Helping customers adopt tooling and capabilities for CloudOps, Observation, Metrics and Governance/Compliance.

Secure Cloud Architecting with a focus on Automated Secure Infrastructures. CTO Award April - June 2017 for automation efforts in Hilton Cloud

Perform Daily routine tasks: scanning files, updating IAVA scans, perform Retina Scans and remediate as necessary.Engineered and performed the implementation of a one way transfer guard device that is PL4/PL5 certificatied and accredited.OWL Diode EngineeringProficient at SELinux MLS environments, SELinux policy building, bug tracking, and implementation.CIPSO/IPv4 Packet Labeling Completely Secure Tresys Clip environmentsLinux KVM (libvirt) experience, failover, engineeringVMware experience.Pentesting and forecasting of engineered environments, with regard to security footprint, and general security profiling.Automation Engineering: Foreman Provisioning, Security Management utilizing Open Source Puppet. Graylog2 Syslog Systems (open source splunk)Juniper SRX220 Management and Administration.Cray/YarcData appliance troubleshooting, maintenance, hardeningSGI UV Platform troubleshooting, implementation, hardening. Proficient at UV2k, UV10, UV100 systemsPython 2.6 and Python 3 scripting with a focus on data conditioning, security, automation engineering.

Perform Daily routine tasks: scanning files, updating IAVA scans, perform Retina Scans and remediate as necessary. Engineered and performed the implementation of a one way transfer guard device that will undergo PL4/PL5 certification and accreditation.Proficient at SELinux MLS environments, SELinux policy building, bug tracking, and implementation.Installed Tresys Clip environmentsLinux KVM (libvirt) experience, failover, engineeringPentesting and forecasting of engineered environments, with regard to security footprint, and general security profiling.Attained CISSP.

Opsware Implementation Assisted in the engineering of the only PL4 virtual desktop program for our customer.Performed DR analysis and execution of production environment.Reviewed and updated engineering SOP, transition plans, DR documents.Train teammates in the underpinnings of Solaris/Linux.Provided Team Lead guidance through core engineering phases of program.Briefed senior stakeholders within the program, consulted with SES/SME regarding feature updates, and troubleshooting processes.VMware 3.5/4.0ESXi creation and administration.Trained in Implementation/Administration of Opsware Server Automation.Built custom Opsware Virtual node for training and testing.

responsible for monitoring and maintaining a number of servers, all running COTS/GOTS software. All unique OS, HW Spec, and network requirements.Assist in the deployment of Software to the Dev, Test, and Prod environments.Attend ICCB meetings where roadblocks are discussed, timelines adjusted, and planning occur.Management of SUN CAM alarmsManagement of HP Openview alarmsEngineer and Administrate the NAS/SAN environments. (Sun StorageTek)Oversight of helpdesk transactions and provide 2nd & 3rd Tier supportWhile maintaining project responsibilities, also straddled with running the IT operations of the Centennial Park Drive L-3 Building. Responsible for Secretary thru VP level staff IT tranquility.

Accurate/timely deployments from 5-9 servers upwards to 120+, all with different ACL/hardware/software/OS specsMaintaining adhering to technical design documents, conforming to meet the customer's need.Troubleshooting DOA hardware, provisioning environment.Correcting last minute problems in design drafts.Technical Project Management, Lead team members of 3-4 people, during site buildUpdated provisioning environment to a state-of-the-art provisioning forge, reducing build time, hours to several minutes.

Certified HP administrator, oversight of all HP changes (hardware, firmware, imaging).Dublin, Ireland to oversee the first successful build out of Dublin and Luxembourg datacenters on time and with minimal effort.RedHat System administration of every server in the Amazon fleet, validating fleet integrity, and insuring B2V SLA requirements was met.Project creation, lifecycle, expandability, performed secondary, as server integrity is my foremost priority.Administration, break/fix of cluster environments serving sites such as IMDB, Amazon.com, S3 and EC2.

Provisioning, QA, repair of Solaris/RH/BSD systems.Assist Veritas Backup Admin in making sure all Solaris/RH/BSD machines record intervals/fulls to meet disaster recovery SLAs.Customize customer solutions to provide best configuration needed to insure operational, lifecycle and expandability for SUN environmentsInvestigation and gathering information for environments to report to upper management.Performing active/passive nessus scans of environments, finding holes, gaining access, and producing data to the client to display severity of issue.

Regulating/maintaining IT workflow for Dept of State.Administer SIPERNET, OPENNET, FADS/SFADS systems.Assist Microsoft taskforces responsible for updating of State Department infrastructure within embassies around the world.Intermediate knowledge of the Dept of State infrastructures regarding IT offices and staff was crucial to appointing problems, to their prospective owners.

Proficient in UNIX/LINUX/BSD/IRIX environments; knowledge of infrastructure systems key to managing AOL servicesProduction and configuration of advertisements across the AOL client and corresponding web portals.Advanced knowledge/use of proprietary systems eg. SAPI, STRATUS modules were crucial to admin AOL backend systems.

extensive experience in NOC management of a multi-million dollar ASP.Extensive knowledge of monitoring tools such as: HP Openview, RiverSoft, Remedy, What's Up Gold and EWatcher.Installation and setup of fiber infrastructures, software and hardware installation and configuration on enterprise Compaq and Sun Platforms.Organizing maintenance windows and conducting maintenance for vendor to BCE services, customer downtime management; and network/hardware maintenance.

, configured and provisioned all DSL, ISDN, and Dial-Up connectivity issues involving TCP/IP, BGP4, and DNS.Many types of modems and routers including Cisco, Flowpoint, Netopia, Nortel, Ascend, Intel, IBM and Egress Circuits (DS-3, T-1's; that link dialup/ISDN client to UUNet's backbone.Provided permanent virtual circuits, subscriber records, and IP statements.Lead for DSL Tier II, managed, monitored, tested, and maintained UUNET Egress Circuits that fed DSL clients the requisite bandwidth