Ed Ryan
About Ed Ryan
Professional Windows Systems Administrator with over 20 years experience. I lead a team of globally diverse engineers for the Oracle Global Business Unit Cloud Services, Data Center Operations Access Group, with GBUCS being a 5 billion dollar division of Oracle. My team manages over a dozen Windows domains, with an eye toward security first and foremost. We integrate acquisitions into the GBUCS environment and put security standards in place without impacting the existing production customer environments. I have a great understanding of TCP/IP and networking, Active Directory as a whole, AD integrated DNS and BIND, Group Policy, AD Architecture, and all aspects of keeping 160+ domain controllers running continuously with minimal issues. I excel at troubleshooting - from DNS issues to IP port issues, Group Policy blocks, OS related issues, hyper-visor problems, I have seen it all. I have experience with LAPS, BladeLogic, Exchange along with NT4.0, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016 versions of Windows systems. Some Linux experience as well. I also have rack/stack/cable experience in data centers and enjoy getting my hands dirty. I can configure routers and switches if need be as well. Specialties: Cloud Computing, Compliance Audits, SMTP, CCNA, routing, switching, subnetting/VLANs, Wireshark, HP/Sun/Oracle servers, HP Blade server systems, TCP/IP, DNS, Quality of Service, Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2012 / 2016, Active Directory, Group Policy, Cisco IronPort Appliances, VMWare ESX, Oracle Virtual Server, LAPS, Ciphers and Protocols, PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2 security, privacy, all facets of secure computing.