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Aldie, Virginia, United States

Manassas, Virginia, United States

• Ventech Solutions (CMS Contract) Sr. Manager Enterprise Architecture03/15/2017 to Current
• Led the transformation of AWS cloud-based networking and Security appliances to provide a more robust, secure, and less complex infrastructure. This involved the deployment of F5 SSLO to decrypt traffic for analysis in.
• Led team in redesigning core routing between AWS VPCs and accounts to remove vendor-specific Cisco CSR routers as the cloud backbone and migrate to AWS Transit Gateway. This effort reduces cost and administrative.
• Led team in the architecture and deployment of certificate management to address encryption needs
• Led development of DEVSECOPS shift security left solution for pulling together various vulnerability and compliance feeds from OWASP, Static, Dynamic code analysis tools, and Infrastructure as code scanning to provide.
• Led Zero Trust gap analysis for the federal government and proposed conceptual architecture as a target toward achieving Zero Trust compliance. I created a roadmap for working toward meeting compliance.

Chantilly, Virginia, United States

• DXC (CMS Contract) Technical Consultant 503/15/2017 to 07/31/2018
• Infrastructure engineering lead accountable for the delivery of on-premise and cloud computing services for a large government contract.
• Led designing and deploying a Hybrid Cloud solution to integrate an on-premises data center with Amazon Web Services. This included parallel routing between legacy DMZ, Application, and Data zones.
• Led the deployment and operational transition of the AWS Cloud services to support customer applications development and delivery.
• Technical lead in deploying a new SAN infrastructure with a capacity reaching the 40+ petabyte range.
• Led team in designing and upgrading data center load balancers from Cisco ACE to F5 Big IP appliances.

Chantilly, Virginia, United States

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (CMS Contract) Technical Consultant 505/21/2015 to 03/15/2017
• Provided operational support, architecture, and team leadership for the federal government under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services HCQIS & Qualitynet programs.
• Engineering and coordinating the network portion of a data center move from Warrenton to Ashburn, VA, of 300 racks of equipment and 2000+ servers and storage.
• Developed a Cloud-based solution for the HCQIS program that will allow the customer to leverage computer-based resources in the Cloud in parallel with on-premise resources.
• The operational and engineering processes were transformed from a technology-based organization to a functional-based team.
• Led the architecture and project management of a network upgrade project to modernize the data center converting from 1gig to 10gig Ethernet based on Cisco Nexus switching utilizing Nexus 7009, 5548, 2232, 2248.

Warrenton, Virginia, United States

• General Dynamics Information Technology (CMS Contract) Sr. Manager of Network Eng.05/06/2008 to 05/21/2015
• Provided operational support, architecture, and team leadership for the federal government under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
• Built and sustained a network engineering team in support of a large data center and national WAN.
• Provided data center facilities support of CRAC units, UPS, rack space, automatic transfer switches, and electrical. Developed procedures for the deployment and options of the data center facilities. Work to establish.
• Sustained network infrastructure consisting of Cisco ASA5500 firewalls, Catylist 3750G, 4506 switches; CSS load balancers; 2800, 2900, 3700, 3900 routers and Juniper Netscreen firewalls.
• Provided leadership in architecture and project management of network upgrade project to modernize the data center converting from 1gig to 10gig Ethernet based on Cisco Nexus switching utilizing Nexus 7009, 5548, 2232.

Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States

• The Signature Group Manager Network Operations Center12/28/2006 to 05/01/2008
• Built managed service-based network operations center to monitor small to medium size business IT infrastructures.
• Recommend and deploy a system to meet a growing customer base.
• Worked with businesses to develop processes for customer certification.
• Create all NOC processes.
• Built and managed a team in day-to-day operations for the NOC.