analysis and consolidation planning.implementing VMware, Spacewalk, Splunk, Juniper and a variety of other technologies and hardware to leverage significant budgetary savings, and increased efficiency.Investigate new technologies to offer further cost savings to the company.

Tier 3 Operations support creating documentation, scripts and support guides for other technicians.

Tier 3 Operations support

Side Contract job * Deployed network, AD Windows server, and workstations * Primary troubleshooting contact * Network and System Maintenance

Side Contract Job* Maintained all office workstations, printers, plotters networking equipment and VOIP equipment* Built office workstations for drafting use and a Windows server for AD* Built and deployed custom OS builds* Migrated all data to a centralized AD server* Overhauled Existing network

*Support contact for Trixbox and Asterisk *General workstation/server maintenance *Built workstations/servers