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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Silver Spring, Md

• Senior Systems Administrator for ActioNet contract supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Service Delivery Division supporting multiple sites nationwide. Primary responsibilities included leading projects regarding deployment of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch, WSUS, Microsoft Active Directory, Hyper-V and McAfee ePO.• Manage McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 5.10. Working with the Enterprise Anti-Virus, McAfee Drive Encryption, Data Loss Protection and Host Intrusion Prevention modules.• Developed security baseline for Windows Client and Server using group policy, registry, Microsoft Security configuration and analysis tool and Nessus compliancy scanner in accordance to CIS and DoD DISA STIG guidelines. • Develop and deploy Windows images and task sequences for production network for both general system use and special project using the Operating System Deployment and Microsoft System Deployment tools in SCCM. • Manage Patch management systems to include Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Update Server for Microsoft and third party patches. • PowerShell command and scripting for task as need.• Deployed and maintained systems in Microsoft Hyper-V Server virtualization.• Windows 7 to Windows 10 Deployment upgrade and in place system upgrade.• Windows 10 in place build upgrade using SCCM to upgrade build from previous to current build.

Silver Spring, Md

• Systems Engineer for ActioNet contract supporting the National Weather Service Headquarters. Primary responsibilities included leading projects regarding deployment of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012, WSUS, Microsoft Active Directory, and MacAfee ePO.• Manage McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 5.3. Working with the Enterprise Anti-Virus, McAfee Drive Encryption, and Host Intrusion Prevention. • Developed security baseline for Windows Client and Server using group policy, registry, Microsoft Security configuration and analysis tool and Nessus compliancy scanner in accordance to USGCB and DoD DISA STIG guidelines. • Develop and deploy Windows images and task sequences for production network for both general system use and special project using the Operating System Deployment and Microsoft System Deployment tools in SCCM. • Manage Patch management systems to include Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Update Server for Microsoft and third party patches using PowerShell scripting when needed. • Deployed and maintained systems in Microsoft Hyper-V Server virtualization VMware vCenter.• Develop Virtual Desktop environment based on Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012 R2 server platform based on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 working environment. • Create, update and maintain technical documentation such as SOP’s, Work Instructions and Installation Guides to be used operationally and prepare reports to be presented to both contract and NWS leadership.

Rockville, Md

SCCM Engineer for Dell Federal Services in contract to the NRC. Daily duties involve building out software packages for remote deployment, setting up Windows updates, and developing the Windows 7 package to be deployed via the SCCM OSD.• Systems Engineer for the Dell Services Federal Government contract supporting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Primary responsibilities include leading projects surrounding SCCM 2007 R3, WSUS, Active Directory Services, and Test labs on VMware and Hyper-V. • Stand up infrastructure and lab servers including Windows 2008 R2 (also with Hyper-V) and Windows 2003 SP3. • Developed repeatable processes for developing, testing and deploying packages using SCCM R3. • Develop and deploy Windows 7 images and task sequences for production networks for both general network use and special project use the Operating System Deployment tools in SCCM. • Working with other engineers, helped to maintain the Microsoft System Center suit of software including SCCM.

Fort Belvoir, Va

Sr. Windows Systems Engineer for the Dell Services Federal Government contract supporting the Defense Treat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Primary responsibilities include leading projects surrounding SCCM R3, App-V, WSUS, Active Directory Services, and Test labs on VMware. • Assist and direct the systems administration team in projects when needed and work with helpdesk staff on upper Tier level problems/incidents requiring escalated assistance to the SCCM Team. • Create, update and maintain technical documentation such as SOP’s, Work Instructions and Installation Guides to be used operationally and prepare reports to be presented to both contract and DTRA leadership. • Stand up infrastructure and lab servers including Windows 2008 R2 (also with Hyper-V) and Windows 2003 SP3. • Developed repeatable processes for developing, testing and deploying packages using SCCM R3. • Develop and deploy Windows 7 images and task sequences for production networks for both general network use and special project use the Operating System Deployment tools in SCCM. • Working with other engineers, helped to maintain the Microsoft System Center suit of software including SCCM.• Working with Microsoft engineers to streamline processes and harden workstation images per DoD/DISA STIG requirements.• Developed an automated method to harden servers and workstation and investigated STIG settings for all Windows 2003/2008 servers in order to ensure compliance for both new servers and legacy.• Assisted Administrators and Service Desk Technicians with BitLocker encryption issues to include recovering drives from lost or corrupted TPMs using recovery keys.

Crystal City, Va

Sr. Windows Systems Engineer for the Dell Services Federal Government contract supporting the Business Transformation Agency. Primary responsibilities include leading projects surrounding SMS, WSUS, Hyper-V and Active Directory Services.

Silver Spring, Md

Worked as Systems Administrator supporting the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and Navy Medical Research Center contracts. Primary responsibilities were to maintain the servers supporting the Microsoft Active-Directory environment which included a combined workstation count of 2000+ workstations and 80+ servers across several sites worldwide.