Topher Hawk Email & Phone Number

Manassas, Va, Us

Responsible for Kaltura video platform deployments, upgrades, and maintenance across multiple AWS regions as well as on-premises deployments for customers with unique needs.

• First response escalation for Install Engineering team.• Review and approval of new sales executed from Sales Engineering prior to Install Engineering team intake.• Revision of incoming projects to match appropriate expectations. • Building, configuring, and maintaining project task list and timelines via existing deployment baselines.• Rapid bare-metal deployment with OpenStack• New complex infrastructure deployment, configuration for dedicated and multi-tenant, VMware vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V, and occasionally AWS backed solutions. • Engineering of complex High-Availability bare-metal, hybrid, and completely virtualized IT environments for multiple simultaneous client projects.• Ground-up infrastructure migration planning and performance.• Switch configuration using Dell and Juniper platforms.• NSX, Palo Alto, and Cisco firewall deployment and VPN tunnel configuration, F5 BIG-IP load-balancer appliance integration, Veeam and Zerto Disaster Recovery planning, production, and execution process creation.• Alert Logic infrastructure monitoring installation, and additional complex environment design and construction responsibilities. DUO Security Multi-Factor Authentication Administration.• Virtualized network construction, post-migration troubleshooting, database performance tuning, preliminary infrastructure auditing and documentation, • Wiki maintenance. Powershell scripting for bulk interaction of Windows processes and automation of Quality Assurance tasks. • PowerCLI management of VMWare virtual infrastructure.• Internal process creation, documentation, and ongoing maintenance.

Orlando, Florida Area

New infrastructure deployment, configuration for dedicated and multi-tenant AWS, VMware vCenter and Microsoft Hyper-V backed solutions. Engineering of complex High-Availability bare-metal, hybrid, and completely virtualized IT environments for multiple simultaneous client projects.Full infrastructure migration planning and performance.Cisco ASAv firewall deployment and VPN tunnel configuration, F5 BIG-IP load-balancer appliance integration, Veeam and Zerto Disaster Recovery planning and production, and process creation. Alert Logic infrastructure monitoring installation, and additional complex environment design and construction responsibilities.Virtualized network construction, post-migration troubleshooting, database performance tuning, preliminary infrastructure auditing and documentation, Wiki maintenance.

Orlando, Florida Area

Dedicated, Virtual and Cloud Server Administration for Windows and Linux Hosting environments. WHM, cPanel, PLESK, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS environment configuration and maintenance. IIS and Apache Web Server & Microsoft SQL and MySQL database maintenance, backup & restore assistance, application troubleshooting and performance tuning.Final point of escalation issue resolution for a variety of server and application level issues of extreme variety.

Orlando, Florida Area

Dedicated, Virtual, and Private Cloud Server Administration for Windows Server client base for thousands of independent client environments. Web hosting configuration, provisioning, and application maintenance for with IIS and PLESK as specialties, as well as database administration in Microsoft SQL and MySQL.

Admissions counseling, financial aid, records and registration, and Veterans Affairs counseling for incoming and current student population.

Staffing, scheduling, in-store merchandising and marketing configuration, inventory management, loss prevention, sales, and event coordination.