Rick Hills
Senior Systems Administrator
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Hills is a Senior Systems Administrator based in Bend, Oregon with over 15 years of hands-on experience architecting and operating complex, multi-site healthcare and enterprise IT environments. He has led AD enterprise forests supporting thousands of users, designed and migrated virtualized infrastructures (VMware, Hyper-V, vSAN, Horizon, Citrix), and implemented backup, DR, and Azure/AAD solutions to keep critical healthcare systems resilient. Comfortable as a solo administrator or senior engineer, Rick has a track record of planning acquisitions, domain restructures, and automation to reduce operational toil across distributed clinics and datacenters. He combines deep Windows/virtualization expertise with practical cloud and security tooling—Veeam, SentinelOne, FSLogix, and Azure PowerShell—so projects meet both compliance and uptime demands. Notably, Rick transitioned from web development training into senior infrastructure roles, bringing an appreciation for scripting, automation, and developer workflows that streamline ops. He is currently supporting tribal and regional healthcare organizations, applying pragmatic, patient-impact-focused IT leadership.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (AA) Computer Information Systems - Network Programming, Associate of Arts (AA) Computer Information Systems - Network Programming at De Anza CollegeWeb Development, Web Development at EpicodusProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MitchRivet/mindset
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:41 commits, 14 PRs in 4 days
r-hills/lifecoach
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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