Profile
Highly motivated individual seeking to leverage the knowledge of traditional 3-Tier infrastructure and operations into building and developing Cloud solutions. Passionate about Cloud architecture and design with great sensitivity to serve business needs and deliver high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective solutions. Goal-oriented with the ability to adapt quickly to new situations and assimilate new knowledge, techniques, and technologies.
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Validation Number NECLX04LFJQ11JS4
AWS Networking Specialty (in progress)
VMWare VCP-DCV 6.5
Skills
Passionate About
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud
- Learning new technology
- Designing & building end-to-end solutions
- Developing new skills & nurturing old ones
Proficient In
- Windows Server
- L2 Networking
- Application Load Balancing
- Multi-team collaboration
Knowledgable About
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud
- VMware vSphere
- Powershell
- Backup & recovery tenets
- Docker & Kubernetes
Projects
Cloud Resume Challenge
Blog Posts: My Cloud Resume Blog
Original Project Link: Resume Challenge by Forrest Brazeal
June 2022
Building a website from the ground up with a database, APIGW, custom domain, HTTPs Security, Serverless Functions triggered through APIGW written in Python, all packaged into a SAM template only utilizing Amazon's wide variety of Cloud services.
Education
Radford University - Radford, VA
B.S Chemistry
ECPI Technical College - Richmond, VA
A.A.S. Programming and Networking
Employment History
Atrium Health
Systems Engineer
October 2019 - Present
Manage Windows server virtual infrastructure. Manage Radware Alteon application load balancers for prod and DMZ workloads. Collaborate with other tech teams to resolve issues &deploy new infrastructure.
Internetwork Engineering
DataCenter Tech Specialist/Staff Augmentation
December 2013 - October 2019
Worked onsite with various customers to provide technical services ranging from AD & Exchange administration/operations to Cicso switch installation.
Forsythe Technology
vBlock Network Engineer
September 2011 - September 2013
As a sub-contractor to VCE, traveled to customer sites to install/configure/test vBlock converged infrastructure solution. Speciality was L2 switching, physical & virtual, & Cisco UCS (unified compute), secondary was VMWare vSphere.
