Lance Baxter Email & Phone Number

Bethesda, MD, US

• Directly contributed to the growth of the program via proposal and execution of an average of thirtyfive simultaneous projects, contributing to an annual revenue stream of $85 million.
• Directly responsible for engaging customers on infrastructure proposals, buyoff and ultimately funding
• Engaged in G2G sales of the Red Dragon Cyber Security Suite netting $35 million in sales
• Contributed to the RFP and customer engagement meetings responsible for two sole source awards and award of an additional program
• Authored key program documentation (PWS, SOW, EE, RFP, RFQ), reducing procurement times and aligning with strategic goals
• Assembled a staff of over 25 professionals with high morale, as measured by an average 8% annual turnover rate by empathetic leadership and constant mentoring

Reston, VA, US

• Served as the Program Manager’s key technical advisor, consistently entrusted with the resolution of work stoppage incidents and the management of pivotal technical challenges.
• Spearheaded a team of eight systems administrators and network engineers, driving key projects and technical initiatives.
• Established the infrastructure staff team, meticulously assembling a skilled group of professionals from inception.
• Harmonized test and development systems, encompassing 2500 nodes, to meticulously meet the specifications of developers and testers.
• Orchestrated the deployment of four iterations of the GPS ground control system, instrumental for software development, integration, and system testing phases.
• Offered strategic guidance to engineering teams regarding COps requirements, ensuring rigorous system validation.

• Designed the RAINCLOUD v3 architecture utilizing Dell blades and a Xen hypervisor, which cut the total cost per customer by 40%.
• Designed the shared, failure-resistant iSCSI storage system on ZFS utilizing hybrid storage.
• Designed the new backup system, which introduced concepts such as RaaS & Global Deduplication

Cary, NC, US

Provide Systems Engineering support to the Schriever Wargame and its various table top seminars across the United States. Responsibilities range from project and logistics management, to systems administration, operating system deployment and cable pulling. The Schriever Wargame system is a small, three node VMware cluster hosting Active Directory.

Colorado Springs, CO, US

Maintain the National Tactical Data Manager (NTDM) operational and development suites, and support the GMSky Hadoop cluster as an augementing system administrator. Other than re-designing the iSCSI storage topology while the system was operational, NTDM has been super easy. Maintain this, update that, it's all pretty par for course for VMware, Windows.

Cary, NC, US

During my time with USfalcon I maintained several networks of varying size. Ran on the update treadmill for several years updating Windows, VMware, Symantec Products, McAfee ePO & it's suite of products like Enterprise Antivirus and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) & firmware in order to stay current, stable, secure and not to mention compliant.Installed.

Reston, VA, US