Kurt Brust

Administer hybrid hosting environments supporting publishing-platform customers, covering servers, storage, networking, databases, and firewalls. Provide senior-level incident response and participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.

Supported global IAM Engineering with Centrify platform integrations across Linux, UNIX, and macOS estates. Architected Active Directory authentication bridging and enforced least-privilege and RBAC controls.

Served as highest-tier escalation for enterprise server infrastructure design, configuration, and support. Solely architected and deployed Centrify Single Sign-On across the full Linux landscape.

Provided Level 3 support for Iron Mountain InSight, enabling full lifecycle management of customers' physical and digital records. Represented InSight on Change Management boards and joined Priority 1 incident bridges as platform SME.

Operated as an independent infrastructure consultant for the Florida Department of Transportation. Migrated 1,200+ enterprise servers from AIX/Solaris to Linux and designed HA and disaster-recovery solutions.

Architected next-generation Linux platforms, including application integration, lifecycle management, and porting from legacy UNIX. Established the corporate Linux platform roadmap and aligned teams around standardized UNIX environments.

Delivered global technical pre-sales and architecture support, engineering advanced POCs for enterprise clients. Exceeded yearly sales targets by 20% in FY 2012/2013 through deep solution engineering.

Engineered and validated Linux infrastructure for Commercial Investment Banking Platform Engineering. Created corporate best practices and baselines for RHEL 4, SLES 9/10, and Solaris.

Handled East Coast and European deployment, support, and technical POCs for Levanta's Linux Management appliance.

Led Windows/Solaris/NetWare-to-SUSE Linux migrations and co-authored three official Novell Linux migration guides.

Migrated enterprises to EMC CLARiiON storage and built a 256-node Linux cluster for Morgan Stanley in NYC.

Co-founded a startup delivering network security architectures, firewalls, IDS, and HPC clusters.

One of five global engineers providing elite pre-sales, network strategy, and clustering deployments of up to 2,000 servers for Fortune 500 clients.

Designed TurboCluster HA and load-balancing installations, including a 1,024-node supercomputing cluster for JP Morgan in NYC.

Managed enterprise routing, VoIP integrations, and multi-node Apache/SSL systems across Cisco, UNIX, and Novell environments.

Earned an Associate of Applied Science in Computer Information Systems from the State University of New York at Albany in May 1992.