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<span>Jay Phillips</span>
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<div class="eyebrow">Senior Systems Administrator · Infrastructure Engineer</div>
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<h1>Building resilient <span>infrastructure.</span></h1>
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<p class="hero-copy">
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I design, automate, secure, and operate enterprise and home-lab platforms across Windows Server,
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VMware, Linux, Kubernetes, GitOps, observability, and Microsoft systems management.
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<div class="status-line"><span class="pulse" aria-hidden="true"></span>GitOps deployment online</div>
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<li><span>Orchestration</span><strong>Kubernetes 1.36.2</strong></li>
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<li><span>Delivery</span><strong>Argo CD + Kustomize</strong></li>
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<li><span>Network policy</span><strong>Calico default-deny</strong></li>
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<li><span>Runtime</span><strong>Non-root, read-only</strong></li>
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<li><span>Workload identity</span><strong>API token disabled</strong></li>
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<div class="metric"><strong>20+</strong><span>years in information technology</span></div>
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<div class="metric"><strong>17K</strong><span>server enterprise estate supported</span></div>
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<div class="metric"><strong>4-node</strong><span>Kubernetes home-lab platform</span></div>
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<div class="metric"><strong>MIS</strong><span>Master of Information Systems</span></div>
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<section id="experience" class="shell">
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<div class="section-kicker">Professional experience</div>
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<h2>Enterprise operations grounded in hands-on engineering.</h2>
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My background spans healthcare, financial, government, commercial, and military environments.
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I combine practical systems administration with automation, documentation, and platform thinking.
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<div class="timeline-meta"><strong>Trinity Health</strong>January 2024 – Present</div>
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<h3>System Administrator</h3>
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<p>Support large-scale Windows Server and VMware infrastructure across a multi-site healthcare environment.</p>
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<li>Support an estate of approximately 17,000 physical and virtual servers across multiple healthcare ministries.</li>
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<li>Build, deploy, troubleshoot, upgrade, migrate, and decommission Windows Server systems.</li>
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<li>Work across VMware vSphere, Active Directory, BlueCat DNS, SCCM, PowerShell, storage, and networking.</li>
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<li>Develop automation that reduces repetitive administration and improves consistency.</li>
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<div class="timeline-meta"><strong>Trinity Health / SJRMC</strong>March 2021 – December 2023</div>
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<h3>Senior Client Technologies Analyst / System Administrator</h3>
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<p>Administered hospital infrastructure supporting critical clinical and business services.</p>
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<li>Supported approximately 300 physical and virtual servers.</li>
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<li>Administered VMware infrastructure, server hardware, operating systems, and datacenter deployments.</li>
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<li>Coordinated complex troubleshooting across infrastructure and application teams.</li>
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<div class="timeline-meta"><strong>Earlier career</strong>2000 – 2021</div>
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<h3>Infrastructure, systems, networking, and technical support roles</h3>
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<p>Progressed through healthcare support, systems engineering, Linux administration, network engineering, consulting, and U.S. Army communications.</p>
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<span class="tag">Systems engineering</span><span class="tag">VMware</span><span class="tag">Linux</span>
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<span class="tag">Networking</span><span class="tag">Datacenter</span><span class="tag">Military communications</span>
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<div class="section-kicker">Core capabilities</div>
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<h2>Broad infrastructure depth with a platform-engineering mindset.</h2>
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<p>Hands-on administration supported by automation, security controls, observability, documentation, and repeatable deployment practices.</p>
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<div class="card-number">01 / CLOUD NATIVE</div>
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<h3>Kubernetes & GitOps</h3>
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<p>Multi-node clusters, Argo CD, ingress, certificates, persistent storage, RBAC, policies, backups, and application lifecycle management.</p>
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<div class="tags"><span class="tag">Kubernetes</span><span class="tag">Argo CD</span><span class="tag">Kustomize</span><span class="tag">Longhorn</span></div>
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<div class="card-number">02 / MICROSOFT</div>
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<h3>Windows Infrastructure</h3>
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<p>Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, SharePoint, clustering, DNS, and DHCP.</p>
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<div class="tags"><span class="tag">Windows Server</span><span class="tag">SCCM</span><span class="tag">SCOM</span><span class="tag">SharePoint</span></div>
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<div class="card-number">03 / AUTOMATION</div>
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<h3>Automation & IaC</h3>
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<p>Repeatable infrastructure operations using PowerShell, Bash, Git, Terraform, Ansible, Packer, APIs, and declarative configuration.</p>
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<div class="tags"><span class="tag">PowerShell</span><span class="tag">Terraform</span><span class="tag">Ansible</span><span class="tag">Packer</span></div>
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<div class="card-number">04 / PLATFORMS</div>
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<h3>Virtualization & Linux</h3>
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<p>VMware vSphere administration, Hyper-V, Linux server operations, networking, storage, patching, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.</p>
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<div class="tags"><span class="tag">VMware</span><span class="tag">Ubuntu</span><span class="tag">Rocky Linux</span><span class="tag">RHEL</span></div>
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<div class="card-number">05 / OBSERVABILITY</div>
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<h3>Monitoring & Reliability</h3>
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<p>Metrics, logs, alerting, dashboards, service health, failure analysis, and operational visibility across infrastructure layers.</p>
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<div class="tags"><span class="tag">Prometheus</span><span class="tag">Grafana</span><span class="tag">Loki</span><span class="tag">Zabbix</span></div>
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<div class="card-number">06 / SECURITY</div>
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<h3>Secure Operations</h3>
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<p>Least privilege, service identities, network segmentation, certificate management, secret handling, resource governance, backups, and recovery planning.</p>
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<div class="tags"><span class="tag">RBAC</span><span class="tag">TLS</span><span class="tag">NetworkPolicy</span><span class="tag">Sealed Secrets</span></div>
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<section id="projects" class="shell">
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<div class="section-kicker">Technical case studies</div>
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<h2>Proof of work, not just a technology list.</h2>
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<p>Each case study describes the objective, architecture, implementation, controls, troubleshooting, and operational outcome.</p>
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<div class="card-number">CASE STUDY / 01</div>
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<h3>Enterprise-style Kubernetes platform</h3>
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<p>A four-node cluster with Calico networking, MetalLB, ingress-nginx, cert-manager, Longhorn, GitOps, backups, monitoring, and isolated application namespaces.</p>
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<div class="tags"><span class="tag">Kubernetes 1.36</span><span class="tag">Calico</span><span class="tag">Longhorn</span><span class="tag">MetalLB</span></div>
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<a class="project-link" href="/kubernetes.html">Read the Kubernetes case study</a>
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<div class="card-number">CASE STUDY / 02</div>
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<h3>Microsoft infrastructure engineering</h3>
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<p>SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, SCCM operating-system deployment, Active Directory policy, Windows Server lifecycle work, and systems-management automation.</p>
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<div class="tags"><span class="tag">SharePoint SE</span><span class="tag">SCCM</span><span class="tag">Windows Server 2025</span><span class="tag">Active Directory</span></div>
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<a class="project-link" href="/microsoft.html">Read the Microsoft case study</a>
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<div class="card-number">CASE STUDY / 03</div>
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<h3>Infrastructure automation</h3>
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<p>PowerShell workflows for enterprise administration, declarative Kubernetes delivery, and infrastructure-as-code experimentation with Terraform, Ansible, and Packer.</p>
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<div class="tags"><span class="tag">PowerShell</span><span class="tag">GitOps</span><span class="tag">Terraform</span><span class="tag">Ansible</span></div>
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<a class="project-link" href="/automation.html">Read the automation case study</a>
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<div class="card-number">CASE STUDY / 04</div>
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<h3>Observability and alerting</h3>
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<p>Centralized cluster metrics, logs, dashboards, uptime monitoring, VMware visibility, and email alert delivery across a layered monitoring platform.</p>
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<div class="tags"><span class="tag">Prometheus</span><span class="tag">Grafana</span><span class="tag">Loki</span><span class="tag">Alertmanager</span></div>
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<a class="project-link" href="/observability.html">Read the observability case study</a>
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<div class="section-kicker">Education & certifications</div>
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<h2>Continuous growth backed by formal education and experience.</h2>
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<p>Academic achievement complements more than two decades of practical infrastructure work and ongoing home-lab engineering.</p>
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<h3>Education</h3>
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<li><strong>Master of Information Systems</strong><br>University of Phoenix, 2026 · Dean’s List · Epsilon Pi Tau Honor Society</li>
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<li><strong>Bachelor of Science in Information Technology</strong><br>University of Phoenix, 2017 · National Society of Collegiate Scholars</li>
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<h3>Certifications</h3>
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<li>Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)</li>
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<li>Microsoft Certified Professional</li>
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<li>MCSA: Windows Server 2008</li>
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<li>MCITP: Enterprise Administrator on Windows Server 2008</li>
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<div class="section-kicker">Live platform demonstration</div>
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<h2>This website is part of the portfolio.</h2>
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<p>The site is deployed as an isolated, policy-controlled Kubernetes workload rather than a conventional static hosting account.</p>
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<img src="/architecture.svg" alt="GitOps architecture showing Git, Argo CD, Kustomize, Kubernetes, ingress, security controls, and observability">
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<h2>Let’s talk infrastructure.</h2>
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<p>I am interested in infrastructure engineering, senior systems administration, platform operations, automation, and service-delivery opportunities.</p>
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<span>© 2026 Jay Phillips · Mishawaka, Indiana</span>
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