Alex Howard
Network Support Specialist at Georgia Highlands College
Rome, Georgia, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlex Howard is a Network Support Specialist and former nuclear-qualified Machinist Mate with 11 years of hands-on experience bridging operational rigor and IT infrastructure. He supports production environments at Georgia Highlands College while running sysadmin and development work for Poniverse, with deep familiarity in virtualization (Hyper-V, Proxmox, ESXi), MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL, and Linux automation using Ansible and SaltStack. His Navy nuclear training informs a disciplined approach to systems reliability, maintenance, and documentation that few civilian technologists can match. Alex moved into IT through practical experience before earning an AS in Computer Information Systems with a 4.0 GPA, demonstrating both persistence and academic achievement. He’s comfortable in both client-facing support roles and back-end systems administration, often blending scripting and automation to reduce toil. Based in Rome, Georgia, he brings a pragmatic, security-minded perspective to keeping services available and performant.
11 years of coding experience
NEC 3355, Propulsion Plant Nuclear Operator Mechanical, NEC 3355, Propulsion Plant Nuclear Operator Mechanical at Nuclear Power School - Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC)Associate of Science - AS, Computer Information Systems, 4.0, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Information Systems, 4.0 at Georgia Highlands CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cedartown High School
Github Skills (86)
pandora10
icecast10
flask10
webapp10
chatbot10
titan10
embed10
discord10
discord-bot10
discord-py10
irc10
station9
audio9
shoutcast9
quart9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
BronyTV/ansible-playbooks
Mar 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
playbooksansibleansible-playbooks
omnicons/QuoteBot
Jun 2018 - Nov 2021
A Discord.js bot that can handle quoting from channels
Contributions:44 commits, 7 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 years 5 months
discord-jsdiscorddiscordjsbotdiscord-bot
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.