John E. Peterson Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Datacenter virtualization engineering. RMF security controls engineering. Red Hat system engineering. Powershell and PowerCLI scripting. VMware design and deployment.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Datacenter VMware and Nutanix HCI virtualization engineering, design, automation, and provisioning. Windows, Linux, Unix, and Ansible virtual machine deployments. Engineered solutions and created integration plans for a variety of telecommunication systems with knowledge of central office switches, and protocol engineering of ISDN, SS7/C7, SIP, and miscellaneous VoIP networks. Orchestrate technical support for cellular systems and a variety of telecommunications equipment, including installation, repairs, upgrades, and maintenance. Mobile Switching Center and Central Office engineering, digit analysis, form and database provisioning and maintenance. Perform technical troubleshooting and support Fixed wired and Cellular Engineering Team. Manage cellular site engineering, fiber optic cabling, networks, Juniper, and Cisco routers and switches. Understanding of risk management framework. Performed server build and maintenance on Microsoft server 2000, 2003, and 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2019. Active directory group policy work. Conducted technical market research to recommend the best tools to optimize large scale telecommunication, cybersecurity, and datacenter networks. Hyperconverged infrastructure project. Responsible for millions of dollars of government equipment/assets. Built network management server. Implemented and adhered to security requirements for all projects including using secured host baselines. Created detailed circuit drawings in Visio. Read 6,000 pages, self-studied five online video courses, and did over 1,500 practice questions to pass seven cybersecurity certifications including CISSP, CASP, CCSP, Pentest+, CEH, CySA+, ECES, ECIH, and SSCP. Fifty courses done with Linux academy.

Tonopah, Nevada, United States

Designed, and maintained eight different sites for WISP. Engineered all Cisco routing configurations including public static routing with route maps to provide failover between two carriers in core routers. Used Mimosa, Baicells, and Ubiquiti point to multipoint systems for WISP and contract customers. Built solar systems, industrial camera systems, conference room custom audio, phone, and server system. Built OpenNMS Linux server solution. Executed around ten contract IT jobs a month for 7 years including fiber optic repair and troubleshooting, licensed and unlicensed Mimosa, Dragonwave, and Ubiquiti microwave links. Did microwave path engineering for over 100 microwave links. Worked with AT&T for partner agreement and circuit agreements. Worked with Frontier for circuit agreements. Restored internal Ovation PLC control system servers and built ACL security in Cisco 4503 switches did Nessus vulnerability scans on wireless ISP equipment and power plant client. Used Nessus to harden our internal Ubuntu tool server for interconnection to the internet. Converted Microtik core routers to Cisco to reduce attack surface and Microtik NAT exhaustion issues. Mitigated denial of service attacks on WISP. Built remote access solution for power plant customer with Cisco router and switch. Configured HP switches. Installed and configured Motorola solar two-way radio repeater system. Built 16 IP industrial camera system with Luxon DVR for mining client with wirelessly connected cameras located on stackers and apron rock feeders. Installed and configured multiple IP HIPPA NERC/CIP compliant encrypters for mining customer. Multiple 3G and 4G cellular booster installations. Installed Grandstream UCM6510 IP-PBX and SIP trunks for Cisco CUCM. Wifi 802.11b/g/n experience with Meraki and Ubiquiti access points. Engineered, built, and installed a 50-millisecond path switching redundant high availability dual microwave system for critical pit failure radar system communications.

Master'S Degree, Cybersecurity And Information Assurance

Bachelor'S Of Science, Cybersecurity And Information Assurance

Associate Of Science - As, Computer Information Technology