Will Dennis
Senior System Administrator
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Dennis is a seasoned Senior System Administrator with over 35 years in IT and more than a decade leading research computing at NEC Laboratories America, where he manages GPU clusters, Slurm and Kubernetes deployments, high-speed storage and networking for ~100 researchers. He blends deep Linux and Windows systems expertise with hands-on network engineering (Cisco/Juniper) and virtualization (VMware/Proxmox), backed by CCNA R&S and Security certifications. Promoted through roles that included co-authoring a patent and initiating NEC’s first GPU clusters, he excels at translating research needs into production-grade compute platforms. An active technical writer on ops curriculum material, he also brings a knack for clarifying complex networking concepts for teams. Based in New Jersey, he enjoys solving intricate infrastructure challenges that advance scientific research.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., English, B.A., English at Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg
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Github Skills (14)
restructuredtext10
networking10
sphinx10
ip9
ip-address9
powershell6
yum6
centos6
docker6
hdfs6
hadoop6
redhat6
emacs6
rpm6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
opsschool/curriculum
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Ops School Curriculum
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:Will focused on refining and expanding the Ops School curriculum. They rewrote sections on networking, including the OSI model, IP addressing, and various cabling standards. The user also added new content for networking topics, such as VLANs and 802.1q tagging, and made improvements to the glossary. Their work involved detailed edits and formatting improvements across multiple curriculum files.
restructuredtextopscurriculumsphinx
wdennis/wdennis-pynet
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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