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Hello, I’m Brandyn.
Information Technology Professional

IT Engineering and Administration - New York City Metropolitian Area
Seasoned IT professional with +7 years of experience in the management, implementation, and administration of information technologies for businesses.

Who am I?

I am an IT professional whose journey began with a childhood fascination for understanding and building technology. What started as assembling custom desktops has grown into a fulfilling career dedicated to crafting innovative solutions for businesses. My academic foundation at Rutgers University equipped me with the IT strategies and principles that I continue to apply and refine throughout my professional journey. I am driven by a passion for leveraging technology to solve complex challenges and deliver meaningful results.
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About Me

Education / Certifications

2020 - Present
Cisco CCNA
Cisco Certified Network Associate - CSCO13607251
2024 - Present
Microsoft AZ900
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals - 53B5BE-85FE81
2016 - 2020
Rutgers University
Bachelors, Information Technology and Informatics

2022-Present
Systems Administrator
Parx Casino. Bensalem, PA

Systems Administrator

Develop and maintain a mixed Windows and Linux virtual environment for 24/7 operations. Implement a DevOps approach to automate system configuration and upgrades through code, utilizing Git to manage Ansible, PowerShell, and other scripting languages. Streamlines changes, scales core services, and enhances user onboarding and provisioning. Managing and configuring Azure applications, Exchange Online, SAML, and enterprise security policies—key cloud engineering tasks. Leading cloud migrations, including moving from on-prem email security to a cloud solution and transitioning critical team services including remote access from on-prem to a cloud-based deployment. Revision of existing policies to adapt to newer requirements and aid in reduction of admin overhead. Create and implement plans for system and application upgrades, perform risk assessments, and adhere to ITIL best practices for change management. Upgrade and maintain a secure internal PKI environment, setting policies and permissions from the root certificate authority down to individual certificate templates. Secure services with internally signed certificates for websites, LDAP, and mobile devices using NDES/SCEP. Author and maintain comprehensive documentation for systems, processes, and best practices.
2020-2022
Infrastructure Engineer
Capital Health. Hopewell, NJ

Infrastructure Engineer

Manage technical projects through design, testing, and deployment of enterprise clinical and financial systems. Led the implementation of a tracking system that spans 5 departmental groups to centralize and streamline issue resolution and technical project progress. Saved operation and maintenance costs by converting physical servers to virtual utilizing VMware. +$500,000 in financial value of time saved annually by planning and implementing a SSO solution to decrease clinical staff login times. Technical liaison between department head staff and software vendors to coordinate and build business critical infrastructure.
2018-2019
Residential Networking Consultant
Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ

Residential Networking Consultant

On-site support for +30k on-campus students, staff, and patrons walking into the computer labs with their own devices. Network troubleshooting for PCs, Macs, and mobile devices. Virus troubleshooting and remediation. Desktop builds and maintenance for the university.
2017-2020
IT Support Specialist
Decco Industries. Hopewell, NJ

IT Support Specialist

Managed the migration of +1200 end user devices from Windows 7 to Windows 10, leading a team of +10 employees. Coordinate the technical acquisition of multiple private practices. Leading projects from the purchasing of IT equipment through deployment of physical hardware. Lead technician in the process of migrating the organization’s antivirus solution from McAfee to VMware’s CarbonBlack. Responsible for AV testing and deployment for +3000 end user devices and servers. Assist the help desk providing desktop and mobile support, diagnosing, troubleshooting and resolving client issues with hardware maintenance, installations and upgrades.

Experience

I specialize in virtual Microsoft Windows Server environments, including services such as PKI, DNS, DHCP, and more. Additionally, I am adept in Microsoft's Entra-ID and hybrid/cloud solutions, proficient in Linux server builds and maintenance, and well-versed in the physical networking and storage technologies vital to their seamless operation. These competencies empower me to deliver impactful solutions that precisely align with organizational goals and objectives.
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Projects

CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions

Replaced a slow Ansible-based file copy with a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner that deploys this site automatically on every push to main — cutting deploy time and eliminating the file-permission issues the old method introduced.

Iterated through 29 failed workflow runs before landing on a simple two-step job: checkout the repo, then sync the built site to the Nginx host.

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Home Lab & Site Infrastructure

Self-hosted this site’s entire stack on a home lab: TrueNAS Scale (ZFS) as the hypervisor, Ansible playbooks to provision the VM and configure Docker, Nginx, and a Cloudflare Tunnel, and Hugo for the static build.

Chose the harder path deliberately — the goal wasn’t the simplest way to publish a résumé site, it was hands-on practice with virtualization, infrastructure-as-code, and container networking.

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