Brent Erickson
ATI Physical Therapy
Spokane,WA
1
Certification
25
years of professional experience
Systems Engineer and Network Administrator with 24 years experience possessing proficiency in both Cloud and On-premises systems administration, network administration, hardware maintenance and operating systems, including Windows and Linux systems. Capable of designing, enhancing, evaluating and monitoring IT infrastructure with experience mentoring and training IT team members.
Work History
IT Operations Team Leader
1 Year 5 Months- Supervise the daily operation of the IT Operations Team
- Manage the IT Operations project and incidence response queues
- Provide training and mentorship to seven-person Operations Team
- Coordinate with other departments and the executive team to ensure effective intra-team performance.
Systems Engineer
6 Years 1 Month- Played key role in on-premises migration to both AWS and Azure Cloud.
- Provides data security, redundancy and disaster recovery implementation and maintenance in diverse technical environment.
- Collaborates directly with ATI partners and end-users to integrate new technologies and improve existing applications.
- Mentored Engineering and Operations team members on cloud technologies and best practices, elevating overall the team's skill set.
Cloud Operations Engineer II
3 Months- Lead team migrating Target Media Partners AWS cloud infrastructure to new AWS infrastructure for Digital Air Strike.
- Lead Integration of Target Media Partner's network infrastructure with Digital Air Strike's WAN.
Systems/Network Administrator
10 Years 1 Month- Migrated web, database and network infrastructure from physical co-location to AWS cloud.
- Managed and ensured stability of all network services throughout the enterprise both on-site and in AWS.
- Constructed and maintained Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) at multiple sites.
- Performed system maintenance and upgrades, including patches, service packs, hot fixes and new security configurations.
- Rewrote and updated Active Directory Group Policy with new domain move and domain level raise.
- Participated in on-call rotations during holidays, weekends and overnights to handle emergency network situations.
- Backed up company data, which proved effective in successful recovery on multiple occasions.
- Managed corporate Windows Active Directory domain move and raised domain level.
- Installed patches and performed backups, system builds and image updates.
- Configured networks to ensure smooth, reliable operation to meet business processes and objectives.
Systems Supervisor
1 Year 11 Months- Supervised Target Media Northwest's IT infrastructure across six locations around Central and Eastern Washington State.
- Provided mentorship and IT training to satellite locations' technical leads.
Systems Administrator
5 Years 1 Month- Conducted testing and troubleshooting for various software remotely and onsite for 12 server sets to maintain operational readiness.
- Spearheaded inventory control measures to replenish and maintain IT equipment, supplies, tools and replacement parts.
- Ensured network, system and data availability and integrity through preventative maintenance and upgrades.
- Managed firewall, network monitoring and server monitoring both on- and off-site.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Management Information Systems
Bachelor of Arts - International Public Administration
Skills
Azure Cloud design
build
security policy and disaster recovery
IT Operations Team member leadership and mentoring for Cloud technologies
Windows server administration including the ability to design
build
upgrade and patch large numbers of virtual servers and services
Security Remediation and Disaster Recovery
Infrastructure as Code design and implementation
Office 365/Exchange/Azure migration and administration
Infrastructure monitoring and alerting
Troubleshooting all aspects of IT infrastructure
Tier 3 helpdesk support
Project documentation
Website and web portal security remediation and performance monitoring
Certification
- Amazon Web Services Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate from 2016-2022
Timeline
IT Operations Team Leader
ATI Physical Therapy
04.2025 - 09.2026Read More
Systems Engineer
ATI Physical Therapy, Inc.
03.2019 - 04.2025Read More
Cloud Operations Engineer II
Digital Air Strike
12.2018 - 03.2019Read More
Systems/Network Administrator
Target Media Partners, Inc.
10.2008 - 11.2018Read More
Systems Supervisor
Target Media Northwest
11.2006 - 10.2008Read More
Systems Administrator
Lee Northwest
09.2001 - 10.2006Read More
Eastern Washington University
Bachelor of Arts from International Public Administration
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Eastern Washington University
Bachelor of Arts from Management Information Systems
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