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Summary of Skills

            • Troubleshooting for hardware and software issues in a broad range of environments

            • Automating the imaging of desktops/servers using Foreman and puppet to manage department time and resources efficiently.

            • Securely managing complex networking and remote computing systems.

            • Managing a variety of kubernetes environments running on different platforms.

            • File recovery from corrupted, deleted, or formatted partitions.

            • Experience with different operating systems and architectures:

              * OSX

              * Windows (XP/7/8/10)

              * UNIX/Linux (Debian, Arch (arm64, x86_64), OpenSuse, Fedora, Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu (arm64, x86_64),

                 Gentoo, Arch, ESXI/VMWare, pfsense)

Work Experience

        SAS, Raleigh, NC January 2022 - Present

            • Configure, manage, monitor, and debug mid-tier software.

            • Manage, monitor, and maintain container-based applications deployed in cloud container services.

            • Develop tools and software to manage SAS and third-party software.

            • Diagnose, document, report, and resolve system problems.

            • Work directly with external customers and interface with other support teams and vendors.

            • Use puppet, foreman, ansible, argo, and other automation toolkits to help manage the sas software stack.

        

        NC State University, Raleigh, NC August 2015 - January 2022

            • Manage a variety of linux servers, desktops, and labs

            • Creating and maintaining puppet modules for configuration management

            • Working with Faculty and researchers to assess their needs and then building configurations from scratch to accommodate those needs

            • Building and securing LAMP servers reproducible via config management

            • Iptables, firewalld, pfsense firewall management

            • Configuring and clustering ESXI hosts using vcenter

            • ESXI hardware passthrough/virtual gpu’s via nvidia grid

            • Configuring and clustering jenkins reproducible via config management

            • Setting up Oracle servers

            • Manage and configure Dell and Cisco switches

            • Build and maintain docker hosts

            • MySQL database management and troubleshooting

            • Received the IT Team Service Award as part of that work - https://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/2296

        

Open Source Contributions

            • https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/7124

            • https://github.com/UnicornTranscoder/Apache

            • https://github.com/ccgurley?tab=repositories

            • https://hub.docker.com/repositories/ccgurley

Programming Languages/Markup

        

            • Java

            • C/C++

            • Bash/Expect

            • Web development (CSS, PHP, HTML)

            • Python, Perl, Ruby (puppet focused)

Education

            • Red Hat Certified Administrator (2015)

            • North Carolina State University (June 2015)

              * Bachelor of Science in Computer Science