Objective: To obtain a Principal or Manager position where many years of diverse DoD engineering experience can be appreciated and utilized toward meeting organization objectives.

Summary of Experience:

Majority of career has been with the Depart of Defense DoD Intelligence, Cyber Security, Information Security / Assurance, and ELINT communities. As a contractor, have worked at the Defense Information Systems Agency DISA , National Security Agency, National Maritime Intelligence Center NMIC , Letter Kenny Army Depot, Defense Finance and Accounting Service DFAS , Army at Ft. Belvoir, Naval Research Laboratory NRL , and served in the

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Serving as one of the Security/ArcSight SMEs to National Cyber Security customers in support of Defense Information Systems Agency DISA contract work. Currently perform ArcSight 5.2 content development to support customer requirements to include creating ArcSight Filters, Dashboards/Data Monitors, Rules, Active Lists, Queries, Trends, Variable Rules, and Reports for operation centers and analysts. Perform analysis and investigation of network events to aide in content creation to provide high level or detailed monitoring of system data as a whole and for specific drill-down monitoring and evaluation. Conduct searches, analysis, and reporting to local and national customer groups to alert on special identified activity. Support customer ad-hoc requests and answers to questions. In support of a customer requirement, devised and created a Visio design diagram for automating alerts and reporting from one network to another and keeping customer's branded report format in sending out notifications. Also conduct detailed analysis, investigation, and evaluation of network data to find commonality of reportable items that allows creating more high confidence Rules for automating notifications to internal analysts or to cognizant authority security response teams. Also worked in test lab to install, test, and verify new requirements to include ArcSight Identity View Insider Threat , cases and workflow and new feed requirements to other organizations. Also provide ArcSight 5.2 support in the lab for Red Hat and Oracle instances. Devised and created a solution method to achieve capabilities beyond the limitation of ArcSight by creating Trends and running reports and storing CSV files on the Red Hat Linux server for further script custom processing and reporting. Support DISA objectives in support of the DISA/ArcSight contract as a whole which includes supporting new SIM builds, evaluations, moving user content, and backing up site content. Provide customer ArcSight Console and Logger training classes when required. Participates in Program Manager and SME weekly conference calls. Traveled to OCONUS field site and provided tech refresh support.

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Provided ArcSight and engineering support for the IRS/Symantec's Data Loss Prevention DLP project. Provided design support in the enterprise security infrastructure and architectural topology including recommending hardware, operating systems software and information security requirements. This was to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and privacy of information systems along with consistency and integration with existing infrastructure. Other duties include Security Specialty Engineering in support of the IRS EIP/EAUTH/DLP projects. Reviewed project documentation and made security recommendations, wrote test cases, and advised how to verify if security requirements were met. Researched security risks involved in virtualization and created a nutshell document highlighting hardware requirements and security concerns using Red Hat Enterprise Server 6.0 and KVM. Also researched IRS, NIST 800-53, and FIPS 140 security requirements for applying to projects. Successfully completed debugging, fixing, and improving scripts for the Security and Privacy office where problems existed for some time. Position required customer facing and interaction, vendor interaction, status reporting, and design presentations. ClearCase was used for CM/storing documentation and Visio was used for creating design diagrams.

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Served as ArcSight SME for GDIT's Air Force Engineering and Integration Department. Successfully provided ArcSight 4.0 engineering support of migrating 7 existing Air Force ArcSight install sites and 9 new ArcSight install sites from Microsoft Windows to Red Hat 4.7 64 bit Linux. Engineering support consisted of creating detailed Visio design documents for briefings to the Project Management Office PMO , ArcSight engineering installs, testing, detailed install instructions Field Change Order and performing remote installs to CONUS and OCONUS production sites. Worked closely with other contractor elements at a CONUS site to ensure migration details were done to their expectations. These people noted my name as part of a successful migration. Also wrote Linux scripts to automate and consistently install the first part of the ArcSight Manager, Syslog Connector, Super Agent, and Blue Coat Connector installs. Closely worked with Linux and Oracle SMEs. Created additional detailed documentation to propose to the PMO what the ArcSight version upgrade and Way-Ahead options were for the project to include architecture design changes and virtual recommendations.

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2010 Ft. Belvoir, VA Provided ArcSight 4.0 hands-on engineering, admin, and security analyst duties in support of a Fort Belvoir Insider Threat project. Experience included design and implementation of ArcSight 4.0 ESM including Connector Appliance for managing connector agents and Logger Appliance for receiving connector agent data. Performed Sun Solaris 10 on X4600 with Red Hat 4.0 system administration and Oracle 10.2 support performed as needed. Experience included writing ArcSight Console Rules, Filters, Active Channels, Dashboards/Data Monitors, Reports, Notifications and security analysis of event data for notifying cognizant authority security response teams. Performed DOD hardening/securing of Red Hat and Oracle to meet DOD stringent compliancy standards. Created Visio system architectural diagrams that included Connector event flow.

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• Served as contractor ArcSight Project Lead and Senior Information Assurance IA Engineer for the ArcSight Enterprise Security Management ESM Analyst Workstation AW project for Defense Information Systems Agency Field Security Operations DISA FSO . Worked closely with the ArcSight AW government Program Manager to maintain a secure baseline and field DISA/ArcSight critical security management systems and software to detect and respond to cyber threats and attacks for two CONUS Computer Emergency Response Teams CERTS and two OCONUS CERTS deployments that served the needs of the President, Joint Chiefs, and Department of Defense. Responsible for detailed site surveys conducted on-site, via email, and phone. Secured Red Hat Advanced Server systems to include Oracle Database server, ArcSight Manager Server and Red Hat syslog servers for initial deployment and multiple major rebuild/upgrades site visits. Responsible for Information Assurance testing and Security Readiness Reviews SRRs , IAVA security compliancy and engineering new solution requirements for 25 servers and five Dell EMC SANS. Helped to create System Security Authorization Agreement SSAA documentation. Perform certification and accreditation DITSCAP remediation services. Responsible for upgrading patches and new ArcSight software versions with the vendor at all field sites. Closely worked with CONUS and OCONUS field site customers to inform them and verify site scheduled visits and maintain system configuration consistency to meet stringent system security standards at all times.
• Also while working on an Audit server project, took own initiative to devise and develop Perl/CGI web page UNIX system monitoring scripts to include Audit Server process monitoring using Solaris 7/8 and Apache web server. All servers and software met STIG System Technical Implementation Guide requirements for all DISA FSO projects. Also fielded Audit Server systems consisting of a Manager/Guard system, Oracle database servers using Solaris, DAS. And CD/DVD Juke Boxes at CONUS/OCONUS field sites. Created comprehensive detailed documentation for upgrades by field sites to prevent extra field site trips. Prepared quarterly IPR slides, by-weekly and monthly status reports. Both projects used Oracle and SQL.

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System / Network Manager Position for a startup Internet advertising company and was responsible for 30 online Solaris 2.6-2.8. / Red Hat Linux 6.2-7.1 web servers' system management and network infrastructure using Cisco 7206 router and 1900/2900 switches. Responsible for two Solaris BIND 8 and one Red Hat Linux Bind 9 DNS servers and Solaris Sendmail/Procmail administration for 80 email accounts. Wrote UNIX scripts to automate Solaris and Linux system installation/configuration functions for production web servers. Responsible for system and software upgrades to include Apache 1.3.20, Secure Stronghold, Secure Shell, Stunnel, Perl, Mod Perl, gcc, Pine, OpenSSL, and many others. Also was responsible for network security and intrusion detection and sending reports to offenders and authorities. Wrote Bourne, Korn shell, and Perl scripts to automate repetitive tasks. Wrote system and network monitoring scripts in Perl that sent emails and pager alerts when processes or web sites are down. Monitored UNIX logs for intruder probes and reported offenders to ISPs for account removal. Responsible for researching, designing, purchasing, and implementing network infrastructure and backup solution for 30 Solaris 2.6-2.8, Red Hat Linux 6.2/7.1, and NT 4.0 computers to a Qualstar tape library. Also recommended, researched and procured computer room flooring, a/c, and other components to facilitate and establish a computer and network room. President said he couldn't have done it without provided help. Company was sold in 2005 for 147M.

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• consulting services and contracted with Intel on their web hosting project and served as a team member on the Tivoli Enterprise Management software implementation team in California. Successfully developed requirements and made recommendations for implementing NT and UNIX Distributed Monitoring and thoroughly documenting them. Wrote Perl scripts and implemented them as Tivoli Tasks to monitor UNIX system daemons, disk utilization, file system mounts, and sending email based on event categories. Also converted a Tivoli heart beat monitoring Korn shell script to Perl. Documentation was provided for all requirements, recommendations, and implementation solution descriptions. A Tivoli implementation and installation document was written for TMR's, ManagedNodes, T/EC, and Netview server and client.
• Provided consulting services in New Jersey on Tivoli AT T account on a contract providing Y2K support and PERL/HTML web development to dynamically monitor Tivoli UNIX servers' nationwide and automate manual tasks. Wrote a Perl/HTML web interface to perform a Tivoli Software Inventory of the Tivoli TMR's and their fan-outs and graphically displayed the results in a table in a web page. This SW development found inventory that their previous manual processes had missed. Wrote web interfaces in Perl/HTML to display many system administration functions dynamically and graphically.

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• Took own initiative to design, develop, and test PERL/HTML and JavaScript System Administration Tool web pages to display system monitoring for any number of Sun Solaris 2.6 UNIX systems on the network in a graphical color coded display. Features included the system status, disk usage displays, login/intruders, viewing errors in files, launching applications, and showing what packages are installed on the system. Installed Solaris 2.6 and configured the Apache Web Server software.
• Provided system engineering/integration and made TriTeal Enterprise Desktop TED / CDE customizations for new Solaris 2.6 deployments to field sites. Made Sun format packages of custom desktop customizations and COTS packages. Wrote the majority of the developer's guide outlining steps/changes to the new system architecture/baseline.
• Rewrote a C/UNIX program to do error logging for national PERL data feed programs. Wrote PERL data feed programs that parsed incoming message traffic in national standard formats. Completed a PERL cleanup program for analysts in conjunction with their use of the Verity Topic Database.
• Provided development, integration, and testing in support of the Joint Deployable Intelligence Support System JDISS 3 Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment DII/COE Solaris baseline at NMIC. Installed Solaris and JDISS software and provided scripting support.
• Provided Software engineering support and helped to port CRYSTALLIZE legacy reuse software libraries and toolkits to Solaris 2.6, HP9.05, HP9.07, SGI, AIX, and Windows NT 4.0 using respective UNIX systems and Visual C 5.0 tools.

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In support of Defense Finance and Accounting Service DFAS , co-designed and shared primary software design and C coding responsibilities for the High Speed Document Capture portion heartbeat of EDS's Electronic Document Management EDM Electronic Digital Imaging Solution for the DFAS document imaging and workflow system. Was part of a team that conducted a three month Business Process Requirements BPR analysis onsite at the Defense CONUS customer location to convert their manual workflow process to an automated document imaging process. All C Code was written as functions with detailed instruction error handling in which I was complimented on a few years later. Exhaustive testing of scanning documents was done using a SPARCstation 1000 Scan Server and a Kodak 923D High Volume scanner running with Solaris 2.5 UNIX and using Kodak's Image Capture Manager Software ICMS 1.4.3. Shared in the project management design of Visual Basic GUIs for the other PC scanning positions and GUI programmers. Designed and wrote C/UNIX programs for the SPARCstation server to include a central routing program, an image network file transfer program, and a server image file cleanup program. Wrote numerous C-shell, Bourne or Korn shell scripts and provided testing/integration support at a CONUS field site. Provided C/UNIX and X/Motif 1.2 support in the modification of Kodak supplied sample GUI to make a DFAS Production GUI that interfaced with ICMS and the Kodak 923D scanner in the context of EDS's Imaging Solution. Provided software maintenance of C/UNIX ICMS customized functions. This functionality went into production in two CONUS locations and performed for several years thereafter.

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Systems Engineering Division

• Developed C/UNIX callback functions and client/server routines using CRYSTALLIZE IPC RPC convenience functions in the software development of a LAN/WAN Error Service GUI Client Subsystem. Development was on Sun SPARC2 Workstations using X11 OSF/MOTIF 1.2 and Bluestone GUI builder UIM/X 2.5.
• Provided software engineering, COTS software evaluations, and testing in support of Sigint Automated Engineering Data Center SAEDAC in Continuous Acquisition and Logistics Support CALS compliance. Served as lead in co-designing an Automatic Document Transfer Unit process written in C/UNIX with Ingress/Embedded SQL in a Unify Vision GUI environment on UNIX Sun SPARCstations. Process consisted of a UNIX server polling worldwide client requests, retrieving digitized documents/manuals from an Optical Jukebox, and transferring them to the client via automated FTP's. Developed remote installation procedures and scripts to automatically install COTS packages over a LAN/WAN.
• Designed an X11 OSF/Motif color selection dialog and developed a signal parametric dialog for a C/UNIX X-Window based national graphical display signal processing subsystem using OpenWindows 3.0 X11 OSF/Motif GUI builder XDesigner 1.0 on Sun SPARC2 running SunOS 4.1.3.

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Provided software engineering support and developed numerous Motif 1.1 software data flow diagrams in support of acquisition and playback utilities in an acoustics engineering lab. Customer was very appreciative and said the diagrams actually helped them to understand the system functionality and processing. This complex C/UNIX X-Window based acoustic signal processing Acquisition Control Environment ACE software and hardware system used OpenWindows 3.0 X11 OSF/Motif 1.1 on a MASSCOMP 6650 running System V Real Time UNIX Version 5.0/6.0. Used Precision Filters system 6000 and Datachron TimeCode Translator Model 3270.

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• Successfully provided software development and conversion support of the Seamark Tech Controller software from C/UNIX SunView to XView using Sun SPARCstations in a client/server life cycle development environment using SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris BSD based UNIX OS. Used Openwindows Developer's Guide 1.1 and Dbxtool. Provided Sun SPARCstation installation/integration prior to fielding.
• Provided sensitive engineering support to national operational analysts and conducted all-source analysis and plotted results using geographical display tools on Symbolic and Sun workstations which resulted in the customer revitalizing and funding a dying unique project that later proved to be extremely valuable in critical situations. Conducted software / hardware installation and integration of Sun HPWs and mainstream analysts software packages. Performed Fortran 77 maintenance programming on DEC/MicroVAX in support of DOD mission requirements. Researched, engineered, and installed digitized JNC/TPC maps and remote sensing images on Genesis Imaging Magneto-Optical Jukebox for access to LAN usage. C/UNIX programming development efforts led to the acceptance of a statistical program and a parameter limits browsing program which served as a prototype of what was used in analyst's software packages for years thereafter.

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• Executed numerous analysis tasks and OCONUS field site system engineering, evaluation, and calibration technical support tasks for an Advanced Analysis Section of a military research laboratory.
• Telecommunications engineering Electronic Intelligence ELINT systems analytical support consisted of analytical studies, historical analysis, and long-term studies of system wide performance to determine data trends, usage, operational characteristics, and to identify special events or anomalies. Monthly message traffic reports were provided to national consumers verifying or identifying unknown elements.
• Detailed off-line signal analysis was conducted at the B and P levels to ascertain and verify known and unknown signal characteristics. Served as report task leader providing consumer monthly written reports based on intelligence derived from special task efforts. Served as database support task leader providing tuning support on field site database settings by research and analysis to help resolve anomalies. Identified high interest signal activity daily and provided same-day tip-off to cognizant authorities. Prepared and presented bi-weekly and monthly briefings to customer/internal management at analysis group meetings and Oral Technical Reviews. Provided System Engineering, Evaluation, and Calibration EE C testing at international sites to optimize system performance for system acceptance by customer. This work was in support of an advanced real-time mainframe collection/processing and reporting system using remote sensing equipment.

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As a Cryptologic Technician, served as an electronic collection, processing, and reporting analyst for the Navy's Classic Wizard Tactical Surveillance Information Processing and Reporting System. This consisted of processing, reporting, monitoring, and controlling highly sophisticated electronic equipment and digital computer systems to study electromagnetic emissions requiring time critical decisions to set up optimum processing/reporting strategies to meet a variety of tasks and consumer requirements in a most timely manner levied by the national end product consumers. Received a meritorious advancement to E-5. Also served as an assistant supervisor as an E-4 for 8 -10 man watch shift.

SOFTWARE LANGUAGES/ Scripting / GUI BUILDER'S

• PERL/CGI/HTML, C, JavaScript, C-shell, Bourne shell, Korn shell, tcsh, bash
• C/UNIX X11 OSF/Motif 1.1, 1.2 Developments BX 3.5, UIM/X 2.5, XDesigner 1.0
• C/UNIX X11 XView Conversion/Development DevGuide
• C/UNIX SunView/Suntools Development
• Visual Basic 3.0 Two Computer Based Training courses and GUI Design
• FORTRAN IV/77 Dev. /Maint, Turbo Pascal School, GW-BASIC, HP-Rocky Mountain Basic

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Red Hat Advanced Server 3-6, Red Hat Linux 6.2 7.1 Sun OS, Solaris 1-10, HP9.05/9.07, Windows 7, XP, Windows 2000/2003, Windows 95/98 NT4.0, MS Windows Workgroups 3.11, RTM and Real-Time MPX, System V Real Time UNIX Version 5.0/6.0.

UNIX SOFTWARE/PROTOCOLS: ArcSight, SSL/TLS, TCP/IP, SecureCRT, Techtia, CITRIX, Apache web server, Oracle 9/10/11, SQL, Secure Shell SSH , OpenSSH, OpenSSL, ssh-agent, Keychain, Stunnel, Secure Stronghold, telnet, ftps, Sendmail, Procmail, JDISS DII/COE, TED, Motif Window Manager, Samba, Top, Pico, Vi, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, Mosaic, X11R4/R5, SVR4/5,Common Desktop Environment CDE , OPENLOOK, dbxtool, FrameMaker 5.0, Pckermit, PC/TCP, PC-NFS, IBM TSO/204, Multimap, BBN/Slate, AutoCAD R12, SunPC, CADleaf 4.0, ForReview, Myriad, Image Tool 3.4.

PC SOFTWARE/MISC:

Libre Office suite. Ghost 8.2, Netscape 7.2, Mozilla Firefox , MIE 7.0, Microsoft Office Suite of Products, XonNet3.11 X-Windows on PCs , OnNet 2.0, Colorado Backup 2.01, MS-TCP/IP-32, Visio Technical 4.0, Microsoft Visio, ABC Snap Graphics, Smartcom LE 1.0, SmartcomFax 1.01, SoftSolutions 3.0, HiJaak PRO 2.0, IADS 1.3, AutoCAD LT., Forview 2.0, CADleaf 4.4.1.