Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals, certified as of March 2020
Github: acaldwell-pixel
Email: acaldwell-pixel@hotmail.com
Phone: +1 318.592.0289
Louisiana, USA
I am currently a Systems Administrator Associate at GDIT (General Dynamics Information Technology) who has recent experience in operating and maintaining Windows Servers and Red Hat servers alike. Ongoing maintenance and upkeep of servers are done via AWS and Azure environment. We use BigFix to automate and push updates to servers. In my spare time, I have been a developer as a hobby for nearly 5 years.
Bossier Parish Community College October 2014 - July 2017 (Graduated)
- Associate of Applied Science in Network Security
- Coursewares
- Hardware Support, Network Essentials, Computer Forensics, Windows, Linux, Cisco, Python, C++
- Completed internship with xentientLabs LLC in Fall 2016
- Coursewares
xentientLabs LLC (rebranding to xentient.technology)
- Coder / SysAdmin
- August 2017 - August 2018
- Modified and used source code management through Wordpress
- Established project requirements with Norton Gallery
- Information Technology
- August 2016 - December 2016
- Remote collaboration with other individuals involved in a project
- Practiced Life-Cycle Management and Agile Development
- Used unit testing and integration testing
- Reponsive Web Development with Bootstrap 3, JSON, XML, REST APIs
- Learned Database concepts, design and management
- Server-programming with Node.JS and Javascript concepts
- November 2020
- 6sigmastudy, Six Sigma Yellow Belt
- May 2020
- Udacity, Cloud DevOps Nanodegree Program
- Cloud Fundamentals
- Deploy Infrastructure as a Code
- Build CI/CD Pipelines with Jenkins
- Monitoring and Logging
- Microservices at scale using AWS and Kubernetes
- Udacity, Cloud DevOps Nanodegree Program
- March 2020
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- February 2020
- Manage and Strategy Institute
- Lean Six Sigma White Belt (LSSWB)™
- Project Management Essentials Certified (PMEC)™
- Manage and Strategy Institute
- Currently developing a operating system, or specifically a kernel
- Intermediate web development technologies: HTML, CSS/SCSS, Javascript
- Familiarity with responsive web design concepts and optimization best practices
- Strong interest in utilizing APIs via REST API, JSON, gRPC, XML, and beginners understanding of data analysis and data engineering
- Growing interest in DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
- Visual Studio is my main IDE
- May 2020, Udacity Cloud DevOps Nanodegree Capstone Project
- This capstone project concludes all that I have learned through the Cloud DevOps curriculum. I was tasked with the following:
- Used AWS CloudFormation
- Built pipelines with Jenkins on an EC2 server with an Ubuntu image
- By using the pipelines, I was able to
- Get a docker image built and pushed to Docker Hub
- Set up Kubernetes cluster to be deployed to AWS
- Setup blue/green deployments
- This capstone project concludes all that I have learned through the Cloud DevOps curriculum. I was tasked with the following:
General Dynamics Information Technology (formerly CSRA LLC) employed since November 2016
- Platform Services
- Systems Administrator Associate, May 2020 - Present
- Internship via Platform Services, February 2020 - May 2020
- Managed Service Desk
- Systems Support Specialist, August 2018 - February 2020
- Help Desk Technical Support, Level II, April 2018 - August 2018
- Help Desk Technical Support, Level I, August 2017 - April 2018
- USCIS Contract
- Customer Service, November 2016 - August 2017