Dennis Panek Email & Phone Number

Columbia, Md, Us

- Architecture and engineering in support for the DoD Armed Forces Branch Cloud Initiatives within a DoD IL4/5 Enclave.- Architectural and engineering lead for Cloud Migration efforts of Agency infrastructure and applications, including refactoring efforts to bring applications more inline with Cloud Native designs and AWS and DoD best practices.- Lead efforts to instill and mature DevOps cultural philosophies, practices, and tools to increase team’s ability to deliver, manage and secure the environment as Infrastructure as Code (IAC) initiatives and looking to implement practices such as GitOps.

Lorton, Va, Us

- Architecture and engineering in support of a DoD Armed Forces Branch Initiatives within a DoD IL4/5 Enclave.- Architectural and engineering support for Cloud Migration efforts of Agency applications, including refactoring efforts to bring applications more inline with Cloud Native designs.- Act as a Cloud Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support Cyber Security and Operational support needs for Cloud related activities.

Leesburg , Va, Us

- Engineering and operations for a major DoD Agency supporting the Agency’s Cloud Environments.- Architectural and engineering support for Cloud Migration efforts of Agency applications, including refactoring efforts to bring applications more inline with Cloud Native designs.- Architectural, engineering and operations support of Agency Tech Offices programs and projects in Cloud adoption efforts.

Reston, Va, Us

- Engineering and operations for a major DoD Agency supporting the Agency’s Cloud Environments.- Architectural and engineering support for Cloud Migration efforts of Agency applications, including refactoring efforts to bring applications more inline with Cloud Native designs.- Designed and implemented an AWS Transit Gateway (TGW) solution in AWS GovCloud and migrated all existing accounts and VPCs.- Developed and piloted AWS Organizations design for accounts and Service Control Policies (SCP) to limit scope of access at the account level.

Falls Church, Virginia, Us

- Engineering and operations of a managed hosting environment infrastructure and service offerings for GDIT customer projects that conform to NIST Moderate Security Controls. - Architectural, engineering and operations support of project teams in support of the GDIT Projects within the managed hosting environment including system requirements identification, security concern resolution, accreditation tasks assistance and management of the CI/CD tool chain.- Architecture and Engineering of next-gen managed services environment housed in AWS GovCloud conforming to NIST Moderate and FedRAMP Moderate Security Controls- Architectural and engineering support of GDIT Projects migration efforts into various cloud offerings such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

Falls Church, Va, Us

- Capture, engineering and implementation of solutions in support of operations at the US. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).- Systems engineering and support for the Health Claims Data Warehouse (HCDW) including assistance in system requirements identification, security concern resolution and accreditation tasks assistance.- Collaborate with OPM Security Operations team with creation of up to date Operating System baselines and compliance templates for deployment within the enterprise using a combination of NIST Guidance, Best Practices and internal OPM policy.- Assist OPM Network Management teams with Plan of Action and Milestone (POA&M) resolution efforts within the agency.

Reston, Virginia, Us

- Management of systems in a customer TEST/QA environment and an internal development environment in support of DoD application development projects. - Implementation and maintenance of DoD security requirements on the networks. This includes following STiGs, Common Criteria guidelines and security Best Practices.- Installation and administration of Operating Systems, primarily Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, including tuning, patching and upgrades.- Installation and administration of RDBMS software and support tools, primarily Oracle Database 11G/12C and Oracle Grid 11G/Cloud 12C Control, including tuning, patching and upgrades. - Support of development teams in resolution of engineering and support issues with Apache and Tomcat including SSL/PKI configuration, JDK/JRE tuning, and Oracle Connection Pooling.- Assist management in identifying growth plans involving network layout, hardware and software upgrades and data center capacity planning to provide better budget planning.- Successfully virtualized environment on to VMWare to lower maintenance costs and allow more flexibility and agility on system deployment and allocations. Implemented vCenter to centralize management of hosts.

New York, Ny, Us

- Support of systems on customer hosting networks including an accredited DoD enclave.- Implementation and maintenance of DoD security requirements on the networks. This includes following STiGs, Common Criteria guidelines and security Best Practices and the submission of SRR’s and POA&M’s, and IAVA compliance reporting as per Navy guidelines.- Assist DBA in installation and management of Oracle products, including patching upgrades and hardening tasks.- Successfully implemented and managed infrastructure services in support of networks such as DNS and mail.- Assist management in identifying growth plans involving network layout, hardware and software upgrades and data center capacity planning to provide better budget planning.- Document systems per DoD guidelines to assist in the DITSCAP/ DIACAP accreditation process.- Successful migration of the network from a single segment network into a multi segment network consisting of security zones based on best practices, greatly increasing the security of the network.- Received an Authority to Operate (ATO) from the Navy to host and run applications on the customer support network, assisted in the preparation and documentation in order to file and pass multiple C&A.

Houston, Texas, Us

- Supported MCI contract supporting over 1000 systems for MCI in a production environment, with a focus on Sun Solaris systems (Solaris 6, 8, and 10)- Performed day to day System Administration tasks on systems. Tasks included package adds, patching, system reboots, file system cleanup, system builds and restores.- Focus on integration of EDS systems and procedures to support the contract. Work extensively with the customer in order to fulfill requirements.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

- Provided second tier troubleshooting to the Server Operation Center, which was responsible for all monitoring and escalation of machine issues.- Performed day to day System Administration tasks on systems. Tasks included package adds, patching, system reboots, file system cleanup, system builds and restores.- Responsible for installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of hardware both in a 500 host data center and over 1200 world-wide deployed servers.- Created standardized deployment procedures for hardware in both local data centers and field deployments.- Qualified, tested, and documented new or potentially new hardware for MCI production infrastructure. Feedbacks on prototype hardware lead to changes found in retail hardware such as the Sun Sunfire Series and the Dothill Sannet Series.

Us

- Responsible for performing systems administration work in conjunction with senior level systems administrators on systems.- Responsible for performing system backups on production systems.- Installed and configured hardware in datacenters and remote hub sites. Installed operating systems on systems