Terrance Johnson

Terrance Johnson has a diverse work experience in the field of IT. Terrance is currently working as a Principal Site Reliability Engineer at MeridianLink since April 2021. Prior to this, they worked at HMS as a Solutions Architect from November 2018 to April 2021, where they provided guidance to both the DevOps and SRE team for product roadmaps, design patterns, and infrastructure automation tools. Terrance also worked on proof of concepts for new products and played a key role in Dell/EMC VxRack deployment using VMware Cloud Foundation.

Before joining HMS, Terrance worked at EST Group as a Manager of Virtualization and Solutions Architect from October 2015 to November 2018. In this role, they managed and supervised the VMware and Hyper-V virtualization team while providing training plans, project designs, and hiring employees. Terrance also specialized in architecting and implementing large datacenter projects involving server, storage, and networking components.

Terrance's experience also includes working as a Consultant at Blueprint Consulting Services for a brief period in 2015. Terrance directly collaborated with Microsoft customers and partners, assisting them in migrating to Office 365 and preparing their infrastructure environments for the migration.

Earlier in their career, Terrance served as a Systems Engineer at Texas Wesleyan University from July 2011 to May 2015. Terrance provided support and development for all server-related equipment, including IBM Blade Center, IBM Netapp SAN, and Dell servers. Terrance also managed Netapp administration, including storage provisioning for the virtual environment.

Terrance began their career as an Assistant Network Administrator at DeSoto Independent School District from July 2008 to July 2011. In this role, they installed, configured, and troubleshooted the district-wide campus network equipment. Terrance also managed various Windows Server 2003/2008 servers in the district data center.

Overall, Terrance Johnson's work experience highlights their expertise in site reliability engineering, solutions architecture, virtualization management, Office 365 migration, and network administration.

Terrance Johnson has a diverse educational background and various certifications. Terrance pursued a Master's of Business Administration degree in Business Administration and Management, General from Texas Wesleyan University from 2012 to 2015. Prior to that, they completed their Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Management Information Systems, General from The University of Texas at Arlington between 2003 and 2008.

In addition to their formal education, Terrance has obtained several certifications. Terrance achieved the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in December 2022. In February 2021, they obtained the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification from Microsoft. Before that, in May 2020, Terrance earned the CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification from The Linux Foundation.

Other certifications in their repertoire include VMware Certified Professional 6 – Network Virtualization from VMware in March 2018, VxRail Appliance 4.x Deployment and Implementation from Dell EMC in December 2017, and VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization from VMware in February 2017. Terrance also holds the MCSE: Productivity and MCSA: Office 365 certifications from Microsoft, obtained in October 2016 and January 2016, respectively. Moreover, they completed the VMware Certified Professional 5 Data Center Virtualization certification from VMware in February 2015 and the MCSA: Windows Server 2003 from Microsoft in December 2010.

Terrance's first certifications were CompTIA Network+ obtained in June 2005 and CompTIA A+ obtained in May 2003.

It is worth noting that Terrance also holds the VMware vSAN 2017 Specialist certification, although the month and year of obtaining it are not specified in the provided information.