About Me
I am a passionate system administrator and engineer who is an avid homelabber, infosec professional, and network engineer who enjoys tinkering and deploying enterprise applications to help understand the technological needs of enterprises.
My background is in servers, hypervisors, application deployment, and networking. I enjoy working with different enterprise hardware and software such as Palo Alto, Nutanix, Vmware, Unifi, Grafana, Zabbix, SentinelOne, Datadog, Jumpcloud, and much more!
Each day I continue to grow my homelab and knowledge so I can best implement the newest technologies into enterprises and my own lab.
Experience
Systems Administrator
Advanced Networks | 2024 - Present
- Manage Servers, infrastructure, and networks for a variety of clients.
- Create operational and technical procedures for daily IT tasks.
- Create infrastructure reports and monitor for alerts and network/server outages.
IT Technician
Skydance Interactive | 2023- 2024
- Provision user access using Okta, AD, and Jenkins.
- Onboard/offboard users according to procedure.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, VPN, and PC issues.
IT Helpdesk Analyst
James Perse | 2022 - 2023
- Responsible for answering and prioritizing tickets
- Utilized spiceworks and manageengine to troubleshoot related issues.
- Assisting in onboarding new users
Deployments
Security Solutions
- SentinelOne
- Okta
- JumpCloud
- Ostendio
Infrastructure
- Nutanix
- VSphere/VCenter
- Perforce
- Active Directory
Networking
- Palo Alto
- Fortinet
- Unifi
Monitoring & Management
- Grafana
- Netbox
- Zabbix
- Datadog
- Ansible
Skills
Networking & Security
- Firewall Management (Palo Alto, Fortinet)
- DNS, DHCP, and IPAM
- VPN Configuration
- Identity & Access Management (JumpCloud, AD, Azure AD)
- Security Hardening & Log Management
Systems Engineering
- Windows Server Management
- Linux Administration (Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu)
- Active Directory & Group Policy
- Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV)
- Patch Management & Imaging
Monitoring & Tools
- Grafana & Zabbix
- Datadog & SentinelOne
- Wireshark & Sysinternals Suite
- Backup & Recovery (Veeam, Snapshots)
- Asset & Configuration Management
Scripting & Automation
- Bash & Shell Scripting
- PowerShell Automation
- Python for SysAdmin Tasks
- Task Scheduling (cron, Task Scheduler)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
Certifications
SSCP
Systems Security Certified Professional
CySA+
CompTIA Cybersecurity Security Analyst
Security+
CompTIA Security+
Network+
CompTIA Network+
Pentest+
CompTIA Pentest+
Projects
Pyzuh
Developed an open-source library to help with communciating with the Wazuh API, written in python.
Lilium Enterprise
Enterprise designed to test, deploy and learn more about how companies' technological needs. On-Prem servers as well as cloud infrastructure to backup data.
Ansible
Created playbooks to automate and build VMs as well as execute other tasks such as updating timezones and updating machines.