Summary

• Top Secret cleared SME level Sr. Systems Engineer / PM / Analyst with 25 years experience in support and execution of programs of record, projects, network designs, deployments, and testing of turn-key, end to end, infrastructure systems comprised of IP and legacy based communications systems. Currently focused on cyber / cloud based XaaS constructs for delivering required services and capabilities. Technologies include VDI, VoIP / UC, cellular / radio, P.25 / LMR, optical transport, WiFi / WiMax / LTE / DAS, LAN / WAN / BAN / RAN, wired, wireless, and optical technologies.
• Systems / Network Engineering, Administration, Operations Maintenance / Support of Secure, encrypted voice, data, and video capabilities within CONUS and OCONUS Jordan, Kuwait, Kosovo, Guam, GITMO, Ascension Island environments providing SME level support for secure, robust, resilient, and redundant mission critical systems.
• Identification and classification of operational, functional, and performance requirements, use case / deployment characterization, tasking and scheduling for individual sub-projects. Discovery and baseline of current process, procedure, applications, and services. Master Project Plan creation for schedule, work breakdown, milestones, spreadsheet creation for tracking.
• MPP / POAM / WBS creation, SOO, SOW, RFP, SRR, RFP, RFQ, RFI, SEP, TEMP, PWS production, Analysis of Alternatives, Cost Benefit Analysis, proposals, contract/subcontract creation, team leadership and task delegation, mentoring and training package development.
• Experience in building Waterfall / Agile infrastructure / test capabilities for mobile IP based platforms that utilize wired or wireless mediums / links. Strong background in MANET based, SDR / DoD Software Communications Architecture SCA WNW / SRW waveforms for JTRS Software Defined Radio SDR efforts.
• Experience in Data Center / Server operations, VMware VCenter Server 5.0, Operations Manager, VSphere client, VMWare ESXi 5.0, IV V Testing, SAT Testing, and application support, Crypto, hardened OS, Army Gold disk imaging, Mobile Communications, Apple / Android / ROM's, DIACAP / ACA process, NMS / EMS / Logging system dashboards, ITSM, etc.

Professional Experience

PM / Senior Network Engineer

• Responsible for design and deployment of an enterprise wide ARNG SIPRNET construct with an emphasis on JRSS / JIE integration. Transport for tactical and non-tactical systems such as smil email, SVTC, VoSIP, Armory as a Docking Station, and GuardNet Next.
• Decomposition of requirements for creation of project plan / phased approach, tasks and schedules for individual sub-projects. Discovery and baseline of current process, procedure, applications, and services. Master Project Plan creation for schedule, work breakdown, milestones, etc. Preparation of packages for ITRCB and DSAWG review boards, DIACAP process for IATO / IATC.
• Project management for creation of new secure facility enclave as SNOSC for the enterprise system. Transfer / migration of existing O M infrastructure, services, and support to new secure facility. VM based hosting of tool sets for configuration and operational monitoring of Palo Alto firewall / IDS, Cisco routers and switches, and ViaSat INE devices.

Confidential

Principal Communications Analyst

PTOC Lead SME responsible for acquisition, design, implementation, and testing on a multi-technology communications project for the WHCA. Technologies include SatComm, TACSAT, MIMO, Cellular, RTCS, HAIPE encryption, Red and Black network infrastructure and all connectivity / functionality of host devices including secure voice and data.

Confidential

PMO System Test Director

• Program level test management of Inmarsat Global Xpress program. Responsibility for all test phase deliverables for all test campaigns. Interface point for all testing matters within iDirect as well as subsystem providers Cobham SeaTel and SED / General Dynamics.
• Responsible for all test efforts i.e. FAT, SAT, OSAT to satisfy SRS level requirements. Responsible for production of FAT / SAT / OSAT Test Plans, Test Plan / Test Case, RVTM production, tracking, and other program deliverable CDR / FDR documentation.
• Consolidation of Core Module, BUC / LNB, Hub, Tx / Rx Line card, Remote and Reference Terminal hardware and software HVT/DVT test documentation.
• Responsibility for complete, turnkey Reference Test Bed in Herndon and London for incremental code drop / functionality / performance testing.
• Planning of global system integration / installation / deployment and acceptance testing efforts for SAS sites, ground segments, maritime terminals worldwide. Weekly tracking and reporting of internal and subcontractor hardware, software, and firmware P1, P2, Pilot, and Production runs / drops for milestone dates of DVT / HVT / Agency testing.

Confidential

Senior Technical Adviser / Network Systems Engineer - PEO EIS PD East

SME level technical advisory support for the PD Integration East Director on the I3MP Installation Information Infrastructure Modernization Program Systems encompassing Unified Communications, Assured Services, VoIP, ISDN based and legacy TDM Voice solutions /data solutions with POE for VoIP, CS2100 / AS5300 SIP Call Servers, SONET / DWDM systems and associated OSP cabling, ISP solutions, Redundant power systems for assured system up time. Acting member of the Technical Advisers Group under the Project Management / G6 command, POC for current products undergoing JITC testing / UCAPL approval DoD 8100.04

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Consultant / SME on SDR / JTRS Waveforms

Contract Engineering support, evaluation and design services with emphasis on the Software Defined Radio SDR /GMR, HMS, Rifleman Radio, etc. for the PEO-STRI LT2 program in the areas of tactical wireless communications solutions. CDRL's include Market Study, AoA, Requirements Analysis, Traceability Matrix, Spectrum Study

Confidential

Program Manager / Senior Systems Engineer Space and Naval Warfare SPAWAR IPC Labs / RDT E Networks:

• Project management / engineering on multiple network solutions to support various military and government COI's to support system level testing. Projects utilize current network infrastructures such as: Global Information Grid GIG , Defense Research Engineering Network DREN , Defense Information System Network - Leading Edge Services DISN-LES , Distributed Engineering Plant DEP/JDEP , and RDT E networks, both classified and non-classified.
• Leadership and Supervision of 8 direct reports, Staffing request, hire and terminate, new employee evaluation 30, 90 day, yearly expectations, effective management Accomplishments Conclusion of Delivery Orders, Quarterly Distributions, Yearly Distributions Deliverable Tracking List Contractual Binding Funding / Delivery Order Reports / Burn rates 30,60,80 completion , Procurement Tracking. Quarterly Projections, Future Opportunities BIDP and Marketing tracking , Subcontract Tracking. Delivery Order SOW/Estimate Creation, Negotiation, Execution, and Close Out.

JIEDDO VSAT System

• Led multiple engineers in researching, quote / cost / acquisition tasks for all equipment
• System engineering support for the .9 meter GCS / AVL Ku-Band Cheetah Terminal and associated NIPR and SIPR broadband network equipment. Support for KG-250 / Harris SECNET 11 encryption devises, Cisco VPN routers, VoIP phones, VTC applications, Xpep units. Upgrade of associated images and code revisions of ViewSAT, Options files, etc. for CONUS and OCONUS deployments. Responsible for COMSEC key material, DTD fill device, CIK Keys and encryption units. RMA warranty issues and CIMS system tracking
• Production of all associated documentation for program / CMMI efforts, Test Plans and Procedures, SOO, SOW, POAM / WBS inputs and population and assorted management functions

Guam Wireless Video Surveillance Pilot Program

• Led installation and validation teams as well as subcontracting companies for a turnkey solution including technical research for viability, performed quote / cost / acquisition tasks for all equipment and services
• Assigned duties among various skill sets and technology bases
• Installed and implemented 802.11 based wireless networks with IP based video camera systems for CNIC / SPAWAR Atlantic. I performed remote trouble shooting efforts to complete outstanding issues after project completion. Performed SOVT and customer buy off / turn over

Broadband over Power Line

• Led team of engineers in the Proof of Concept testing of BPL technologies which consisted of the following tasks:
• Production of project Test Plans, Test Procedures, and Test Report
• Proof of Concept Testing design and methodology
• Execution of formal Proof of Concept Testing to a successful conclusion
• Interaction with equipment vendor for acquisition of proper material for project
• Coordination of support personnel
• Executed pilot site survey for initial product deployment
• Produced associated site survey report for customer

GDC4S Sectera Edge SME PED Pilot Deployment Project

• Led team efforts in the acquisition, configuration, activation, and testing of General Dynamics Sectera Edge SME PED product line for deployment within the U.S. Department of Navy organization. Tasks to accomplish include:
• Coordination with subcontractor GDIT for NSA approvals for initial product acquisition
• Configuration of devices based on self initialized training due to lack of formal vendor based training
• Interaction with COMSEC group for acquisition of Type 1 KEYMAT, worked through technical challenges regarding KEYMAT, DTD equipment challenges, etc.
• Production of project Test Plans, Test Procedures, and Test Report
• Execution of formal Proof of Concept Testing to a successful conclusion

Technical SME on project with limited tasking and responsibilities SME based contributions:

• Support on MANET based waveform M S efforts based on my previous experience with JTRS waveform testing on WNW, SRW, etc.
• Support for WPCS testing at SRC facility
• Acquisition of LGS WiMax equipment for SPAWAR Atlantic
• Proposal for Telephony infrastructure technologies for SPAWAR Atlantic

NED T E SME for JTRS Waveforms / Waveform Testing and Evaluation efforts

• Led all NED T E Network testing efforts for the ACAT1 JTRS Program supporting SDLC / development of the WNW Waveform.
• Performed Cost analysis, quoting, specified and acquired all lab assets required to conduct testing IP application layer/ L2-7 traffic, SNMP traffic as well as Signal in Space RF. mediums , analysis and code debugging of networking waveforms. This equipment consists of Spirent Test Center, Spirent SR 5500 Channel Emulator, Spirent Clearsight, SolarWinds Engineer Toolkit, Solarwinds Orion Analysis Application, Agile NetRAT and other proprietary applications
• Independent Verification Validation Testing /Test Plans and Procedures for the MANET WNW waveform on COTS / Surrogate and Pre EDM / EDM hardware platforms. These tests are developed to meet FDD level requirements for functionality and performance specifications for SiS, MDL, Mobile Intranet / MALSR, IR / R-OSPF, and HETNET layers.Technical analysis of proposed technologies and waveforms WNW, SRW, TTNT, JWNM etc.Input and feedback on CDRL documents, Program Design Reviews, Interface Control Documents
• NED T E WNW Content Manager for the JTRS Information Repository, AKO, MARS

Confidential

Principal Member of Technical Staff / Lead Design Engineer

• Primary technical point of contact for the CTC-OIS wireline infrastructure deliverables and schedules for the PEO-STRI / Lockheed Martin / AT T Government Solutions Fort Irwin National Training Center / Fort Polk on the Object Information System project Battlefield Simulation Infrastructure .
• Senior technical resource for the requirements analysis, onsite survey, technology evaluation and conceptual design of the wireline infrastructure for the CTC-OIS, WIN-T, MILES, etc. project.
• Produced project documentation such as Integration Test Plan, Technical Evaluation, and Reuse Analysis. Input of Derived Requirements into DOORS database.
• Oversaw laboratory staging, integration, test and validation efforts.

Confidential

Network Design Engineer

• Technical consultation and project leadership for the migration, transition and upgrade of existing infrastructure and network hardware.
• Designed, implemented and troubleshot / upgraded FDDI / Ethernet / ATM LANE networks to a Cisco based Gigabit Ethernet backbone and SONET transport in support of multi domain / zone / 24,000 host network on U.S. military installations NIPRNET and SIPRNET in support of General Dynamics / WAMNET / EDS. Combat Information Transport System CITS and Navy/Marine Communications Intranet. NMCI Strike Force projects.

Confidential

Sr. Transmission Network / Special Project Engineer

• Senior Engineer / Group SME for Circuit to Packet C2P /TDM to ATM network migration project. Member of national standards design and implementation team for the C2P core network.
• Provide input for ATM/LAN network topology / traffic engineering as a project design / management team member in meetings / RFP / RFQ, standards, practices and policies as SME between Sprint and Nortel Networks. Collaboration with Nortel Networks sales / technical engineering for overall capacity planning / SLA and network implementation.
• Responsibility for project management, technical documentation, deployment /integration and growth /exhaust requirements of Carrier grade network switching / optical transport systems.
• Nortel 5200/3500 Optera Metro / Optera 1600 Long Haul DWDM systems. Nortel MG 9000 / MG 4000 Voice Gateways, Gateway controllers, CS 1000 Call Servers. Testing for voice compression / H.248, H.323,G.711, SIP and other associated protocols.
• Nortel Preside MDM NMS for Nortel Succession / VToA applications. Nortel Conntivity VPN, Nortel AN routers, Alcatel 1603 SMX/SM OADM equipment. Marconi ASX-4000, Lucent CBX 500, Fore TNX 1100, Telco Edgelink STS access units, NGDLC / GR-303, Stratum x timing sources. Passport 15000/8600/7480 multi-service switching platforms.
• Transport systems integration - OC 3 -192 SONET / DWDM MAN rings. Integration of ILEC / CLEC / CPE / equipment such as Lucent Stinger, Copper Mountain, Redback Networks, Cisco Systems, Bay Networks. Leadership and mentoring of Jr. level engineers and contractors.
• Completion of Nortel Networks training: Passport Carrier O M using Preside MDM, Carrier Backbone Engineering and Passport ATM Provisioning

Confidential

Field Network Engineer / Vendor Representative

• Provided project management and pre/post sales technical customer support for customer applications.
• Design, installation, integration, configuration and troubleshooting / problem resolution
• of layer 2/3 edge to core and VoIP / LAN/WAN network systems.
• Server / Client networks comprised of Alcatel / Xylan Omniswitch, Omnicore, Omnistack,
• ATM/ layer 2/3 hardware / switches, PCX 4400 VoIP convergence solution and assorted COTS products.
• Total network support for small enterprise to very large corporate, campus and military networks hosting 1000 plus users.
• Strong customer service / interaction with support for customer applications. Pre/post sales / project management support.
• Assignments include U.S. Internal Revenue Service E-File networks, SPAWAR, U.S. Army Camp's Bondsteel, Able Sentry and Monteith in Kosovo and Macedonia. DDB Needham advertising agency in Chicago, IL., college campuses for distance learning networks in the U.S.A. and numerous other accounts.
• Customer technical support/Helpdesk via telephone/Telnet/dial up access with lab based recreation for fault reproduction and resolution. Support for these systems utilizing networking technologies: Trackview XVision NMS via SNMP/RMON. Group / VLAN Policy Mgmt. ATM /LANE, CIP, IMA, CEM, and MPOA / MPLS. AAL1-5/QOS/GCRA settings, NAT/PAT. 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI and Token Ring LAN's.
• Configuration of Bridged/Routed/Source routed/Transparent/Translational TCP/ IP, UDP, TOS/COS/QOS, IPX/SPX, SNA and AppleTalk protocols. Routing protocols utilized RIP v2, OSPF, BGP4. ATM UNI signaling, PNNI, IISP, SVC, PVC circuits.
• Configuration / troubleshooting on T1, DS3, ISDN, HDLC/SDLC, Frame Relay clouds, PPPoE, PPPoA, 1483br/1483rt. DHCP, RADIUS functions, Network security /Checkpoint and Steel Belted Radius Firewall, PPTP/VPN's, OC 3/12 links, POS, HSRP, VRRP, NHRP, NAT, CIDR, VLSM, IGMP, H.323, G.711, G.729, PIM, SLIP, Multicasting and trunking /port aggregation. Command line interface with Unix/Linux for configuration.
• BRAS / remote VPN tunneling access/aggregation provisioning connection policies, IP pools, cell rate settings Dial-up access, connectivity with POP in support of Alcatel ADSL /ISP POP DSLAM installations.
• Network VLAN design and implementation, IP Addressing / sub-netting scheme, resolution of encapsulation/translation issues, CAM/CPU/memory utilization troubleshooting, code upgrades, Host/NIC addressing /configurations and assorted MIS functions. Tech. Support / Customer service.
• Sniffer traces, Dell / IBM AS400 Server migrations, Systems logging services, Spanning Tree/topology changes, 802.11x/wireless bridge issues, discard/broadcast issues, client/server issues.
• Network Administration - 2000 Server/Advanced Technical documentation, Network diagrams etc. Desktop issues, NTFS, shares and assorted user issues.

Confidential

Test and Validation Team Lead

Team lead on end-to-end customer system acceptance testing of LMDS/CDMA point-to-multipoint wireless networks. Bulk call, upstream and downstream data throughput and BERT testing of Nortel systems including: Reunion Broadband ATM Radio/ LMDS point to multipoint wireless links, Passport ATM, Access Node, DMS switching system, Cisco Catalyst switches/routers, ADC Kentrox ATM over DS3 transport system.

Confidential

Communications Technician / Range Launch Operations Control Center

• Global support for launch systems networks for all test range assets including down range sites, landing facilities and shipboard units including CCAFS / PAFB, JDMTA, Antigua, Ascension Island, USNS Observation Island, Redstone and Arnold ships
• Engineering, configuration, testing and troubleshooting on all Data, Voice, and Video networks used for launch support. Networks supporting Real Time Computers, Radar, Telemetry, Command Destruct and Range Technical Services connected worldwide.
• COMSEC procedures encrypted / KG-84, KIV7 and STU-3 encryption units and phones.
• Administration / configuration of secure voice, video and data switching systems.
• Testing and troubleshooting of the following: Data Circuits consisting of T1/ DS0-DS3, TDM/FDM, Satellite communications, Microwave links, LAN, WAN, Tellabs channel banks, DSU/CSU, BERT testing, Orion Electrospace/Orion PBX voice switching systems. Vencat drop insert, Fibermux transport, Telco 828 multiplexers. Grass Valley, Pesa video switching systems, Harris microwave radios, 10 /50 KW Klystron HP/ HF transmitters.
• Test equipment used - Fireberd 6000, T-Berd, Optical Spectrum Analyzers, Fiber-optic test sets, OTDR, MDF/IDF, Cable/outside plant, multi twisted pair cable. Installation/termination of all types of network cables, fiber, copper, R.F. etc.

Confidential

Sr. R.F. / Microwave Technician

• Performed R D testing and production of prototype satellite antennas and feed sub- systems both C and Ku band. Antenna range activities Azimuth /Elevation isotropic patters / polar patterns, Anechoic chamber testing of feed horns / OMT diplexer assemblies
• ISAComm, field installation, test, and acceptance.

Technical Summary:

• Operating systems: Microsoft Windows 7 8, Windows 2008 Server R2, AGM, LINUX / UNIX / Solaris
• Application Packages: MS Office, Project, Visio, Exchange, Sharepoint, Alfresco, Remedy, Veritas, NMS/EMS: HP Openview, Preside, Cisco Works 2000, Optivity, Solar Winds, What's Up Gold, MySQL
• Hardware: Network switches, routers, servers, PC's, Thin / zero clients Android platforms, Tablets, Smartphone's, PBX / VoIP systems and various product lines manufactured by vendors such as: Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel, Brocade, Juniper, Foundry, AFC Telliant 5000, General Datacomm, Grass Valley, Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Adtran, ZTE, AVL, L-3, Aruba, Belair, and others.
• Network security: VPN, GRE tunnels, SSL, RADIUS, PKI, IPSec, AES / 3DES TEMPEST/ TRANSEC / COMSEC, encryption, Firewall ACL's, AAA, NAC, KG-175 / 250 / 340 TACLANE, KIV-7 etc.
• Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, MPLS /Diffserv / RSVP / QoS Traffic engineering, VRF, IVR, DHCP, PPP, RSTP, SMTP, POP3/IMAP SNMP, RIP v2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, 802.11, 802.16e, 802.1x, SNMPv3