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San Antonio, Texas, United States

Develops and maintains cyber ranges supporting the Army’s Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE) and classified Regional Compute and Storage (RCS) for Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA). Serves as the only PCTE technician and Field Service Representative in JBSA. Coordinates with multiple organizations to meet customer requirements. Provides on-site support ensuring successful range deployment in support of multiple large scale cyber exercises.

San Antonio, Texas

Engineers, maintains, and secures cyber test and training environments supporting USAF cyber operations.Designs and configures a variety of on-demand physical and virtual networks and equipment including Linux, Microsoft, Cisco, VMware, ESXi, Dell Servers, VOIP and cellular networks. Implements security measures utilizing DISA STIGs and DoD regulations.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Directed $18M cyber platform and 7-person team during 2K operations against 100K targets. Managed and Developed Organization’s training program; provided 900 hours of hands-on instruction; certified 23 instructors and 43 cyber operators. Generated cyber operation analysis and training metrics ensuring Head Quarter oversite and transparency. Supervised personnel scheduling requirements; coordinated 1500 business trips and vacation days while maintaining 100% staffed cyber operation teams. Maintained organization’s live operations network and training simulator consisting of 120 Microsoft and Linux servers across 3 separate virtual environments.

Osan Air Base, South Korea

Directed IT system administration requirements for 13 networks providing 24/7 operations support for multiple world-wide organizations. Led Information Security program; managed 26 accredited systems and collected and reviewed system audits. Managed organization’s $60K annual operations and maintenance budget, which maintained a $20M facility. Upgraded site’s internal network to a virtual environment; established organization’s first-ever virtual network launch.

Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio Tx

Supervised 13 person Operations Center providing IT support for 2K customers, 60 networks, and $500M of communications and computer hardware. Authored technician procedure manuals; streamlined 100+ tasks and drove resolution of 3.6K trouble tickets. Revamped work center training program; eliminated redundancy of 50+ tasks; decreased training time by 14 days for 30+ technicians. Directed site-wide Microsoft Exchange upgrade; led 30+ fix actions and ensured a seamless transition for 2K customers.

Osan Air Base, South Korea

Monitored 7th Air Force communications outages for entire South Korean peninsula.

Macdill Air Force Base, Tampa Florida

Charleston, South Carolina Area, Osan Air Base, South Korea

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology: Cyber Security, 3.7 Gpa

Associate'S Degree, Cybersecurity, 3.7 Gpa

Associate'S Degree, Information Technology, 3.7 Gpa