Scott Anstey

IT Professional & Technology Enthusiast

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Summary

Technology professional with a passion for serving customers, solving challenging and complex problems, architecting physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures, all with business continuity and cybersecurity best practices at the forefront of planning, execution, and administration. My technical expertise ranges from network infrastructure designing, implementation, and administration to Active Directory and Exchange on-premise environments to Microsoft 365 and Azure cloud infrastructure, and the migration, modernization, and optimization thereof.

Technical Skills

  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • Windows Server 2003 - 2025
  • Exchange Server 2010 - Online
  • Microsoft Office 2003 - 365
  • Microsoft 365 & Entra ID
  • Windows 365 Business & Enterprise
  • Intune MDM & Autopilot
  • Apple Business Manager
  • Microsoft Azure Cloud Infrastructure
  • Hyper-V, ESXi, XCP-ng Hypervisors
  • VMware vCenter & vSphere 5.0 - 8.0
  • Dell PowerVault & Nimble Storage SANs
  • Fortinet, Meraki, Palo Alto, Check Point Firewalls
  • VoIP, PBX, & Telco Solutions
  • PKI & Certificate Management
  • Tenable Vulnerability Management
  • Todyl SIEM/SOC/SASE/EDR
  • Datto, Veeam, & Dropsuite Backup Solutions
  • Datto RMM & Autotask PSA
  • Enterprise Networking
  • Auvik Network Monitoring
  • IT Glue Documentation Management

Experience

Elevate Services Group

April 2022 - Present

Senior Systems Engineer / Lead Engineer

May 2023 - PresentGreenwood Village, CO

  • Lead engineer for all service desk and engineering escalations
  • Primary engineer for technical scoping, architecting, and implementing new physical and virtual networking, hypervisor, and storage infrastructures
  • Azure cloud infrastructure discovery, design, implementation, and optimization for environments ranging from single VM & Gateway solutions to multi-region tenants with vNet peering, Virtual Network/Application/NAT Gateways, Web Application Firewalls, Private Endpoints, and Private Links for handling traffic between App Services, SQL databases, Storage Accounts, Key Vaults, VMs, Windows 365 Enterprise, and Log Analytics
  • Architected and deployed Intune MDM and Autopilot solutions to streamline and simplify computer lifecycle management, security, and compliance for on-prem, cloud, and hybrid
  • Designed and deployed network stack upgrades to improve stability and reliability of networking infrastructure for rural hospitals in Colorado's front range

Systems Engineer

April 2022 - May 2023Greenwood Village, CO

  • Successfully architected and implemented complete hybrid on-premise and Azure cloud migration of physical and virtual network infrastructure for a hospital moving from a major health network to co-managed internal IT
  • Deployed Symantec DLP three-tier solution across on-premise hospital infrastructure
  • Audited customer environments for security and best practices improvements
  • Architected hybrid on-premise and cloud server infrastructure with a focus on customers' business continuity and disaster recovery needs
  • Orchestrated on-premise file migrations to SharePoint and OneDrive
  • Configured and deployed Meraki and Fortinet firewalls and switches
  • Primary engineer for implementing Sophos Email Security across all customers
  • Implemented SmartDeploy imaging solution to streamline and reduce provisioning costs
  • On-call and escalation engineer for service desk

Bross Group

October 2020 - April 2022

Senior Systems Administrator

October 2020 - April 2022Lakewood, CO (Remote)

  • Administration of diversified infrastructure environments for SMB organizations
  • Network discovery and infrastructure onboarding of new clients
  • Microsoft 365, Azure, Azure AD/Entra ID, Teams, and Teams Voice administration
  • Active Directory (2012R2, 2016, 2019) Users & Computers and Group Policy administration
  • Windows Server 2012R2, 2016, 2019 DHCP, DNS, DFS, WDS, WSUS, NPS/NAP, CA, AD FS, WAP, Terminal Server, and File/Print administration
  • Exchange (Server 2016, 2019, Online) administration
  • Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere, vCenter, ESXi administration
  • Veeam and Datto backup administration
  • Handle all tier level support requests via Autotask PSA ticketing system
  • Remote monitoring and management of client endpoints via Datto RMM
  • Document and streamline policies, procedures, and configurations on continued basis

QC Data

October 2011 - August 2020

Senior Systems Administrator

February 2016 - August 2020Greenwood Village, CO (Corporate Office)

Laid off due to company acquisition

  • Migrated Microsoft Office and Exchange Server on-prem services from 2010 to 2016
  • Implemented AD FS, WAP and OWA for external authentication and mailbox access
  • Rebuilt and improved physical network infrastructure across all US locations
  • Implemented VLANs, subnets and corporate/guest wireless AP infrastructure
  • Implemented DC/AD/DNS/DHCP redundancy across corporate network
  • Migrated most physical servers and remote access PCs to VMware ESXi datacenter
  • Restructured software licensing tracking and administration to greatly reduce costs
  • Streamlined software update deployment methods

Systems Administrator

May 2014 - February 2016Charlotte, NC

  • Active Directory and Group Policy administration for Windows Server 2003/2008/2012
  • Exchange 2010 management
  • Windows 7 workstation building, deployment and troubleshooting
  • Installation, setup, deployment and troubleshooting of project specific software
  • Symantec Backup Exec 2010/2012/2014 backup management
  • Planning, testing, execution and completion of cross-forest domain migration in a medium-sized company across multiple global locations; from 2003 to 2012 R2

GIS Technician / Drafter I - III

October 2011 - May 2014Charlotte, NC

  • Interpreted telecommunication engineering drawings and drafted field design updates to Engineering Work Order records database
  • Communicated with design engineers as needed to clarify any discrepancies or uncertainties to ensure accurate field and financial reporting
  • Technical troubleshooting and data correction point of contact
  • Tested new software implementations for production environment
  • Collaborated with Project Management, Quality and Lead Team members to ensure best practices and quality standards were maintained
  • Wrote documentation to streamline changes to production procedures
  • Assisted with training and development of new team members
  • Developed tools to track and promote higher team performance

Education

  • Bachelor of Science, Ceramic & Materials EngineeringClemson University | August 2005 - May 2009

Certifications & Training

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect ExpertObtained October 14, 2022
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator AssociateObtained November 22, 2021
  • Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator AssociateObtained July 10, 2021

Hobbies & Interests

  • Homelab Learning
  • Penetration Testing
  • RFID Research
  • Locksmithing
  • Small Electronics
  • Open Source