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Palo Alto, CA, US

San Antonio, Texas, US

Responsible for leading security for Rackspace Government Solutions, which provides compliance-ready cloud managed environments for government entities such as the U.S. Departments of Defense, Energy and the Treasury.Actively participate as a member of RGS senior leadership on strategic goals and objectives, to include departmental budgeting and teaming.

Jersey City, New Jersey, US

- Primary leader for security services in the government contracting office managing a team of 9 IT cybersecurity consultants- Provided expertise as it relates to the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publications.

- Plan, manage, install, and perform maintenance and repair on telecommunications network equipment and terminals to include: servers, firewalls, workstations, printers, smart phones, cable distribution systems and circuit specific devices associated with local and wide area networks.- Develop, execute and maintain system security plan (SSP) for both.

- Consultant to a wide range of clients in various industries around the Washington metropolitan area totaling more than 350 workstations and over 30 servers- Network monitoring, repair and troubleshooting onsite and remotely in a 24x7 on call environment- Tier II and Tier III support for hardware and software issues- Maintain Microsoft Servers 2003, 2008.

- Plan, coordinate, install, and perform maintenance on Cisco switches in student housing.- Network Administration: Assigns IP addresses and passwords to all switches, and wireless access points throughout entire network infrastructure.- Install and configure a Linux Server for network outage notifications.- Procure hardware and software to meet customer’s.