Joseph Blake

Manager, Cloud Operations at American Software

Joseph Blake has a diverse work experience spanning various roles in the field of IT. Joseph currently works at Logility as a Manager of Cloud Operations, overseeing the company's cloud infrastructure. Prior to this, they served as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and Azure Administrator at Logility.

Before joining Logility, Joseph worked at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Systems/IT Architect Sr, where they managed Linux systems administration, specifically maintaining and supporting the department's HPC cluster and OpenStack virtualization infrastructure.

At Hibbett Sporting Goods, Joseph was a Senior Systems Administrator, responsible for supporting MS SQL infrastructure, Control-M job scheduling, and Active Directory infrastructure.

Additionally, Joseph worked as a Datacenter Systems Administrator at the University of Montevallo, managing the university's VMWare clusters and SAN infrastructure, and at Intermark Group as a Systems Administrator/IT Director, overseeing the IT infrastructure for an advertising agency and software development firm.

Previous to that, they were an Information Systems Specialist III at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where they managed technology aspects for the Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology. Joseph also worked as a Senior Security Consultant at Hewlett-Packard, performing static source code analysis.

Joseph's earlier experiences include roles such as an Information Systems Specialist II and Information Systems Specialist I at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where they provided support for server and storage infrastructure, as well as Help Desk Tech and Student Assistant positions.

Joseph started their career as an IT Consultant at McKinney Technologies, Inc. and as a Lead Customer Service Manager at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Joseph Blake obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2008. Furthermore, they earned the certification of Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate from Microsoft in November 2019.

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Timeline

  • Manager, Cloud Operations

    August, 2022 - present

  • Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

    November, 2021

  • Azure Administrator

    December, 2018