Infrastructure engineer with six years of hands-on systems experience transitioning into DevOps and site reliability engineering. Strong foundation in containerization, observability pipelines, reverse proxy configuration, and automation — demonstrated through production-grade self-hosted infrastructure. Passionate about reducing operational toil through scripting, repeatable deployment patterns, and proactive monitoring.

Observability

Grafana / Loki / Promtail Stack

Centralized log aggregation pipeline with Promtail shipping, Loki storage, and Grafana dashboards. Integrated Zabbix Agent 2 for Docker container monitoring via socket with GID-level permission mapping.

Reverse Proxy

Traefik + Cloudflare DNS SSL

Configured Traefik for all services under notlobs.com with automated wildcard TLS via Cloudflare DNS challenge, file provider for non-Docker services, and external Docker proxy network for cross-stack routing.

Container Ops

Multi-Stack Docker on Proxmox VE

Manages a multi-service environment via Portainer: monitoring stack, SQL database, Python Discord bot, NGINX, and TrueNAS SCALE / ZFS NAS. Actively experimenting with Kubernetes workload orchestration.

Automation

PowerShell via Graph API & REST

Built a production offboarding pipeline integrating AD disable, M365 license removal, FSLogix profile backup, and CSV audit logging. Snipe-IT REST integration for full asset lifecycle management.

Advanced IT Specialist II 2025 — Present
City of Tyler — Municipal Government · Tyler, TX
  • Built PowerShell automation pipelines integrating Microsoft Graph API and third-party REST APIs to eliminate manual IT processes across a 900+ user environment.
  • Manage hybrid cloud identity (Azure AD, Exchange Online, conditional access) and on-premise AD infrastructure across city departments.
  • Replaced manual asset workflows with API-driven automation, structured audit logging, and repeatable lifecycle processes.
Systems Analyst 2019 — 2024
University of Texas at Tyler · Tyler, TX
  • Built and maintained Zabbix and Grafana monitoring infrastructure, reducing mean time to detection for incidents across campus systems.
  • Managed VMware virtualization platform (ESXi, vSphere, Horizon VDI) enabling repeatable VM provisioning and scalable desktop delivery.
  • Maintained Linux and Windows server fleet for 5,000+ users, applying configuration management and structured change control.
  • Operated Veeam backup pipelines with defined RPO/RTO targets for academic and clinical systems.
Containers
Docker docker-compose Portainer Kubernetes
Observability
Grafana Loki Promtail Zabbix Prometheus Nagios XI PagerDuty
Networking
Traefik Cloudflare DNS TLS/SSL Cisco Meraki
Scripting
PowerShell Python Bash Graph API REST APIs
Infrastructure
Proxmox VE VMware Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu) TrueNAS ZFS
Cloud / IaC
Microsoft Azure AWS Terraform Ansible
Identity
Active Directory Azure AD Exchange Online
Version Control
Git GitHub
2019 Texas State Technical College — Waco A.A.S. · Cloud and Data Center Management
Microsoft AZ-900 · Azure Fundamentals AWS Solutions Architect — Associate