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Auburn, Alabama, United States

Auburn, Alabama, United States

* Provided contract support to numerous architecture and engineering projects involving IT and Networking

Anchorage, Alaska

* Managed and lead IT Infrastructure team through design, implementation, migration, and retirement of existing systems, all while staying under budget, on schedule, and fully operational* Performed a myriad of datacenter-related activities, from power distribution to HVAC, storage , virtualization, compute, and networking.* Managed and lead Service Desk team from triage through resolution of numerous incidents* Held numerous training/mentoring sessions to cross-train and support team members* Supported cyber-security assessments, mitigations, and resolutions

Core Competencies:* Network and IT Security* Network Infrastructure Architecture (WAN/LAN)* Computer Infrastructure* Architecture (Unified)* Storage Infrastructure Architecture (SAN/NAS)* Linux (Numerous distros)* Unix (Multiple vendors)* Windows (Enterprise)* Virtualization* Substantial shell automation/scripting* DevOps Environments* Software Development (multiple languages)* Software Development Lifecycle (Agile/SCRUM)* Databases (SQL-based)* Cloud, Distributed, and High Performance Computing* Strategic Planning* Performance Optimization* Budgeting* Crisis Management* Organizational Leadership* Multi-Site Operations* Best Practices and Benchmarking* Mentoring and training teams and team members

* Computer PlatformsOracle/Sun, SGI, IBM, and a considerable array of x86 hardware including blade servers, standard servers, and workstations (zero, thin, and thick clients)* NetworkCisco (Catalyst, Nexus, ASR, ASA), Juniper, Watchguard, Barracuda Networks* StorageDataDirect Networks, EMC/Clariion/Isilon, Oracle/Sun, Brocade (including Encryption Switches), QLogic, Mellanox. Interconnects using SCSI, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Infiniband, CIFS/NFS* Video Systems & Signals Lightware, Extron, Leitch, Pioneer, Miranda, a variety of signal types and transports including CVBS, YUV, RGBHV, SDI, DVI, HDMI. Encoding/decoding systems: Astria, Amino, and Makito handling MPEG-2 (H.262) and MPEG-4 (H.264)* Operating SystemsLinux (RHEL/CentOS/SL/OL, Debian/Ubuntu, SuSE, Arch, etc), FreeBSD, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, OSX/macOS, Windows (7, 8, 10, 2K3, 2K8, 2K12, 2K16), a variety of filesystems (ext2/3/4, NTFS, ufs, xfs, zfs, FAT, VxFS), a variety of LVM products (Sun Disksuite, Veritas VxVM, SGI XLV, Linux LVM)* Network Systems Ethernet, ATM, Wireless, Frame Relay, Bridging, Switching, Routing, VLANs, VRFs, STP, HSRP/VRRP, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, NAT, IPSec/SSL VPNs, IPv4/IPv6, Link Aggregation (Etherchannel, PAgP, LACP, etc), Trunking (dot1q)* Computer SystemsNFS/CIFS, DNS, Active Directory/GPO, LDAP, DHCP, PKI/CA, Kerberos, Sendmail, Postfix, NTP, Databases (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL), Backup and Restore (Amanda, Legato, Veritas), Solaris Jumpstart, Linux Kickstart, Web Servers (Apache, IIS), Application Servers (Glassfish, JBoss, Tomcat, WebLogic), CM (RCS, SVN, CVS, Git), Splunk* VirtualizationVMware (vSphere/ESXi, vCenter, vMotion, HA, DRS, FT), Microsoft (Hyper-V), Xen, Oracle VM for SPARC/LDOMs, KVM, Docker* CloudSaaS, IaaS, PaaS, AWS* ProgrammingPerl, Python, UNIX shell, Java, Tcl/Tk, C/C++, Assembly (8088/8086, Motorola 68000, SPARC, MIPS), Fortran, Pascal, Ada, SQL, X11, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

* Led 24x7x365 mission critical team of network and systems engineers* Created and ensured adherence to new SOPs for productivity and documentation on mission critical programs* Decreased response time for Tier 2, 3 and 4 support through restructuring of information flows and improved team communication* Effectively led teams of engineers during multiple periods of national disasters while still maintaining productivity, responsiveness and morale* Led daily mentoring sessions of senior and junior engineers* Taught weekly technology workshop to further advance team education in technology and processes* Interacted on daily basis with Customers to assess technological needs * Architected and led implementation of environment consisting of 1000s of servers, storage and networks* Performed forensic testing of network, storage, servers, and workstations, both physical and virtual* Led team supporting workstations and servers utilizing 5+ PB of storage and 1000s of 10G and 1G Ethernet ports* Architected, implemented, and transitioned complete analytical computer system supporting LVSD missions for NGA analysts. This system supported multiple sites and numerous analysts simultaneously analyzing hundreds of TBs of archived mission data* Designed and built complete serial control system (like an AMX or Crestron) to control a variety of A/V systems with a touch screen. Wrote custom GUI code in Tcl/Tk to provide simple interface to allow operators simplified control of entire A/V system. This system saved the U.S. Government approximately $50K in initial costs, and approximately $25K in yearly recurring costs while providing a custom, in-house managed system that could be modified easily and quickly