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alvin Willingham

@alvinwillingham

Windows system administrator at The Lamar Group building Windows servers for small businesses and configuring network components.

United States

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At The Lamar Group, I build Windows servers for small businesses and install and configure network components. My current environment includes Microsoft Office 365, Windows Server 2019 and 2022, Microsoft Azure, and Cisco IOS.

At GA TECH RESEACH INSTITUTE, I supported Windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022, including Active Directory, DNS, and Group Policy. I also supported STIG SNAP and server configuration and remediation using DOD STIG and DISA benchmarks.

At Kyndryl INC, I supported Windows Server environments and used Ansible playbooks for patching, alongside PowerShell, SCCM, and WSUS. I also created and configured Azure virtual machines.

Earlier, at SUNTRUST INC., I supported VMware and Hyper-V environments, including virtual machine creation and migration and physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual conversions. I also supported Windows Server roles and features and SCCM client remediation.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Data Center Tech/ Field Service Tech/ Freelance

Current

The Lamar Group

Feb 2026 - Present (9 months)

Building windows servers for small businesses. Network components install and configuration, blade replacement, physical server & router, switches.

Microsoft Office 365 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2022 Azure Cisco IOS HP ILO Dell iDRAC

System Support Engineer

GA Tech Research Institute

Oct 2024 - Nov 2025 (1 year 1 month)

Windows servers 2016 & 2019, 2022 R2 support. Windows server Roles & Features support, Active Directory users and group, DNS, GPO support. STIG SNAP app support & DOD STIG, DISA benchmarks server configuration & remediation.

Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2022 HP ILO Jira Splunk Tellix PDQ Deploy

System Engineer/Field Service Tech/ Freelance

ComTech Service Inc.

Jan 2024 - Oct 2024 (9 months)

Windows servers 2012, 2016 & 2019, 2022 R2 support. Building windows servers for small businesses. Network components install and configuration, physical server & router, switches.

Microsoft Office 365 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2022 Azure Cisco IOS HP ILO Dell iDRAC

Windows System Administrator

Kyndryl Inc

Mar 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year 5 months)

Windows servers 2012, 2016 & 2019, 2022 R2, IBM Tivoli Monitoring System support. Windows patching using Ansible playbook execution, Powershell scripting, SCCM, WSUS. Azure virtual machine creation, guest editing and configuration.

Windows Server IBM Tivoli Monitoring Ansible PowerShell SCCM WSUS Azure VMware VSphere 8.X ServiceNow Jenkins GitHub

Windows System Administrator

Insight Global / Watchguard Inc.

May 2021 - Dec 2021 (7 months)

Windows servers 2012, 2016 & 2019 R2 support, Linux server support. VMware virtual machine creation, guest editing and configuration. Physical to Virtual windows server 2016 conversion (P2V).

Windows Server Linux VMWare Royal TS Automox Panda Adaptive Defense 360 ServiceNow VMware ESXi VCenter

System Administrator

Prime Technical Staffing / DOD US Airforce

Oct 2019 - Mar 2021 (1 year 5 months)

Windows server 2016 R2 & Group policy support. Windows server Roles & Features DFS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, IIS SSL Certificate, MS Cluster. VMware virtual machine creation, guest editing and configuration. Physical to Virtual windows server 2016.

Windows Server Group Policy DFS DNS DHCP FTP IIS SSL MS Cluster VMWare IDRAC ILO Raritan KVM Solarwinds

Windows Integration Engineer

SunTrust Inc.

Apr 2019 - Aug 2019 (4 months)

Core software installation and configuration support on windows 2012, 2016 servers. Windows server Roles & Features FTP, IIS SSL Certificate, MS Cluster. VMware guest editing and configuration. Cisco UCS manager to build and configure VMware ESXi hosts.

Windows Server FTP IIS SSL MS Cluster VMWare Cisco UCS

System Administrator

Bestica Inc. / DOD GA. Army National Guard

Jun 2018 - Sep 2018 (3 months)

SCCM server software patching and remediation. VMware server support, P2V, STIG SNAP application support.

SCCM VMWare P2V Migration DISA STIGs

Core Integration Engineer

SunTrust Inc.

May 2016 - Mar 2018 (1 year 10 months)

VMware 4.0-5.5,6.0,6.5 and Hyper-v virtual machine creation, maintenance, support. VMware OVA import for Linux server creation, support. VMware Virtual machine migration to new VMware environments. Physical to Virtual and Virtual to Virtual conversion (V2V,P2V).

VMWare Hyper V OVA V2V P2V Migration IIS FTP SSL MS Cluster SCCM Azure

Intel Integration Engineer

SunTrust Inc.

Aug 2013 - Jun 2016 (2 years 10 months)

Servers Hewett-Packard ProLiant360c,G6,460c,G7,G8 & Dell 620R, 630R array configuration. Core software installation and configuration on windows 2003, 2008, 2012 servers. MS Failover cluster & HA creation and support. MS SQL installation & configuration.

HP Proliant Dell PowerEdge Windows Server Failover Clustering MSSQL VMWare