Joshua Williams

Experience

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  ISTT, Inc.

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2010

  System Admin

  • Designed and deployed a muti-vlan wireless network allowing for muti-tenant use.• Deployed, Troubleshot, and maintained Windows server environment using Windows 2003 and 2008.• Setup a production VMware environment, deployed Solarwinds IpMonitor for network monitoring.• Designed and implemented full system backup solutions that met the clients’ needs and legal demands.• Over $50,000 in sales in a 8 month period.• On call 24/7 for client mission critical cases.• Worked with and created contacts at venders.• Worked a wide variety of issues from simple desktop issues to mission critical server down issues on any given day. Show less

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  HCA

  Jun 2010 - Oct 2013

  Tech Analyst II

  • Technical lead for a 211-bed acute care facility.• Facility project lead on technical projects, deployments, and upgrades.• Performs facility-based moves, adds, and changes (MACs), as needed.• Performs preventative maintenance• Analyzes and provides hands-on support for moderate to complex inquiries. Determines appropriate technical area or vendor to resolve the problem and coordinates with other technical areas, as needed• On call Bi-weekly to provide constant coverage for the facility. Show less

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  St. Joseph Health

  Oct 2013 - Aug 2014

  IT III Las Vegas Data Center

  • Worked with Cisco UCS, Dell Blade Servers, and Power Edge Servers in a 100% uptime environment• Worked inside of SWITCH Data center and followed their standards for data center cabling and power standards.• Rack and installed Dell Compellent solutions for VMware storage.• Coordinated with venders for hardware install, and warranty service • Data center shift lead for massive P2V migration moving 500 servers from Northern California to the “supernap”• Ran and managed your standard copper, Twin ax, and Fiber cabling for storage, network and etc.• Deployed and configured Cisco UCS B-Series generation 2 devices for a massive VDI infrastructure Over 2 million in hardware for the VDI pool. Show less

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  Conworx Technology

  Aug 2014 - May 2016

  Field Implementation Specialist

  • Configure and Deploy UniPOC a web based vender neutral middleware for lab devices to communicate with the electronic medical record system (EMR).• Project lead on muti-site deployments. • Multi-Project work installing and upgrading Abbot P-Web to Conworx Point of Care (POC) Data Management Solution (DMS).• Multi-Project delivery of hardware / software, serial connectivity, networking, server installations configurations and operations.• Troubleshot any issues caused post install related to Windows Server 2008 R2/2012 and Microsoft SQL. Show less

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  Envision Healthcare

  May 2016 - May 2018

  System Engineer

  • System Engineer over 40 sites running a mixture of physical server and VMware.• Technical lead on an Active Directory project that included a domain migration, aligning service accounts with security policy, and reorganizing and cleaning inactive objects.• Mentor, train and lead new engineers while they are in their training period.• Essential team member in a massive domain migration and RE-IP effort of communication centers, and admin sites. • On call support for the server infrastructure environment, as well as providing guidance to level two server support 24x7. • Responsible for yearly budgets, and refresh of communication center server infrastructure. • Assisted as a SME/technical resource on a datacenter migration that was a mixture of P2V, V2V, and cloud to on prem migration. Show less

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  Plexus Worldwide

  May 2018 - Jan 2020

  Infrastructure Engineer

  • Subject Matter expert on all Microsoft related products including AD, Office365, And Hyper-V.• Complete rebuild of Hyper-V server environment from an adhoc setup to a enterprise level with redundancy • Mentor and train junior level system administrators and coach service desk technicians to expand their skill sets on technology’s used in the environment.• Architected and deployed a near sight and offsite backup infrastructure providing upwards of 7 GB per second backup rates, and near instant recovery options for VM’s over 10TB in size. • Upgraded from Sophos XG edge firewalls to Palo Alto NGFW, while moving routing from L3 core switches to the firewall, with no impact to the business.• Deployed Palo Alto Prisma Access, using cloud ingress points all over the world to enable remote users to leverage AWS/Google Peering for improved user experience while on VPN Show less

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  PulteGroup

  Jan 2020 - May 2020

  • Lead Engineer of a complex VMware Environment for a fortune 500 company consisting of over 6000 VM’s in multiple self-hosted data centers over the US.• Deployed virtualization solutions using private, public, and hybrid cloud technologies.• Plans and builds high availability solutions for key infrastructure, including public-facing web infrastructure in a demilitarized zone (DMZ).• Optimized complex infrastructure components to meet performance requirements.• Provides technical leadership and mentoring to less senior members on and off the team. • Lead internal initiatives for the implementation, use, and improvement of processes, procedures, guidelines, and metrics for Infrastructure systems.• Serves as escalation point for resolving moderately complex to complex infrastructure issues. Gathers diagnostics and troubleshoots infrastructure issues as needed. Participated in rotational on-call support. Show less

  • Infrastructure Engineer II

    Jan 2020 - May 2020

  • Infrastructure Engineer II

    Jan 2020 - May 2020