Kenton Patterson
Stone Mountain,GA
Summary
Inventive Operations Engineer ready to augment ongoing business processes and design more productive operating procedures. Clever creator of novel approaches to stale technical and manual tasks. Eager to bring industry-wide positive disruptions to legacy operations.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Operations Engineer
Hi-Rez Studios
Alpharetta, GA
03.2017 - Current
- Updating and maintaining deployed software versions of game across 500 servers.
- AWS and Azure experience
- Pro-active system monitoring, alerting and maintenance
- Hardware and software performance analysis and tuning.
- Ensure quality, reliability and stability of production systems / online services.
- Implement solutions for fault tolerance, performance enhancement and configuration management of applications.
- Provided release automation for new software and systems.
- Established expertise on configuration management tools and cloud infrastructure
Desktop Administrator
Hi-Rez Studios
Alpharetta, GA
10.2014 - 03.2017
- Install, configure, upgrade, maintain and support desktop systems on over 400+ customer service requests.
- Oversee inventory management of software and hardware components.
- Set user access rights and permissions and create VPN accounts for users.
- Maintain servers, computers printers, and other software and hardware peripherals.
- Performed troubleshooting technical issues and escalated complex problems to appropriate support teams for resolutions.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
SUNY Institute of Technology
Utica, NY06.2006
Skills
- Cloud Hosting
- Software Deployment
- Infrastructure Components
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- System and Network Security
- Cloud Architectures and Services
- Script Formatting
- Source and Version Control: Git, GitHub
- Maintenance
- Technical Skills
- Testing
Certification
- Comptia A+ ce Certification
- Comptia Linux+ Certification
- Certified Linux Administrator (LPIC-1)
- Amazon Web Services Solution Architect Associate
Timeline
Operations Engineer
Hi-Rez Studios
03.2017 - Current
Desktop Administrator
Hi-Rez Studios
10.2014 - 03.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
SUNY Institute of Technology
- Comptia A+ ce Certification
- Comptia Linux+ Certification
- Certified Linux Administrator (LPIC-1)
- Amazon Web Services Solution Architect Associate
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