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Jay Thompson

Systems Engineer

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About Me

Systems Engineer with over 20+ years of experience. I have been building infrastructure that manages the "private" cloud along with automating repetitive processes/tasks and advancing to a service centric platform. I am extremely passionate about what I do and take great pride in my quality and work ethic.

Experience

Neustar

Infrastructure Architect/Engineer

Neustar is a SaaS company with many LOBs - Identity, Marketing, Risk, Communications, and Digital Defense services. They help their clients grow, guard, and guide their businesses by connecting people, places, and things with world-class and industry-leading solutions.
- Member of the Architecture and Design Team assisting the Converged Team(Core Hosting, Storage, Networking, and Automation/Tools Team) that supports all LOBs.
- Design/Build/Automate/Support Neustar's SDDC platform, VCF, based on FlashStack(Cisco/PURE).
- VCF SDDC Flashstack is supported with 3rd party components: Infoblox GRID appliances in two locations along with Sunbird DCIM/PowerIQ.
- VCF is comprised of VMware LifeCycle Manager, SDDC, Workspace One, vRA with embedded vRO, VROPS, and NSX-T.

Digital Globe

Senior Systems Integration Engineer

DigitalGlobe owns and operates the most agile and sophisticated constellation of high-resolution commercial Earth imaging satellites.
Provider of geospatial maps to Google Earth and Google Maps.
- Managed four contractors deploying code to DEV and PROD environment.
- I was responsible for deployment of application stack down to virtualization layer while creating recommended best practices and troubleshooting failures.

Blackboard Inc.

Senior Systems Engineer

An educational technology company popular in many colleges and universities.
Blackboard Learn is their most popular product, a learning management system.
- I was responsible for deploying highly customized infrastructure that supported the Managed Hosting division.
- Part of my operational duties was to provide RFO's, fix infrastructure tooling issues, and provide assistance for production outages.

Alteritech/Acumen Solutions

Virtualization Stack Leader

SAIC

Senior System Administrator

AOL, LLC

System Administrator

The .docx version of my resume in the 'Download Resume' button listed above will provide more in-depth detail.

Education

George Mason University

August 1999 - December 2001

Associates in Mathematics

- CS 112/211: C++ Object Oriented Programming

- CS 265: Assembly Language RISC Processor

- ECE 108/220

- Mathematics 214: Differential Calculus

Certifications

VMWare

[https://www.vmware.com/]
- VCP 3(VMware Certified Professional)
- VCP 4(VMware Certified Professional)
- VCP6-DCV(Vsphere 6 Datacenter Virtualization) License VMW-01456224J-00475053
- VCP-NSX(Network Virtualization) License VMW-01456224J-00475053

Redhat, Inc.

[https://www.redhat.com/]
- RHCE(Redhat Certified Engineer) - RHEL5
- RHCT(Redhat Certified Technician) - RHEL4 and RHEL5

Extraneous Certifications

[https://www.sun.com]
[https://www.cisco.com]
- CCNA(Cisco Certified Network Administrator)
- SCSA(Solaris Certified System Administrator) - Solaris 7

Hobbies/Highlights

Here are some hobbies, activities, and awards for your perusal:

  • Ran the 50 mile Bull Run Run Ultramarathon.
  • Skydiving(premarried).
  • Created and manage www.callemerald.com and www.jaythompson.name websites.
  • Lab at home consists of Arista 10g switches, Dell 720xd's, Intel NUCs, and gigabit internet connection is managed by Ubiquiti Unifi cluster.
  • Received (7) Spot Awards from Neustar. Spot Awards are nominations from other teams which come as a gift card.
  • Been up to 171mph on Yamaha R1(premarried).
  • Try to snowboard and wakeboard every year depending on kids and schedule.

Skills

Slack Me!