Triston Line

Solutions Architect · Infrastructure Specialist

Work Experience

Solutions Architect

Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA)

Victoria, BC

Jan 2024 – Present
  • Design and oversee implementation of advanced IT infrastructures across multiple BC health authorities
  • Perform strategic planning for enterprise-scale systems, aligning technology with organizational goals
  • Lead comprehensive risk assessments of external service procurements against healthcare security and compliance standards
  • Architect enterprise-wide solutions translating complex business needs into scalable, future-ready IT infrastructures
  • Plan network requirements for DICOM modalities including CT, MRI, Ultrasound, LINAC, Mammography, Opthamology, and Flow Cytometry
  • Architect solutions involving BizTalk integration, Microsoft Exchange DAGs, DICOM/HL7/FHIR interoperability, and SSO/SAML
  • Support complex environments including Varian Aria/Eclipse, Syngo Dynamics, Citrix StoreFront, and in-house automation platforms
  • Design VoIP infrastructure including Session Border Controllers, Enterprise Connection Brokers, and SIP integration
  • Up to date production experience with SUN SPARC T8 servers alongside IBM/Lenovo, HPE, and Dell hardware within the HAs
  • Leveraged hyperconverged VMWare + Nutanix infrastructure and VMWare NSX firewall for new project implementations

Cybersecurity Officer & Solutions Architect

BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)

Victoria, BC

May 2022 – Nov 2023
  • Led design, planning, procurement, and project management of data centre and IT infrastructure
  • Doubled infrastructure team size through end-to-end hiring; restructured department and identified key missing resources
  • Co-managed a $3.2M budget ensuring efficient resource allocation
  • Developed and renewed majority of department policies reinforcing cybersecurity practices
  • Led adoption of governance structures anticipating the evolution of NIST CSF, bolstering cyber resilience
  • Applied NIST SP 800-161 principles to identify and address supply chain vulnerabilities
  • Built proof-of-concept laboratories and taught staff new technologies including KVM and Ceph
  • Expanded off-site backups and data centre capacity for disaster recovery and business continuity
  • Performed penetration testing of internal applications and coordinated external vendor pentesting

Senior Systems, Storage, & Network Engineer

Synetic Inc.

Victoria, BC

Jul 2021 – Sep 2022
  • Designed and implemented VDI for High Performance Computing private cloud environments
  • Developed turnkey highly available backup appliance
  • Tested and developed proprietary HPC and storage solutions
  • Replaced core routing equipment with OPNSense; architected private cloud routing and switching infrastructure
  • Led recovery and rebuilding of two customer data centres after catastrophic data loss
  • Developed business strategy and solutions; extensive client engagement from brainstorming to implementation

IT Manager

IDM Youth Services Inc.

Victoria, BC

Feb 2021 – Dec 2021
  • Migrated core virtual infrastructure from Hyper-V to KVM/QEMU with hyperconverged HA stack
  • Managed IT requirements across 14 locations including networking, printing, phone, workstations, and VPN
  • Renegotiated contracts with Shaw & Telus; coordinated Shaw Smart Voice implementation
  • Designed and implemented in-house off-site backup solution and distributed managed wireless
  • Produced and presented risk assessments to leadership team; maintained department budgets

Linux & Windows Systems Administrator

Andrew Sheret Limited

Victoria, BC

Jun 2019 – Apr 2020
  • Planned and executed start-to-finish renovation of company data centres; recabled multiple branch offices
  • Administered VMware vSphere & ESXi hypervisors
  • Architected new Windows Server 2019 domain and RDS infrastructure
  • Deployed Ubuntu and Debian based in-house services; updated and secured surveillance systems

Security & Network Specialist

Seaflora Skincare Inc.

Sooke, BC

Jan 2018 – Present
  • Architected centralized ZFS storage with tailored business permissions and off-site backup solution
  • Developed Proxmox cluster integrated with SAN and GlusterFS
  • Designed core networking infrastructure with open-source firewalls, virtualized access control, and secure zoning
  • Deployed Windows Server domain (WSUS, WAC, File Server) and MeshCentral remote management

Technical Advisor (Co-Op)

Health Emergency Management BC (PHSA)

Victoria, BC

Apr 2018 – Sep 2018
  • Developed and deployed iOS applications using Apple XCode
  • Digitized and designed emergency management database for Island Health's Emergency Operation Centres
  • Maintained and tested radio communications equipment; monitored weather events via spatial satellite technology

Education

Computer Network Electronics

Camosun College

Victoria, BC

December 2018

Explorations in Technology

Camosun College

Victoria, BC

June 2016

Volunteer & Community Work

IT Mentorship Program

Mentoring young adults entering IT careers. One mentee every two years for the past six years, providing guidance on technical skills, career development, and professional growth.

MentorshipEducationCareer Development

Technical Advisory Services

Volunteer technical advisor for local businesses in Sooke and Victoria, helping small organizations with infrastructure decisions and IT strategy.

ConsultingSmall BusinessCommunity

Distributed Computing & Archival

Contributing storage and compute resources to World Community Grid, Archive Warrior, FlightRadar24, and Anna's Archive for nearly a decade.

BOINCDigital PreservationCitizen Science

Wikipedia Contributions

Primary author of the Walbran Valley article (~99%) and major contributor to Fairy Creek blockades article (~60%). Focus on environmental and BC geography topics.

WikipediaEnvironmentalDocumentation

Technical Skills

Virtualization & Containers

Proxmox VEExpert
VMware vSphere / ESXiAdvanced
Hyper-VAdvanced
Docker, LXC & CloudStackAdvanced

Storage Systems

ZFS & BTRFSExpert
Ceph (RBD, CephFS)Advanced
GlusterFSAdvanced
iSCSI / Fibre ChannelAdvanced

Operating Systems

Debian / UbuntuExpert
RHEL / Rocky / CentOSAdvanced
Windows Server (2008–2022)Advanced
FreeBSD / OpenBSDIntermediate

Networking

Routing (OSPF, BGP, EIGRP)Advanced
Firewalls (pfSense, OPNsense)Expert
VPN (OpenVPN, WireGuard, IPSec)Advanced
VoIP / SIP / SBCIntermediate

Healthcare IT & Integration

DICOM / HL7 / FHIRAdvanced
SSO / SAML / Identity FederationAdvanced
BizTalk / Integration PlatformsIntermediate
Citrix StoreFrontIntermediate

Security

Security Auditing (Nessus, Nmap, Wireshark)Advanced
IAM / RBAC / MFA / Conditional AccessAdvanced

Additional Expertise

Services & Applications

  • Apache2, Nginx, IIS
  • PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MS SQL, InfluxDB
  • Active Directory, Azure AD, LDAP, FreeRADIUS
  • Zabbix, LibreNMS, PRTG, Observium
  • BIND, Unbound, DNSMasq, DHCP, NTP
  • ServiceNow / ITOM

High Availability

  • Corosync & Pacemaker
  • Database replication & Exchange DAGs
  • HAProxy & load balancing
  • SD-WAN & site-to-site VPN
  • Microsoft DFS

Backup & Recovery

  • Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Proxmox Backup Server
  • Duplicati, Seafile, Rsync
  • Disaster recovery planning & BC/DR

Automation & Platform

  • Bash, Z-Shell, Pure Shell scripting
  • Ansible (learning)
  • P2V migrations & in-place upgrades
  • Microsoft Power Platform (fundamentals)
  • SCCM / MECM

Hardware Platforms

  • HPE ProLiant / MSA / 3Par / Nimble
  • Dell PowerEdge / EMC
  • IBM / Lenovo, Supermicro, Fujitsu
  • SUN SPARC T8, Apple XServe
  • QNAP, Gooxi, Asus

Certifications

Proxmox VE Advanced

Croit Inc. (Germany)

2023

CompTIA CSSSP

CompTIA

2019

CompTIA Linux+

CompTIA

2019

CompTIA Security+

CompTIA

2018

Project Management v6

Island Health

2018

Certified Fibre Optic Technician (CFOT)

Fibre Optic Association

2018

Certified Premises Cabling Technician (CPCT)

Fibre Optic Association

2018

Cisco CCENT

Cisco Systems

2018

CompTIA A+

CompTIA

2017

Languages

English
Native
French
Fluent

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