Grant Matheny
Senior Systems Administrator at Univeristy of Colorado Boulder
About
Experienced Director Of Information Technology with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Strong Systems Administration, Communication, Strategy, Technical Writing, and Customer Service skills.
Work Experience
Institute of Behavioral Science - Computing and Research Services, University of Colorado Boulder
February 2019 – Present
Senior Systems Administrator
Adviser, implementer, and maintainer of all IT server infrastructure and assets, independent project leader, and budget manager for Computing and Research Services
Highlights
- Administering 6 physical servers, 70+ virtual machines on 5 ESXi hosts, NAS, and SAN infrastructure
- Performing regular software maintenance on Stata, R, Anaconda, SPSS, SAS, Wordpress, and other web and local applications
- Maintaining and troubleshooting Citrix infrastructure
- Implementing DFS to decrease required downtime for fileservers
- Implementing Terraform IaC for new virtual machines
- Implementing Ansible Engine for configuration management of all machines
- Implementing central logging for all machines
- Teaching tutorial on using Citrix services
- Building management dashboard for all Linux and Windows servers
- Creating regular update windows for all services
- Launching four new Wordpress websites
- Creating long- and short-term budgets for Computing and Research Services division
- Launching 10+ new secure workspace virtual machines for research groups
- Developing data security template for grants, and implementing it for two multiple projects
- Communicating with vendors to procure new IT services and hardware
- Designing, procuring, and implementing new SAN storage infrastructure
- Working closely with the CRS team on major new initiatives
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
May 2016 – January 2019
IT Manager
Adviser, implementer, and maintainer of all IT infrastructure and assets, and independent project leader on new technology initiatives.
Highlights
- 2017-2018 Outstanding Staff Member
- Creating long- and short-term IT strategic plans
- Interviewing faculty, staff, and students systematically and regularly to drive IT policy and strategy
- Creating departmental IT standards and policies
- Supervising, hiring, and evaluating four employees
- Procuring and asset management of all IT assets according to departmental standards and industry best practices
- Implementing ticketing management system (Spiceworks) for IT issues
- Saving department tens of thousands of dollars by renegotiating service contracts
- Creating and adhering to $150,000 department IT budget for each fiscal year
- Managing and supporting Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems, and a variety of COTS applications
- Coordinating with campus central IT to augment department resources
- Building documentation and expertise for complex systems of interconnected servers and workstations
- Built custom lightboard studio for MOOC development and flipped classroom materials
- Consulted on Coursera and EdX technology integrations for MOOCs
- Creating a BOINC-based, homegrown supercomputer with unused lab machine cycles
Arts and Sciences Support of Education Through Technology (ASSETT)
February 2009 – March 2016
Technical Director
Primary technical advisor and implementer for a student-fee-funded program at the intersection of pedagogy and technology, serving CU’s Arts and Sciences college of 1,600+ faculty and 20,000+ students.
Highlights
- Conducted regular technology needs assessments for Arts and Sciences departments
- Developed IT strategic plans for ASSETT and individual departments
- Established relationships, collaboration and open dialog between ASSETT, central IT, and other departments, including faculty, staff, and students
- Investigated and reported on emerging technologies with potential classroom uses
- Hired, supervised and developed a team of seven Teaching Technology Assistants
- Created, maintained and adapted documentation for rapidly-changing technologies for a non-technical audience
- Designed, built, administered, and twice migrated a Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP infrastructure to serve 1 million+ monthly hits across 40+ departmental and application websites built in Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, MediaWiki, Omeka, and the Yii framework
- Administered other servers as necessary for file and printer sharing, web development, ABBYY OCR, and Four Winds
- Worked directly with application development team to design, create, and maintain administrator- and user-side web applications, including a custom CRM solution, a syllabus library, a database of classroom images and technological capabilities, and other smaller tools
Technology Across the Curriculum
December 2005 – December 2008
Systems Adminsitrator
Versatile technology implementer, maintainer, and troubleshooter for 20+ faculty, 30+ graduate students, and 100+ undergraduate students
IT Dept, Office of the Registrar, University of Colorado at Boulder
December 2003 – December 2005
Server Administrator
Student helpdesk-support-turned-server-administrator managing 20+ unvirtualized server machines to support day-to-day operations of staff working with sensitive student data
Highlights
- Administered 30+ hardware servers
Awards
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August 2018
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering
Outstanding Staff Member
Volunteer
Galaxy Guide Captain and Solar Telescope Operator
Volunteer docent lead for the Space Odyssey exhibit
Highlights
- Made guide captain in 2017 and now supervise 25 volunteers
- Trained on safety for solar telescopes in 2018 and now facilitate solar telescope viewing for the public
Arvada High School
August 2003 – March 2007
Mock Trial assistant coach
Coach high school mock trial team in areas of competition and federal rules of evidence
Highlights
- Advanced from regionals to state competition 2003-2007
Contact
2805 Sundown Ln #210
Boulder, Colorado CO 80303 US
303-241-7846
Education
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2003 2008
University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelor of Arts - BA
English with certificate in Secondary English Language Arts
Skills
Colorado Teacher License #134717
Initial
Secondary English Language Arts
Notary Public #20184041089
Active Directory and Group Policy
Expert
Windows Server through 2019
Expert
Windows Clients through 10
Expert
CentOS, RHEL, and Ubuntu Linux
Advanced
Bash and Powershell
Advanced
X Apache MySQL PHP
Advanced
FlexLM and other concurrent license servers
Advanced
VMWare VSphere and ESXi
Advanced
Networking
Advanced
Python and PHP
Beginner
WordPress
Advanced
Microsoft Office
Expert
OS X
Advanced
Higher Education
Project Management
Beginner
Program Management
Editing
Expert
Technical Writing
Expert
Teaching
Leadership
Management
Public Speaking
Customer Service