SUMMARY:

Extensive practical knowledge in engineering, implementing and maintaining small to large scale data centers including both network and computer hardware. Exceptional problem solving and technical skills. Hands - on diagnostic abilities for all systems, from end-users to enterprise-wide computing and networking systems. Fully capable of working alone with minimal supervision or equally as well in a team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Solaris 2.1 through 10, Novell 3.11 through 6.5, Linux (various flavors through kernel 2.6.x), MacOS, OS-X

Database Software: Oracle 6 through 9i, mySQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 through 2008

IBM: Tivoli Federated Identity Systems, Websphere Application Server

Security: McAfee ePO Endpoint Protection, Snort, Nessus

Microsoft: Windows 3.x through XP, NT 3.5 through 2003

EMC: Timefinder, Powerpath, EDM, ESN Netmanger, Celerra, Symmetrix, SRDF

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities were to provide in-depth expertise on current vulnerabilities, exploits, and malicious activities targeting government computer systems for the Confidential .
• Responsibilities include: Support analysis and incident response activities in a Security Operations Center.
• Correlating security information sourced from multiple event sources across the enterprise.
• Perform event analysis, preliminary risk assessment, and incident response and coordination activities to mitigate risk to the environment.
• Implementation and maintenance of McAfee ePO Endpoint Protection Suite across the enterprise.
• Systems administration and support for all systems and applications supporting the Cyber Operations Group.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities were to implement, maintain and support the e-Authentication project for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
• The system involved supporting IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Systems on a Windows 2003 Server platform running under VMWare instances.
• Other tasks were to perform an upgrade of the entire system to a newer version, implement a disaster recovery site and to engineer a migration from the Windows platform to a Linux OS.
• Minor tasks included maintaining the local division’s lab, small server cluster and network environment.

Confidential

IT-Technical Manager/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• In charge of managing all day-to-day IT functions along with a medium-sized data center comprised of mostly Linux and Windows Servers with some Solaris and Novell.
• Other responsibilities include the management of all technical facilities: phone, electrical, security, and the technical build out of both the new corporate and satellite offices.
• Designed and implemented new network systems (Cisco, PIX, and Sonicwall) to connect the corporate and satellite offices to the internet and together through VPN.
• Other engineering tasks include the backend designs and implementations of Confidential ’s in house custom built web applications and high volume/speed imaging solutions.

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Principle responsibilities included monitoring and support of the systems and network in the corporate data center.
• The systems were comprised of a wide variety of Sun hardware running Solaris with some Confidential hardware operating on Irix.
• System functions ranged from Oracle databases to web servers to proprietary in-house software.
• Other responsibilities included maintaining and configuring the backups for all primary systems, including a multi-terabyte EMC Symmetrix, using Veritas Netbackup Datacenter.
• Maintaining the Symmetrix using Celerra and ESN Manager for the switched fiber network.
• Minor tasks ranged from network cabling to assembling and configuring new hardware.

Confidential

Director of IS/Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed all aspects of large-scale data center management from helpdesk and end user support to project management and implementation for both government and military owned data centers.
• Responsible for the management of a highly skilled group of Systems Administrators and Database Administrators.
• Fully re-engineered the networks and systems for both data centers under my administration.

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for the planning, build-out, implementation and eventual administration of Confidential 's primary Data Center.
• Implemented and maintained a variety of Software and Hardware, the majority of which include both Sun and HP systems running the latest varieties of Solaris and HP-UX.
• Maintained a 1.4 terabyte EMC Symmetrix with Timefinder and accompanying EDM backup solution on which was housed several Oracle and Informix databases.

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator/Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, integrated and administered a Network Management System for the monitoring and maintenance of the company's international wireless network.
• Developed, setup and maintained Sun systems for the company's centralized Network Operations Center.
• Setup and administered Oracle and Informix databases.

Confidential

Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered all Unix and NT systems, software and hardware, including cabling, system diagnostics, operating systems installs, Progress database administration, and help-desk calls. Set up, installed and maintained Firewall and Internet connections for internal WAN.

Confidential

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Setup, installed and maintained Novell, TCPIP, and Macintosh AppleTalk networks. Supported all systems, software and hardware, including cabling, system diagnostics, operating systems installs, help-desk calls, database installs, and setup of backup protocol. Worked on client installs and configurations.