Aaron Kennedy

Aaron Kennedy

Support Analyst and Helpdesk Technician

location of Aaron KennedyBelfast, Maine, United States

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Technical Support Engineer at Tuxera

  • Education

    • Reed College

      1992 - 1997
      Bachelor’s Degree Philosophy
  • Experience

    • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

      Feb 2003 - Nov 2010
      Support Analyst and Helpdesk Technician

      I worked on the helpdesk for four years before graduating to a Support Analyst position where I learned server and network infrastructure.

    • Unity College

      Nov 2010 - Apr 2015
      Systems/Network Administrator

      I supported the campus infrastructure including HP Blades and SAN as well as Microsoft DPM backups and tapes. I also performed several build-out Initiatives:Migration of access-layer switches from Brocade/Foundry to ExtremeMigration of campus wireless access from Meru to ArubaImplementation of Aruba ClearPass solution for both wireless and wired NAC in mixed Brocade/Foundry+Extreme environmentInstallation and configuration of Dell Sonicwall firewallReplacement of phone system with ShoreTel VoIP Show less

    • MaineHealth

      Apr 2015 - Dec 2020

      I support the datacenter infrastructure for three midcoast Maine hospitals and have performed extensive platform overhauls. Some of my initiatives have been:Install and configure 11-node HCI Simplivity platform across 3 sites and migrate workloads from IBM blades/HP Proliant hosts and iSCSI/FC SANsImplement VMware infrastructure including provisioning hosts, installing vCenter, building vSwitches, presenting iSCSI/FC/NFS datastores, building and maintaining templates, P2Ving physical instancesEstablish Quest Rapid Recovery backup and geo-replicated disaster-recovery system initially with virtual instances and later physical instances on Dell R730 platformBuild NSX lab for evaluation and testing on retired HP Proliants and iSCI Dell Equallogic SAN Show less

      • Senior System Engineer

        Sept 2019 - Dec 2020
      • Systems Engineer

        Apr 2015 - Dec 2020
    • Tuxera

      Jan 2021 - now
      Senior Technical Support Engineer

      Supporting Tuxera's Fusion File Share, the high-performance, scalable SMB file server on Linux! https://www.tuxera.com/products/fusion-file-share-smb-enterprise/

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • CCNA

      Cisco
      Feb 2008