Greg Wilson is a Project Manager and Systems Architect IT for ASU’s University Technology Office(UTO) in the Engineering group. He leads the Network and Security Engineering Team.
What he does generally:
He has worked at ASU for over 35 years. His responsibilities include Systems and Network Security for the main UTO data center. He architects and maintains connectivity in ASU's enterprise environmane in AWS and AZURE. He leads a team that takes care of the data center firewalls as well as more than 60 departmental firewalls around the ASU campuses for various groups and departments. With this team he also maintains the ASU VPN services using SSLVPN. He has been involved in the data center network design in ASU’s move to virtualize most of its servers and services. He maintains the Citrix NetScaler network load balancers for the datacenter as well which acts not only as a web services load balancer but also an application firewall. He audits the network in the data center regularly for network redundancy and resolves networking issues and problems there. He maintains the ASU campus DNS and DHCP services using Infoblox. He also maintains the Kerberos V5 services for ASU. He has been involved in the design and implementation of all VPN service between ASU and AWS, Azure, and Google. He maintains Direct Connect and VPN connectivity with AWS and Express Route connectivity with AZURE. He has developed the RMI scripts used to deploy the account management for the above mentioned services from EDNA.
What he does everyday:
On a regular day Greg and his team responds to many network requests for firewall service changes. He along with his team also solves day to day networking issues in the data center and for departments that use firewalls that his team maintains. He is involved in installation, administration, operation and support of the services mentioned above.
What he does when he can do anything he wants:
Greg likes to read and always has a book or two with him wherever he goes. He also volunteers for Boy Scouts of America as an adult leader trainer in what is know as WoodBadge and loves it. He also works in his Church on a voluntary basis.
What he wants to be doing in 5 years:
He would like to continue working for ASU as they move forward towards their future as they decide what will stay and what will go as far as IT services are concerned. Helping ASU to move towards the Cloud as it becomes viable, getting the best value for other IT services that we will either move out or keep. His being involved in the technical decision making process and information gathering to help UTO make the best decision for these services at ASU is important to him. He wants to continue to be involved in architecture, planning, implementation and troubleshooting of the ASU datacenter and networks. As long as he has new challenges to work on, new products or services to implement, and opportunities to proved a better IT product and service to ASU he will continue to enjoy working each day for ASU as he has in the past. He looks forward to working with the new UTO leadership in their goals to provide a great IT service for ASU.
His Family:
Greg has a wonderful wife, Lucky, who he has been married to for about 31 years. They have 4 wonderful children, Daughter 35, Son 33, Son 31, and Son 29. All of his sons as well as he obtained the Eagle Scout rank in Scouting.