Curriculum Vitae

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
TEKsystems | Remote | 03/2025 – 05/2026

Pivoted from initial KVM infrastructure provisioning to drive enterprise security and compliance initiatives across shifting organizational priorities.
Architected a custom vulnerability reporting system designed to evaluate and mitigate command execution risks.
Served as the secondary Point of Contact (POC) for corporate IT Compliance to ensure adherence to NERC CIP regulatory standards.
Engineered configuration management and deployment automation utilizing Ansible.
Directed technical discussions to refine operational goals, specifically targeting alert fatigue by systematically eliminating unnecessary system alerts and tuning monitoring thresholds.
Partnered directly with the Maywood Lab facility to architect, provision, and deploy the organization's core development VMware and Linux environment.

Data Center Production Operations Engineer (IC5)
Meta, Inc. | Aurora, IL (Hybrid) | 09/2022 – 03/2025

Monitored and maintained the health of highly critical data center infrastructure, encompassing power, cooling, network equipment, and advanced GPU administration.
Engineered and executed Bash automation scripts to streamline administrative tasks, Validation Acceptance Testing (VAT), and hardware troubleshooting protocols.
Participated in 24/7 on-call rotations for global data center support.
Actively mentored junior engineering staff and drove cross-functional efficiency initiatives.

Systems Administration Manager
Sprious | Remote | 06/2021 – 09/2021

Supervised and directed a highly skilled team of six system administrators, establishing standardized best practices and an initial enterprise security program.
Directed the mission-critical re-engineering and implementation of production infrastructure across co-location and remote global workspaces, integrating Puppet, Active Directory, and Nagios/Zabbix monitoring.
Maintained all OS and Puppet infrastructure, automatic time synchronization environments, VOIP-based products, and workstations running on a Windows domain with GPOs.

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
MNI - Market News | Chicago, IL (Hybrid) | 10/2016 – 11/2019

Engineered and executed complete implementations of production infrastructure across KVM, AWS, and Azure, significantly optimizing performance metrics and workflow capabilities.
Maintained all OS and Puppet infrastructure to adhere to best practice guidelines, and managed automatic Nagios monitoring.
Maintained time synchronization environments, reducing average time offset on servers to less than 40us.
Supported Windows domains with GPOs, Puppet software installations in an AD (2012r2) environment, and Asterisk VOIP systems for global operations.

Senior Linux Systems Engineer
ProducePro Software | Woodridge, IL (Hybrid) | 05/2015 – 10/2016

Held full accountability for the design, maintenance, and administration of hosted customer network environments and internal infrastructure spanning AWS, KVM, CentOS 6/7, RHEL 6/7, and Windows architectures.
Managed client infrastructure for over 150 worldwide clients using Puppet.
Automated repetitive administrative and deployment tasks utilizing advanced Bash scripting to improve client infrastructure deployment times.
Maintained mail servers, DNS, DHCP, documented team processes, and trained junior engineers.

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Zethcon Corporation | Lombard, IL (Hybrid) | 10/2014 – 04/2015

Administered hosted customer network environments and separate production networks utilizing VMware vSphere (5.1/5.5), KVM, and Hyper-V.
Managed CentOS 6/7, RHEL 6/7, Windows 2003/2008/2012 server environments, and Oracle server setups.
Deployed and executed internal security vulnerability scans utilizing OpenVAS 7.x to harden infrastructure before major OS upgrades.
Automated tasks via Bash scripting and maintained mail servers, file servers, DNS, and DHCP.

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
The National Association of Realtors | Chicago, IL | 03/2012 – 08/2014

Acted as the primary program manager for security scans and served as the lead PCI Audit engineer.
Successfully guided the organization through its first three PCI-DSS 2.0/3.0 Level 1 merchant compliance audits.
Engineered and administered high-traffic E-Commerce network environments utilizing VMware vSphere (5.1/5.5), Ubuntu (4.x-14.x), Debian (2.0-7.5), and FreeBSD (4.x-10.x).
Maintained Lawson applications on AIX and utilized Centrify to integrate Linux hosts into a mixed Microsoft AD environment.

System Administrator & IT Compliance Analyst
Enova Financial | Chicago, IL | 12/2005 – 03/2012

Managed the continuous production operation of over 1,000 virtualized XEN servers on Debian 6.x/7.x.
Utilized Bash scripting for rigorous task automation across two offices and three data centers.
Coordinated 60 cross-functional professionals to launch IT compliance efforts and ensure enterprise-wide adherence to PCI-DSS, SOX, Safe Harbor, and GLBA standards.
Successfully secured passage for the company's first four compliance audits.

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