Douglas Irwin
IT Systems Administrator
Douglas Irwin
IT Systems Administrator
About Me
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I keep infrastructure running in places where downtime has consequences - a county government, a state judiciary spanning ten courthouses, a city, and a community services district. Servers, networks, endpoints, phones, and the courtroom AV that has to work at 9:00 a.m. whether or not it worked yesterday. The work I am best at is the work nobody volunteers for: the intermittent failure that will not reproduce, the vendor who stopped returning calls, the manual process quietly eating an hour a week until someone packages it away. My passion lies in delivering quality results efficiently and accurately. Now based in Lehi, Utah, and looking for systems administration and IT support work along the Wasatch Front.

  • Location: Lehi, UT
  • Availability: Immediate
  • Open to: Salt Lake & Utah County: on-site, hybrid, or remote
  • Languages: English
Fun Facts
5 Years in IT
10 Courthouse Sites Supported
6 Organizations Served
7 VLANs in My Homelab
Resume
Experience
Principal Consultant / Founder
Oct 2025 - Present
Principal Consultant / Founder
UplinkSync LLC

Provide managed IT for three small-business clients: networks, endpoints, and Microsoft Entra ID. Deploy and maintain containerized client services on VPS infrastructure behind an Nginx reverse proxy. Formalized as an LLC in February 2026.

IT Systems Administrator
Jan 2026 - Aug 2026
IT Systems Administrator
Madison County, Idaho

Promoted from IT Support Specialist within the first week. Administered Windows Server, Active Directory, network, and endpoints for 150–300 users. Managed identities, licensing, and access in Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365. Installed courtroom digital evidence presentation equipment and handed off courtroom audio into the Idaho Supreme Court system. Ran AV, videoconferencing, and VoIP across county facilities.

Field Service Technician, 7th Judicial District
Apr 2023 - Jan 2026
Field Service Technician, 7th Judicial District
Idaho Supreme Court

District point of contact during the July 2024 CrowdStrike outage, restoring 9 of 10 county sites the same day and the last the next morning. Migrated all ten counties from county email to state email and managed a district-wide hardware refresh. Built a custom MSI installer for a vendor tool that shipped without one, cutting 55+ minutes per deployment. Supported four courthouse construction projects and drafted cabling layouts from floor plans for all ten counties. Supported Active Directory, VPN, and Amazon WorkSpaces virtual desktops for judges, clerks, and staff.

Information Systems Technician (part-time)
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
Information Systems Technician (part-time)
El Dorado Hills CSD

Supported district users, managed mobile devices in Cisco Meraki Systems Manager, kept hardware and software inventory, and ran AV for weekly public meetings.

Field Service Technician
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Field Service Technician
CRI Advantage

Imaged, deployed, and repaired desktops and laptops in a government business enterprise environment. Completed Dell warranty-repair training and performed in-warranty component replacements. Tracked support in ServiceNow.

IT Support Technician
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
IT Support Technician
City of Rexburg

Diagnosed and resolved Windows and Active Directory issues for city employees, set up new hardware and software, and applied city data-integrity and access-control standards.

Education
Western Governors University
2022 - 2027 (expected)
Western Governors University
Online

B.S. in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance

DevMountain
Nov 2015
DevMountain
Provo, UT

Web Development Bootcamp (12-week certificate)

Certifications
Current
FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
2021
Google IT Support Professional
2022 · active through Jul 2028
CompTIA A+
2023 · expired 2026
ITIL 4 Foundation
IT Service Management
Certificate
2025
Cybersecurity First Responder
Cybersecurity Defense Initiative · 32-hour training
2024
Cybersecurity Proactive Defense
Cybersecurity Defense Initiative · 32-hour training
Skills
Systems & Infrastructure
  • Windows Server & Active Directory
  • Microsoft 365, Entra ID & Google Workspace
  • Linux, macOS, Windows
  • Proxmox, VMware, Docker
  • VPS administration, backup & recovery
  • ServiceNow & Cisco Meraki MDM
Languages
  • English
Automation & Scripting
  • PowerShell
  • Bash
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Git & GitHub
  • MSI packaging
Network & Security
  • LAN/WAN & VLAN configuration
  • Structured cabling & patch panels
  • VoIP, AV & videoconferencing
  • Endpoint protection & outage recovery
  • Backup & disaster recovery
  • Nginx reverse proxy
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