Drew Garrett

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Experience

Save A Lot Food Stores Ltd.
NetEffects, Inc.

Dates: November 2018 - Present
Positions: Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Noteable Achievements

  • Definined starting governance, RBAC, and naming conventions in Azure.
  • Developed an in-house, scalable, highly available SFTP design to provide access for third parties while saving data into Azure Storage Accounts using blobfuse for PaaS integrations.
  • Developed Azure ARM templates for regular deployments.
  • Developed and managed containerized solutions for internal customers such as DevOps build/release agents and Dell Boomi on-premise connectors.
  • Provided in-house training for developers on newer technologies such as Azure AD, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Web Apps, and Microsoft Graph.
  • Implemented Windows Virtual Desktop in place of an existing Citrix VDI solution.
  • Managed the Azure AD environment including Conditional Access, MFA, AD Connect, guest users, security group administration, third party SSO and provisioning integration.
  • Migrated the public facing website to Azure Web Apps and Azure SQL for MariaDB.
  • Performed a migration from classic hub-and-spoke to Azure Virtual WAN with on-premises connectivity via VeloCloud SD-WAN.

St. Charles County Government

Dates: January 2012 - Present
Positions: Systems Architect, Systems Engineer II, Systems Engineer I

Noteable Achievements

  • Designed and implemented a warm-spare data center.
  • Designed and implemented the conversion from individual Hyper-V hosts to two HA clusters for redundancy and reliability.
  • Designed the initial architecture and began the first steps for moving on-premise servers to Microsoft Azure.
  • Implemented management systems such as System Center Virtual Machine Manager to ease in overall administration.
  • Developed scripts to automate virtual machine audits with information such as CPU, network, and disk usage.
  • Developed scripts to handle tasks such as enabling and verifying VM replication to allow junior administrators to perform the work.
  • Arranged Microsoft Enterprise Agreement renewals and true-ups.
  • Technical lead for the county-wide NG9-1-1 upgrade project including text-to-911.

Cybercon.com, Inc.

Dates: August 2006 - December 2011
Positions: Network and Systems Administrator, Technical Support

Noteable Achievements

  • Configured and setup new uplinks and customers with BGP peers.
  • Performed the migration of hundreds of physical servers to virtual machines to reduce on power and space usage.
  • Implemented a centralized blackhole system forthe network and automatic announcements to uplinks over BGP
  • Implemented a NetFlow monitoring system to alert NOC staff to possible attacks and botnets.
  • Optimized web server software and caching to handle server requests over one million per hour.
  • Implemented replacement NMS (Zenoss and OpenNMS) suites to monitor the status of the network.

Skills and Knowledge Areas

Operating Systems

  • Apple OSX
  • BSD
  • Various GNU/Linux
  • Solaris
  • Windows thru 2019

Virtualization and Containerization

  • Docker
  • Hyper-V
  • KVM
  • Kubernetes
  • VirtualBox
  • VMware
  • Xen/XenServer

Cloud Platforms

  • Amazon AWS

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  • Microsoft Azure

Storage Solutions

  • Compellent
  • EqualLogic
  • FreeNAS
  • NetApp
  • OpenFiler
  • Storage Integration
    • iSCSI
    • NFS
    • SMB

Networking

  • Aruba
  • Barracuda
  • Cisco
  • HPE Comware/H3C/3Com
  • Juniper
  • Meraki
  • Palo Alto
  • PowerConnect
  • SonicWALL
  • Ubiquiti
  • VeloCloud
  • Routing
    • BGP
    • OSPF
    • RIP

Web Servers

  • Apache HTTP Server
  • Apache Tomcat
  • IIS
  • Lighttpd
  • Nginx

Email Servers

  • Courier
  • Dovecot
  • Exchange 2003 thru 2013
  • Exchange Online
  • Exim
  • Postfix
  • Qmail
  • Sendmail

SQL Servers

  • Azure SQL
  • MSSQL
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL

Programming and Scripting Languages

  • ASP.NET VB/C#
  • General C/C++/C#
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • PowerShell
  • Python

Miscellaneous

  • CSS
  • HTML
  • LaTeX
  • Microsoft Licensing

Education

Lindenwood University

Degree: MS: Manging Information Technology
Focus: Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Date: June 2015
GPA: 4.0

Noteable Courses

  • Current Issues in Network Technology
  • Database Integration and Management
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
  • Management & Administrative Theory
  • Network and Data Security
  • New Technology Integration
  • Topics in New Technologies
  • Wireless Technologies

University of Missouri - St. Louis

Degree: BS: Computer Science
Minor: Mathematics
Date: May 2009
GPA: 3.52
Honors: Magna Cum Laude

Noteable Courses

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Systems: Architecture and Organization
  • Computer Systems: Programmng
  • Database Management Systems
  • Object Oriented Programming With C++
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming & Data Structures
  • Programming Languages
  • Technical Writing

St. Charles Community College

Degree: AAS: Computer Networking
Date: May 2006
GPA: 3.75

Noteable Courses

  • CCNA 2004 courses 1 through 4

Extracirricular

  • Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-103) Certified
  • ITIL v2011 Foundations Trained