Senior Systems Administrator · Infrastructure Engineer

Building resilient infrastructure.

I design, automate, secure, and operate enterprise and home-lab platforms across Windows Server, Hyper-V, Linux, Kubernetes, GitOps, observability, and Microsoft systems management.

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20+years in information technology
17Kserver enterprise estate supported
6-nodeKubernetes home-lab platform
MISMaster of Information Systems
Professional experience

Enterprise operations grounded in hands-on engineering.

My background spans healthcare, financial, government, commercial, and military environments. I combine practical systems administration with automation, documentation, and platform thinking.

Trinity HealthJanuary 2024 – Present

System Administrator

Support large-scale Windows Server and VMware infrastructure across a multi-site healthcare environment.

  • Support an estate of approximately 17,000 physical and virtual servers across multiple healthcare ministries.
  • Build, deploy, troubleshoot, upgrade, migrate, and decommission Windows Server systems.
  • Work across VMware vSphere, Active Directory, BlueCat DNS, SCCM, PowerShell, storage, and networking.
  • Develop automation that reduces repetitive administration and improves consistency.
Trinity Health / SJRMCMarch 2021 – December 2023

Senior Client Technologies Analyst / System Administrator

Administered hospital infrastructure supporting critical clinical and business services.

  • Supported approximately 300 physical and virtual servers.
  • Administered VMware infrastructure, server hardware, operating systems, and datacenter deployments.
  • Coordinated complex troubleshooting across infrastructure and application teams.
Earlier career2000 – 2021

Infrastructure, systems, networking, and technical support roles

Progressed through healthcare support, systems engineering, Linux administration, network engineering, consulting, and U.S. Army communications.

Systems engineeringVMwareLinux NetworkingDatacenterMilitary communications
Core capabilities

Broad infrastructure depth with a platform-engineering mindset.

Hands-on administration supported by automation, security controls, observability, documentation, and repeatable deployment practices.

01 / CLOUD NATIVE

Kubernetes & GitOps

Multi-node clusters, Argo CD, ingress, certificates, persistent storage, RBAC, policies, backups, and application lifecycle management.

KubernetesArgo CDKustomizeLonghorn
02 / MICROSOFT

Windows Infrastructure

Windows Server, Hyper-V clustering, Active Directory, AD CS, Exchange SE, Group Policy, Configuration Manager, DNS, and DHCP.

Windows ServerSCCMAD CSExchange SE
03 / AUTOMATION

Automation & IaC

Repeatable infrastructure operations using PowerShell, Bash, Git, Terraform, Ansible, Packer, APIs, and declarative configuration.

PowerShellTerraformAnsiblePacker
04 / PLATFORMS

Virtualization & Linux

VMware vSphere administration, Hyper-V, Linux server operations, networking, storage, patching, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.

Hyper-VUbuntuRocky LinuxRHEL
05 / OBSERVABILITY

Monitoring & Reliability

Metrics, logs, alerting, dashboards, service health, failure analysis, and operational visibility across infrastructure layers.

PrometheusGrafanaLokiZabbix
06 / SECURITY

Secure Operations

Least privilege, service identities, network segmentation, certificate management, secret handling, resource governance, backups, and recovery planning.

RBACTLSNetworkPolicySealed Secrets
Technical case studies

Proof of work, not just a technology list.

Each case study describes the objective, architecture, implementation, controls, troubleshooting, and operational outcome.

CASE STUDY / 01

Enterprise-style Kubernetes platform

A six-node cluster with three control planes, three workers, a kube-vip API endpoint, Longhorn storage, GitOps delivery, backups, and layered monitoring.

Kubernetes 1.36CalicoLonghornMetalLB
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CASE STUDY / 02

Microsoft infrastructure engineering

A rebuilt root and issuing CA, Exchange Server SE with internal PKI, Active Directory operations, SCCM deployment workflows, and Windows Server lifecycle engineering.

AD CSExchange SESCCMWindows Server 2025Active Directory
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CASE STUDY / 03

Infrastructure automation

Hyper-V provisioning with PowerShell and cloud-init, a C# provisioning interface in development, container delivery through GitHub Actions, and AI assistant integration (EDI) through Kubernetes MCP.

PowerShellGitOpsTerraformAnsible
Read the automation case study
CASE STUDY / 04

Observability and alerting

Cluster metrics, centralized logs, Grafana dashboards, Zabbix on Rocky Linux, uptime checks, email alerts, and an infrastructure Homepage with scoped Kubernetes access.

PrometheusGrafanaLokiAlertmanager
Read the observability case study
CASE STUDY / 05

Hyper-V datacenter platform

A three-host Windows Server 2025 cluster supporting the current lab, with VLAN-aware networking, iSCSI storage, distributed Kubernetes VM placement, and TPM troubleshooting.

Hyper-VFailover ClusteringiSCSITPM 2.0
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CASE STUDY / 06

Infrastructure documentation as code

Version-controlled Markdown published into BookStack, with build procedures, commands, problem-and-resolution records, recovery playbooks, and retired-system history.

BookStackMarkdownGitOpsRecovery playbooks
Read the documentation case study
Education & certifications

Continuous growth backed by formal education and experience.

Academic achievement complements more than two decades of practical infrastructure work and ongoing home-lab engineering.

Education

  • Master of Information Systems
    University of Phoenix, 2026 · Dean’s List · Epsilon Pi Tau Honor Society
  • Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
    University of Phoenix, 2017 · National Society of Collegiate Scholars

Certifications

  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
  • Microsoft Certified Professional
  • MCSA: Windows Server 2008
  • MCITP: Enterprise Administrator on Windows Server 2008
Live platform demonstration

This website is part of the portfolio.

The site is deployed as an isolated, policy-controlled Kubernetes workload rather than a conventional static hosting account.

GitOps architecture showing Git, Argo CD, Kustomize, Kubernetes, ingress, security controls, and observability

Let’s talk infrastructure.

I am interested in infrastructure engineering, senior systems administration, platform operations, automation, and service-delivery opportunities.

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