Datacenter & Network engineer

Experienced IT Specialist and Network and Datacenter Engineer

I have over a decade of experience in IT. Supporting both Military and Civilian roles. I have achieved a CCNP, Junipers JNCIA-Junos, CompTIA Net+ and A+. I am currently working on my CCNP-DEVNET. I seem to be a Jack of all Trades. I love all things Technology. My formal training has been in Computer Science working on Artificial Intelligence and Electronics. I also have been classically trained as a Physician Assistant and Paramedic. On my free time when I am not fixing your computer and keeping your Internet up and running, I enjoy doing projects with my daughter. We do projects ranging from simply running a higher Category Ethernet cable to the gaming room for more throughput to very advance projects like building robots and training them to stand up right and walk. Most of our code is in Python but I can be found using other coding languages that I am not fluent in. I also manage the hosting and domain side of my wife’s website. I am very proud of my Wife, she had saw I was learning new things to stay relevant, so to be supportive she taught herself how to code and built a wonderful website. If you have not already sensed from reading my rantings, I am very family oriented. Family is what kept me going after I got back from my Military Experience.

What I’m working on

Self Hosting my own LLM with OLLAMA and Stable Diffusion

I have been using some form of AI that I have I developed myself for over a decade since achieving a Degree in Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Machine Learning from Stanford and Udacity. The recent advances in production ready AI have made selfhosting a lot easier now. I...

Projects

Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning

For fun, I have been doing PH.d level work in AI and DL. I have done approximately 140 projects, mostly using Python. My projects range from Object Detection for Autonomous Vehicle (Cars & Aircrafts), Voice response to making a robot walk up right on two feet. All these completed and...

Video and Music Streaming Service (like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video)

For this project I will be building my own Private video streaming service , like “Netflix or Amazon Prime Video “. With a NAS - Network attached storage and Media Server. My basic guidance to start me off is from RaspberryPi.com with the How To Build a Raspbery PI NAS...

Building a Type 1 Hypervisor on old laptop

I decided to repurpose my laptop I used while learning Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. I am taking my old Acer Media center Laptop running a Intel i7 and 32GB of Ram that I have reapeatedly imaged with different Linux distros and putting ProxMox on it and runing it as...

Retro Video Game Emulation play via Web

I have been sitting on some Video Game ROMS for a few years now and was searching for a project. I had already done RetroPi and spun up multiple other emulators but nothing really satisified. Then my daughter ask if there was a way to be able to just go...
Company: System Administrator

Experience

IS Customer Desktop Support and Network & Telecom Engineering

Providence Health, IS Customer Support Technician - FTE
Santa Rosa, CA | February, 2021 - June, 2023

Support End User’s as Level 3 break-fix of Desktops, Laptops, and mobile devices in day-to-day operations
Build, Deploy and Maintain a Windows Enterprise AD environment
Build, Deploy and maintain Cisco and Meraki WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi routers and switches.
Network management using Infoblox IPAM and Providence Health proprietary platforms
Track and resolve incidents and Project Tasks using the Service Now System
Work with Vendors and Contractors to resolve incidents and complete projects within SLA
Participate in a 24-hour 7 day On-call rotation every month.
Maintain stockroom Assets and Consumables
Consult and work in a Microsoft Teams Environment to resolve issues.

Aviation Electronics Engineer Cross-rated to Hospital Corpsman

U.S. Navy, Aviation Electronics Engineer Cross-rated to Hospital Corpsman
Mayport, Fl | December, 1994 - December, 2014

Specially trained according to US Navy standards in electrical engineering, computer systems and aerospace.
Maintained repaired and adjusted innovative electronic equipment consoles.
Integrated and implemented innovative technologies to connect to secure DoD servers

Datacenter and Network Engineer

City & County of San Francisco Department of Emrgency Mangement, IS Engineer-Senior - PEX
San Francisco | July, 2023 - July, 2026

Datacenter Operations Team Lead – August to Present:

•Manage and control all Layer 1 and Layer 2 aspects of SF DEM Server and Telecom rooms.

• Work with the Server and Network Teams in deploying and maintaining their NOC needs. • Manage and Grant all access of collocated customers and other city employees to datacenter. • Work with Sheriffs Group as the Point of Contact for all vendors and visitors to be escorted into datacenter.

Datacenter and Network Engineer – July to August: • Build, Deploy and Maintain Cisco and Brocade/Ruckus Dual network for City & Counties Police, Sheriff, Fire-EMS 911 system and Administration. • Consult and work in a Microsoft Teams Environment. • Work with vendors, contractors and other City Departments to resolve incidents and complete projects. • Track and resolve incidents using the Service Now System

IMAC - Desktop Support II

Milestone Technology, IMAC - Desktop Support II - Contractor
S.F. Bay Area | January, 2020 - January, 2021

Tesla:

Install and deployed racked Linux RHEL and Window Servers 2016 and Network Switches and Controllers
Setup and managed Cisco routers and switches
Maintain thorough Documentation of equipment and systems assets.

Five9:

Installed Windows and Mac Desktops
End User and client Support

Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate

Comptia A+

Comptia Network+

JNCIA-JUNOS

Badges & Skills

Implementing and Administering Cisco Networking Technologies

CompTIA IT Operations Specialist – CIOS Stackable Certification

Google IT Support / Comptia A+ Dual Badge

Junipers JNCIA-JUNOS

Education

Cisco Certified Network Associate Cisco

Cisco Network Academy January, 2022 - March, 2022

Cisco Certified Network Associate Cisco – E-learn 2022 - 2025

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

University of Nevada, Reno July, 2009 - July, 2011

University Nevada Reno - Reno, NV 2011

CompTIA Network+ and A+

CompTia Online February, 2021 - March, 2021

certification in Computer Networking and Hardware Support CompTIA – E-learn 2021-2024

Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Nanodegree

Stanford DeepLearning.ai July, 2019 - December, 2019

Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Nanodegrees in AI Theory, Game Theory, Planning, Voice User Interface, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision and Reinforce Stanford DeepLearning.ai - San Francisco, CA 2019-2019