• Execute expert leadership and vision to plan, manage, test, and deliver all aspects of large, technical, and complex Programs/Projects, crossing multiple disciplines.• 1 of 30 individuals selected as high potential from the entire company’s nearly 9,000 employees for a 2-year long advanced business leadership development program in May 2024.• Manage a highly technical, diverse, cross-functional team of Network and Systems engineers who are responsible for product development/R&D, acting as tier 3 support for internal and external customers, support all business functions requiring advanced technical knowledge.• Implemented proven methods to optimize production while meeting financial goals and providing cost savings.• Primary Product Owner of all NSA driven Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) based PacStar products and solutions.• Responsible for architecting and assisting with development of all new CSfC based solutions.• Conceptualized and developed solutions using simulations or modeling to support expansions and change.

• Execute expert leadership and vision to plan, manage, test, and deliver all aspects of large, technical, and complex Programs/Projects, crossing multiple disciplines.• Manage a highly technical, diverse, cross-functional team of Network and Systems engineers who areresponsible for product development/R&D, acting as tier 3 support for internal and external customers, support all business functions requiring advanced technical knowledge.• Implemented proven methods to optimize production while meeting financial goals and providing cost savings.• Primary Product Owner of all NSA driven Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) based PacStar products and solutions.• Responsible for architecting and assisting with development of all new CSfC based solutions.• Conceptualized and developed solutions using simulations or modeling to support expansions and change.

• Coordinates all projects and activities assigned to the Network Engineering Team; distributing assignments, updating status, and keeping key stakeholders informed as to progress.• Provide support to the members of the Network team and engage with architecting and implementing networking solutions in our product development environment.• Serves as both a professional and technical mentor to other Network Engineers and team members.

• Responsible for designing, configuring, and maintaining internal product development data center and lab network involving 300+ devices, including various network & server devices from Cisco, Brocade, Aruba,Cradlepoint, Redcom, Vocality, HP, Dell, VMWare, PaloAlto, etc.• Cross collaboration with Software and Systems Engineering to develop network design features and functions for integrating with PacStar IQ-Core software.• Development and implementation of National Security Agency driven Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) based products.• Maintain field deployed demo equipment around Sales Engineers' schedules to optimize equipment pool availably.• Act as Sales Engineer on an as needed basis, traveling to potential customer sites to assess their technical needs, then translate this to the Account Manager to quote and sell.• Successfully assisted in design and implementation of local school district router/switch refresh. This included 12 schools as well as main District Office, 150+ routers/switches, a fully optimized new VLAN infrastructure and address space, better implementation of OSPF areas, better network security, and a more optimized data center for easier management and greater system availability.

• Design, configure and maintain 250+ remote SCADA/wind turbine networks worldwide using Cisco routers, Cisco switches, as well as Hirschmann and Moxa fiber switches.• Developed, planned, and implemented redundant network infrastructure standards to optimize network performance, minimize downtime, and minimize management tasks by 15%.• Coordinated with global network team based out of Denmark to improve their security practices and deploy more functional configurations/processes.• Single point of contact in US for troubleshooting and maintaining global DMVPN infrastructure.• Developed new network standards to meet industry/customer needs while maintaining scalability and security for global deployment.• Planned and coordinated with customers to implement secure connections between Vestas and customer site networks allowing connectivity for the appropriate devices on either network.• Developed, installed, configured, and managed Nagios and SolarWinds Orion monitoring solutions for all 250+ sites proactively solving issues and avoiding potential crisis.• Troubleshot network and server performance issues, implemented changes to resolve issues, and improved overall system performance by 25%.• Developed knowledge management repository for documented requirements, solutions, and procedures for tasks relevant to network configuration and management.• Successfully converted 20 physical servers to virtual machines using VMware vSphere and VMware Converter. Managed VMware vSphere HA cluster using vCenter, reducing downtime.• Configured and maintained 250+ standalone Windows and MSSQL server environments for proprietary Vestas software.• Configured, updated, and managed network security devices/applications in Cisco ASA, Cisco IOS, Windows Firewall, etc.• Configured and troubleshot communications to SCADA devices, such as RTACs, using DNP3 or Modbusprotocols via TCP/IP or RS-232.

• Proactively monitored hosted solutions using applications such as Nagios and Panopta; solving system & application alerts with minimal interruption.• Instructed clients to implement system changes to resolve issues; improving system performance.• Translated technical concepts to a variety of audiences from customers, developers, administrators, sales representatives, and C-Suite.• Performed preventive maintenance and upgraded systems to improve network, system and data availability and integrity.• Successfully converted and maintained physical servers to virtual machines using VMware and VMwareConverter. Managed several VMware HA clusters.• Installed, configured, and maintained applications such as: Apache, Tomcat, JBOS, IIS, FTP, VSFTP,GlobalScape FTP Server, ASP.Net, DotNetNuke, PHP, Java, Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, Varnish web caching,Drupal content management, WordPress, IBM WebSphere, etc.• Configured and maintained clustered environments for MSSQL clusters, MySQL Replication, load balanced Apache web servers, load balanced IIS web servers, LVS load balancing Linux application, etc.• Configured, updated, and managed network security devices/applications in Cisco PIX/ASA, Fortinet firewall, IPTables/Ferm firewall, Windows Firewall, etc.• Aggressively troubleshot and resolved server and network performance bottlenecks.• Configured and managed 10+ separate Windows Active Directory Domains.• Responsible for configuring and managing Windows Updates for 600+ servers using WSUS3.

• Configured and maintained 1200+ users, 800 computers, 150 groups and 20 OUs with Active Directory.• Installed and configured infrastructure services such as DNS, DHCP, and WINS.• Recommend, develop, maintain, and enforce standards for network naming, configuration, security, software installation, and software license compliance.• Served as Lead Project Manager in system wide upgrade and standardization. Responsible for planning and implementing new standards for every system throughout the organization.• Plan, implement and maintain system security procedures; monitored and documented compliance with these procedures.• Employing structured problem definition, analysis and resolutions methodology, and determination to resolve problems; improved service interruption by 15%• Developed and implemented preventive maintenance plan reducing service calls by 20%• Develop and roll-out scheduled system maintenance, backups, software updates and patches.• Provided technical support and guidance for network systems including training customers in desktop and network system operations/capabilities, advised on proper use of desktop and network features, advised on resolving malfunctions promptly while being cost effective.• Educated users about technology at their comfort level, increasing their productivity and decreasing support needs.• Cross collaboration with software and hardware vendors for planning, support, problem resolution, andmaintenance.