Summary
Tom Lezotte is a Senior System Administrator with 11+ years of hands-on experience managing Red Hat Linux and Windows environments at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and a longer career spanning system administration, development, and IT management across manufacturing and engineering firms. He blends infrastructure automation (Ansible), server-side technologies (Java, Tomcat, ElasticSearch, Solr, MariaDB, MongoDB), and web development (PHP, Drupal, WordPress) to deliver reliable, production-ready services for research and clinical groups. Tom has built custom web and mobile apps for operational workflows (notably OR scheduling) and has repeatedly led rollouts, user training, and cross-platform integrations. Early CAD and international plant setup experience gave him uncommon depth in both technical training and hands-on systems deployment. Comfortable working independently or as part of a team, he brings practical problem-solving and a bias for automating repetitive ops tasks. Based in Nashville, he pairs institutional IT experience with a developer’s familiarity with full-stack stacks and legacy UNIX systems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.), Autobody Design, Associate of Science (A.S.), Autobody Design at Macomb Community College
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technologies, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technologies at Central Michigan University