Nicholas Keith

Background

About Nicholas Keith

Seasoned IT professional with extensive experience in application development, infrastructure, and data. Skills • Experience with a wide range of IT security practices such as STIG, Hitech, HIPAA, and ISO • Hands-on experience with different types of performance tuning/monitoring • Experience with guidance of staff providing anything from complex code reviews to high-level architecture recommendations • Experience with many variations of the SDLC including waterfall, agile, scrum, and kanban • Start-to-finish project management experience from requirements gathering to ongoing support • Working knowledge of progressive technology concepts such as DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment • Experience with cloud implementations primarily around the Microsoft Azure platform. Technical Experience • Languages: T-SQL, PowerShell, C#, VB, Java, JCL, COBOL, HTML • Database systems: MSSQL 2008-2019, DB2 • MSSQL Server: Maintenance, instance configuration, debugging, profiling, query writing, SSIS, ETL, SSRS, SSAS, HA, Replication, Security, Encryption • Microsoft: Server 2008-2019, AD, Group Policy, DNS, Local Security • IBM: Websphere MQ, Integration Bus, Sterling Secure Proxy, Sterling Business Integrator, C:D, z/OS • Microsoft: Windows, Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, TFS • Networking: Firewalls, Load Balancing, NAT, VLANs, Proxies, VPN, IPSec • Virtualization