Joe Tauke
- 515-599-1625
- [email protected]
- Des Moines, IA
Highly skilled IT consultant with 9 years of technical experience, 4 of which include supervisory duties, and a drive to never stop learning. Seeking to leverage cloud technologies and automation to propel organizations to the next level. Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems.
Work Experience
Supervisor/Systems Engineer
Responsible for supervising three consultants, along with the items that entails. Acted as a mentor for the team, approved time sheets and expenses, annual reviews, assisted with goal setting. In addition to supervisory duties I maintained a project workload of server/SAN installs and any associated migrations. Also acted as an L3 escalation point within the wider team.
Technical Consultant II
Provided on-site technical support to assigned clients, while also completing customer project within time/budget constraints. Worked heavily on SAN implementations, and quickly acheieved the needed certification to perform SAN installs. Acted as Technical Account Manager for four customers, providing them with a technical point of contact for planning and service related items.
Technical Consultant I
Primarily provide on-site support to assigned customer base w/ rotating monthly preventive maintenance visits. Assisted with customer projects when possible. When not on-site, was remote escalation point for our help desk.
Projects
Kubernetes Home Lab
Created a 5 node k3s cluster using the raspberry pi 3b+ platform in an effort to learn more about the advantages of containerization and container orchestration
Ansible
While looking to further leverage Ansible in orchestrating windows server deployment, found that the win_domain module lacked a needed functionality. Was able to modify the code and submit a pull request that was merged into the main Ansible codebase.