Brian W Email & Phone Number

Bethesda, MD, US

• New Role: Subcontractor Work Package Manager/Cost Account Manager for 6.8M account encompassing Compute/HPC, Storage, Data Protection Services, Networking, and Cyber.
• Architect and Desktop Lead.
• Cyber Security team member: evaluating security risks and providing solutions. Automating security solutions and hardening through scripts and Ansible. Simplifying system administration to strengthen security..
• Vulnerability assessment and mitigation.
• STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guide) hardening.
• High Performance Computing (HPC).

Bethesda, MD, US

• Managed several clouds across multiple sites providing Tier 3 support utilizing VMware products such vCenter Server, vCloud Director and vCenter Operations Manager. Provided remedies, scripts, and triage services in an.
• Performed maintenance for Linux architectures with VMware and Citrix. Analyzed performance and made recommendations to resolve short term and long term problems
• Upgraded environment from VMware 5.1 to 5.5
• Standardized virtualization environment using Host Profiles and VUM
• Reconfigured RHEL 6.x servers for new network architecture
• Backup scrum master

Bethesda, MD, US

• Originally brought in for a 2-3 month surge period and soon became a valued member of the team for the PSEG Long Island Outage Management System (OMS) project. Ultimately, supporting every major capability of the OMS.
• IaaS-SaaS liaison for VMware in a Cloud Computing setting, Active Directory, Storage, and Architecture
• Mobile Infrastructure Lead for truck fleet working with subcontractor and customer representatives. Handling significant program risk due to late start.
• Architecture Diagrams using Visio
• Supported Citrix XenApp 7.2 with Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012
• Netmotion VPN/2FA (2 factor authentication with smart cards)

Bethesda, MD, US

• Led team of system administrators/infrastructure engineers through life cycles in areas such as operating systems (Windows/Red Hat Linux) including security hardening/scan remediation with DISA/Retina products.
• Supported application development and infrastructure installation (such as DNS)
• Set up Cloud storage for Lockheed Martin Intelligence Community Cloud
• Upgraded VMware/vCenter from 4.1 to 5.0 to 5.1 to 5.1 Update 1c.
• Key contributor in design and deployment of 114 VMs with 44 ESXi Hosts with 10 PB of storage for largest Full Motion Video (FMV) siteo SRA (Special Recognition Award): 11/2012
• Part of Operations and Lab Support team. Pager duty.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Analyzed hardware and software issues for Solaris, Windows, and IRIX operating systems in high availability operational setting
• Resolved workflow issues with workarounds
• Interfaced and supported multiple customers and upgrades
• Worked with vendors to facilitate problem resolution
• Wrote scripts for Apache web server and system administration tasks using various shells
• Maintained SAN switches and Marconi ATM/Ethernet network equipment

Bethesda, MD, US

• Led a team of system administrators through development and delivery of a security hardened Solaris and Windows 2000 system
• Taught system administration course for an on-site team
• Researched system-level requirements and software solutions for RFCs & BOEs to craft affordable COTS-based solutions to meet the customer's needs
• Responsible for learning COTS/GOTS software for installations, integrations, configurations, customer support, and PR work-off
• Provided analysis and verification methods for 25% of program’s requirements
• Configured special case scenarios involving GUIs, multi-monitor set-ups, unique hardware, and printing

Bethesda, MD, US

• Demonstrated strong C/C++, cross-platform implementation skills without training and with minimal supervision
• Used OOA/OOD/OOP methodologies to code 7000+ lines of code as well as incorporating a GUI
• Wrote Unix scripts for DB interfacing, test case support, baseline build support, and system administration tasks

Glassboro, NJ, US

• Developed lesson plans
• Instructed five hands-on Computer Literacy classes in the areas of office productivity (Microsoft Office): word processing (Word), spreadsheets (Excel), databases (Access) as well as Internet applications

• Provided network support and problem solving
• Researched office solutions as well as installed hardware and software
• Organized and instructed workshops on various applications to faculty and staff

• Aided and tutored students in the areas of application software, operating systems, programming languages,and hardware
• Performed software set-up and hardware maintenancePromoted to Lab Supervisor, June 1993. New responsibilities:
• Tracked Work Study grant against students’ hours to ensure standard lab hours through end of each semester for 3 labs
• Supervised up to 13 Technicians in addition to previous duties

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science