IT OPS · SINCE 2016 · NEW YORK ·
Currently · Executive & Enterprise Technology Engineer, Madison Square Garden Entertainment

Blayne
Allen

Nine years of IT operations for people who cannot afford downtime — a ship, a trading floor, a chairman's office.

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KEEPING SYSTEMS online FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD DOWNTIME. FROM A SHIP AT SEA TO TRADING FLOORS TO THE chairman's office AT THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS ARENA. ONE PHONE, always on.

160+
Knicks & Rangers games covered a year
MSG Entertainment · 2025
125+
Endpoints deployed for a new office build, on schedule
Longaeva Partners · 2024
35 min
New onboarding time, down from an hour
Balyasny · 2024
1,000+
Global users on one desktop & MDM stack
Balyasny · 2024
100%
Onboarding satisfaction rating
Onboarding Taskforce · 2024
9 yrs
Ship to Sphere, without a gap
2016 → now
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Madison Square Garden Entertainment

Executive & Enterprise Technology Engineer · New York

White-glove tech for the Chairman's Office, the Board, and Executive Protection — plus 24/7 coverage across 160+ Knicks & Rangers games, Sphere events, and concerts a year.

24—25

Balyasny Asset Management

System Support Engineer · New York

VIP support for the trading desk, a 125-endpoint office build delivered on schedule, and a GitHub repo that ended the team's copy-paste PowerShell habit.

22—24

Two Sigma

System Support Engineer · New York

Desktop & Exchange automation with PowerShell, and downtime reduction for VIP users across remote and on-site support.

19—22

Point72

IT Operations Analyst

Front-office support for traders and portfolio managers — Bloomberg, Macabacus, and the rest of the market-data stack, kept running.

17—19

Netology

Service Desk Engineer

Team lead triaging the queue, point of contact for Gold-tier VIP issues, and author of the documentation that hadn't existed yet.

16—17

Royal Caribbean International

IT Operations Specialist, Shipboard (Contract)

Where it started — IT operations at sea, right out of school.

Active Directory PowerShell Networking (DNS/DHCP) Firewalls Jira Administration Intune / MDM SCCM Citrix VDI Executive & VIP Support AV & Broadcast Systems
Education

B.S. Information Technology

Penn State — Pennsylvania College of Technology
2016

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