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

photo of me

Skills

    • Programming
    • Powershell
    • (2 Years Experience)
      Virtualization/Containers
    • vmWare
    • Citrix
    • Hyper-V
    • Proxmox
    • KVM/QEMU
    • Docker
    • NixOS
    • LXC
    • (10+ Years Experience)
      Cloud/Directory Services
    • On-Prem AD
    • Azure AD
    • Intune
    • Office365/MS365
    • (10+ Years Experience)
      Certifications
    • A+
    • Network+
    • Security+
    • MSCA/MCSE
    • ACMT
      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

  • English
    Native
  • Arabic
    B1
  • Hebrew
    A2
  • Chinese
    A1

Diplomas

  • IB Certificate
  • Cairo American College

Interests

  • Travel
  • Video Games
  • Films and Music
  • Home Lab
  • Languages
  • Technology