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title = "Perceptive Software"
date = 2013-01-01
[extra]
title = 'System Administrator'
years = '2013'
+++

Perceptive Software is a software development company in Shawnee, KS.  At the
time I worked there, it was a subsidiary of Lexmark International, Inc.  As a
member of the System Administrator team, I was responsible for maintaining the
internal IT systems that served employees in the Shawnee headquarters building.
Mostly Windows-based systems, these servers were housed in an on-premises
data center.  My primary focus was the consolidation and relocation of systems
to a new campus.  This project involved countless migrations of systems from
physical machines to virtual machines or cloud instances, application
redeployments, and sunsetting of disused services.

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## System Administrator

* Install and maintain hundreds of physical machines in on-premises data center
* Manage Dell blade center and blade servers
* Deploy Zabbix to Windows servers using custom <abbr title="Microsoft
  Installer">MSI</abbr> package and Windows Server Update Services
* Integrate Perceptive Active Directory domain with Lexmark corporate IDM
  solution
* Identify and contact owners and use cases of all on premises hardware in
  order to determine what to move to new data center
