About me

I'm a tech nerd with a passion for learning new technology and solving complex problems. My specialty is supporting large scale hub and spoke distributed networks with tactical solutions.

Experience

Novasource Power Services - Chandler, AZ

Network Architect

October 2023 - Current

  • Provide strategy and design for new infrastructure projects
  • Maintain documentation of business infrastructure
  • Support administration of cloud technologies
  • Provide training to personnel
  • 3rd NERC/CIP Audit - medium impact facility

Novasource Power Services - Chandler, AZ

Network Administrator

April 2021 - October 2023

  • Design and build of new office locations and Control Centers
  • Succesful build and migration to new Control Center with minimal downtime
  • Succesful migration of business worloads from First Solar Azure to Novasource Azure
  • 2nd NERC/CIP Audit - medium impact facility

First Solar - Tempe, AZ

Network Administrator III - Energy Services

April 2020 - April 2021

  • Primary support for medium impact NERC/CIP control facility
  • Succesful migration of physical datacenter workloads to Azure
  • Administration of Azure Infrastructure
  • Succesful migration of control center operational workloads from Office to IMDC

First Solar - Tempe, AZ

Network Administrator II - Energy Services

June 2017 - April 2020

  • Deployed integration networks to remote power plants
  • 1st NERC/CIP Audit - medium impact facility

First Solar - Tempe, AZ

Network Administrator I - IT

November 2015 - June 2017

  • On site support for office and control center networks

US Army - Dongducheon, South Korea

25N - Nodal Network Systems Operator/Maintainer

May 2013 - April 2015

  • Led teams in deployment of small distrubuted tactical networks to support a variety of missions
  • Worked directly with support vendors for additional specialized training
  • Supported leadership in planning and execution of support missions

US Army - Fort Campbell, KY

25N - Nodal Network Systems Operator/Maintainer

January 2009 - May 2013

  • Deployed single office style tactical networks to support a variety of missions
  • Cross-trained on microwave and satellite communcation technologies

Education

US Army

Warrior Leadership Course

November - December 2011

  • Learned how to organize, plan, and execute military training and exercises

US Army

Army Occupational Individual Training

August - December 2008

  • Learned legacy military communications systems
  • Practiced deployment of modern COTS communication systems

US Army

Army Basic Combat Training

May - August 2008

  • Military training to shoot, move, and communicate

Projects

Certifications

Skills

Networking

Cloud Providers

Configuration Management

Virtualization & Containers

CI/CD & SCM

Web & App Servers

Scripting & Shell

Operating Systems

Systems Management

Compliance Frameworks

Vendors