Updated 3/2/22
Summary
Experienced System Administrator with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled In Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD servers, VMWare systems, System Security, and Risk Management. Strong information technology professional with a Master of Science focused in Networking, Security, and System Administration from Rochester Institute of Technology. Interests include virtualization and containers, cloud computing, and Infrastructure as Code.
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (expires Dec 2024)
- CompTIA Security+ CE (expires Jan 2025)
Skills
- Operating Systems: Windows, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), MacOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
- Languages: Python, Java, PowerShell, Perl, bash
- Services: LDAP, Active Directory, Samba, Apache, JAMF
- Cloud Services: AWS EC2, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
- Virtualization and Containers: Docker, VMWare vSphere, ESXi, NSX
- Network and Security Tools: Wireshark, Nessus, Nmap, Autopsy, Metasploit
Personal Projects
- Used Ansible to automate deployment and configuration of webservers and load balancer in AWS EC2
- Developed Lambda functions triggered by EventBridge to automate EC2 instance statuses and automate backups
- Used python scripts to back up local data to AWS S3
- Deployed custom images and services to minikube using YAML file
- Built and managed Kubernetes cluster in EC2 and EKS using eksctl and kubectl
- Built Jenkins instance, used Jenkins pipeline to deploy custom AMI cluster
- Built and configured Prometheus and Grafana instances to monitor Linux systems
- Built a static website in HTML, hosted it on S3, enabled CloudFront CDN
Experience
System Administrator
Golisano College of Computing and Information Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Notable Projects
- Designed and implemented VMWare cluster for testing purposes. Upgraded and improved availability as usage grew to include production and research systems.
- Designed and implemented Active Directory domain
- Developed Active Directory security baseline using Center for Internet Security benchmarks
- Successfully migrated ~5000 accounts from OpenLDAP to Active Directory with no downtime
- Designed, secured, and created infrastructure for Windows instructional labs
- Designed, secured, and created infrastructure for MacOS instructional labs
- Assisted with development of plan to migrate on-premise resources to AWS cloud
- Designed plan to create college-level Active Directory Domain, while integrating existing department domains into the new domain.
Responsibilities
- Manage and secure a VMWare Cluster of ~70 virtual machines. These VMs include production, research, and developer project systems.
- Manage and secure backend infrastructure storage and file systems running on FreeBSD and Ubuntu
- Manage, update, and secure Active Directory domain
- Provide technical, security, and architectural design support for research servers, with a focus on AI/ML platforms like CUDA, tensorflow, and pytorch
- Image, secure, and manage Ubuntu, Windows, and MacOS instructional and research labs.
- Research, analyze, recommend and select data center upgrades.
Education
Master of Science, 2012
Networking, Security, and System Administration
Rochester Institute of Technology
Thesis topic: Web-Based Single Sign-On: An Examination of Security and Usability