Donald Wilkins

About Donald Wilkins

As a seasoned Senior Systems Administrator, I bring a wealth of expertise in the oversight and optimization of diverse systems and cloud infrastructures, with a specialty in AWS and Azure. My proficiency extends to spearheading multidisciplinary teams and engaging collaboratively with key stakeholders to devise and implement strategies that resonate with the company\'s goals. With a dedication to embracing cutting-edge trends and best practices within system administration and cloud innovations, I am eager to leverage my technical acumen and experience to significantly contribute to the company\'s achievements and growth.

Experience

1. IT Analyst Sr

   Westlake

   Mar 2023 — Present

   Cloud and Systems administrator that manages web hosting in AWS and Azure.Manage and configure AWS environment using the following: RDS, Route53, EC2, S3, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, AWS SSO, AWS WAF, AWS Organizations, IAM, VPC, AWS VPN, Control Tower, etcSetup and deployed multiple Azure environments as an extension of our datacenter to host servers and virtual desktops per regionConsolidated monitoring services into one SolarWinds instance and setup monitoring and alerting for the companyMigrate web hosting from various platforms to AWS Ec2Implement and manage Single Sign On (SSO) for applications using SecureAuth, Duo and Entra IDAssisted with server migration project to migrate all non compliant servers to the latest available OS and ensure software compatibilityManaged project to get Microsoft Edge as the standardized web browser for the company when IE went EOLInvolved and assisted in a few active directory domain migration projects during company acquisitionsSetup and deployed our SAP disaster recovery in AWS and ensured uptime of systemsMigrate public domain registration for hundreds of domains from multiple registrars and consolidated into one without interruption of servicesImplement and maintain a secure hosting environment such as implementing Cloudfront, Security groups, Network ACL, AWS WAF, Load Balancers to Mitigate and prevent ransomware, DDOS, SQL injection and other attacks.Manage and configure Azure - setting up VMs, VNET, storage, enterprise Apps, Entra IDDomain registration, DNS and SSL certificate management using AWS ACM, GoDaddy, Network SolutionsManage and installing CMSs for websites hosted (Drupal, WordPress, Ektron and SiteFinity)Manage, configure and update Windows and Linux servers and Citrix Netscalers.Database admin for MSSQL and MySQL - involved with migrating SQL Server databases from older versions to the latest compatible versionsManage DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, group policy, Microsoft Certificate Authority (CA)

Education

• University College of the Caribbean

  BSC, Marketing

  2006 — 2007

• Institute of Management Science

  ASC, Management of Information Systems

  2002 — 2004

• Walden University

  MS. Information Systems Management, Management Information Systems, Security

  2012 — 2013

Skills

• Microsoft Sql Server
• Servers
• Firewalls
• Group Policy
• Security
• Windows Xp
• Iis
• Windows
• System Administration
• Sql
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Virtualization
• Internet Information Services (Iis)
• Dns
• Dhcp
• Network Administration
• Mysql
• Domain Name System (Dns)
• Tcp/Ip
• Networking
• Antivirus
• Troubleshooting
• Disaster Recovery
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Computer Security
• Operating Systems
• Technical Support