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Falls Church, Va, Us

•Designed, documented, and managed a software security review and approval process (SAT) handling over 9000 approved software items across a 6000+ person program spanning dozens of suppliers across the US. Processed 50 new requests a week. Trained and managed over 380 people working part-time in the process. Resolved conflicts and drew consensus among teams.•Proposed and managed multiple IT projects including a process/software upgrade to SAT.•Lead program-wide audit IT hardware and software. Collated and formatted data to reveal inconsistencies. Wrote Excel scripts to look-up and format data for Customer deliverable. Documented thousands of pieces of hardware down to individual computers and hard drives and thousands of pieces of software down to specific version numbers.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Leaded Unix sysadmin for a closed software development area from August, 2015 to present.-Administered DevOps of 100 engineers and software developers working a dozen programs on five disconnected networks. Engineered and built software solutions to directly meet their needs.Debugged complex performance and engineering problems involving high-end Solaris and Linuxsoftware development. This enabled the teams to meet cost and schedule and receive 100% awardfees multiple times.-Maintained day to day operation, maintenance, and upgrades of multiple Linux, Solaris, and VMware infrastructures at two data centers and over 100 workstations in a TS//SCI SCIF across five disconnected networks.-Administered security scans, wrote hardening scripts and system documentation, met with security inspectors, and worked with security officers to meet ICD 503 requirements. Maintained, monitored, and updated auditing systems and scripts for several networks. All systems have continuously kept their Authorization To Operate, enabling programs to meet cost and schedule targets.-Maintain, update and audit FlexNet licenses through FlexNet Manager, SAMBA file service, andSubversion server.-Learn, deploy, and tuned SUSE Linux for large memory footprint image processing applications.

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering