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Tremayne Mcdonald

Los Angeles

Summary

Seasoned Cloud Administrator with a strong background in managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure. Proficient in deploying and troubleshooting applications, ensuring maximum uptime and system functionality. Possess robust technical skills including knowledge of AWS, Nagios, DevOps practices, and cybersecurity protocols. Made significant impacts by implementing innovative solutions to streamline processes, reduce costs, and enhance system performance.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Administrator

Stamps.com/Auctane
01.2021 - 05.2024
  • Managing and performing maintenance, utilizing Nagios XI to monitor virtual machines within AWS.
  • Monitor system alert emails, internal alerts from subsidiaries, and internal departments for critical system failures.
  • Utilized Jira for auto-scaling, build creation tickets for production servers.
  • Train and onboard new associate cloud administrators.
  • Led the Graveyard team through all department rotations.
  • Spearheaded server infrastructure development, quality control, staging, and production operations.
  • Provided technical support for troubleshooting issues with operating systems or applications running on cloud platforms.
  • Monitored network performance to determine adjustments needed.
  • Configured and maintained virtual machines in the cloud environment.
  • Managed user access control within a multi-cloud environment by configuring RBAC roles.
  • Worked closely with vendors providing third-party solutions used in conjunction with our existing setup.
  • Conducted tests on various components of the cloud architecture prior to deployment to decrease company expenditures.
  • Facilitating the deployment of new builds to the production environment and managing shell scripts.
  • Nightly automatic scaling down/up monitoring of VMs within the AWS console.

Associate Cloud Administrator

Stamps.Com
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Managed daily operations on virtual machines, including patching, scaling, backups, and creating scripts based on production needs.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders from different departments and vendors to understand their requirements from the cloud platform.
  • Managed and updated policies, procedures, and guidelines related to the deployment of applications in the cloud environment.

Data Center Operator

Stamps.Com
Los Angeles
12.2017 - 01.2020
  • Perform scheduled on-site visual and audible monitoring of the data center and supporting infrastructure (smoke, fire, red/amber LED on equipment, audible alarms).
  • Troubleshooting for all production alerts, including issues related to Windows, IIS, Linux, hardware, power, cooling, SAN, etc.

Technical Support Representative

Stamps.com
11.2016 - 12.2017
  • Responsible for resolving customers' software issues lowers the team's overall call time percentages by obtaining the lowest average call times.
  • Performs printer configuration, software troubleshooting.
  • Assisted in training new team members.

Education

High School Diploma -

Desert Sands High School
Lancaster, CA

Skills

  • Windows
  • AD/GPO
  • Confluence
  • Slack
  • Pagerduty
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Jira
  • Nagios
  • Splunk
  • Powershell
  • Git
  • Github
  • Linux
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Cloud infrastructure management
  • Virtual machine configuration
  • Technical troubleshooting
  • System monitoring tools
  • User access control
  • Automated scaling
  • Collaboration with vendors
  • Server infrastructure management

Certification

Hashicorp: Terraform Certified Associate

Projects

Data Center Map- Stamps.com, Pulled serial/server specific specifications from over 100 physical servers for Data Center organization efforts. Database Optimization Project- Stamps.com, Compiled a list of AWS database instances IOPS/Volume space for each drive in our production/lower environments. Terraform Cloud/Linux- Personal Project, Created Linux VMs utilizing Terraform Cloud. Version controlled my configurations via Git, Deployed to my AWS environment using Terraform Cloud with Github VCS Connection.

Personal Information

Title: Cloud Systems Administrator

Timeline

Cloud Administrator

Stamps.com/Auctane
01.2021 - 05.2024

Associate Cloud Administrator

Stamps.Com
01.2020 - 01.2021

Data Center Operator

Stamps.Com
12.2017 - 01.2020

Technical Support Representative

Stamps.com
11.2016 - 12.2017

High School Diploma -

Desert Sands High School

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