My team was working on migrating the technology infrastructure of an ENTIRE STATE, we had to manage nearly 11 different large data sets of various computers and the networks they were associated with and more. I developed a way to connect all of the data and and reduced lookup times 5 to 10 minutes to…
Category: Achievements
achievements
Fixed multiple firewall errors
Resolved multiple vendor-induced firewall misconfigurations that stalled a large-scale server migration project, quickly diagnosing and correcting rule changes to resume operations—preventing extended downtime for migration of critical healthcare software. This occurred after two separate 3rd party vendors had spend over 3.5 hours trying to resolve the migration failure. I identified the problem and had a…
Automated Scalable Zabbix deployment system
Created all scripts necessary to deploy a scalable implementation of Zabbix in a high demand cloud environment with custom Zabbix apps and custom micro apps and scripts for Linux that were built to interact with our custom inhouse applications. This was an essential piece that helped to enable our environment to migrate both our production…
TV Studio Update & Redesign
Completely updated and redesigned neglected TV studios that were still using equipment from the 1980’s. Now studios are using Full HD 1080p streaming content over IP video feeds with audio and video mixing, overlays, and pro quality mics. Was able to keep cost low, doing the whole project for < $160,000, which shocked the school…
Snow Day Website Rescue
During a 2015 snowstorm, on a snow day, my school district’s brand new website crashed at 7:41 AM as thousands of parents tried to get updates, instead they nothing. Our vendor’s poor migration and theme conversion work left us with a poorly configured database server. Within one hour, I had the sites back online at…
Revitalize Digital Signage
Revitalized outdated digital signage system using Ubuntu and the opensource software Xibo, to create a dynamic and up-to-date digital signage system that had more features than the original had. Including live weather updates, live twitter feed from school news crew, integrated google slideshow, and a much smoother and more user-friendly UI. This deployment enabled the…
30% Faster Maintenance and Deployments
I improved the server configuration and setup NIC teaming to increase the bandwidth by a factor of 4 and simultaneously increasing the number of machines we could image from 20 to over 50 while still seeing a 30% improvement in speed at the same time. This optimization streamlined deployments for thousands of devices, saving hundreds…
Led redesign for 15+ websites
Orchestrated redesign of 15+ websites for a large school district, managing vendors for theme migration from WordPress to Drupal, coordinating stakeholder input, and implementing features like responsive web design, LDAP integration, improved content management, and more user friendly admin interface. This involved change management, vendor management, and managing a wide variety of expectations and concerns…
Website Recovery
Parent company had a WordPress website that was not functioning due to a failed update after migrating the server. Other technicians had not handled such a problem. So I volunteered to help and had the website up and running in less than 4 hours despite not encountering that problem before and despite at that time…
Impossible data recovery
Customer bought in a Mac that had important family photos and tax documents on it. The mac would not boot and the Apple Genius bar told them it was “impossible” to recovery the data from the Mac. Customer bought it to me, then using a Live Boot Linux USB I pulled all of the desired…