Tyler Gish

 

2205 Springdale Dr.		Phone: 615-294-3740
Franklin, TN 37064		Email tygish@comcast.net

 

 

SUMMARY

VMware and AWS Architect with 16 years of proven expertise in building and maintaining enterprise class IT environments. Expertise in designing and building robust, 24x7, 99.9% uptime infrastructure with H/A, load balancing, and cloud automation. Proven skills in virtualization, cloud, and server administration along with strong communication, coordination and trouble-shooting skill. Always eager and quick to master new technologies. Seeking a position that has technological and professional growth.

 

                                                    TECHNICAL SKILLS

•	MCSE	•	Sql clusters	•	Windows 2003, 2008, 2012
•	Active Directory	•	Vkernel	•	OCS Inventory
•	Esxi/Vsphere 3.5, 4.1, 5.1	•	Symantec Netbackup	•	HP, IBM and Dell hardware
•	Amazon Web Services	•	Hyper-V	•	IBM and EMC San

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

•         Migrated production co-lo data center to an AWS Environment with no downtime

•         Designed and built 4 major production applications for GHX which had to maintain a 99.9% uptime over a 10 to 14-year period

•         Maintained production environments containing over 500 windows servers, with additional responsibilities for third party and custom applications.

•         Migrated production applications to new datacenters multiple times with no user impact

•         Trained employees in scm and application support to maintain environments                                  

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Medalogix           Nashville, TN

Director of Infrastructure

2014 – 2016

 

•         Director of all corporate and customer-facing product environments

•         Researched cloud solution that would best fit corporate and customer demands, and reduce cost

•         Designed, built, monitored and maintained all AWS infrastructure: network, storage and backups, user management, AD domains, alerting, VPN, load balancers and virtual server health

•         Migrated customer-facing products to AWS

•         Built 2 domains with trust over AWS VPC peering

•         Scripted Disaster Recovery, automating the process of restoring production infrastructure in another AWS Region

•         Setup corporate network and domain in the office, with a backup domain controller and vpn connectivity to AWS

•         Setup security policies and standards for HIPPA infrastructure compliance

•         Migrated production DNS from Godaddy to AWS Route 53

 

Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), (formerly Medibuy) Denver, CO and Nashville, TN

Server Administrator , Server Team Lead, App Support Lead, Senior Server Administrator

2000 – 2014

 

 

•         Held many positions and received promotions with GHX

•         Designed and built environments of 500+ servers for development, staging, integration and production use

•         Built and supported GHX customer facing products – Catalyst (Procurement), My Exchange (display purchases), CCXpert (pricing contracts) and Reporting

•         Environments consisted of web farms which utilized software and hardware load balancers, application servers and MS SQL clusters

•         Built and maintained 40 physical ESXi hosts across 3 datacenters in 6 clusters

•         Used vKernel and other tools to evaluate virtual server performance, to minimize cost

•         Supported 1000+ physical servers hosted in 800+ hospital data centers across the US

•          Utilized numerous patching services – Patchlink, WSUS -- to deploy Windows updates monthly

•         On-call 24x7 support, and regular maintenance window work

•         Built 3 Windows domains, including trust between domains

•         Worked with developers, architects, and system administrators to identify bottlenecks and performance issues within customer-facing applications

 

PureSafety.comNashville, TN                          1999 – 2000

Server and Network Administrator, Desktop Support       

•         Responsible for building a Windows 2000 domain infrastructure

•         Maintained all Desktops, Servers and Microsoft Exchange Server for the office and a remote environment at Exodus Communications

•         Multimedia work which included digitizing videos to Real Audio while working with Macromedia Flash and Adobe Photoshop

•         Developed multimedia presentations specifically created for clients which included video in-sync with voice

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Independent Recording EngineerNashville, TN          1998 – 1999

1^st and 2^nd Engineer, Studio Manager           

•         Worked as first and second engineer on over 18 master label sessions

•         Studio manager for two studios including maintenance of computers and recording gear

•         Album Credits include, Travis Tritt, Sawyer Brown, Tracy Byrd

 

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                                                        EDUCATION

B.S. Telecommunications and Film, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL

Transferred to MTSU to receive a better education for major.

B.S. Recording Industry Major, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN                               

 

 

References available upon request