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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Tampa, Florida, United States

Tampa, Florida, United States

Designed, procured, tested & implemented advanced network topologies in support of business partnersExtensive experience with L2/L3 technologies, campus enterprise network lifecycle management, Cisco & Aruba enterprise wireless networks

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

- Design and configure unclassified and classified networks based on direction and input from Architecture and Engineering leads- Responsibilities include the preparation of briefings, design, implementation packages as well as supporting documentation in line with standard ITIL Change Management policies- Escalated any engineering inputs for procurement through the appropriate procurement team and process for project orders

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Responsible for implementing and monitoring Knowledge systems and services. ­Implements product development and facilitates communication between internal and external customers regarding the Knowledge management programs, products, and projects. ­ Develops and implements strategies for long-term, sustainable systems to support the delivery of instruction. ­ Recommends, implements, and administers methods and procedures to enhance Knowledge Management operations.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Managed and maintained 1.5 million dollars in classified encryption keys and encryption systems owned and issued by the National Security Agency (NSA) to the COMSEC Officers are of responsibility.­Corrected 4 years of account log inaccuracies, accounting for 126 controlled items and 4 years of classified key material, increasing account accuracy from 56% to 98% in fewer than four weeks.­Selected to develop and instruct an 80 hour CompTIA Security+ organization-wide boot camp to leverage self-taught cyber security subject matter expertise in training selected service members in preparation for the CompTIA SYS-401 Security+ Certification exam.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Installed, operated, and maintained secure and non-secure voice and data networks and secure video services consisting of 5 Cisco 5915 embedded services routers (ESR) supporting Cisco Call Manager Express (CME), KLAS-designed integrated 12 port Fast Ethernet switches, 4 COM Express CPU modules supporting partitioned VirtualBox virtual machines supporting Riverbed Virtual Steelhead bandwidth optimizing technology for up to 64 users for Early Entry Packages and up to 8 users for Initial Entry Package.­Received vendor-lead training on provisioning, configuring and administering VirtualBox virtual machines to leverage as a team level subject matter expert during network operation.­Repeatedly selected among peers to train subordinate, peer, and supervising co-workers in VoIP SIP protocol functions, as well as in CME configuration to support SIP Protocol VoIP Communication department wide, training 63 technicians during 6 separate classroom styled instructions.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

­Designed, engineered, planned, tested, supervised, coordinated, and provided technical assistance for the installation, implementation, operation, systems analyst functions, unit level maintenance, and management of multi-functional/multi-user information processing systems to be utilized in support of the office of the President of the United States.­Developed Requirement Capabilities Documents to identify requirement definition, solution to meet requirement, cost breakdown, implementation solution recommendation, and engineering design to include data, voice, video, and transmission requirements.­Prepared and supervised the preparation of technical studies, evaluations, reports, correspondence, and records pertaining to data, voice, video, and transmission components integrated in tactical architecture. Developed and briefed staff, outside organizations, and multiple agencies on operational testing and recommendations on hardware components identifying advantages and disadvantages of capability.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Provides instantaneous, worldwide, 24 hour, secure non-secure voice and data within a five minute record communications capability and automated data services to the President of the United States, the Vice President, First Lady, the National Security Council, teir staffs, the U.S. Secret Service, and others as directed.Installed, Maintained and operated telephonic devices and data equipment (both hardware and software) and provided customer support assistance to personnel traveling in support of the President.Successfully completed 56 travel missions in direct support of the President of the United states, to include 36 travel missions during the 2012 campaign season.

Fort Bragg, Nc

Team Level I Network Administrator and Security Technician over Tactical Local Area Network(LAN). Deployed tactical LAN in support of Company, Battalion, and Brigade level networkoperational exercises, as well as Joint Special Operations interoperability exercises.Attended vendor lead fiber optic cable instillation and repair trainingSpecial Operations Forces Deployable Node - Heavy (SDN-H) baseband network &security technician subject matter expertICND1 & ICND2 certified under CCIE #23212 Alden KuusinenUnit appointed Tactical Local Area Network Systems training instructor, deploying to McDillAir Force base to teach TACLAN systems operations to Flag Officers, Senior Non-Commissioned Officers, and Senior Civilian Project Managers.

Afghanistan

Network and Security Administrator for a deployed network in support of Special Operations Forces. Facilitated inter-agency communications between on objective assets, forwardly deployedstrategic leadership, and other government agencies through the modification andmaintenance of on site equipment and the integration of other government agenciesnetworking assets into the camp’s overall network architecture.Unified data assets into one classified network delivering more capabilities to customers in hazardous situations.Provided on target direct short-band and wide band radio support to the supportedcustomer in an austere environment.Installed and managed Active Directory Servers, Mail Servers, Storage Servers, Riberbed Bandwidth Optimizers, and Classified Materials Servers in direct support of Special Operations Forces improving network efficiency overall by 60%, and reducing overall downtime by a measured 80% over a nine month period.Repaired fiber connections within network site. Planned and oversaw additional fiber instillation on site for improved connectivity within managed network.Established and maintained internet connectivity through VPN implementation over aSensitive but Unclassified network, providing deployed service members the ability tomaintain contact with non official entities in an austere geographically separated environment.Managed a Joint Communications Service Element (JCSE) GBS man-pack GBS system forair assets, a 1.2 meter DVB-RCS Channel Master KA antenna and subsequent baseband fortransmitting on site feeds from civilian air assets through established secure communicationsnetwork, and integrated network of KV 117R radios into the established secure network toensure direct communication lines between on ground elements from multiple organizationsand other government agencies (OGAs).Team Leader and Subject Matter Expert for all Network Related activities involving team's area of operations.

Fort Gordon, Ga

Job training to become a US Army qualified Information Technology specialist. Consisted of20 weeks of school house training in a classroom environment. Subjects included in trainingwere Cisco Routing and Switching, N+, TCIP, Switches (SIPR & NIPR), Routers (SIPR &NIPR), MS Exchange 2005, MS Server 2003, MS Windows XP / Outlook 2003, Security+,ABCS (FBCB2, TIMS, MCS) Communication Skills, and resource Management.

Information Technology & Security, Information Technology

Computer Science