Senior Systems Administrator / Cloud Architect

Always Growing

Hello, my name is Robin Watt and I love technology! From childhood, I have buried myself in the ever-growing world of computers. Please feel free to review my projects and tell me what you think!

What I’m working on



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Azure Remediation

Post discovery reconfiguration of existing resources to meet operational and security requirements, ensuring safe, monitored, and secured work environment Resolving network configurations blocking over 2000 IPV4 IPs from operational use Many networks misconfigured for pre-allocation to applications, web apps, or SQL Managed instances preventing IP usage by team for systems...



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Azure Discovery

Provided ownership access to the Washington University of St Louis, Missouri Data Management and Analytics Azure Environments Discovery process into environments to identify configuration, connectivity, security, and policies in place Provide recommendations for correcting networking, policies, alert settings, right sizing requirements, and building dashboards to easy resource review    
Role: Azure Administrator – Lead



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Azure OpenAI / Machine Learning

Implementing Azure OpenAI and Machine Learning to integration with Data Management and Analytics team data Learning python and C# to support team requirements
Role: Azure Administrator – Lead

Projects





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SAP HANA Remediation

Identified key issues with architecture: Networking, Hardware limitations, OS misconfigurations, VMware (CoStop, conflicting rules, multipath misconfigurations), Licensing Coordinated remediation efforts, restoring Production environment back to 99.9% uptime Designed future deployment for Cloud provider migration
Role: Sr Systems Admin / Cloud Architect



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Azure Files

Migrate on-premise File servers to Azure Files services Build storage account, networks, private endpoints, Azure Private DNS, RBAC Mount and restore backups to Azure File Shares Sync over data with Azure File Sync and robocopy (agentless) Resolved Azure DNS misconfigurations from previous administration Removed zones impersonating Azure DNS Corrected server...
Role: Sr Systems Admin / Cloud Architect



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Azure Virtual Desktops

Migrating workloads from onPrem Citrix VDI solution to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) with InTune integration Replace corporate Remote Desktop deployments to AVD systems or published applications Provision AVD systems for 3rd party contractors instead of providing company hardware
Role: Sr Systems Admin / Cloud Architect



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PagerDuty Integration

Integrated PagerDuty with Logic Monitor for filtering, alerting, and notifying on-Call support through escalation trees. Reduced helpdesk clutter notifications from Logic Monitor by reshaping with advanced logic within PagerDuty Event Orchestrations Example:  Site down to generate one major notification to all teams vs individual notifications for each item down at...
Role: Sr Systems Admin / Cloud Architect

Experience



Sr Systems Admin / Cloud Architect
Hubbell Incorporated
Senior Systems Administrator / Cloud Architect
St Louis, MO | October, 2020 - October, 2022


Senior Systems Administrator
Aclara Technologies, LLC
Senior Systems Administrator – SaaS Operations
St Louis, MO | March, 2017 - January, 2022


Systems Administrator
Aclara Technologies, LLC
Infrastructure Support Specialist
St Louis, MO | April, 2006 - March, 2017


Azure Administrator - Lead
Washington University of St Louis
Azure Administrator - Lead
St Louis, Missouri | October, 2022 - January, 1970

Certifications

Badges & Skills

Education

Southwestern Illinois College
August, 1994 - May, 2008

Major: Associates of Science
Minor: Management of Computer Information Systems
3.65 GPA
Started prior to joining the Air Force.  Continued education in 2005 while working full time.