Tony Axtell

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-axtell/

Summary

Solutions oriented Systems/Network Cloud Administrator with notable success in Administration of a broad range of corporate IT initiatives while participating in planning, implementation and management of solutions in direct support of business objectives.

●Increased responsibility of secure design, systems analysis and deployment of full life-cycle project management.

●Orchestrate all stages of Infrastructure deployment efforts including requirements, definition, design, testing, and support.

●Outstanding Team Effort abilities, able to coordinate cooperatively and carry out all phases of project-based efforts while contributing and energetically motivating success.

●Adept at developing effective security policies and procedures, project documentation to technical/business specifications.

Core Competencies

Network & Systems Administration, Operations and Regulatory Adherence (HIPAA/PCI), Data Integrity/Recovery, Disaster Recovery Planning, Contingency Planning, Research & Development and Risk Assessment, Configuration and Patch Management.

Platforms:

Microsoft NT Server 2008, Server 2012, Server 2016, Server 2019, Microsoft IIS, Windows Workstation all, DOS, PowerShell. AD, AD GPO, MS DNS

UNIX (Solaris, AIX, BSDi, FreeBSD, tru64), linux (Debian, SuSE, Ubuntu, RHEL), linux embedded firmware technologies, SAN/NAS, iSCSI/NFS/CIFS, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Xen, KVM, Openstack (SDN/NFV), AWS, Azure, GCE, IBM SoftLayer

Services and Application:

Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Manager and VxFS, sendmail, qmail, postfix, BIND DNS, POP3, imap, ftpd, Radius, DHCP, MySQL, Apache, OpenSSL, SSL Cert and Public Key Infrastructure, PKI Management, Cipher and Hash technologies, SunOne, Nginx, OpenLDAP, WebSphere, Apache, Tomcat/Jakarta, MySQL, Symantec NetBackup, IBM Tivoli, Foundry Server Iron (Hardware Clustering), UDB/DB2, Oracle, Exchange 2003-2016, SharePoint Services, SharePoint Server, MSSQL 2005-2016, Asterisk, freeswitch, Redis, Message Queue, Docker Container, Docker Composer

Networking:

WAN/LAN/WLAN, ATM, TCP/IP, IP routing, VLAN, VPN, HAProxy,

Fire Walling: (Cisco Pix, ipfw, ipchains, netfilter/iptables, Windows Firewall)

Cisco IOS, 3com OS, USR HyperDSP, Portmaster, Raptor Encryptor, various other networking hardware (terminal server, telco multiplexor and switching), IPv4, IPv6, SIP/VoIP

Tools:

Puppet, Capistrano, LAN Manager, HP OpenView, HPOO/HPSA, VMWARE vCenter and vSphere IBM Tivoli, ISS RealSecure, Checkpoint Firewall, MRTG, Netsaint/Nagios, Tripwire, Snort, Norton Firewall and Ghost, Symantec and Veritas NetBackup, McAfee/Norton Virus Protection Utilities, Lotus Notes, Remedy, RT Ticketing, Zen Desk, Jira, Microsoft Office System (including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Outlook) Fusion PBX

Professional Training and Certifications

ITT Arizona Tech Vocational (FCC CET Cert (electronics technician))

FCC Element II (ham radio technician class)

Network+ CompTIA

Server+ CompTIA

Cisco CCNA

Professional Work Experience

PaysonWireless February 2021 - Current

Payson, Arizona 85541

Senior IT Consultant and Engineer

Engineering, Deployment and Management of solutions and services for small to medium businesses serving Northern Arizona communities. Responsibilities include engineering, configuration, deployment of infrastructure; WAN/LAN Firewall, VPN and file/web services to small business accountants, realty and residential, Server, PC and cellphone android/apple iOS. Windows, Windows Server, Windows Exchange, Azure/ google/ AWS, TruNAS and OPNSense FreeBSD firewall. Windows 10-11, Server 2016. Fedora and Ubuntu Linux server and Desktop. Data migration and Disaster recovery. Deployments of fiber optic WAN solution via Sparklight Communication and Telephony SIP MTA solution with PBX and IVR via FreePBX on Debian OS via KVM virtualization and HAProxy load balancing on Ceph w/ ZFS zpool cluster. RDP VDI solutions Hyper-V

Trouble shoot and monitor Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, Breakfix, Patch, Vulnerability mitigation, IDS/HDI, suacata, wireshark.AWS, VPC, VPN

Other responsibilities include Rack, Stack, build, cable network. PC and enduser software, cellphone repair and upgrades. Direct client interaction from pre sales to finish and or managed SLA contract, and direct client support.

The Market Builders

Mesa, Arizona July 2017 - Dec 2019

IT Cloud Consultation

Management, Security and Analysis of services for Clients. Cost containment, Backup Procedure, EC2 upgrades and Best Practice Policy for Industry PCI compliance pertaining to Card Processing industry. Route53, EC2, Docker, ELB, EBS, Redshift, S3, PKI and AWS KMS, VPC configurations and management.

Infrastructure: AWS, Debian/Ubuntu/SuSE Lamp, (linux, Apache/Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB and PHP), Postfix, vSphere/XEN/KVM, HAProxy, WAN BGP, DNS, vlan, SIP, astrisk and freeswitch, Polycom and Avaya devices.

●Management, Administration and upgrade of Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016 with Active Directory Server 2016.

●Deployment, configuration of SAN/NAS storage system with FreeNAS, utilizing ZFS, Zpool, SLOG and ARC, snapshots and replication.

●Support of file and authentication permissions, NFS/SMB, iSCSI termination and initiator.

●File and Block layer support to various machine and application, VMware, CEPH, Kubernetes and container/docker.

●Currently in support, management, configuration and engineering of approx. 120 virtual machines, 20 iron servers, 2 SAN and NAS (block layer and file) servers, switching and networking.

●As well as dockerizing services into containers with CoreOS, Docker, Kubernetes and Rancher.

●Management of Ubiquity Radio with Radius and vlan, virus/IDS/IHS and proxy policies.

●Management of PRI Telephony system comprised of Astrisk and FreeSwitch/Fusion with Freebsd and linux w/ Sagnoma T1/BRI interfaces for PBX and sip service gateway, 100+ DID's. Polycom and Avaya SIP devices.

Major Brands Appliances

Mesa, Arizona Dec 2016 - July 2017

IT Consultation

Deployment of Proprietary application and inventory Services related to Dispatching, Messaging, Billing and Ordering/inventory of parts for the Appliance Service Industry.

VMware ESXi/Windows Server2012r2, OpenSUSE: MSSQL, SMS Messaging, IIS, Proprietary Industry Application. PowerShell and MSSQL Schema Design with Python scripting.

Intel Corp Consultation

Chandler, Arizona Feb 2016 - Sep 2016

Cloud Orchestration Linux Admin

Deployment, Configuration, Execution and Management of Cloud services for Digital Signage Solution Intel RCM; Platform consisting of Xen Server, Ubuntu linux and Windows 2008/2012 via proprietary Orchestration tool based on php and power script over linux ssh and cygwin sshd.

Services: Apache, IIS, MySQL, MSSQL, HAProxy, Redis, Rabbit-MQ, Proprietary RCM Campaign Manager and Remote player control Mesh agent. Windows AD, Windows DNS, SoftLayer Cloud Services, Cygwin, Nagios with Centreon.

Accomplishments:

●Engineering, configuration and deployment of Redis Cluster for High-Availability with custom Cygwin HAProxy for Windows Server backend services.

●Cluster containing 6 nodes with virtual domain configuration in N+1 horizontal scaling architecture staggered across multiple Xen Server platforms.

●Engineering, configuration and deployment of Rabbit-MQ message queue cluster with High Availability HAProxy.

●Cluster containing 9 nodes with virtual domain configuration in N+1 horizontal scaling architecture staggered across multiple Xen Server platforms.

●Worked closely with development team to ensure proper application API specifications and efficient data flows from Development to QA and into Production.

Athletes Performance / EXOS

Phoenix, Arizona Feb 2013 - Aug 2015

Linux and Network Systems Engineer

●Imaging, configuration and management of RHEL OS to technology based athletic and corporate health/wellness workout equipment and application server consisting of Intel NUC, Dell and SuperMicro, VMware Vsphere and AWS Cloud services Infrastructure.

●Daily responsibilities include trouble ticket management, Nagios monitoring, DNS, email and VPN services.

●Remote site configurations management and monitoring of Cisco ASA, Dell server, Switch and VLAN configuration for Client end point.

●Server deployment consisting of Apache/ApacheTomcat, Nginx, mysql, python/django and PHP/Java based application utilizing enterprise puppet and custom scripting to AWS EC2 Cloud Infrastructure.

●Project accomplishments include on-site and Data Center Infrastructure deployments consisting of network (firewall,switching,vlan) and server for Google Mountain View, Google Venice, Google Seattle, Google Berlin, Google Hamburg, Google Brazil, Google Cambridge, LinkedIN San Francisco, LinkedIN Sunny Valle, WalGreens HQ DeerField, Adidas Portland and Adidas HQ Herzog, Tesla Motors

●Project deployment, configuration and management, monitoring of Journey v1-v2 and Ops proprietary flagship application products.

PayPal/eBAY

Scottsdale, Arizona Feb 2012 - Sep 2012

Linux/ Systems Administration for Hosting Services

●Imaging of OS for deployment for hosting services via HPSA/HPOO and custom iLo scripts.

●Creation of new Tivoli endpoint, for use of backup of server and pools.

●Creation of HPSA configurations for Management of server and pools

●F5 load balancer configuration of server pool, for entry into production with NOC.

●Processed middleware via CFEngine with batch script processing working with NOC for production turn-up.

●IP management via Bind DNS and accounting of IP for VIP, internal and san network connectivity.

●Management and accounting and documentation of DC placement of HP server to rack/row/U with Sites and Assets teams.

Key contributions:

●Helped resolve batch over ssh issues while migration from phx to slc datacenter with Paypal vendor

●Project Onyx, Deployment of Capacity increment for 30% annual growth, Project composed of 2200 addition HP G7 RHEL servers to the Salt Lake City DC.

●Also provided support for transition of traffic from Phoenix DC to SLC DC.

●Project 500PPS, Deployment of capacity increase for additional 500 payments per second.

●Project composed of 1100 additional HP G7 RHEL servers to Salt Lake City DC

●Worked closely with other teams to fulfill common goals, RE, NETSEC, SITES and NOC

●Traveled to SLC DC and worked with SITES to help coordinate Project objectives.

THE MARKET BUILDERS

Mesa, Arizona Jan 2011- Feb 2012

Systems/ Network Administration

Provided comprehensive remote and onsite support for customers including Tier-III support for LAN/WAN products and sales support for key accounts of all sizes.

Key Contributions:

●Designed and implemented procedures and support mechanisms for customer batch processing of data into SQL Database via scp, perl script and msSQL.

●Successfully created a new department in Information Technology Securities, deploying Vulnerability, Penetration Testing, and Network Engineering services.

●Engineering, deployment and management of mid-level enterprise environment consisting of linux and Windows servers, Cisco IOS, BGP, QMO MPLS termination for Internet Services.

DYNATEK MEDIA

Scottsdale, AZ March 2010 – Jan 2011

Systems/ Network Administration

Key Contributions:

Management of vendor services, (Dell, Cisco, ZyXEL, SamSung, Sprint)

Engineering and development and deployment of Digital Signage solutions

Technology Engineering and Deployment Management

Management of Internal Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange 2007 and SharePoint services

Management of Network Services, Web, DNS

Deployment and Management of VMware ESX Virtualization Infrastructure

Deployment and Management of media accounting system into msSQl and MS SharePoint Portal with batch processing of logging facilitation into sql via perl script with conversion to Crystal Reports.

YURCOR CONSULTANT for INTEL CORPORATION

Chandler, AZ March 2009 - Aug 2009

Validation Execution Engineer

Key Contributions:

Validation QA of Intel IMSM ICH7-10 plus PCH RAID driver

Validation QA of Intel IRST AHCI/RAID driver, orom and middleware

Validation QA of Intel Braidwood NAND RAID cache technology

Intel BIOS firmware hub OROM flashing

DYNATEK MEDIA

Scottsdale, AZ Sept 2007 – March 2009

System Administrator (Engineering, Deployment, Operations, Team Leading)

Key Contributions:

Management of vendor services, (Dell, Cisco, ZyXEL, SamSung, Sprint)

Engineering and development and deployment of Digital Signage solutions

Technology Engineering and Deployment Management

Management of Internal Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange 2007 and SharePoint services

Management of Network Services, Web, DNS

Deployment and Management of VMware ESX Virtualization Infrastructure

Team lead of Network Operations and Delivery Groups

YOH CONSULTANT for INTEL CORPORATION

Chandler, AZ August 2006 – Sept 2007

Validation Tech (System deployment, Test Configuration, Result Metrics)

Key Contributions:

Validation QA of Intel IIF and IIF2 installer

Validation QA of Intel Express Graphics Accelerator

Validation QA of Intel ICH7-9 Chipset drivers

Validation QA of Intel IMSM AHCI/RAID driver, orom, middleware

Validation QA of Intel Robson/Diamond Lake Turbo Memory technology

Intel BIOS FWH OROM embedding

IBM Global Services for American Express

INTERTEC CONSULTING

Phoenix, AZ Oct 2005 – April 2006

Systems Administrator

Installation of OS and middleware, NIS+, LDAP, WebSphere, Oracle and UDB/DB2

Key Contributions:

Deployment of mid to large Iron Sun Servers.

Deployment of CFS and Veritas Cluster

Deployment of Websphere

Deployment of AIX LPAR to IBM POWER Server

Deployment of SunFire V15000 service frame.and zones

CYBERTRAILS

Phoenix, Arizona Oct 2003 –Sep 2005

Systems Administrator

Successfully deployed managed and maintained a large enterprise server environment consisting of linux, FreeBSD, Redhat, Debian, SuSE and Windows operating systems. Implemented software updates and patches. Administration of virtual hosts, including email and DNS setups, Veritas Backups, OpenLDAP, IDS (intrusion detection), tripwire, lsof, snort/mysql, radiusd.

Developed accounting and authentication administration and troubleshooting.

Key Contributions:

Implemented ISO 9000 procedures and security policies in support of engineering operations, participating in regular audits to ensure regulatory compliance.

Instrumental in developing and implementing System Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning

THE MARKET BUILDERS

Gilbert, Arizona Jan 2001-Aug 2003

Systems Administrator

Provided comprehensive remote and onsite support for customers including Tier-III support for LAN/WAN products and sales support for key accounts of all sizes.

Key Contributions:

Designed and implemented support procedures for customer and internal network design strategy.

Successfully created a new department in Information Technology, including Vulnerability, Penetration Testing, and Network Engineering services.

Engineering, deployment and management of mid-level enterprise environment consisting of linux and Solaris servers, including Cisco IOS, ATM termination for frame Cloud and DSL for Internet Services division.

Education and Credentials

Computer Electronics Technician (1985)

ARIZONA TECH / MILLER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PHOENIX, ARIZONA

Studied Computer Electronics and digital Logic. Emphasis on semiconductor and board level analysis for service and repair (CET).

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