Lance Baxter Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

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• Successfully designed & led implementation of security technologies, by evidence of zero security compromises during my tenure, via methodical implementation of compliance requirements and best practice• Actively engaged in the swift resolution of complex technical issues, delivering expert solutions for Operating System, Network, and Virtualization challenges.• Infrastructure Lead for nine classified development and testing systems & six unclassified systems comprised over 11,000 nodes.

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.• Developed a robust, interconnected software development network, enhancing collaboration across sites in Colorado, Maryland, Florida, and Pennsylvania.

• 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, Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and other core services on iSCSI storage arrays protected by Symantec Backup Exec. In addition, engage in regular maintenance of system software and hardware firmware via updates.

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 Server and EMC storage arrays.The GMSky cluster however, is a different cat entirely which is nice. I've received exposure to Puppet, writing manifest for certain categories of machines, learning Kickstart PXE kung-fu to make it all work over the wire, as well as YAML, because we don't have enough markup languages as it is. Learning new stuff is fun and CentOS rocks, definitely like it more than other distros as a server platform. Getting back full time into the *NIX world is nice, because I think the error reporting is just better in the NIX world than windows, so a simple tail -f will often clue you in, whereas in the Windows world you're playing 20 questions.

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 multiple VMview environments leveraging virtualized Windows 7 desktops accessed by zero clients utilizing the PCoIP protocol, which is hands down the best remote desktop protocol I've ever worked with and supported.Updated a couple networks domain and forest levels to 2008R2 which is amazingly simple. Migrated the domain controllers from 2003 to 2008R2 and updated the replication technology from FRS (boo!) to DFSR (yay!) which got rid of some wrapping errors.Upgraded a 2003 Exchange server that still had old 5.5 LDAP entries to 2007 using Autodiscover to automagically configure our customer's email clients combined with SSL certs to encrypt the RPC connections. Then upgraded that to Exchange 2010 which was a MUCH easier process.Performed quit a few VMware migrations on operational networks which is always a hoot.Introduced WMI queries and security filtering on group policies to flatten out Active Directory's OU structure, making it easy to maintain security compliance and adding sanity to troubleshooting.It was a great gig while it lasted and I'l always appreciate the opportunities that the job presented.

Reston, Va, Us