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Ethan Hood

San Diego,CA

Summary

Meticulous and resourceful Infrastructure Systems Engineer maintaining highly functional digital systems for uninterrupted workflows in a 99% uptime environment. Strong qualities in gathering, scope development and inventory coordination. Skilled at overseeing complex and high-value technical projects. Loves collaborating with customers, teammates and various teams to develop and implement creative technical solutions to challenging problems.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Support Engineer

MACH Networks
11.2023 - Current
  • Collaborated with outside departments to implement system-wide improvements.
  • Set up and administered enterprise network and cellular carrier management and device configurations.
  • Diagnosed and troubleshot hardware, software and network issues.
  • Created user accounts and assigned permissions.
  • Provided Tier 1 IT support to non-technical internal users through desk side support services.
  • Used ticketing systems to manage and process support actions and request
  • Collaborated with vendors to locate replacement components and resolve advanced problems.

Systems Engineer Critical Infrastructure

Southwest Airlines
11.2022 - 10.2023
  • Maintained stability, integrity and efficient operation of information systems supporting organizational functions.
  • Identified and communicated potential risks associated with proposed changes, illustrating possible remedial and preventatives measures
  • Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines, and generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination.
  • Moved and installed shelves, power strips, structured cabling, rails, servers, switches and other equipment.
  • Trained personnel on use of IT tools, applications and department standards.
  • Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
  • Read and interpreted blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, and computer-generated reports to analyze upcoming projects.

Desktop Support Specialist

Southwest Airlines
03.2022 - 11.2022
  • Configured hardware, devices, and software to set up work stations for employees.
  • Managed end-user accounts and permissions, overseeing correct provisioning of access rights in accordance with security best practices and company policy.
  • Responded to customer inquiries and provided technical assistance over phone and in person.
  • Authored detailed documentation on service call resolutions, providing valuable data on both personnel performance and effective remediation techniques.
  • Purchased, setup and installed new computers.

Data Analyst

Strategic Data Systems
11.2021 - 03.2022
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to identify business needs and data sources.
  • Generated standard and custom reports to provide insights into business performance.
  • Collaborated with business-unit leaders to identify and prioritize problems.
  • Updated and developed scripts and queries to extract and analyze data from multiple sources.
  • Validated physical assets

Cloud Application Development

Microsoft
06.2021 - 11.2021

Learner focused environment and studied in Cloud Application Development learning to design, write, build and support applications and programs. It is a 17-week program where I gained fundamental skills in C#, SQL, CSS, SOAP, JSON, and HTML. Learned conceptual frameworks for Web Applications development, ASP.Net MVC and Azure Application and Development. Gained hands on experience and teamwork collaboration pertaining to front-end and back-end development. I ran with my knowledge and created a Snake Game, as well as a product website with its own SQL database to provide an inventory. Built, modified, and ran queries against T-SQL databases via SQL Server Management Studio for data analysis and interpretation and applying them to my own projects. Gained foundational knowledge on expecting full life-cycle software and development and code development.

Operations Specialist Second Class

United States Navy, USN
10.2016 - 10.2021
  • Developed strategic plans to warn, control and evacuate personnel and general public from critical zones.
  • Set up special stations to effectively relay information during periods of unavailable or compromised infrastructure.
  • Organized search and rescue activities to locate missing persons affected by natural disasters.
  • Helped implement disaster plans, coordinating teams and resources to swiftly respond to problems.
  • Assisted with tactical planning by compiling and evaluating important operations and intelligence data.
  • Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

National University
La Jolla, CA
05.2025

Skills

  • Hardware and Software Installation
  • Maintenance Organization and Development
  • Training Junior Team Members
  • Incident Management
  • Technical Support
  • Project Management
  • Partner Relationships

Timeline

Support Engineer

MACH Networks
11.2023 - Current

Systems Engineer Critical Infrastructure

Southwest Airlines
11.2022 - 10.2023

Desktop Support Specialist

Southwest Airlines
03.2022 - 11.2022

Data Analyst

Strategic Data Systems
11.2021 - 03.2022

Cloud Application Development

Microsoft
06.2021 - 11.2021

Operations Specialist Second Class

United States Navy, USN
10.2016 - 10.2021

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

National University
Ethan Hood