Andrea Alloway

I’m a highly skilled System Administrator with over 15 years of experience in the Industry

VMware

VMware

I’ve maintained and deployed ESXi, vSphere, NSX, vCenter, VCSA, and VMware Horizon View products, including hardware infrastructure and networking.
I hold a VMware Certified Professional 5 Data Center Virtualization Certification

Active Directory Certificate Services

Active Directory Certificate Services

I’ve overhauled and redesigned PKI infrastructure to both improve security and reduce hands on maintenance of our Certificate Authority Infrastructure. This included redesigning the CRLs, updating and rotating root certificate authorities and implementing best Microsoft Practices

Splunk

Splunk

I use Splunk in my day to day monitoring of our mission critical applications, including monitoring service issues, dashboards and reporting, in depth troubleshooting of related events and at a glance application health.

Nutanix

Nutanix

I manage and automate the deployment of Nutanix VMs. My projects include automation of VM deployment, automation of diskspace expansion, migration from VMware to Nutanix, configuring AFS, Nutanix Frame, and Nutanix CALM

Nutanix Frame

Nutanix Frame

As the Technical Leader of the VDI Support team I assisted with the implementation of Nutanix Frame and various associated application upgrades including the deployment of the CIS Benchmarks and hardening policies. Managing various members and contractors and user feedback.

Active Directory

I am responsible for maintaining and configuring various aspects of active directory, including user permissions, Domain controllers, group management and security. I’ve configured cross forest trusts and sub-domains in AD. I’ve been actively involved in RBAC in an RBAC overhaul project to improve our security stance and best practices.

I deploy and maintain our installations of AGPM.

I’ve designed large amounts of the current group policies in the domain including hardening and security policies to comply with PCI-DSS, and CIS Benchmarks.