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Annapolis Junction, Md

Responsible for management and delivery of multiple task orders for a U.S. government customer, including task orders for deploying an OpenShift-based Platform as a Service solution; developing and deploying standardized data centers to support Infrastructure as a Service initiatives; and developing web applications and databases to manage system compliance.Led effort to develop and deploy web applications and databases to support customer’s requirement for maintaining and validating compliance of web servers in customer’s cloud environments. Developed applications and RESTful services using CakePHP framework in OpenShift Platform as a Service environment with MySQL; Twitter Bootstrap; JavaScript with jQuery; CSS; and Git. Also responsible for development of utilities to query large databases containing data from Nessus security scans and create data products used to measure compliance with key security requirements.Led effort to gain and maintain security accreditation for customer’s internal OpenShift environment. Developed capacity dashboard web application to display resource allocation and usage metrics in VMware- and OpenStack- and OpenShift-based cloud computing environments using Apache, PHP and MySQL with PKI certificate-based authentication and a simplified Model-View-Controller framework.Led multi-team effort to create a standardized build procedures used to build a utility cloud computing environment from rack elevation diagrams to network infrastructure installation to infrastructure services installation and configuration. Maintained hardware baseline to facilitate purchase of standardized systems.

Led team of nine to 18 system engineers and developers on technical task order for program to to develop common enterprise data center designs and standard loads for VMware ESXi, Solaris, Linux and Windows Server.Collected and correlated data from multiple asset management databases to develop consolidation strategies for reducing power, space and cooling footprint in scattered data through virtualization (through VMware ESXi. Solaris Zones and Logical Domains) to increase efficiency.Advised federal government agency on strategy for deploying virtualization technologies for servers (SPARC and x86) to save power, space and cooling. Provided detailed analyses of hardware and operating system environments to use as baseline in working with organizations to determine where to apply virtualization for short-term benefits.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Led team of eight consultants to develop and present strategies for the IT division of a federal agency to centralize management of IT assets from business units.Provided leadership for firm’s Virtualization Special Interest Group to consolidate intellectual capital and develop services based on virtualization technologies.

Developed consolidation strategies and system architecture for hundreds of Sun SPARC servers onto modern hardware. Developed bash scripts to collect information in support of consolidation determinations.Developed architecture, design and deployment plan for a government agency’s migration of over 70 IBM AIX and Windows servers and databases to Sun servers.Responsible for successful deployment of 80 servers for a large government SAP implementation, including nine SunFire F15K servers and eight Sun Clusters, and integration with 70 TB of array storage at two sites. Led team of twelve consultants for system design, installation and test. Developed Sun Cluster agent for system management applications.Managed team of nine technical consultants, assigning goals and engagements, conducted performance reviews. Maintained highest team utilization in country.Responsible for successful bid, development and deployment of a state’s Web and Interactive Voice Response system for driver license renewal. Managed development subcontract and team of 15 consultants.Led team in successful migration of a civilian government agency’s e-mail system to a high availability solution with Sun Cluster software and Sun StorEdge arrays.Led teams of engineers in planning, installation, integration and test of Enterprise 10000 servers (including High-Performance Computing software) and storage (RAID arrays and tape libraries) at a variety of customers and provided mentoring for other project managers on similar engagements. Led team of engineers and technicians in the staging and installation of over 200 Sun Enterprise servers with EMC arrays at over 50 sites in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic for a large telecommunications customer.Led planning, installation and integration of first production sites for the Sun Cluster SAP R/3 agent. Led team of SAP Basis and Sun engineers to install, configure and test systems, as well as prepare documentation for production systems.

Mclean, Va

Provided system engineering and technical assistance support to the Image Product Library (IPL) Program Office. Installed and integrated software (including Sybase Server), trained staff and coordinated customer support at a variety of DOD sites. Installed systems, coordinated site support activities and provided system administration for various demonstrations.

System engineering, R&D focused on imagery exploitation software and imagery dissemination.

Chief, Imagery Systems Branch for an Air Intelligence Squadron.Advanced Projects Manager, Program Manager.