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Ben Luplow

Cascade

Summary

Dynamic IT professional with extensive experience at Microchip, excelling in system administration and critical responce . Proven ability to enhance uptime and streamline operations, leveraging strong analytical thinking and collaboration skills. Adept at managing virtual environments and deploying software solutions, ensuring robust support for over 1000+ systems across diverse systems.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Engineer I-IS

Microchip
Colorado Springs
07.2023 - Current
  • Maintain uptime and engineer solutions to minimize downtime in production and office areas.
  • Support over 500 users and 1,000 systems across multiple Active Directory domains.
  • Design and deploy software packages and customized OS provisioning for fab systems using Ivanti/LANDesk.
  • Administer DNS, DHCP, users, and computers records in Active Directory for stability.
  • Manage the daily administration of VMs in a vSphere environment.
  • Track incidents utilizing ServiceNow ticketing system.
  • Mitigate emergencies and facilitate tools for support staff using PowerShell and CMD scripts.
  • Conduct weekly maintenance of data center operations.
  • As a manufacturing environment, I've gained extensive experience with Microsoft OSs from DOS to Windows 11.
  • These duties have been similar through my tenure at Microchip\Atmel with the focus moving away from the individual users and desktops to managing multiple systems, servers, groups, and wider scopes.

Software Engineer

Microchip
Colorado Springs
06.2021 - 07.2023

Senior Administrator - Computer Systems

Microchip
Colorado Springs
03.2016 - 06.2021

Information Systems Technician I,II,III

Atmel Corporation
Colorado Springs
10.2004 - 03.2016

Education

Associate of Applied Science - Networking Technology

Pikes Peak Community College
Colorado Springs, CO
06-2004

Certificate of Technical Studies - MCSE

Aims Community College
Greeley, CO
02-2001

Skills

  • System administration
  • Active Directory management
  • Virtual machine management
  • Incident tracking
  • Software deployment
  • Network troubleshooting
  • Emergency response
  • Data center operations
  • Windows server administration
  • Analytical thinking
  • Collaboration
  • Continuous improvement
  • Cybersecurity awareness

Affiliations

I'm good with my hands and can fix just about anything

I like to play piano and guitar

I like to do impressions and am looking to get into the VO field in my spare time

Certification

  • A+
  • CCNA (expired in 2006)
  • MCP

Timeline

Engineer I-IS

Microchip
07.2023 - Current

Software Engineer

Microchip
06.2021 - 07.2023

Senior Administrator - Computer Systems

Microchip
03.2016 - 06.2021

Information Systems Technician I,II,III

Atmel Corporation
10.2004 - 03.2016

Associate of Applied Science - Networking Technology

Pikes Peak Community College

Certificate of Technical Studies - MCSE

Aims Community College
Ben Luplow