Conducting SCADA and IT infrastructure designs as well as Vulnerability assessments for multiple clients.Performing cybersecurity reviews and audits for multiple Department of Defense clients, including Tier 1 and Tier 2 facilities.

Senior Infrastructure Architect and Security Engineer assigned to the Commercial Banking DivisionTechnical lead

Provide senior level technical consulting services to selected clients such as CPAK solutions, Real Estate brokers, Axim Global, FiServ, etc. Consulted to a large financial institution, conducted a comprehensive review of their Disaster Recovery program, IT architecture, and IT Security practices. Authored 24 month road maps for all three focus areas. Selected deliverables included:Cloud adoption strategy comparing and recommending options such as onsite, offsite, or hybrid cloud and examine if no cloud adoption was appropriate. Analyzed and recommended adoption strategies, infrastructure and security related items to consider as well as operational and supportability impactsReviewed existing disaster recovery and business continuity programs, performed gap analysis, and made recommendations as to scope additions, how to improve the disaster recovery testing methodology and execution and recommendations for documentation improvementsComprehensive review of their IT Security practices including vulnerability scanning and management practices, DMZ designs and deployments, and incident response practicesComprehensive review of their IT architecture practices including recommendation to create reference architectures for repeated designs such as Oracle RAC clusters, MS SQL clusters, ESX clusters, web server farms, Big Data clusters, etc. Suggested improvements in IT architecture cross-functional engagement and how to best perform architect design review processes (internal reviews, cross-functional project reviews, overall reviews)Consulting to Axim Global to a large health care provider. Reviewing their existing Business Process Outsourcers to validate their networking environment, security policies and posture, PCI and HIPAA compliance, and work from home agent polices and configuration

Provide senior level technical leadership to the IT Security division as well as acting as a SME for networking, SAN, storage, networking, and Unix based projectsInfrastructure SME for the SIEM transformation project. Duties include interfacing with the network and backbone teams to ensure network communication, infrastructure design and procurement (both physical and virtual), and vendor managementDesigned multiple Qualys vulnerability scanning solutions. Examples include newly acquired Cox subsidiaries, Cox Video delivery, Service Provider Network, and Cox Internet BackboneLead internal training sessions department wide on topics that include the CISSP exam, networking concepts, and internal platform technical documentationDesigned the infrastructure to support multiple security tool platforms’ production and non-production environments such as Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics, connectivity to Blueprint and TrapolloLiaison to the Enterprise Solution Design (ESD) team. Responsible for determining and authoring cross-functional team processes and procedures, and ensuring security compliance for all designs and educating ESD architects on security requirementsSenior technical member of the IT Security “tiger team” who led incident response initiatives to multiple security incidents, both internal and external

Provide senior level technical leadership to the Enterprise Solution Design (ESD) team, including functioning as a SME for security, networking, SAN, storage,, and Unix solutions.Designed the VMware ESX, storage, and networking infrastructure to support the Internet facing www.cox.com production and non-production environmentsDesigned the VMware ESX, storage, and networking infrastructure to support the Cox Contact Center platform for both the production and non-production environments ensuring PCI compliance and operational readinessESD liaison to the Cox Security Engineering, Security Architecture, Security Operations, and PCI Compliance teams. Responsible for determining and authoring cross-functional team processes, procedures, standards, and documentationESD liaison to the Cox Contact Center platform team. Responsible for ensuring that all Contact Center solution designs meet Cox ESD architecture standards and PCI compliance, and providing IT Operations technical leadership to the DevOps teams

Clients included IBM Strategic Outsourcing and Arris Group, Inc.Provides senior technical consulting to multiple clients in multiple fields (IT consulting, banking, retail, manufacturing).Overall Disaster Recovery Architect for IBM Strategic Outsourcing on the State of Georgia account, responsible for all solution designs and implementation to support all IBM Disaster Recovery initiatives for the State of Georgia. Technical lead for the first successful Disaster Recovery test for the State of Georgia (August, 2011) and for the largest successful Disaster Recovery Test for the State of Georgia (September, 2012)Additional duties include IT security (penetration testing, analysis, and formal recommendation documentation, as well as OS and device hardening, monitoring, etc.), Backup/recovery/DR (analysis, design, and implementation), large scale IBM SVC/SAN/Storage (design, implementation, support), and network (analysis, review, design, implementation).

Technical team lead for the Atlanta based IT Operations team consisting of Solaris, Linux, and Windows SAs, storage administrator, and network engineer. Duties included developing morning meeting procedures, conducting morning team meetings, leading troubleshooting sessions, leading technical team meetings, leading change control meetings, filling in for ITOPS senior manager when he was out of the office, etc.Authored IT department wide Change Control procedures and conducted daily Change Control meetings. Trained more junior staff members to conduct change control meetingsSenior level network engineering support of all of Travel Channel LAN/WAN infrastructure consisting of New York, NY, Chevy Chase, MD, Atlanta office, and Atlanta data center. Duties included configuration, updating, and troubleshooting of Cisco switches (6513’s, 4507’s, 3750’s, 3560’s), Cisco routers (3845’s, 3825’s), Firewall Service Modules (FWSMs), Application Control Engines (ACE modules), and ASA5510’sLast line of support for Unix, Linux, storage, and networking issues reported to ITOPs teamDeployed Groundworks 6.0 and Cacti 0.8.7 system monitoring software to replace HP SiteScope 9.x implementationTechnical architect for a storage/SAN project to support client’s Short Form Video project. Designed and deployed a highly available and redundant Apple XSAN storage and SAN solution, integrated existing Apple work stations previously using Terrablock storage to new XSAN with no user downtime. Migrated all data with 100% success.Technical architect and network engineering support for Travel Channel Live televised events of Most Haunted Live and Man vs. Food. Designed remote connectivity solutions, configured Cisco routers, switches, and APs to support field locations while onsite with TV production crews. Lead IT technical resource and liaison to Executive Producer

Clients included Gwinnett County Government, CPAK, and Community Loans of America, and Cox Communications, Inc.Technical architect for a client’s two Data Centers. Designed and deployed a self-healing core-edge network design with redundant 6506 core switches, multiple 6509 edge switches, multiple 3750 switches, and redundant Juniper firewalls.Technical architect for multi-million dollar SAP refresh project. Hardware solution consisted of dual p595 POWER6 VIOS platforms for 75 LPARs, storage upgrade, and a DS4800 for DR.Technical lead for multi-million dollar infrastructure refresh project. Designed a p570 POWER5 VIOS solution for an SAP upgrade, a TSM upgrade, upgrade to redundant McDATA 6140's, storage solution of a DS4800 (10.6 TB) and DS4700 (14.8 TB) and a 4 node clustered SVC for both AIX and Windows hosts, and FlashCopy capability between arraysDesigned and deployed a multi-million dollar hardware solution for an SAP project. HW consisted of three p630’s, two p690’s, an ESS 800 (6.3 TB) and two McDATA 6064's. HA via HACMP 5.1 (4 clusters) and Etherchannel connections to all LPARs.

Senior technical staff member responsible for the design, deployment, and operations of the multi-million dollar Atlanta Technology Center showcasing SAN hardware and software from multiple vendors (IBM, HP, Compaq, Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, Adaptec, Sun, Nortel, VERITAS, Tivoli, Legato, McDATA, Quantum/ATL, Exabyte)Performed pre-sales consulting duties designing SAN solutions, including SAN fabric design, enterprise backup, data protection, and disaster recovery solutions, storage arrays , and tape librariesDesigned, implemented, and demonstrated SAN based storage, enterprise backup, data protection, disaster recovery, and SAN management solutions in the Atlanta ESS lab forVARs and their customersFeatured speaker at the 2002 HP Software Forum in Seattle, WA and only speaker granted two presentations

Technical consultant for the deployment of HP IT/O 5.x agents, development and customization of IT/O templates, and deployment of MeasureWare agents to HP-UX, Solaris, and NT managed nodesImplemented the monitoring of InteQ’s internal network management infrastructure, including IT/O template customization, and development of a notification and escalation schemaDeveloped and conducted training covering the installation, use, and customization of the IT/O management server, Network Node Manager, IT/O and MeasureWare agents, and PerfViewDeveloped custom UNIX k-shell scripts for automating numerous tasks, including managed node deletion, download of IT/O management server configuration, and IT/O and MeasureWare agent installationDesigned, developed, and deployed a database (MS Access 2000 front-end and an Oracle 8 back-end) to track the detailed status of all components necessary to provision and activate the monitoring of a managed object

Successfully completed a 3 month contract as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) as the lead technical consultant for the development of web-based “generation d” internal MCI training courses, mandatory for over 7000 MCI employeesAuthored courseware, including determining course structure, developing course outlines, writing content, generating graphics, and exams for these courses: “Voice over Alternate Technologies”, “Elements of TCP/IP”, “Uses of TCP/IP”, “Migrating to TCP/IP”, “Internet based Security Concepts”, and “WAN Equipment and Concepts”Final technical reviewer of all project courseware and course exams, including material created by other authors

Technical consultant and project manager for the enterprise systems management project for the southeast, responsible for deploying HP OpenView IT/O 4.0, MeasureWare, and GlancePlus, as well as project planning, resource coordination, change control, and project status reporting. This project allowed IBM to meet contractual requirements for server availability and performance metrics (SLAs) to their client (Lucent)Co-developed a custom UNIX notification application, integrated with Telamon’s TelAlert, that was called by IT/O when messages were generated by the managed nodes. This solution took into account the managed node’s service level agreement (SLA), time of day, and message severity before generating a page, and was installed at nine other IBM locations.Authored course material and conducted classes covering network management concepts (IT/O 4.0, MeasureWare, GlancePlus)Developed, tested, and deployed custom IT/O templates and UNIX shell scripts to monitor file systems, daemons, and the run level of UNIX (HP-UX, NCR, and Solaris) managed nodes

Designed, deployed, and supported enterprise wide LAN and WAN solutions for all of The Coca-Cola Company. Provided technical team leadership and mentoring.Senior engineer responsible for approving all network design projects, optimizing IP/IPX/SNA traffic patterns, implementing network security using IP/IPX/SNA packet filtering, providing “last line” support to all network engineers and technicians on LAN and WAN issues, represented GNS in company wide change management meetings, acting as technical team lead and as department manager in manager’s absence, as well as being responsible for managing vendor relationshipsNetwork technical lead for enterprise systems management project. Duties included authoring event correlation rules, paging notification profiles, and problem escalation procedures for international and domestic LAN and WAN devicesTechnical lead for the deployment of HP OpenView Network Management platform, including a Solaris based NNM 5.0 master console with Bay Networks Optivity Enterprise v8.1 and 5 NT servers acting as NNM 6.0 collection stations for the US, South America, Africa, the Far East, and SAP project locations. Duties included installing, configuring, and customizing HP NNM, and authoring IP discovery and IP map filtersRedesigned company wide (domestic and international) IP address scheme in order to deploy two Internic assigned “public” Class B address ranges; including assignment and conservation of IP addresses using variable length subnet masks (VLSM), verification and correction of existing IP assignment spreadsheets and migration to a MS Access 97 databaseProject manager and technical lead for the million dollar Campus Backbone Conversion Project to migrate all corporate headquarters IP traffic from a legacy multi-protocol Source Route Bridged Token Ring environment to a routed and switched IP-only Fast Ethernet campus MAN encompassing 13 buildings across 5 metro Atlanta locations

Member of the Network Technical Assistance Group, who were the “last line” of network support for the entire data center. Duties included troubleshooting fractional and full T1 circuits, Frame Relay, X.25, IP, IP routing, Motorola and 3Com routers, CSU/DSU’s, mainframe Front End Processors (FEPs), Token Ring LANs, the Airline Link Control protocol, traffic analysis via Sniffers, and representing network group in company wide change control meetings.Senior member of a intra-departmental design team responsible for designing a multi-company Extranet site, including designing additional IP traffic paths of 6,900 existing sites into a new host complex consisting of Cisco 7500’s routers and Catalyst 5000 switchesTechnical lead for the network management project responsible for installing, configuring, and customizing HP UNIX 10.20, HP OpenView Network Node Manager 4.11, and 3Com Transcend v3.11, loading MIBs, and forwarding NNM alerts to a Boole & Babbage monitoring stationDesigned, installed, and configured departmental LAN consisting of Compaq Proliant NT 4.0 servers and 32 new NT 4.0 PC Workstations, including obtaining project approval and funding, negotiating hardware and software pricing, ordering, receiving, and installing equipment and redesigning the NOC workspace, and daily system administration of the LANDesigned, installed, and configured departmental Intranet site, including supervision of a 3 person team, installation, and configuration of MS IIS 3.0 and MS SQL 6.5 onNT 4.0 servers, as well as securing and restricting extra-department IP connectivity via IP packet filtering and access control lists on 3Com routersTeam leader of 3 people who migrated an MS Access 7.0 trouble ticketing system to a Web-based front-end and a MS SQL 6.5 back-end. This new system provided intra-departmental access to network availability reports using SQL queries and custom HTML programming