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CHAD FRANKS
St Johns,FL
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Summary
Results-oriented Senior Engineer with 25 years of experience in planning, installing, and maintaining large-scale systems. Led cross-functional teams and managed complex projects for over 15 years. Expertise includes Active Directory, Azure Cloud, VMware, Citrix, and Office 365, with proven skills in deployments, migrations, and data storage solutions.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
MoneyCorp
10.2021 - Current
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and Terraform, significantly reducing deployment time.
- Planned and executed organization-wide migration from legacy Octopus Deploy to Azure DevOps, automating CD/CI pipeline migration with PowerShell scripts and Octopus API, collaborating with development teams to maintain operational integrity.
- Migrated 40 applications from Octopus Deploy to Azure DevOps, containerizing each application using Docker to enhance deployment consistency.
- Implemented new RBAC policies to harden MoneyCorp cloud access. (Subscription management, role assignments and extensive security hardening of various apps and environments
- Led effort to update internal tools, including TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, and Azure DevOps.
- Support companies Azure environment with Terraform IaC principles. Including but not limited to Azure App Service, Service Bus, Logic Apps.
- Maintained and administered multiple CI/CD platforms. (Octopus, TeamCity, Azure DevOps). Employed advanced troubleshooting skills and techniques to resolve complex issues and outages.
Senior System Engineer
L3 Harris
03.2021 - 10.2021
- Facilitated interdepartmental meetings to propose CyberArk solutions, strengthening security for all L3Harris service accounts.
- ServiceNow administration (Create workflows, knowledge base and CMDB)
- Microsoft SQL administration (Query design, troubleshooting and database changes)
- Implementing Oracle Primavera (P6) for Peoplesoft project management suite.
- Implemented Oracle WebLogic as the Fusion Middleware piece of Oracle Primavera.
- Led MRP/business analysis for 120+ applications across multiple systems, enhancing operational effectiveness.
- Contracted on diverse projects, delivering specialized expertise to achieve project objectives.
Senior Systems Engineer
Bank of America
Jacksonville, USA
11.2019 - 04.2021
- Coordinated migration of bank's Active Directory and Citrix environments across domains, ensuring seamless transition and minimal disruption.
- Reconfigured Active Directory security, enabling elevation of AD functional level to enhance system capabilities.
- Migrated multiple Citrix farms to other domains, optimizing system integration and user access.
- Over 40,000 Active Directory objects migrated.
- Created GPO objects and organizational units within Active Directory.
- Converted 120 physical servers to virtual servers.
- Jacksonville, FL
Senior Systems Engineer / Solutions Expert
FIS Global
Jacksonville, USA
10.2015 - 10.2019
- Led engineering team in project execution, providing technical guidance to achieve project milestones.
- Configured Active Directory for clients, ensuring software integration with GPO, SPN, Citrix XenApp, XenMobile, and Citrix Workspace.
- Engineering Active Directory forests, Trusts, and multiple domains and GPOs.
- Setup and troubleshoot AD multi domain/Forests.
- Implemented Azure Investran cloud installations to enhance client infrastructure.
- Microsoft Exchange to Office 365 migrations.
- Load Balancing, Active Directory, DNS, Citrix, Networking, Firewalls.
- Jacksonville, FL
Senior Systems Engineer
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
Jacksonville, USA
10.2014 - 10.2015
- Administered BCBSFL NetScaler environment to ensure optimal application performance for over 30,000 users.
- Troubleshot connections, balanced load, switched content, and created policies to enhance service delivery.
- Configured VMware environments for optimal performance and reliability.
- Managed Cisco UCS web server environment.
- Migrated over 300 BCBSFL applications from older legacy IIS environments to IIS 7.5, and IIS 8.5.
- Engineered Active Directory solutions to streamline user management and access control.
- Jacksonville, FL
CSX Citrix Engineer
Citrix
Jacksonville, USA
05.2013 - 10.2014
- Administered over 15000 Citrix XenApp Servers.
- Reversed engineered 50+ applications for installation in new XenApp environment, enhancing application compatibility.
- Migrated 300+ servers from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008, ensuring system stability and support.
- Setup, configure and maintain Citrix NetScaler VPX.
- Streamlined Active Directory OU structure to facilitate AppSense deployment, improving organizational efficiency.
- Jacksonville, FL
System Architect / System Engineer
Lender Processing Services, Inc LPS
Jacksonville, USA
10.2012 - 04.2013
- Collaborated with architecture team to clarify and integrate overall environment architecture.
- Coordinated with technical groups to implement network, OS, and application configurations based on requirements.
- Partnered with assurance and security teams to validate SLA compliance.
- Deployments Review change order requests for various environment tiers to ensure compliance and quality.
- Jacksonville, FL
Senior Systems Engineer
Crowley Maritime Corporation
Jacksonville, USA
06.2007 - 10.2012
- Planned, implemented, and administered server environments to ensure reliable operations.
- Implemented and maintained multiple Active Directory environments.
- Facilitated creation and management of forests, child domains, and trusts to optimize network organization.
- Provided expertise in planning and creating Group Policy Objects (GPOs).
- Subject matter expert as it pertains to Windows 2003, 2008, 2912 servers (hardware and OS).
- Proposed tailored products and services to clients, addressing specific technical needs.
- Created, and implemented Enterprise-wide Office 2007 upgrade to over 5000 desktops on time and budget.
- Jacksonville, FL
Education
MBA - Information Management
University of Phoenix
Jacksonville, FL08-2008
Skills
- Azure DevOps pipelines
- Terraform infrastructure
- Containerization technologies
- Microservices architecture
- Infrastructure management
- Network infrastructure administration
- Active Directory administration
- Cloud identity management
- IIS troubleshooting
- Load balancer configuration
- VPN setup and maintenance
- Exchange Office 365
- Database management
- Unix systems administration
- Security products oversight
Certification
- ITIL v3 Certified
- MCSE Windows 2003
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
MoneyCorp
10.2021 - Current
Senior System Engineer
L3 Harris
03.2021 - 10.2021
Senior Systems Engineer
Bank of America
11.2019 - 04.2021
Senior Systems Engineer / Solutions Expert
FIS Global
10.2015 - 10.2019
Senior Systems Engineer
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
10.2014 - 10.2015
CSX Citrix Engineer
Citrix
05.2013 - 10.2014
System Architect / System Engineer
Lender Processing Services, Inc LPS
10.2012 - 04.2013
Senior Systems Engineer
Crowley Maritime Corporation
06.2007 - 10.2012
MBA - Information Management
University of Phoenix