About
Hello! I am Jordan Waite, IT Systems Engineer and all around geek.
I have 20 years of experience in IT and 10 years as a Systems Engineer. I am currently looking to pivot to a DevOps position, as I have recently begun dabbling in Jenkins/Kubernetes/Docker/Teraform and it has been extremely enjoyable.
Basic Information
Email:
j4waite+web@gmail.com
Phone:
+1 682-207-8005
Address:
Sacramento, California, U.S.A
Work Experience
October 2016 - Present
Funimation
Systems Engineer
- Top escalation point for all IT Infrastructure and Production IT issues>
- Design, build, and administrate virtual, bare-metal, and cloud-based infrastructure (Azure and AWS)
- Design and implement Covid19 WFH plan to support entire company working remotely
- Work closely with Production IT and Dev Team to build reliable and effective solutions for unique challenges
- Primary Network administrator. Maintain and configure all switches, routers, WAPs, vlans, etc.
- Create scripts to automate various backend processes and systems utilizing PowerShell and Bash
- Lead projects to replace / upgrade / supplement aging infrastructure and applications.
- Create and maintain documentation for systems and processes to be used by IT and end-users
- Head projects to move to new office in TX and open new office in CA.
- Create custom reporting for management to track WFH numbers
2015 - 2016
DSS Research
Sr. Network Admin
- Managed network equipment, including firewalls, mail gateways, RDP proxies, load balancers, etc.
- Managed and maintained SAN and VMWare farm
- Worked closely with Dev Team to migrate core services from IIS 6 to IIS 8.5
- Lead project to migrate call center to new VoIP and POTS services
2008 - 2015
WellnessPointe
IT Administrator
- Lead project to migrate to Cisco Call Manager (v9) with unified messaging from ancient PBX
- Managed & maintained all network equipment including Cisco switches, routers, and security appliances, Wi-Fi, etc.
- Implemented, managed, and maintained VMWare farm, SAN, and Citrix XenApp 6. Virtualized existing servers
- Tier 3 support for all technical issues
- Manager to 3 person IT team
- Designed and implemented various databases and websites for internal use and collaboration with area hospitals
2004 - 2008
ESA Technologies
Contract IT Specialist
- Provided onsite and remote IT services for ~30 area businesses running a variety of different software platforms
- Designed and implemented Cisco IPsec and OpenVPN SSL VPNs
- Performed on-prem and remote Penetration Tests. Provided non-technical overviews, and high-tech detailed reports
- Remediated any security vulnerabilities found and taught security best practices to clients
- Served as Network and Systems Admin for mixed Windows (Active Directory) and Linux network
Education/Certifications
2018
AWS CSAA
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Certificate
Validation Number: ZQK71NV1JE111X3C
2016
SonicWall CSSA
Certified SonicWALL Security Administrator
Certificate
Certificate ID: 7D99-16F9-C514-4C91
2003
MCP Win2k
Microsoft Certified Professional - Windows 2000
Certificate
Ages ago
High School
High School Diploma
Hallsville High School
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