Experience

Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania

• Insurance
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Active Directory Support

  • Feb 2023 - Present



PepsiCo

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Center Support Engineer/ IT Infrastructure

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  - Lead Datacenter Engineer PM Shift - Installing, configuring, and maintaining the Linux OS in our backend Database. - Create System User Log report, perform system maintenance by reviewing the logs, then creating a solution generation system backups - PM during Network/tower/server relocation for cost effective benefits - reporting any incidents on Service Now/myService & resolving any incidents through tickets created - Leadership role, initiative taken during day to day functionality. - Disk Erasure with Cisco, Solaris, Lenovo, IBM, Dell EMC server - Basic Microsoft Azure functionality - Exposure to SQL Server controlling data storage, security, and processing - Enter, update, create, delete, patch, insert, retrieve the database, executing queries against DB. - Asset Management duties for inventory, equipment transfers, allocation of new resources for field team - Mainframe offload Maintenance, server/operations maintenance - routine audits - BMS functionality of system ops - reporting daily during turnover meeting Show less



Dell Technologies

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Linux System Administrator

  • Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

  -Worked with a large group battling log4j remediations during the outbreak Migrating Red Hat Linux 6/7/8 Enterprise Deployment, and Windows 07/10/14/16/18 -Ansible Power Broker module, (PBRUN) Identifying lists of command strings that can be use to log for changes, Data integrity, Using OpenSSL offering additional authentication to new users and removal of previous. - Patch Management - Used Ansible, Redhat Satellite, GitHub to Patch and maintain servers in the environment -Experience in creating and updating Puppet Master/Chef/Ansible etc., segregating the modules, writing manifests and pushing them to all the puppet/chef agents. - Support planning, testing solutions, and staging networks - Daily updates on RENBE, Kenna and log4j tracker, Log4j remediation during outbreak - Designated VMWare specialist patching, ESXi hosts, migrating our current servers from 6.7 to 7.0 - VMware Patching, Appliance patching or Shell patching, vCenter Server updates - Scripting tools such as Python, Bash, Shell, and PowerShell used all to automate task and tune the pertain system for better performance - IDRAC updates - Creating VMs for team labs, Managing labs around Brazil, Kawasaki, Germany, Japan, Brussels Show less



Best Buy

• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Linux System Administrator

  • Jan 2017 - Sep 2019

  Installation and configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux server 3.0/4.0/5.0 using kickstart and Sun Solaris 8/10 using manual Tivoli Process Manager ● Providing 24/7 support ● Creating logical volumes and maintaining them in Linux ● Administering if high availability Veritas Cluster Servers for redundancy ● Configuring VCS 6.0 for Tibco EMS and VCS 5.1 for MQ applications Experience administrating and implementing complex, HA multi-tier, end-to-end solutions using a wide variety of private and public cloud offerings, including AWS EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, Route 53, RDS, IAM, Cloud Front and Auto Scaling. Created and monitored alarms, notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch Managing executive Customer relationships and key business stakeholders & delivering IT Strategy & consulting service Show less