Bryce Hixson
PEOPLESHOST.COM
Seattle
17
years of professional experience
Enthusiastic, technically adaptive IT professional able to communicate effectively and concisely. Resourceful and self-reliant though works effectively with a team. Excellent at time management and project prioritization. Extremely motivated to solve problems permanently.
Work History
6 Years 4 Months
- Lead programmer on a shared personal project with a small group of friends creating a game.
Automation
8 Years 8 Months- Custom scripting for automated deployment of CentOS cpanel VPSes. Scripts written in bash for internal CentOS operations and Windows Powershell for deployment of a VPS environment. Configuration and deployment of pro-active systems monitoring solutions with custom written resolution scripts for fixing common errors. OpenCloud VPN deployment within a uniquely networked environment for maximum security.
Technical Project Manager
1 Year 5 Months- Responsible for the technical breakdown, scoping, and coordination of technical project plans tracking timelines and deliverables for teams operating independently.
- Met with owning technicians to assist and verify realistic delivery timelines, often providing technical insight for the owner and providing cross-team visibility.
- Managed owning stakeholder communication, clarifying timelines and aligning expectations throughout project cycles.
- Tracked project risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating blockers to maintain progress.
- Facilitated and owned Agile meetings, including sprint planning, standups, and retrospective follow-ups.
- Monitored milestones and release readiness, ensuring tasks stayed aligned with scope and priorities.
- Documented technical specifications, action items, and status updates for consistent project visibility. Often creating visual guides directly.
Windows Administrator / Microsoft Redmond Campus Site Lead
3 Years 5 Months- Manage a small Windows Admin team providing support needs to Microsoft lab environments and end user engineers.
- Engineer Support
- Assisting in lab PC/server for Windows/Linux systems hardware troubleshooting and configuration offering tailored solutions for unique environments.
- Lab Automation
- Creating scalable deployment systems using PXE/WDS for custom imaging and automated post-setup configuration in hybrid Windows/Linux (SOC) systems
- Powershell Tool Creation
- Writing interactable PWSH scripts to ease mass systems changes and updates, along with user reporting tools for system diagnostics and security compliance auditing
Systems Administrator
1 Year 6 Months- Maintain a Linux big-data environment for 80+ primarily macOS employees while simultaneously collaborating with onsite dev team to further integrate proprietary data analysis systems. Job duties required reporting directly to the CTO and included:
- On premise AD/Azure deployment for uniform employee SSO login options along with Gsuite
- Streamlining user identity management with the fewest possible interactions while maintaining maximum security. Deployment of on-premises to Azure AD cloud sync with proprietary AD objects used for identity tracking
- GPU Compute cluster management, monitoring, and availability tracking
- Maintain a company owned SLURM GPU compute environment tracking and ensuring the proper execution and completion of employee submitted jobs
- Local and remote network security and data exfiltration monitoring
- Responsible for maintaining stable network between on-site and remote users to compute resources along with availability monitoring and situation response to suspect data transfer. Assessing network threats and responding accordingly
- Off and On-site Lab and Workstation Maintenance
- Ensuring the availability of a variety of operating systems running lab equipment are functional and secure, often troubleshooting highly unique machines with very little documentation along with supporting end user equipment working with employees directly
- On-site Network & Security
- Working with third party low voltage installers to deploy cable infrastructure as well as the personal deployment of physical wiring and switches to bring data to new offices. Installment of alarms, cameras, and video storage systems
Technical Officer / Level 2 Systems Administrator
5 Years 5 Months- Deploy and manage dedicated and virtualized server environments for end-customer and internal company use, streamlining and documenting processes involved for company record. Job duties included:
- Dedicated Server Setup/Configuration
- Working with internal management or end-customer to determine minimum and optimal server hardware, server OS install/configuration including disk partitioning, filesystem formatting, and network setup via IPMI
- Active System Virtualization
- Moving active and new company and client infrastructure between virtualized and dedicated environments handling live minimal-disruption migrations, filesystem and database synchronization with as-needed custom scripting
- Server Management
- Large scale hardware monitoring and maintenance, extensive filesystem repair and database maintenance
- Processes Documentation & Shell/Powershell Scripting
- Recording above processes and creating efficient comprehensive setup and execution manuals for future employees along with custom-wrote script utilities to assist in quick and stable deployments and maintenance
- Network Resource Management
- IPv4 Resource Management and large-scale subnet tracking of IPv4 allocations
- Support
- End customer support via phone and web, delegating low-priority items as necessary
VOIP & Metro Ethernet Engineer
1 Year 3 Months- Monitor and maintain a P2P metropolitan radio network for unusual latency patterns or disconnects as well as delivering VoIP solutions working directly with end businesses. Often securing Cisco Catalyst switches and routers to handle multiple networks/VLANs for deployment in high density residential structures. Job duties included:
- Wireless networking
- Point to point radio linking, Wireless security, Frequency management, Spectrum analysis, Sector management
- Networking
- MPLS - Layer 3 Routing, Layer 2 vlan & trunking, maintain dynamic routing tables, DHCP configuration & deployment, cable management (crimping, dressing, fiber-optic splicing)
- VOIP services
- DID management, SIP error troubleshooting, PBX administration & automation, phone tree deployment, E911 database administration
- Support
- Client support via phone & web, webpage troubleshooting, database troubleshooting, server network configuration, Parallels container support, Xen VM support, large-scale IP camera management, on-call emergency rotation
- Linux administration
- OS RAID management, Server resource monitoring (load, diskspace, CPU), System data and log archiving, Scripting & automation, XEN management
6 Months
- Network deployment, management, and traffic shaping for the Dupont LANfest at Intel Headquarters.
1 Year
- Network deployment, management, and traffic shaping for the PC Game Room.
Systems Administrator
7 Months- Monitor and maintain a high density web environment logging traffic and resource patterns as well as generate and submit server build requests to accommodate resource consumption growth.
- High-density web environment management
- Server resource monitoring, responding and correcting Nagios alerts
- Routine data protection
- Running and automating Windows Hypervisor backups, managing end-client quotas
- Large-scale server tracking & management
- Archiving relevant logs and analyzing trends to predict future resource requirements, configuring Nagios alert thresholds
- Server Maintenance
- Replacing failed/damage hardware, server interior cable management
- Scripting & Automation
- Shell scripting multiple analysis tools to track resource loads & detect possible net-intruders
System Administrator
1 Year 5 Months- Receive customer support calls and respond accordingly, repairing application level or physical level errors and reporting to client.
- Direct customer support
- Online helpdesk & direct phone support for clients, first contact call resolution
- Web environment troubleshooting
- Linux permission error troubleshooting & HTTP error log analysis
- Server build & deployment
- Assembling & configuring servers to be online to admin teams
- Emergency call rotation
- 24hr emergency call response and resolution
- Hardware diagnostic
- Hardware troubleshooting & benchmarking, new inventory fault testing
Skills
Operating Systems & Platforms
Windows Server ('04-'22) - Proficient
9 years
MS Azure Platform - Proficient
1 year
Redhat/CentOS - Proficient
9 years
Ubuntu/Debian - Proficient
9 years
Cisco IOS - Proficient
3 years
Mikrotik RouterOS - Proficient
8 years
Pfsense - Proficient
3 years
OpenStack - Novice
1 year
Languages & Scripting
C# - Proficient
1 year
DOS (batch) - Proficient
8 years
Powershell - Proficient
7 years
Bash/Sh - Proficient
9 years
Perl - Proficient
2 years
Python - Proficient
2 years
SQL (My/Pos/MS) - Proficient
5 years
Tertiary Skills
Hardware
Custom Server Assembly
System Stressing & Diagnostics
Disk/RAID Health Analysis
Memory Error Checking
Able to lift it
Generic Utilities
RAID HW/OS Setup/Repair
(0
1
10
5
50)
IPMI/IDRAC/ILO Setup
TFTP/FTP Server/Client
Setup/Configuration
GUI & cmd line operation
Telephony
SIP Troubleshooting
Freeswitch (cmd/FusionPBX))
VOIP Phone Deployment & Programming:
Grandstream
Cisco
Polycom
Networking
Packet Capture Analysis
Routing Tables Mgmt
DHCP Server Mgmt
VLAN Switching + Trunking
Layer 3 Firewall Hardening
IPv4/6 CIDR Subnetting
VPN Setup/Mgmt + Routing
Advanced Wireless Setup
Spectrum/Channel Mgmt
Multi WAP
RF Noise Floor Analysis
Security Capture
Windows (GUI+CMD/PS)
Advanced Networking
NIC-Teaming w/ Failover
Hyper-V Virtual Switching
Active Directory
Advanced Firewall
Blackberry Exchange Server
HMailServer
Hyper-V
ICS BIND
IIS
Mdaemon
Microsoft Exchange
MSSQL/MySQL
Linux (SSH)
Apache / Nginx
IPtables
CSF/APF/Firewall-CMD
SQL (MySQL
PostGres
etc.)
Named/Bind
Parted/Gparted
Plesk (cmd+gui)
WHM/Cpanel
Troubleshooting
Grub/Boot Repair
Kernel Repair
Faulty Partition Mounts
Filesystem Errors
Virtuozzo (cmd)
Xen (cmd)
Timeline
Technical Project Manager
Ams Dataserfs
04.2025 - 09.2026Read More
Windows Administrator / Microsoft Redmond Campus Site Lead
AMS DataSerfs, Inc.
11.2021 - 04.2025Read More
Unity & C# Game Development
07.2020 - CurrentRead More
Systems Administrator
Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences
01.2019 - 07.2020Read More
Automation
PEOPLESHOST.COM
03.2018 - CurrentRead More
Technical Officer / Level 2 Systems Administrator
Arvixe, LLC
08.2013 - 01.2019Read More
Intel LANfest
06.2012 - 12.2012Read More
VOIP & Metro Ethernet Engineer
SeattleNet by Atlas Networks
04.2012 - 07.2013Read More
PAX West
09.2011 - 09.2012Read More
Systems Administrator
PSP, Inc.
09.2011 - 04.2012Read More
System Administrator
Atlas Networks
04.2010 - 09.2011Read More