Professional experience

Experience

Infrastructure work spanning AI and GPU systems, Linux, distributed storage, security, observability, high-availability data centers, and technical support.

Career chronology

Operating across systems and the data-center floor

A concise public record of roles and selected evidence. Customer, facility, procurement, and sensitive system details remain intentionally excluded.

  1. Senior Data Center Operations Engineer

    DataBank · Salt Lake City, Utah

    Feb 2026 – Present

    Operates AI and hyperscale data-center infrastructure across GPU compute, high-speed interconnects, power, cooling, telemetry, and incident response.

    Current role

  2. Infrastructure Security Lead (GS-12)

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Atlanta, Georgia

    Oct 2023 – Jun 2025

    Led infrastructure security, systems engineering, and operational support across federal cloud, virtualization, distributed storage, monitoring, and legacy environments.

  3. Senior Data Center Engineer

    BGIS / PayPal data-center environment · Salt Lake City, Utah

    Mar 2022 – Oct 2023

    Supported high-availability financial data-center infrastructure under strict uptime, change-control, physical-security, and incident-response requirements.

  4. Cybersecurity Analyst

    Intermountain Healthcare · Salt Lake City, Utah

    Feb 2020 – Jan 2022

    Supported security operations for high-availability healthcare systems subject to regulatory, privacy, and incident-response requirements.

  5. Tech Support

    Apple · Atlanta, Georgia

    Delivered high-volume technical support across Apple devices, operating systems, identity, networking, and endpoint configuration.

Selected scope

Role details

Responsibilities and outcomes are summarized from the source résumé rather than reproduced as a dense task inventory.

DataBank

Senior Data Center Operations Engineer

Feb 2026 – Present

Salt Lake City, Utah

Operates AI and hyperscale data-center infrastructure across GPU compute, high-speed interconnects, power, cooling, telemetry, and incident response.

Environment

  • High-availability AI and hyperscale data-center operations
  • High-power GPU racks with liquid- and air-cooled infrastructure
  • Cross-functional operations spanning IT systems and critical facilities

Responsibilities

  • Install, bring up, validate, and troubleshoot rack-scale GPU compute, switching, storage, cabling, optics, and power infrastructure.
  • Map network ports and review cabling bills of materials, deployment paths, infrastructure readiness, and power and cooling dependencies.
  • Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, postmortems, change management, corrective actions, capacity planning, and operational handoff.

Selected evidence

  • Installed more than 70 B200/B300-class systems while supporting hundreds of GPU systems across mixed NVIDIA environments.
  • Coordinated across operations, facilities, engineering, and vendor teams to remove deployment blockers and sustain service reliability.
NVIDIA B200/B300DGX/HGX-class systemsNVSwitchInfiniBandMPO/MTP and LC fiberDAC/ACC/AOCIPMI and SNMP telemetryLiquid cooling and critical power systems

Related public work: high density gpu deployment workflow

Customer, facility, and site-specific infrastructure details are intentionally omitted.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Infrastructure Security Lead (GS-12)

Oct 2023 – Jun 2025

Atlanta, Georgia

Led infrastructure security, systems engineering, and operational support across federal cloud, virtualization, distributed storage, monitoring, and legacy environments.

Environment

  • Federal mission-critical Linux and Windows infrastructure
  • Multi-node Ceph storage supporting virtualization, backup, archive, and retention workloads
  • Secure telemetry collection spanning data-center and legacy operational systems

Responsibilities

  • Administer Linux and Windows servers, VMware infrastructure, Ceph storage, SQL databases, and production services.
  • Own the Nessus vulnerability-management lifecycle and coordinate remediation, reporting, PKI, TLS certificate lifecycle, identity controls, and hardening.
  • Lead incident response, outage remediation, root-cause analysis, technical documentation, and operational planning for a four-person technician team.

Selected evidence

  • Administered an eight-node Ceph environment with approximately 100–200 TB of raw capacity for operational storage and retention needs.
  • Advanced secure telemetry visibility through monitoring initiatives that used risk-controlled, data-diode collection patterns.
  • Supported security validation and operational readiness for AWS and Azure migration activities.
LinuxWindows ServerCephVMware vSphere/ESXiNessusPKI and TLSPythonSQLAWSAzureCMRS and data-diode telemetry

Related public work: ceph backed production infrastructure, secure infrastructure telemetry observability

Sensitive federal architecture, procurement, and system details are summarized at a public-safe level.

BGIS / PayPal data-center environment

Senior Data Center Engineer

Mar 2022 – Oct 2023

Salt Lake City, Utah

Supported high-availability financial data-center infrastructure under strict uptime, change-control, physical-security, and incident-response requirements.

Environment

  • High-availability financial technology data centers
  • Large-scale storage-area networking with spine-leaf switching
  • Production server, storage, network, virtualization, power, and cooling systems

Responsibilities

  • Install, support, and troubleshoot servers, storage, networking, cabling, virtualization, and critical infrastructure dependencies.
  • Perform infrastructure readiness reviews, disciplined change execution, post-change validation, and advanced incident troubleshooting.
  • Support security design reviews, operational risk assessments, disaster-recovery testing, and business-continuity exercises.

Selected evidence

  • Supported large-scale storage-area network deployments and validated end-to-end storage connectivity in a high-availability environment.
  • Contributed to controlled change and recovery exercises designed to protect uptime and operational continuity.
Storage area networksSpine-leaf networkingVMwareEnterprise servers and storageStructured cablingCritical power and coolingDisaster recovery

Environment scale, topology, and site-specific operational details are intentionally summarized.

Intermountain Healthcare

Cybersecurity Analyst

Feb 2020 – Jan 2022

Salt Lake City, Utah

Supported security operations for high-availability healthcare systems subject to regulatory, privacy, and incident-response requirements.

Environment

  • Healthcare security operations
  • Sensitive identity, endpoint, and infrastructure environments
  • Regulated, high-availability clinical and business systems

Responsibilities

  • Manage identity and access workflows including MFA, SSO, access review, account security, and remediation.
  • Support vulnerability management, endpoint security, monitoring, incident response, and infrastructure risk reduction.

Selected evidence

  • Strengthened day-to-day access governance and security response across sensitive healthcare environments.
  • Supported vulnerability and endpoint-security workflows while protecting continuity of high-availability systems.
MFASSOIdentity and access managementVulnerability managementEndpoint securitySecurity monitoringIncident response

Related public work: secure infrastructure telemetry observability

Patient, clinical-system, and internal security details are excluded.

Apple

Tech Support

Atlanta, Georgia

Delivered high-volume technical support across Apple devices, operating systems, identity, networking, and endpoint configuration.

Environment

  • High-volume customer technical support
  • Consumer hardware, software, account, and network troubleshooting

Responsibilities

  • Resolve macOS, iOS, Apple ID, endpoint configuration, account-access, hardware, software, and networking issues.
  • Guide customers through clear, structured diagnosis and resolution while managing a high-volume support workload.

Selected evidence

  • Resolved cross-domain endpoint and account issues through structured troubleshooting and clear customer communication.
macOSiOSApple IDEndpoint configurationHardware and software troubleshootingNetworking

Dates are intentionally omitted while an apparent overlap in the source chronology is clarified.