Grant Edwards

Grant Edwards

IT Specialist

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Associate Technical Consultant

  • Education

    • Coastal Alabama Community College

      2021 - 2022
      Associate of Science - AS Network and System Administration/Administrator

      Associate's in Network Administration

    • Auburn University

      2015 - 2018
      Mechanical Engineering

      Activities and Societies: Auburn Marching Band for 3 years

  • Experience

    • Gulf Packaging, Inc.

      Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
      IT Specialist

      Supported End-Users. Updated and Maintained Servers. Installed and Configured Routers and Switches. Spun up VLANs.

    • HighStream Fiber, Inc.

      Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
      Technical Lead

      Assisted with the startup of a Fiber ISP company. -Spliced Fiber-Implementation of Fiber Backbone and Backbone Nodes-Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting of customer facing Internet-Billing Software configuration and implementation

    • AHEAD

      Jun 2023 - now
      Associate Technical Consultant

      -Install and Configure Storage Arrays, including Pure, Dell, and Rubrik-Install and Configure Compute Pods, including Cisco Servers, Dell Servers, Cisco Switches, and Storage Arrays. -Building Racks from the ground up, including PDUs and Cable Managers, as well as cabling all equipment inside. -Building Nvidia AI Pods from the ground up. -Documentation of all hardware -More advanced configurations with Pure and Powerscale Arrays, such as head swaps, code upgrades, and fresh installs. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Dell Certified Associate Information Storage and Management

      Dell EMC
      Aug 2023
    • NetApp Certified Storage Installation Engineer, ONTAP

      NetApp
      Jan 2024
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    • Pure Certified FlashArray Implementation Specialist

      Pure Storage
      Jul 2024
      View certificate certificate
    • Rubrik Certified Engineer (RCE)

      Rubrik
      Dec 2023
    • Dell PowerScale Deploy 2023

      Dell Technologies
      Mar 2025
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