Professional Summary
Highly accomplished and results-driven IT Infrastructure Manager with over 5 years of dedicated IS/IT management experience, complemented by extensive background in systems engineering and administration. Proven leader with exceptional critical thinking and customer service skills, adept at designing, implementing, and maintaining robust information technology and communication systems. Expertise in both on-premises and cloud (Azure, AWS) environments, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and optimizing IT operations for high availability and performance. Skilled in managing diverse operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS-X), O365, SCCM, VoIP, and network infrastructure (Cisco, Meraki, VPNs, Firewalls). Eager to contribute to a dynamic, fast-paced 24/7 environment. I invite prospective employers and clients to get in touch to discuss how my skills and experience can benefit your organization.
Live Dashboards & Intelligence Feeds
Fortinet Live Cyber Threat Map
A live, interactive map visualizing global cyberattack detections in real time.
ThousandEyes Internet Insights
Visualization of global internet outages to spot ISP, cloud, and routing failures.
CISA Alerts, News & Advisories
A snapshot of the latest cybersecurity updates from the U.S. government.
Latest Advisories
CISA Releases One Industrial Control Systems Advisory CISA Directs Federal Agencies to Mitigate Cisco Devices CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to CatalogNetBlocks Connectivity Monitor
Tracks network disruptions, censorship, and nation-state interference with connectivity.
View Reports →Awesome Threat Intelligence
Community-curated feeds for malicious domains, IPs, malware hashes, and more.
View on GitHub →Career Journey
Explore the career progression through an interactive timeline. Click on any job title to view detailed responsibilities and key contributions for that role. This chronological view highlights growth from a hands-on systems engineer to a strategic IT Infrastructure Manager, showcasing a consistent record of success and increasing responsibility.
Technical Expertise
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Quantifiable Impact
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Get In Touch
Email: fernandobattle@gmail.com
Phone: (678) 799-4515
Location: Atlanta, GA
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fernandobattle
Website: fernandobattle.com
Free & Open Source IT Resources
Networking
Wireshark
The world's foremost network protocol analyzer for troubleshooting, analysis, and development.
wireshark.orgOpen vSwitch
A production quality, multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license.
openvswitch.orgTelecommunications
Asterisk
A powerful open-source framework for building communications applications like IP PBX systems and VoIP gateways.
asterisk.orgJitsi Meet
A secure, scalable, and fully open-source video conferencing platform.
jitsi.org/jitsi-meetKamailio
An open-source SIP server used for large-scale VoIP and real-time communication services.
kamailio.orgCybersecurity
Snort
An open-source intrusion prevention system (IPS) capable of real-time traffic analysis and packet logging.
snort.orgMetasploit Framework
A widely used penetration testing framework for developing and executing exploit code against a remote target machine.
metasploit.comOpenVAS
A full-featured vulnerability scanner that is a part of the Greenbone Vulnerability Management framework.
openvas.orgSecurity Onion
A free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management.
securityonionsolutions.comOSSEC
An open-source Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) that performs log analysis, integrity checking, and more.
ossec.netClamAV
An open-source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.
clamav.netCloud Resources (Azure, AWS, GCP)
Terraform
An infrastructure as code (IaC) tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.
terraform.ioKubernetes
An open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
kubernetes.ioAnsible
A simple yet powerful automation engine for application deployment, configuration management, and orchestration.
ansible.comPrometheus
A monitoring system and time series database, ideal for cloud-native environments.
prometheus.ioRclone
A command-line program to manage files on cloud storage. It's a feature-rich alternative to cloud vendors' web storage interfaces.
rclone.orgIT Resource Monitoring
Zabbix
An enterprise-level platform to monitor networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services in real time.
zabbix.comGrafana
A multi-platform open-source analytics and interactive visualization web application.
grafana.comCacti
A complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality.
cacti.netNetdata
A tool for distributed real-time performance and health monitoring for systems and applications.
netdata.cloudVirtualization
Proxmox VE
An open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization, integrating KVM hypervisor and LXC containers.
proxmox.comVirtualBox
A powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.
virtualbox.orgKVM
Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions.
linux-kvm.orgoVirt
An open-source distributed virtualization solution, designed to manage your entire enterprise infrastructure.
ovirt.orgPatch Management
OCS Inventory NG
An application designed to help a network or system administrator keep track of the computers configuration and software.
ocsinventory-ng.orgWSUS Offline Update
Allows you to download Microsoft Updates for Windows and Office to apply to computers without an internet connection.
wsusoffline.netChocolatey
A command-line package manager for Windows that allows you to manage software installation and updates.
chocolatey.orgAction1
A cloud-based platform for patch management, software deployment, and remote endpoint management with a free tier.
action1.comIT Leadership & Management
GitLab
A complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, with a powerful free self-hosted Community Edition.
about.gitlab.comRedmine
A flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.
redmine.orgJoplin
An open source note-taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organized into notebooks.
joplinapp.orgOn-Premises IT Solutions
TrueNAS CORE
A trusted and popular open source storage OS for building network-attached storage (NAS).
truenas.comNextcloud
An on-premises file share and collaboration platform, providing a self-hosted alternative to Dropbox or Google Drive.
nextcloud.comBacula
An open source, enterprise-ready backup solution to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network.
bacula.orgClonezilla
A partition and disk imaging/cloning program which helps you do system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery.
clonezilla.orgSamba
The standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix, providing file and print services.
samba.orgArtificial Intelligence
Hugging Face
A community and data science platform that provides tools for building, training, and deploying state-of-the-art machine learning models.
huggingface.coPyTorch
An open source machine learning framework that accelerates the path from research prototyping to production deployment.
pytorch.orgTensorFlow
An end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. It has a comprehensive, flexible ecosystem of tools and libraries.
tensorflow.orgN8N - Nodemation
A free and source-available workflow automation tool that can be self-hosted to connect various applications and services.
n8n.ioOllama
A tool for running large language models, like Llama 3, locally on your own computer.
ollama.comLangChain
A framework for developing applications powered by language models, enabling context-aware and reasoning agents.
langchain.comAuto-GPT
An open-source application showcasing the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model to autonomously achieve goals.
agpt.coStable Diffusion
A deep learning, text-to-image model released in 2022. It is primarily used to generate detailed images from text descriptions.
stability.aiGemini Studio
Google's web-based tool for prototyping and running prompts against the Gemini family of AI models.
aistudio.google.comChatGPT
A chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022, built on top of their foundational large language models.
chat.openai.comClaude
A family of large language models developed by Anthropic, with a focus on AI safety and constitutional AI principles.
anthropic.com/claudeGitHub Copilot
An AI-powered code completion tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI that assists users of various code editors.
github.com/features/copilotMCP - Model Context Protocol
A proposed open-source protocol to standardize how context is passed to AI models, enhancing interoperability.
modelcontext.orgLM Studio
A desktop application for discovering, downloading, and running local LLMs on your computer.
lmstudio.aiScikit-learn
An open-source software machine learning library for the Python programming language.
scikit-learn.orgTraining & Certifications
- Succeeding as a Supervisor | University of Georgia, Carl Vinson Institute of Government (2024)
- ITIL Trained | RG Freeman Group, Enterprise IT Management Best Practices
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration | Pacific Institute of Technology, Morrow, GA (2014)
- Bachelor of Arts | Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA (May 1998)
Supervisor Training Certificate
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ITIL Training Certificate
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Volunteer Experience
Hosea Feed the Homeless | Atlanta, GA
November 2016 – Present
- Serve financially distressed and housing-challenged individuals with sustenance and social resources.
- Supported other team members in completing their work by providing assistance when needed.