SUMMARY:

Information Technology professional with 30 years of experience in product engineering, development, production support and cybersecurity. Currently serving as Senior Systems Engineer for Confidential . It is my desire to provide leadership, proficiency, and enthusiasm within an organization as I continue to grow as an IT professional.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• System Administration (MS Windows Server, MS SQL Server)
• VMware (Workstation, Server, and ESX)
• Microsoft Active Directory Management
• Oracle Database Technologies,
• HP - UX Operating System (Unix)
• Mirth (NextGen) Connect
• Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Validations
• Vulnerability Scanning Tools (Retina, App Detective, WebInspect)
• Java Development Kit Software
• SAP BusinessObjects
• Backup and Recovery Management
• BMC Remedy
• Microsoft Office Professional Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Enterprise System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Organize Risk Management Framework (RMF) tasks to include security assessments, reviews and audits for supported systems.
• Provided Cybersecurity Confidential and key personnel status updates regarding system requirements
• Communicated security risk and providing senior leadership with mitigating recommendations.
• Assist with creation, tracking and updates to Plan of Action and Milestone Process (POA&M) and Remediation procedures.
• Worked with Development Confidential to resolve performance and/or configuration issues.
• Facilitated meetings with Cybersecurity Confidential to review security posture, Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVA), Patching, and STIGs compliance and strategies to mitigate findings.
• Provided oversight and recommendations for Disaster Recovery (DR)/Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP).
• Participated in build out of DR sites, and creation of Contingency plan (CP), Incident Response plan (IRP), DR documents.
• Provide expertise that ensure maximal efficiency and effectiveness in all system designs, while maintaining compliance and a strong security posture.
• Coordinate within and across product teams to ensure a cohesive representation of the SDD - CS products from an engineering perspective.
• Understand the system architecture and architectural documents such as the system view, operational views and other views as prescribed by DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF).
• Research and recommend hardware and software architecture improvements.
• Work with other engineers to coordinate technical solutions across products.
• Provide advisory services to government clients regarding technical concepts.
• Review technical reviews such as Security Readiness Reviews (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR), Test Readiness Review (TRR), Agile sprints.
• Supervise vendors and key personnel adherence to SDD-CS technical best practices, and tools.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Daily supervision of the assigned Confidential member’s activities in support of government client.
• Ensure that the implementation of cybersecurity requirements were in accordance with DoD, and NIST Guidelines.
• Ensure adherence and compliance with Federal, OMB, DHS and Secret Service guidance and policy with regard to implementation of IT investments.
• Create schedule, to identify and align missions, goals, objectives for JOMIS Systems Engineering effort. Monitoring and track action items and routine reporting requirements.
• Coordinated with Cybersecurity Confidential to schedule all meetings, test events and RMF activities on all systems with the JOMIS program office.
• Evaluated Cybersecurity and Engineering Teams system risk analysis and mitigation strategies.
• Maintain accountability for internal and external metrics and progress against established schedules and deadlines.
• Facilitating Program Management Reviews and other IT governance meetings.
• Applying user requirements to the analysis, planning, and design of systems.
• Identified and analyzed stakeholder's requirements; evaluated and developed solutions; tested; completed quality assurance.

Confidential

Information Technology Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Process required Automatic Class Selection (ACS) code modifications and System Managed Storage (SMS) construct modifications; test all changes using the SMS test facility prior to installation using Interactive System Management Facility (ISMF).
• Manage the customer's terabytes of DASD storage. Monitor DASD storage resources, Deploy DASD storage and account for the deployment of DASD resources via MainView (BMC).
• Support HSM, ABARS, FDR and DBS backups. Monitor production backup and recovery job) via EJES and Control-M; provide corrections, documentation and rescheduling for job failures.
• Restore datasets using Hierarchical Storage Manager (DFHSM), Data Facility Data Set Services (DFDSS) and Aggregate Backup and Recovery Support (ABARS)
• Utilized JCL to make code modifications to support job processing or correct errors for rerun and restart procedures.
• .Monitor Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) data replication process on SSA's Mainframe Systems for Disaster Recovery purposes.
• Modify non-VSAM, VSAM and PDS data sets using ISPF utilities and File-Aid utilities.

Confidential

Customer Service Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Securely installed and configured Logical Security Software.
• Ensured that ATMs systems (authentication) and communication were protected and secure.
• Performed periodic maintenance services ensuring that transmission of data remained secure and unmodified.
• Prioritizes service calls and schedule repairs according.
• Software installs for Windows OS, Agilis Platform Software, also apply hot-fixes as needed.
• Ensures security standards are met based on Payment Card Industry (PCI) regulations.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the review and consulted on various engineering and technical documents (design documents, acquisition documents, engineering policies and procedures), and other IT-related system documentation, as appropriate.
• Provided subject matter expertise on assessments of relevant technologies and products, to include hardware (servers, storage, and network components), operating systems, and other executive software solutions (Enterprise Service Bus, Application Servers, Database solutions, middle-ware, security products, tools, etc.).
• Facilitated meetings with Cybersecurity Confidential to address Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVA), and process to mitigate findings.
• Provided Cybersecurity Confidential and additional updated information pertaining to hardware or software, also ensured all systems met STIG requirements.
• Provided Cybersecurity Confidential and additional updated information pertaining to hardware or software, also ensured all systems met STIG requirements.
• Assist with creation, tracking and updates to POA&M and Remediation procedures.
• Worked with development Confidential to resolve any performance or configuration issues.
• Responsible for communicating any security risk and providing senior leadership with mitigating recommendations.
• Document critical assets and infrastructure recovery procedures within CP, DRP, and IRP
• Supported analysis of alternatives and trade studies supporting IT infrastructure, hardware, networks, and software solutions. Performed map and gap analysis and refined requirements with the use of the DOORS system.
• Developed assessment reports that provided the information necessary to evaluate a variety of attributes, such as security, performance, usability, availability, flexibility, maintainability, and performance.

Confidential

• Supported clinical system modernization, and transformation strategies as Confidential systems are modernized to meet DoD electronic health record objectives.
• Coordinated technical management processes and provided analytical assistance to Department of health clinical systems (DHCS) throughout the systems development life-cycle (SDLC).
• Served as Lead Engineer and technical product lead for three projects deployed to production. Projects were built on Windows OS, also using Theater Framework (TF), Mirth (NextGen) Connect, HP-Unix and Red Hat, Oracle Database, HL7 messaging, VMware and other software in physical and virtual environments.
• Supported projects HART, CHART, E-forms, DVEIVR, TMDI and IHRF.

Confidential

Network Security Engineer

• Implemented security policies and procedures related to network systems infrastructure, and oversaw systems security certification for mission critical systems.
• Created and maintained Security Test Plans using Security technical implementations guides.
• DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) projects.
• Conducted risk assessments based on National, DoD, and Program regulations.
• Performed manual DISA security checklists, and ran SRR scripts.

Confidential

Production Control Lead

• Involved in system migration from IBM MVS Mainframe to UNIX, Microsoft Windows environment.
• Worked in Lead capacity with four junior level administrators
• System Administrator for Business Systems on MS Windows Platform responsible for security Accounts, groups, roles creation and modification
• Using Controlled release processes updated web and business system servers as needed.
• Verified backups and error logs to troubleshoot any failures to address open trouble tickets pertaining to production system errors.
• Performed necessary maintenance and upgrades to production systems.

IBM Mainframe

• Worked on IBM MVS/XA and ESA systems, running CICS/IMS
• Responsible for overseeing daily mainframe production process running using CA7 (Computer Associates) scheduler. Made JCL code modifications to support job processing or rerun and restart procedures.
• Performed all Change Management of code into production environment.
• Mainframe system Security Administrator, RACF SME responsible for account creation and Employee access updates.
• On-call support, for maintenance and production issues.