SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of experience in the industry
• Ability to quickly adapt and learn new technologies and methodologies
• Wide range of knowledge and areas of interest
• Please note that while the duration on some of the contracts shown in the professional experience may have had short durations all of my clients in the past have been very pleased with my work, often times leading to ahead of schedule termination of contract due to completion.
• Extensive operating system work encompassing all of the major and minor commercial and free UNIX operating systems as well as Novell and Microsoft. Please see the relevant work experience below for a more comprehensive list of known operating systems.
• Extensive hardware experience including but not limited to SUN, HP, IBM, UNISYS, Confidential, CISCO, STORAGETEK, EMC, and many more ranging from mainframes to phone switches.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

EXPERTISE: UNIX Systems Architecture, Security Architecture, Network Architecture

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES/SCRIPTING LANGUAGES: RUBY, C, C++, OBJECTIVE C, PHP, JAVA, PERL, PYTHON, ASSEMBLY 680x/80x86, EXPECT, TCL/TK, BOURNE SHELL SCRIPTING, KORN SHELL SCRIPTING, C SHELL SCRIPTING

DATABASES: ORACLE 10g/9i/8i/7, SYBASE, INFORMIX, INGRES, POSTGRESS, MYSQL, DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. System Architect

Environment: SOLARIS, AIX, RHEL, RUBY, PERL, PYTHON, ORACLE, TOMCAT, WEB LOGIC, WEB SPHERE, ATG DYNAMO, SVN, NAGIOS, MYSQL, DB2, VERTIAS, SUN CLUSTER, SUSE LINUX, DEBIAN LINUX, FREEBSD, EDIRECTORY (LDAP), MS ACTIVE DIRECTORY (LDAP), OPENLDAP, WINDOWS 2003 ENTERPRISE SERVER,VMWARE WORKSTATION, VMWARE SERVER, VMWARE ESX, VMWARE LABMANAGER, HYPERIC

Responsibilities:

• Built R&D and Q&A test and development environments for Confidential 's security products that can rapidly adapt and be modified to meet many different configuration possibilities for development and testing of cross platform compatibility using many different technologies such as VMWARE products and most conceivable iterations of the enterprise application infrastructure. Connectivity - >WebFrontEnd->ApplicationServer->Database->HABackend
• Designed and deployed a network performance/monitoring application suite HYPERIC for all the boxes in the environment as well as the virtual infrastructure.
• Wrote technical white papers covering my development of the R&D/Q&A infrastructure for internal use.

Confidential

Sr. System Architect

Environment: SOLARIS, HP/UX, AIX, RHEL, RUBY, PERL, PYTHON, TOMCAT, ORACLE, WEB LOGIC, DYNAMO, SVN, NAGIOS, MYSQL, ISS, PATROL, PERFORM, VERTIAS, SUN CLUSTER, EMC, HITACHI, SUPERDOME, LINUX, FREEBSD, TRU/64, LDAP,VMWARE WORKSTATION, VMWARE SERVER, VMWARE ESX, HYPERIC

Responsibilities:

• Maintained large scale servers for the Austin Automation Center of the VA, using Solaris 8/9/10, HPUX 10/11, AIX 3/4/5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3/4, Ubuntu 6, Tru64 4/5
• Designed and deployed a network monitoring application suite for all the UNIX hosts in the AAC.
• Deployed many enterprise applications in multiple environments ranging from Oracle on AIX to Weblogic on Redhat Enterprise Linux.
• Wrote many applications for the automation of system administration and security auditing activities.
• Migrated many hosts from 32bit to 64bit Linux including applications. (Oracle/Weblogic/Patrol)

Confidential

Sr. Systems Consultant

Environment: CISCO SWITCHES, CISCO PIX, APACHE, IIS, FREEBSD, LINUX, MYSQL, PHP, PYTHON, CHECKPOINT, PGP, CISCO CSA, SANS, ORACLE

Responsibilities:

• Performed full system and network security audit.
• Deployed full Firewall/IDS/VPN solution.
• Reworked the database architecture for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Developed and implemented disaster recovery plan for all of MSP's systems.
• Designed custom in house applications for everyday maintenance and automation.

Confidential

Sr. Security Consultant, - May 2005 to October 2005

Environment: CISCO SWITCHES, CISCO PIX, CISCO VPN CONCENTRATORS, CISCO IDS BLADES, CISCO ACS SERVER, CISCO SECURE AGENT, CISCO NAC, CISCO CSA/MC, FIREWALL/MC, CISCOCISCO ROUTER/MC, CISCOWORKS, CISCO TRUST AGENT

• Designed and implemented a nation wide roll out of CSA/CTA/NAC on over 20,000 workstations and servers Confidential 124 Sites in all 50 States and Puerto Rico. Including full rule set generation and analysis, as well as full remediation services.
• Developed custom distribution method for CSA/CTA/AV installer and updater.
• Implemented CiscoWorks all components for all of Job Corps.
• Policy writing and recommendations regarding AUP, and incident management response.
• Overall security architecture review.
• Penetration testing of internal and external network infrastructure.
• Tier 3 overall security assistance within the Job Corps Data center.

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Sr. Security Consultant

Environment: REDHAT LINUX, SUSE LINUX, OPENBSD, FREEBSD, SOLARIS, HP/UX, AIX, CISCO, F5 NETWORKS, WINDOWS SERVER, JUNIPER NETWORKS, NETSCREEN, CISCO SECURE AGENT

Responsibilities:

• Overall security architecture review.
• Development and deployment of a multi-tiered homegrown IDS solution.
• Penetration testing of preexisting network infrastructure.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Architect

Environment: REDHAT LINUX, SUSE LINUX, OPENBSD, FREEBSD, SOLARIS, SOLARIS X86, CISCO, CISCO SECURE AGENT, RADWARE, NETGEAR, LINKSYS, AIX, SANS, RADWARE, F5, HACMP, HPUX, MYSQL, ORACLE, LDAP

Responsibilities:

• Complete architecture of all infrastructures. Ranging from collocation centers to internal office infrastructure. Including purchasing, development, implementation, and maintenance.
• Development and deployment of low cost/high performance web and mail clusters.
• Development of support infrastructure for monitoring and automated maintenance of all clusters.
• Development of security infrastructure and monitoring, including firewalls, intrusion detection and auditing.
• Designed and maintained all high speed carrier access and network infrastructures.
• Wrote many custom applications for support of the network and applications.
• Disaster recovery planning and backup procedures.
• Converted clusters of web/mail servers to 64bit architecture from 32bit.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Architect

Environment: RADWARE, F5 NETWORKS, OPENBSD, FREEBSD, REDHAT LINUX, SOLARIS, SOLARIS X86, HP/UX, AIX, HACMP, CISCO, SUSE LINUX, SANS, CHECKPOINT, OTRS, LDAP

Responsibilities:

• Designed Confidential ’s network and server infrastructure, including all security, disaster recovery, and high availability needs.
• Assisted in software development and debugging efforts as well as designed and deployed a troubleshooting and development environment specifically for that purpose.
• Designed a customized hardware platform for high speed reliable email communications.
• Developed a customized ticketing and troubleshooting system for bug reporting and development tracking.
• Developed a web based projected tracking system for overall company projects.
• Deployed an instant messaging system for quick and accurate communication between developers and management.
• Developed a customized message board system to assist with support and customer service needs.

Confidential

Sr. Network Consultant

Environment: NORTEL SWITCHES, NOKIA SWITCHES, ERICSSON SWITCHES, Confidential &T SWITCHES

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with vendors to evaluate and troubleshoot the integration of networking and telecommunications equipment into the Confidential environment.
• Provided detailed documentation regarding the devices and assisted in the testing and GATE approval of devices into the Confidential network.

Confidential

Director of Intrusion Detection Systems

Environment: OPENBSD, RAPTOR, SOLARIS, RSA KEON, RSA SECURID, HUBS, CISCO PIX, CISCO ROUTERS, CISCO SWITCHES, CHECKPOINT FIREWALL

Responsibilities:

• Mandated with the position of unifying and consolidating the various Intrusion Detection and overall security aspects of Confidential ’s customer and corporate networks.
• Instructing classes on the proper use and maintenance of Checkpoint Software Firewall-1 software.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Architect

Environment: OPENBSD, RAPTOR, SOLARIS, HUBS, CISCO PIX, CISCO ROUTERS, CISCO SWITCHES, HP NETWORK NODE MANAGER, VERITAS CLUSTER, VERITAS NETBACKUP, ORACLE 8i, NETWORK APPLIANCE DISK ARRAYS, SUN E4500, SUN NETRA T105, SUN E250, APACHE, NETSCAPE ENTERPRISE SERVER, PHP, MYSQL, NFS, NIS, BIND 9, PHP, REMEDY, HPUX, HP ITO, NETMETRIC, CISCO WORKS 2000, SNORT

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned and redeployed all of ART’s enterprise servers optimized for fault tolerance, high availability, and high performance.
• Developed, implemented and maintained a new ticketing system front and back end for the network management center.
• Designed and implemented a multi-firewall, VPN, and intrusion detection system.
• Redesigned the data center and Network Management Center

Confidential

Sr. Systems Architect

Environment: OPENBSD, SOLARIS, HUBS, CISCO PIX, CISCO ROUTERS, CISCO SWITCHES, VERITAS CLUSTER, VERITAS NETBACKUP, SOLSTICE DISK SUITE, ORACLE 8i, NETWORK APPLIANCE DISK ARRAYS, SUN E4500, SUN NETRA T105, SUN ULTRA E2, APACHE, NETSCAPE ENTERPRISE SERVER, PHP, MYSQL, NFS, NIS, BIND, PHP, LINUX

Responsibilities:

• Designed and deployed a distributed network performance-tracking system.
• Designed and deployed a top notch nationwide VPN/Firewall system.
• Developed an automated distribution and system installation mechanism by which boxes in the field could be automatically reloaded and configured in case of catastrophic system failure or loss of system security.
• Developed a custom router that alters the speed and latency of network packets to test our network and application for use in Internet conditions in our lab.
• Designed and deployed a distributed network performance-tracking system.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Consultant

Environment: SOLARIS, VERITAS CLUSTER, VERITAS NETBACKUP, SOLSTICE DISK SUITE, ORACLE 8i, SUN E450, SUN NETRA T105, SUN ULTRA E2, APACHE, NETSCAPE ENTERPRISE SERVER

Responsibilities:

• Optimized and re-engineered their enterprise systems for high availability.

Confidential

Chief Binary Chef

Environment: OPENBSD, VPN-1, SOLARIS, HUBS, CISCO PIX, FIREWALL-1, CISCO ROUTERS, CISCO SWITCHES, HPOPENVIEW, VERITAS CLUSTER, VERITAS NETBACKUP, ORACLE 8i, STORAGETEK DLT 7k TAPE LIBRARIES, NETWORK APPLIANCE DISK ARRAYS, SUN E4500, SUN NETRA T105, SUN E450, SUN U60, SUN U80, SUN E420, SUN E220, SUN SUNRAY-1, DYNAMO APPLICATION SERVER, APACHE, NETSCAPE ENTERPRISE SERVER

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented all of Epidemic’s production, test, and development infrastructures, including management and monitoring solutions.
• Also responsible for the developing networking, and security solutions for the data center.
• Assisted in development and deployment of Epidemic’s enterprise B2B products.
• Took a tiny internet startup company into the y2k with style by building a class A data center with full SNMP controlled climate control, 24hr UPS systems, 4 day generator, and a highly secure network operations facility.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Environment: OPENBSD, VPN-1, SUN/OS, SOLARIS, HP/UX, HUBS, FIREWALLS, FIREWALL-1, ROUTERS, SWITCHES, HPOPENVIEW, SOLSTICE SUNMON, SUN SYMON, NETBACKUP, SYBASE, ORACLE, EXABYTE 8MM TAPE LIBRARIES, IBM SSA DISK ARRAYS, EMC DISK ARRAYS, SPARCSTORAGE DISK/TAPE ARRAYS, AIX, HP/UX, LINUX

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for all of Exabyte’s Unix Workstations and servers, including everything from IPC’s to u5000e’s.
• Also responsible for Exabyte’s network infrastructure, including reworking their FDDI backbone into a more efficient configuration.
• Engineered and deployed a global VPN, with sites in 4 countries, utilizing the most secure cryptographic means available.

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Environment: NET/BSD, SOLARIS, RADIUS, OTP, S/KEY, SECURE/ID, TACACS+, ROUTERS, SWITCHES, HPOPENVIEW, SOLSTICE SUNMON

Responsibilities:

• Provided high-level network management tools to Level3, to assist in the deployment and management of 100’s of routers and switches in their network backbone.
• Worked with existing network management suites as wells as developed my own variations on open source tools.

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Environment: SOLARIS, HP/UX, FREE BSD, AIX, LINUX, TAPE AND DISK LIBRARIES, PERL, BOURNE SHELL, C SHELL, EXPECT, TCL/TK, NIS+, NFS, DNS, WINDOWS NT, RTDMS, XWINDOWS, SOLSTICE SUNMON, SUN SYMON, HPOPENVIEW

Responsibilities:

• Worked in the Confidential of Confidential Technologies, in a Fourth Tier support capacity supporting all of the Confidential 's UNIX Workstations as well as all the UNIX Server Systems and Subsystems, which mostly included Real Time Data Collection Systems.
• Completely reworked their 36 Display 50" Monitors Video wall for tier's 1-3 management of the network.

Confidential, Broomfield, Colorado

Senior Systems Engineer/Open Systems Support

Environment: SOLARIS, HP/UX, AIX, DIGITAL UNIX, DYNIX, UNICOS, WINDOWS NT, FREE BSD, LINUX, TAPE AND DISK LIBRARIES, PERL, BOURNE SHELL, C SHELL, C, C++, CORE DUMP ANALYSIS, SCSI DEBUGGING, KERNEL DEBUGGING.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the Open Systems Support divisions help desk in a third tier support capacity, dealing with Customer Service Engineers ( Confidential ) and Service Engineers (SE) providing operating systems support nationally and internationally as well as supporting StorageTek's tape and disk libraries.
• This included but was not limited to reading core dumps, patching OS revision levels, and writing both 'C' code and scripts to facilitate installation and troubleshooting of both the OS and subsystems.