Ed Powell has over 17 years of experience in various roles related to systems administration and engineering. Ed currently works as a Senior Cloud Engineer at Datasite, a position they have held since 2018. In this role, they are responsible for cloud infrastructure and operations.
Before joining Datasite, Ed worked as a Senior Unix Systems Administrator at BI WORLDWIDE in 2017. Here, they provisioned, configured, and maintained Red Hat Enterprise Linux VMs and Solaris systems. Ed also assisted developers with application deployment and troubleshooting on Apache Tomcat.
Prior to that, Ed served as a Principal System Engineer at Digital River from 2007 to 2016. Their responsibilities included developing scripting for deploying Solaris Containers, refactoring system architecture for web application stacks, and configuring objects on F5 LTM and GTM appliances.
From 2006 to 2007, Ed worked as a Unix Infrastructure Specialist at ECMC. In this role, they administered Linux, Solaris, and AIX systems and implemented processes for patch consistency and centralized logging.
Ed's career began at Digital River in 2001 as a System Administrator. Ed played a crucial role in monitoring and maintaining Solaris and Linux systems in global datacenters. Ed also performed database maintenance and maintained Apache webservers.
Overall, Ed Powell has a strong background in systems administration, engineering, and cloud infrastructure.
Ed Powell completed their high school education at Hunterdon Central Regional High School from 1990 to 1994. Ed focused on the field of study in Radio and Television during this time. After completing high school, Ed attended Mercer County Community College from 1994 to 1996. It is unclear whether they obtained a degree during this period, but they continued their studies in Radio and Television. Additionally, Ed Powell has obtained several certifications including "BigIP 'Advanced'" and "BigIP LTM Essentials" from Milestone Systems, Inc., as well as "Sun Solaris 10 Operating System Internals" from Collier Computing Company. The exact months and years of when these certifications were obtained are not provided.
October, 2018 - present