# alvin Willingham alvin Willingham is a remote worker on Himalayas, Data Center Tech/ Field Service Tech/ Freelance at The Lamar Group, based in United States. Source: https://himalayas.app/@alvinwillingham ```text Windows system administrator at The Lamar Group building Windows servers for small businesses and configuring network components. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Looking for a job | | Location | United States | | Authorized to work in | United States | | Salary expectations | 77k+ USD | | Job categories | Systems Administrator, System Support Engineer, Windows System Administrator, Systems Engineer, Data Center Technician, Field Service Technician, Windows Integration Engineer, Core Integration Engineer, Integration Engineer | | Skills | Windows Server Administration, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Server Configuration, DOD STIG, DISA Benchmarks, STIG Remediation, Azure, Virtualization, VMWare, Hyper V, P2V Conversions, V2V Migration | | LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/alvin-willingham196262 | ## About ```text 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 ### Data Center Tech/ Field Service Tech/ Freelance (current) The Lamar Group. Feb 2026 - Present ```text Building windows servers for small businesses. Network components install and configuration, blade replacement, physical server & router, switches. ``` Skills: 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 ```text 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. ``` Skills: 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 ```text Windows servers 2012, 2016 & 2019, 2022 R2 support. Building windows servers for small businesses. Network components install and configuration, physical server & router, switches. ``` Skills: 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 ```text 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. ``` Skills: 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 ```text 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). ``` Skills: 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 ```text 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. ``` Skills: 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 ```text 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. ``` Skills: Windows-Server, FTP, IIS, SSL, MS-Cluster, VMWare, Cisco-UCS ### System Administrator Bestica Inc. / DOD GA. Army National Guard. Jun 2018 - Sep 2018 ```text SCCM server software patching and remediation. VMware server support, P2V, STIG SNAP application support. ``` Skills: SCCM, VMWare, P2V-Migration, DISA-STIGs ### Core Integration Engineer SunTrust Inc.. May 2016 - Mar 2018 ```text 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). ``` Skills: VMWare, Hyper-V, OVA, V2V, P2V-Migration, IIS, FTP, SSL, MS-Cluster, SCCM, Azure ### Intel Integration Engineer SunTrust Inc.. Aug 2013 - Jun 2016 ```text 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. ``` Skills: HP-Proliant, Dell-PowerEdge, Windows-Server, Failover-Clustering, MSSQL, VMWare ## Education ### Atlanta Technical College Diploma, Network Specialist ```text Earned a Cisco Network Specialist diploma from Atlanta Technical College, a Cisco Systems Academy. ``` ### Morris Brown College Bachelor's, Computer Science ```text Earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia. ``` ## Tech stack - Splunk - Microsoft Azure - GitHub - Jenkins - Microsoft SQL Server - Jira - PowerShell - Linux - Windows - Microsoft Office 365 - Ansible - VMware vSphere - ServiceNow - Microsoft Intune - Azure To contact alvin, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Robert Stanton](https://himalayas.app/@robertstanton): PC Specialist, A PC Specialist - [Bobby Howerton](https://himalayas.app/@bobbyhowerton): Senior Microsoft Systems Engineer, Boeing IP Global - [Clark Havens](https://himalayas.app/@clarkhavens): Systems Administrator, Leidos - [Jefferson Lowery](https://himalayas.app/@jeffersonlowery): System Analyst, CommScope / Delta Systems and Software - [Christopher Holloway](https://himalayas.app/@christopherholloway): Senior System Administrator, MPathic - [srilaxmi pochaboiena](https://himalayas.app/@srilaxmipochaboiena): System Administrator, Thermo Fisher Scientific - [Clay Pendarvis](https://himalayas.app/@claypendarvis): Windows Systems Administrator, Initiate Government Solutions - [Christopher Miller](https://himalayas.app/@christophermiller2): Project Implementation Lead / Systems Engineer, TeamLogic IT - [Omar Hernandez](https://himalayas.app/@omarhernandez1): Independent Information Technology Consultant, Freelance / Self Employed - [Jeffery Neurauter](https://himalayas.app/@jefferyneurauter): Sr. Systems Engineer, HydraForce