Independent Consultant Resume
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
- Highly accomplished Manager with diverse experience in small and large organizations
- Results oriented leader with verifiable success achieving profitable business growth
- Highly technical background in the areas of Cyber Security, Operations & Maintenance, DNS, Information Assurance, Identity Management, Business Continuance
Core Competencies
- P&L Management
- Project/Program Management
- Strategic Planning & Partnering
- Technical Operations Management
- Leadership Development
- System Architecture/Design
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Independent Consultant March 2012 – Present
- Advise several small businesses with 8(a) growth strategy
- Business development
- Assist with building corporate infrastructure for growth
Confidential December 2011 – March 2012
Vice President, C4S
- Responsible for managing large DoD IDIQ
- Assisted with partnering and responding to Task Orders
- Helped other managers with business development strategy and intelligence
Confidential October 2005 – December 2011
President, Service DeliveryProgram Management
- Responsible for all contracts
- Managed relationship with all the customers that included DoD, Intelligence Community, Civilian
- Sponsored and facilitated CMMI certification
- Served as Facility Security Officer for the company
Technical Project Management
- Managed a team of highly skilled IT engineers that managed the labs for critical infrastructure
- Some of the major accomplishments of the team:
- Designed and deployed Global Load Balancing solution which enabled the client to reduce downtime
- Used Storage Area Network storage to create a backend that was redundant and provided COOP capability
- Migrated Solaris systems to a more cost effective Linux environment
- Created an automated workflow for Change Management using Remedy and Oracle that enabled the client to track trouble tickets, remediation, open and track change request.
- Created a process to manage Information Assurance Vulnerabilities within the DoD program
Project Management
- Ensured project was within budget and profitable
- Communicated progress of various projects to client executives/managers
- Set client expectation to ensure their satisfaction
Confidential August 1998 – October 2005
Technical Operations ManagerManager, Enterprise Services
- Created team of Senior IT Engineers with the mission of building and maintaining highly available systems utilizing IBM HA cluster and EMC DMX storage
- Team was also responsible for Capacity Planning, Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery
- Architected backup strategy with vendors and Infrastructure Engineering Team
- Interfaced with software and hardware vendors to ensure they provide value to the Operations team
Technical Operations Manager, Global Registry Services
- Managed a team of Senior Unix Administrators that were responsible for deploying and maintaining the system that hosts the Global Registry for .com, .net, .org and .edu.
- Migrated the database server from Sun Enterprise 4500 running Oracle 7 to IBM S80 running Oracle 8.
- Implemented HA using IBM's HACMP software that covers anything from a NIC card failure to complete power down of the system.
- Deployed and managed various new GTLD services which include dotCC, dotTV, dotBZ, Webnum, Enum, Commorotel, DotName, SnapName, Go2 .
- Provided 24/7 on-call support to resolve any production issues.
- Managed a duplicate production environment in QA/Staging.
- Assessed vendors’ capabilities to determine cost benefit analysis.
- Evaluated employees performances and develop employee’s career development plan.
Confidential, Rockville, MD January 1997-August 1998
Senior Systems Engineer,Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
- Responsible for a heterogeneous Unix environment which consists majority of Sun Workstations plus 8 SGI, 4 HP, 5 DEC(Compaq) and 1 IBM. Duties included all aspects of maintaining and upgrading of the systems.
- Coordinated with all Unix vendors to fully patch our Unix systems, which generally involves the most recommended patch cluster and the Y2K patch bundles.
- Experienced with various aspects of configuring Sparc Storage Arrays running under Veritas Volume Management software. Details included full disaster recovery from backup, RAID 5 configuration and recovery, file server migration involving SSA.
- Involved in various agency-level projects such as NT-Unix integration, NRC web server upgrade, compilation of agency-wide software under new OS, DHCP configuration with QIP.
- Responsible for the smooth operation of 40+ workstations consists of mainly Sun workstations running Solaris 2.4 and 2.5.1 in NRR branch of NRC.
- Installed and Maintained Internal web server on Sparc5 running Solaris2.5.1.
- Trouble-shoot numerous system and user problems with high efficiency.
- Experienced with HP OpenView.
- Familiar with ITO agents and MWA agents
Confidential. February 1992 - January 1997
General Manager
- Created a software application that managed the workflow from job estimation to billing, the application also managed inventory
- Negotiated best pricing from different vendors for main client
- Interfaced with clients customers
- Became a valued added reseller for several national product vendors
- Did market analysis for various projects
- Advised on M&A for major client
- Managed all aspects of small business which was profitable every year
Confidential September 1987 - January 1992
Business Analyst, National Federal Marketing
- Supported Marketing Representatives and Marketing Managers with pricing and marketing collateral
- Interfaced with end customers in the federal sector
- Was the technical resource for the branch office
- Assisted with responses to RFPs
- Received IBM suggestion award for automating tracking of maintenance contracts
EDUCATION/TRAINING
- B.S., Management Science
- Project Management Professional
- IBM (AIX, HACMP)
- Red Hat
- EMC
CERTIFICATION/CLEARANCE
- DoD Top Secret
- Project Management Professional, PMP
- IBM Certified Specialist