An Extension of Your IT Team

Benjamin Eukel

Benjamin is a graduate from Western Governor's University, and brings over 12 years of experience in a variety of government, public, and private sector positions. In his 3+ years at TGS, he has provided expertise in VMware infrastructure and VDI; and enjoys optimizing customer's operations with bespoke automation.

Benjamin holds several VMware Certifications: CAL-ARCH, VCP-DCV, VCP-DTM, VCP-CMA, VCP-DCVDTM, VCP-DCVCMA, VCP-CMADTM, VCAP-DCV Design, DWLF_AD

Benjamin spends his free time studying social issues and their possible solutions.

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Dustin Holub

Starting as a Unix administrator in the year 2000, Dustin career in Unix/Linux lead him down an early path of automation and orchestration as the business world embraced “virtualization” in the early 2000’s. Working for larger enterprises, he was early to see the need for these technologies and understood how the ”cloud” would be the next platform of change that would drive business initiatives.

Dustin’s “journey to the cloud” over the past two decades has helped him bring knowledge and insight to our customers from the beginning of the journey. Using platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, Dustin has helped many companies transition and complete their cloud journey.

Certifications and Specializations: Red Hat-Certified System Administrator, Engineer/Delivery Specialist – IaaS (OpenStack), Cloud Automation Delivery Specialist, Virtualization Delivery Specialist, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, VMware - Certified Advanced Professional DC Virtualization Design (VCAP-DCV), Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV), Network Virtualization (VCP-NV), Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Dustin enjoys playing indoor soccer, snowboarding, playing video games, and parenting.

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Uriah McHaffie

Uriah McHaffie has over 25 years in the IT industry in various technical and leadership roles. Prior to taking on the role of VP of Information Security, Uriah joined TGS as a Principal Security Solutions Architect. He held systems engineering positions at Arista Networks, Cisco, Dell SonicWALL, and others before TGS.

Certifications:CCIE #44666, CISSP, CMMC-Registered Practitioner, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), MCSE, Arista ACE, Nokia and Checkpoint

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Wesley Wareham

Wes has over 25 years of IT experience, 22 of those years in Network technology, with the last 15 years architecting, engineering, and deploying large scale data centers. As a DC architect/engineer Wes has designed and implemented Nexus 2k/3k/7k/9k switches, Palo Alto, Juniper firewalls, and F5 Load balancers. Wes has had the luxury to be part of a team that architected/designed/implemented: a brand new data center, the decommissioning of two data centers, data center migrations from old to new technologies/toplogies, and was one of the first in the industry to deploy Nexus 7ks with Fabricpath into a production data center environment with VPC and UCS technologies.

Certifications:CCNP – Cisco Certified Network Professional – Data Center

CCNP – Cisco Certified Network Professional – Enterprise 

Cisco Certified Specialist – Data Center Design 

Cisco Certified Specialist – Enterprise Automation 

Arista Cloud Engineer Level 3 

Ekahau Wireless Design 

Wes enjoys spending time with family and friends, exercising, and leading high school students in church ministry.

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James Freeman

James has 20+ years as a Network Engineer. He started his career provisioning T1 circuits for financial data feeds, then hit the road for 6 years traveling across the country configuring core data center switches at various ISP’s. James also spent 10 years at a large financial institution as a Data Center Network Engineer helping design and implement multiple redundant Data Centers. James has been with TGS for over 5 years, assisting customers with their network related needs as well as security, storage and cloud technologies.

Certifications: Cisco CCNP, Sophos XG Architect and Aruba ACSP.

James is an avid foodie and loves to cook. He also enjoys novice woodworking, wrenching on cars and home remodeling.

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Joseph Fridlington

Joseph brings over 20 years of experience to TGS. Starting in IT as a System Administrator, he has grown into consulting and management roles over the years. Joseph joined the team as a Managed Service Engineer and has grown into his role as a technical consultant, providing implementations of various technology solutions to customers.

Certifications:Aruba ACMP, Aruba ACSA, HPE ASE – Synergy Solutions Architect, HPE ASE – Server Solutions Architect, HPE ATP - Server Solutions v4, Dell Specialist – Implementation Engineer, PowerEdge v1, Dell Associate – PowerEdge v1, Dell Associate – Converged Systems and Hybrid Cloud v2

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Brent Kasson

Brent has 10 years of IT industry experience. A graduate of the University of Phoenix and Centriq Training (Systems Administration and Security), Brent has held Support Technician, Systems Admin, Consultation, and Solutions Architect roles at TGS over the past 3+ years. He has experience with HFC and Wireless network troubleshooting, and end user escalation point for the KC area’s leading service provider, and has spent 5 years as a group lead in a dynamic logistics environment responsible for departmental production for 50+ person teams.

Certifications: HPE ATP – Server Solutions v4, HPE ASE – Server Solutions v4, HPE ATP – Storage Solutions v3, HPE ASE - Storage Solutions v4, HPE ATP – Hybrid IT Solutions v1, HPE Product Certified – OneView, HPE Product Certified – Nimble Solutions
Dell Certified Associate – PowerEdge Version 2.0, Dell Certified Specialist – Implementation Engineer, PowerEdge Version 2.0, VMware vSphere 6.7 Foundations, VMware Certified Professional 2019 – Data Center Virtualization Cisco HyperFlex for Systems Engineers (CHXSE 700-905), ITIL Foundation

Brent enjoys camping, kayaking, hiking, gaming, hunting, fishing, shooting, spending time with loved ones.

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James Rathbun

James has over 25 years in the IT industry in various roles in operations, engineering, design and architecture for companies T-Mobile, Sprint, Cisco, and TxDPS.

Education and Certifications: M.S.I.T degree, Network Architecture and Design Bachelor of Science degree; General Business degree. CCIE #8656 (R&S), CCDP, CCNP, CCNP-DC, CCNA-DevNet, CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), Cisco Certified Specialist (Data Center ACI Implementation, Core, Design, Enterprise Advanced Infrastructure Implementation, Enterprise Core, Enterprise Design),ISSP, Security+, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Meraki Solutions Specialist

In his free time, James enjoys obstacle course racing, hiking, and traveling.

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Aaron Norton

26 years in the IT industry serving various roles in both the private and public sectors. Experience with - UNIX and Linux Systems Administration, Storage Area Network (SAN) administration on Brocade and Cisco fabrics, Fibre Channel (FC) and Network Attached (NAS) Storage Array administration of vendors including DellEMC, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, Netapp, and others. Experience with installing, managing, and customizing DellEMC Storage Reporting and Monitoring platform.

Aaron has been at TGS for over a year. During that time he has performed various functions for TGS customers including - install storage arrays and SAN switches, decommission hardware and cabling, build a private cloud infrastructure using vRealize Automation, setup VMC on AWS and migrate customers disaster recovery solution from a hosted service to VMC on AWS, and implement Atlassian cloud products including JIRA, Confluence, Access, and Zephyr.

Specializations and Certifications: Vmware-Cloud Management and Automation (VCP7-CMA), Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.7-DCV), Network Virtualization (VCP-NV), DellEMC-Converged Systems and Hybrid Cloud, VMAX3 SPEED, Specialist – Technology Architect VMAX3, Specialist – Implementation Engineer VxRail, Specialist – Technology Architect XtremIO, ViPR SRM 3.x Storage Resource Management, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, Cohesity SE Professional, Cohesity Accredited Installation Professional 3.0

Aaron enjoys serving the community as well other countries on mission trips with his church. Aaron is also an avid deer hunter.

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Pete Tobin

Pete has over 37 years of experience in IT. He has held Network, Unix, SAN Storage, Solutions Architect, and Sales Engineering roles at organizations such as AT&T, Sprint, DellEMC, and IBM. Pete has been a consultant at TGS for over 7 years, providing customers with implementation and integration of TGS architected solutions.

Certifications: VxRail Appliance Implementation Engineer, Cohesity - Accredited Installation Professional 3.0, DellEMC - Backup Rec Solutions Design for TechArch, DellEMC - Isilon SysAdmin Specialist, DellEMC - Data Domain Specialist Storage Admin

You can find Pete on the golf course when he has free time.

Michael Rinkenbaugh

Michael has a knack for methodically tackling complex IT infrastructure challenges. With his 15 year experience in the industry, Michael has a diverse skill set that includes; networking, server, storage, virtualization, security, Microsoft platforms and disaster recovery technologies. Focusing his career into Microsoft products and virtualization early on, he has been successful with the email transition to the cloud from on–premises Exchange to Microsoft O365. Michael most recently took on the challenge of migrating 8,000 + O365 users into a much larger, 35,000 user environment.

From AD migrations, cloud migrations, MDM solutions, email transition and the virtualization platforms that support those initiatives, Michael has spent the last 15 years helping customers solve the business challengers that move the business forward. His track record of the success has made him an asset to the TGS team.

Certification: VCP7 - Desktop and Mobility,MCITP, Exchange 2010 Messaging Administrator

Michael is known for his homebrew. His favorite style to brew is New England IPA.

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Colby LeMaire

Colby has over 25 years of experience in Information Technology and Cyber Security. Colby began his career by serving 10 years in the US Navy as a Cryptologist and helping to build the Navy’s Computer Network Defense capability. After leaving the Navy, Colby went on to work at Cisco as an Advanced Services Solutions Architect specializing in advanced security technologies. His experience with NAC systems goes back to 2004 with Cisco’s NAC Framework and evolved throughout the years with NAC Appliance and now Identity Services Engine (ISE). In his 12 years at Cisco, he consulted with countless customers across the Intelligence Community, DoD, Global Service Provider, and Enterprise markets.

Certifications: CCIE #12968 (R&S, Security), CISSP #34948, MBA

In his free time, Colby enjoys coaching his two daughters in golf and traveling with them to tournaments all over the country.