Nicholas Bennett
Profile
My name is Nicholas T. Bennett. I have been in IT for just over 17 years, with a strong skillset in Virtualization, MS 365/Intune/AAD and Active Directory, It is my biggest passion oustide of travel. I have spent most of my life growing up overseas and have been to 65+ countries so far across 4 contienents. I spend a lot of time in Tech even outside of work as I have a large home environment to maintain.
For my Home Lab and Home Production I have two 24U racks filled with Enterprise Kit including 4 Hypervisors in 2 clusters comprising of Proxmox for Home Prod and ESXI/vCenter for Home Lab, Full 10Gig SFP, Firewall and Core Switch, Synology NAS as well as my main desktop, Full PBX with several IP Phones of varrying brands through-out the house, Full AD, Azure AD, Office365 with Hybrid-Sync and finally the rest of the space is filled with Appliances and Bare-metal Linix Hosts running things like stand alone services/applications as well as a Docker swarm cluster.
Experience
Resultant
Colorado
Systems Administrator Mid-Market
Sept 2021 - Nov. 2022
- Focus mainly on one client that is a city government with a heavy vmware and Azure/Intune/o365 environment, Ocasionally will Pull tickets from various boards at various stages in ticket life, Troubleshoot and Remdiate issues, Conduct monthly maintainance, Excecute Project work, Maintain Client Relationships. On-call Rotation.
- AD
- AAD
- Azure
- Powershell
- vmware
- Office365
- Automation
Gallop Technology
Arizona
Systems Administrator - Contract
April 2021 - Aug. 2021
- Manage clients, Perform Maintainance, Impliment infrastructure, Light Dispatching, Onsite travel, overall general sysadmin tasks on top of project work. Mainly on-prem AD, AzureAD/Intune/o365, Vmware Virtualization.
- AD
- AAD
- Azure
- Powershell
- vmware
- Office365
- Automation
Garden of the Gods Collection
Colorado
Systems Administrator
Feb. 2019 - April 2021
- Maintain Infrastructure including Hyper-Visors, Server, Firewalls, Switches, Routers, End User Hardware, IT Ticket System. Diagnose and Troubleshoot Infrastructure and End User issues as needed. Build and Deploy Systems. Maintain on-call Protocols and Procedures. Build, Deploy, Manage Docker environment. Troubleshoot Audio and Video Systems. Maintain and troubleshoot Salto Access Control, Maintain and Resolve End User Tickets. Also provided support for an onsite Medical Wellness Center and Medical Billing company. Deploy and Maintain Infrastructure for GPON System. Manage and maintain Office 365 with Azure AD hyrbid and intune.
- AD
- AAD
- Azure
- Powershell
- vmware
- Office365
- Automation
- POS Systems
- VOIP
- Terminal Services
Safety Station & Ink182
Colorado
Systems Administrator
March 2016 - Feb. 2019
- Designed the Infrastructure from scratch, Built out servers, firewalls, routers, and switches, Deployed entire infrastructure, maintain and troubleshoot as needed. Deployed hybrid aad/o365 fron scratch. Manage and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
- AD
- AAD
- Azure
- vmware
- Office365
- POS Systems
- VOIP
- Terminal Services
Colorado iPhone Repair
Colorado
Lead iOS/MacOS Technician
Dec. 2014 - March 2016
- Diagnose, Troubleshoot, and Repair various iOS, Macintosh and other devices as well as oversee the other technicians and office clerical duties.
- iOS
- MacOS
- Repair
- Troubleshoot
- Diagnose
Tech Relay
Colorado
Owner/Consultant - Self Employed
Jan. 2013 - Present
- Design, Build, Deploy, and Maintain Infrastructure. Migrate on-prem to cloud offerings like azure/365. Strong focus on Intune, AzureAD (on prem AD as well) and office 365 General Support and Maintainance. Penetration/Vulnerability testing and Bug Hunting. Red/Blue Team.
- AD
- AAD
- Azure
- Powershell
- vmware
- Office365
- Automation
- POS Systems
- VOIP
- Terminal Services
Education
B.S. in Computer Science
Cairo American University
- +1 719-466-4808
- nick@bennett.lol
- nbennett.xyz
- github.com/zippyy
- Colorado, US
- Fully Remote Worker
Skills
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Programming
- Powershell
- (2 Years Experience)
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Virtualization/Containers
- vmWare
- Citrix
- Hyper-V
- Proxmox
- KVM/QEMU
- Docker
- NixOS
- LXC
- (10+ Years Experience)
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Cloud/Directory Services
- On-Prem AD
- Azure AD
- Intune
- Office365/MS365
- (10+ Years Experience)
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Certifications
- A+
- Network+
- Security+
- MSCA/MCSE
- ACMT
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Misc
- Adobe Tools
- LaTeX
- MS Office Suite
- Git
- Docker
- MacOS
- iOS
- SIP & PBX
- Cabling & Terminations
- Various Datacenter skills
- Windows Administration
- Basic Web Dev skillset
- Penetration Testing
- Bug Bounty/Hunting
- Red Team
Languages
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EnglishNative
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ArabicB1
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HebrewA2
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ChineseA1
Diplomas
- IB Certificate
- Cairo American College
Interests
- Travel
- Video Games
- Films and Music
- Home Lab
- Languages
- Technology