Matthew Puckett
O'Fallon,MO
Summary
Structured Senior Systems Engineer bringing sixteen years of successful industry experience to add value to any technology team. Extensive knowledge of industry best practices around virtualization and datacenter engineering. Industrious and motivated with passion for quality and performance. Their expertise spans most of the datacenter with Networking, Servers, Storage, Monitoring, and Software Development.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Systems Engineer
Mitek
08.2015 - Current
- Worked with stakeholders to determine implementation and integration of Citrix DaaS, Networking, Linux, and vSphere projects.
- Provided support for infrastructure team(s) around Citrix, Networking/Cisco ACI, Cisco UCS, RedHat Linux and vSphere technologies.
- Developed software, API's and scripts to drive internal infrastructure automation.
- Performed root cause analysis on infrastructure problems to determine required resolutions.
Senior Virtualization Engineer
Centene
06.2013 - 08.2015
- Collaborated with teams in disaster planning, network backup and recovery process monitoring using NetApp and VM-Ware Site Recovery Manager.
- Installed, supported and maintained virtualized vSphere environments using ESXi, VRA, VROPS, and VRO.
- Planned implementation of enhancements and upgrades to the corporate vSphere/Cisco UCS environments.
- Analyzed, troubleshot and enhanced infrastructure performance to drive efficiency.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Bryan Cave LLP
02.2007 - 05.2013
- Designed and Implemented Cisco UCS, VVM-Ware and Citrix XenApp infrastructures according to project specifications and costs.
- Performed root cause analysis to provide resolutions for production issues affecting the corporate datacenter(s).
- Developed powershell and bash scripts to drive infrastructure automation.
- Worked with the business to develop appropriate application and service monitoring around the datacenter infrastructure.
Technical Team Lead
IBM
07.2000 - 02.2007
- Directed and supervised team of 5 systems engineers engaged in Citrix Support and Remote Access.
- Developed and implemented software to drive systems monitoring across multiple data centers, and customers.
- Monitored network performance and provided network consulting to customer migrating from token ring to ethernet.
- Reviewed customer requirements and forecasts and delegated work across team(s) for optimal coverage.
- Designed and Implemented networking and server storage solutions for IBM mid-range and mainframe systems.
Education
High School Diploma -
Missouri School For The Blind
Saint Louis, MO05.1997
Skills
- ITIL Service Methodology
- Software Requirements Analysis
- Microsoft O365 Administration and Implementation
- Design and Implementation of Microsoft Active Directory and Azure Active Directory
- Cisco Switching and Routing Configuration
- Cisco UCS, and HPE Server(s) Administration and Configuration
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Administration
- vSphere ESXi, vRealize, SRM, vROPS, Aria, Tanzu
- Saltstack, Chef, Puppet, Microsoft DSC
- Citrix DaaS Administration and Configuration
- Design and Implementation of Highly Available solutions using F5, Traeffik and Cisco Netscaler load balancing
- Design and Implementation of user and device authentication including OTP, MFA, and SAML
- Software and API Development using NodeJS, and C#
- Script Development using Bash, and Powershell
- Mongo/MSSQL Database Design and Administration
- Front-End Development using VUEjs
- Large-Scale container deployments using Apache Swarm
Timeline
Senior Systems Engineer
Mitek
08.2015 - Current
Senior Virtualization Engineer
Centene
06.2013 - 08.2015
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Bryan Cave LLP
02.2007 - 05.2013
Technical Team Lead
IBM
07.2000 - 02.2007
High School Diploma -
Missouri School For The Blind