Lawrence Walton has over 20 years of experience in systems engineering and administration roles. He has a background in automation, identity and access management, monitoring, backup/disaster recovery, and virtualization. His experience spans roles at companies including SweetLabs, F5 Networks, RealNetworks/GameHouse, Otak Inc., and Virtual i-O, where he improved systems performance, reliability, and security.

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Lawrence Walton
lawrence.walton@gmail.com
(206) 225-0154
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Personal Aptitude
Leveraging technology,leadership, and project management skills with 20+ years of experience creating solutions for the enterprise.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Swe e tlabs Se attle , WA
SweetLabs helps developers reach millions of new users, and enables device manufacturers to better monetize
and differentiate their products through app install services.
As Sr. Systems Engineer :
Wrote code and worked with developers,engineers and administrators to improve deployment process.Lead
initiatives focused on improving both production and non-production environments, with automation. Centralized
and integrated authentication and identity management. Centralized logging, and log monitoring. Intrusion
detection and prevention.
 Automating application release, and deployment
 Identity, authentication and access management
 DNS, certificate management
 Configuration management
 Software inventory, auditing, configuration management
 Intrusion detection
 AWS automation
 Comprehensive monitoring
 Backup and disasterrecovery
F5 Ne twork Se attle , WA
F5 specializes in Application Delivery Networking (ADN) technology that optimizes the delivery of network-
based applications and the security, performance, availability of servers, data storage devices.
As Sr. Systems Engineer :
Lead initiatives focusing on improving internal services performance and reliability. Worked with developers and
testers to design, implement, and deploy new services. Worked to improve and augment existing monitoring,
provisioning and configuration management. Designed and implemented storage solutions.
 Test network design
 Monitoring
 Network and systemprovisioning, and configuration management
 SAN and object based storage
 Database design and implementation
 Backup and disasterrecovery, for internal services and data
2013– 2015
2015 – 2016

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Re alNe tworks / Game House Se attle , WA
RealNetworks is the creator of RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, and Helix.
GameHouse a division of is a casual game developer, publisher, digital video game distributor, and portal.
As Systems Engineer and Systems Administrator:
Improved performance, reliability, increased efficiencies, decreased costs by opening GameHouse and
RealArcade data centers,decreasing reliance on RealNetworks internal corporate services, migrating and
consolidating acquired companies data center services and assets.Lead virtualization initiative that migrated
existing services,and deployed new ones in a virtual environment.
 Virtualization design configuration and management
 Data centerdesign, management
 SAN design, implementation
 Design, profiling and load testing services and systems
 Engineered web, network, and database services
 Support for both production and non-production Gamehouse, RealArcade services
 Develop and maintained installations and configurations
 Contributed to and maintained standards
 Monitoring, reporting and alerting for servers, networks, applications and services
 Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions
 Performed daily backup operations
Otak Inc. - Kirkland, WA
Otak is firm of architects, civil engineers, urban designers, surveyors and planners.
As Network Manager:
Helped grow Otak from two disparate and offices with less than 100 employees, to a company that was capable of
collaborating internationally. Lead a project to improve collaboration by improving internal infrastructure,
implementing WANs, video conferencing, VoIP, and other applications.
 Lead technology initiatives, helped created corporate objectives and budgets
 Worked with corporate and office managers for resources allocation, and capacity planning
 Primary technical resource for Linux, Novell, and Windows 2003 servers
 Designed & Administered an enterprise-wide networks including LANs and WANs in diverse locations
 Employed management tools for monitoring, alerting, and IDS
 Responsible for file and print services, collaboration tools and SMTP services combining both Linux and
exchange
 Designed, documented, and implemented disaster recovery plans, procedures and systems throughout the
enterprise
 Created and maintained inventory, help-desk, and knowledge based systems
Virtual i-O - Seattle, WA
Virtual i-O was virtual reality Head Mounted Display startup.
As Systems Administrator:
 Responsible for maintaining Novell, Windows, and SGI servers
 Responsible for all administrative aspects of internal and external networks
As Technical Support Manager:
 Took responsibility for all external technical support issues for Virtual i-O
 Mandated, created, and implemented the company's technical support database
EDUCATION
Seattle Central Community College - Seattle, WA
Roosevelt High School - Seattle, WA – Diploma - 1984
1996 – 2006
1995 -1996
2006 – 2013

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* References available upon request