Experienced Systems Administrator / Engineer with a wide-ranging, holistic view of the IT landscape and the needs and priorities of SMBs, enterprises, and end-users. Currently located in Portland, Oregon.

Portland, Oregon

Currently managing a global team of Infrastructure Administrators and Engineers focused on delivering secure, stable, and scalable systems for software developers and pharmaceutical and materials research scientists. As the first manager of a new team, I led my team and internal stakeholders to develop new processes, procedures, and practices, including Agile, to streamline delivery of public and private cloud, network, and storage for hundreds of users across the globe.

Responsibilities included: configuration management via collaborative development (SaltStack, Git, Reviewboard), virtualization in public and private cloud (VMware, GCP, AWS, OpenStack), asset discovery, management, and lifecycle operations (Asset Explorer, Device42), storage configuration and maintenance (NetApp, EMC Isilon and VNX), networking (Cisco, Dell Force10), scripting (Python, Jinja, shell), security, customer support (Jira, HipChat), and professional development (DevOps, ITIL, InfoSec).

Portland, Oregon

Collaborated with Head Brewer/Owner in all aspects of brewing, recipe development, business operations, quality control, and equipment maintenance. Led B2B sales, including: acquiring new accounts, scheduling, account management, and delivery. Ran day-to-day taproom operations, focused on customer service, and managed website and social media presence.

Portland, Oregon

Chicago, Illinois

Architected and supported virtual and physical infrastructure to support the web development department of one of the world’s largest advertising companies. Developed skills in Apache, IIS, WebSphere, Jenkins, VMware, AWS, system provisioning, ITIL compliance, Active Directory, DNS, deployment, security, and disaster recovery.

Chicago, Illinois

Portland, Oregon