Avery Samuels Jr
Washington D.C
Summary
TS/SCI-cleared System Administrator with 8+ years of experience supporting secure federal environments through Windows Server administration, MDE deployment, PowerShell automation, and patch compliance via SCCM and iPost. Known for maintaining 99.9% server uptime, remediating vulnerability findings, and enforcing strict PKI/TLS security standards across 300+ systems. I am skilled in VMware, Active Directory, Splunk, and endpoint security solutions.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. System Administrator
Intellibridge
Arlington
09.2022 - Current
- Administer and maintain 300+ Windows Servers (2012, 2019, 2022) across secure federal environments, ensuring operational integrity through iPost-driven compliance checks.
- Execute end-to-end patch management, applying critical OS updates, security hotfixes, and utility upgrades to meet organizational and federal security standards.
- Utilize PowerShell and PowerShell ISE to develop scripts for task automation, server auditing, configuration enforcement, and remediation of compliance findings.
- Perform daily health checks, maintaining 99.9% uptime through proactive monitoring, alert resolution, and vulnerability remediation.
- Deliver remote server administration using RDP and vSphere consoles, ensuring accessibility and uptime for critical business services.
- Enforce PKI security standards by disabling deprecated TLS cipher suites, applying speculative execution mitigations, and maintaining encryption compliance across all hosts.
- Track and resolve incidents through ServiceNow, contributing to SLA targets and documentation for process improvement.
- Utilize PowerShell and PowerShell ISE to execute scripts for task automation, server auditing, configuration enforcement, and compliance remediation across enterprise systems.
- Deploy, manage, and regularly update VMware Workstation environments and vSphere virtual machines, ensuring stability, security, and compliance across all development, testing, and production systems.
Network Engineer
Intellibridge
Arlington
01.2022 - 09.2022
- Managed multiple projects within CESOs client base, ensuring timely and efficient delivery
- Implemented rapid network solutions, enhancing system performance
- Solved complex business problems through innovative network integration strategies
- Established reliable metrics for monitoring network performance
- Ensured system availability through meticulous network maintenance
- Boosted system uptime through strategic network maintenance plans.
- Maintain firewalls through PALO ALTO, and using monitoring tools like SolarWinds
- Configure and install various network devices and services (cisco routers, switches, firewalls, VPN)
Desktop Support Technician
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
Washington
10.2016 - 01.2022
- Troubleshooting minor and major issues with MAC's desktops, laptops, and iPhones daily
- Used XenMobile and Intune Administration service to activate users iPhones, reset passwords, initiate kill commands for lost devices
- Helped users daily with excellent Customer Service Proficient with software such as Service Now ticketing system
- System Configuration Console Manager (SCCM) for remote access and Active Directory for password resets, distribution group access
- Issue tickets to the correct teams to be resolved Proficient with managing and labeling asset and maintaining/organizing stockroom inventory
- Helped users with a variety of issues including conducting trouble shooting to resolve IT issues that users had ona regular basis, using various resources
- Performed Microsoft Office and specifically, Outlook trouble shooting and issue resolution
- Add inboxes in Outlook on Windows 10 for users
- Configure Outlook accounts to connect to the server
- Resolved network access issues such as accessing the company network and VPN support
- Addressed network drive issues including accessing share/network drives, locating lost files on the network, and drive mapping
- Reimaged multiple laptops when off-boarding and on boarding departing and newly arriving users
- Maintained records of daily data communication transactions, problems and remedial actions taken and installation activities.
- Referred major hardware and software problems and defective products to vendors and technicians for service.
Skills
- Windows Server 2012 / 2019 / 2022
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE)
- Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (SCCM / MECM)
- PowerShell (Script Execution & Automation)
- Active Directory (user and group management)
- VMware vSphere & Workstation
- iPost Vulnerability Remediation
- Splunk (Patch/Health Monitoring)
- Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
- ServiceNow (Ticketing System)
- Patch management
- Incident resolution
- Problem solving
- Time management
Certification
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- Security+
Timeline
Sr. System Administrator
Intellibridge
09.2022 - Current
Network Engineer
Intellibridge
01.2022 - 09.2022
Desktop Support Technician
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
10.2016 - 01.2022
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