•Executed within 90 days highly complex contract-deliverable hardware CM resulting in successful customer audit.•Engineered and tested specialized remote access power control devices ensuring continuity for mission critical production data center equipment.

• Collaborated with infrastructure group to implement automated Kubernetes software patch updates and migrations on enterprise micro services, greatly streamlining overall workflow and significantly reducing infrastructure costs. • Fundamental member of small team selected by senior leadership to revamp customer network certs and database software upgrades used by entire company and Maxar customers nationwide.

• Advanced AWS CloudFormation routines for a variety of platforms.• Performed operations and maintenance on mission critical individual and clustered server applications.• Constructed original and adapted Ansible playbooks with embedded bash scripts to build enterprise systems.• Created unique bash scripting, configuration tuning and systems modifications to enhance Splunk performance.• Interfaced with customer to design Splunk dashboards allowing users to monitor a variety of key functions on their systems.

• Developed and deployed customer workstation images including a range of required applications; collaborated with customer security teams to ensure stringent security requirements were met on Win10 and Android platforms. • Devised specialized cron scripts for Linux servers enabling them to perform a number of automatic checks upon start-up; constructed VMWare templates to ensure fast cloning of RedHat, Scientific and CentOS Linux servers. • Designed, constructed, operated and maintained AWS Enterprise servers despite having limited prior experience with AWS; successfully created robust application platforms seamlessly presented to end users within 4 months through self-study and with very little guidance; security requirements were extremely stringent and unique; implemented stand-alone systems with automated dynamic encrypted independent storage integral to each platform. • Singlehandedly created comprehensive engineering documentation and led team in rebuild of enterprise-wide e-mail and chat systems from the ground up. • Orchestrated migration of re-engineered address and identification systems into Azure cloud-based platform leveraged by thousands of users worldwide; platform has been lauded by senior security officers as among the most secure system ever created in the organization’s history. • Integral member of hand-picked team that created the entire ATO package for one of customer’s first cloud-based enterprise systems. • Chosen by leadership to help establish Microsoft Azure AD tenant, then construct and incorporate lengthy Powershell v4 and v5 commandlet scripts directly into an enterprise production Office 365 environment to fulfill ATO requirements.• Resurrected a partially completed system bringing it to full functionality; installed critical software while executing versioning control; Lotus Notes implementation was achieved in less than four months, an accomplishment highly praised by executive leadership.

• Facilitated classroom instruction for extremely specialized IT students with advanced mission requirements and needs; operating system characteristics being taught included Windows, Apple OS and multiple versions of Linux including Porteus and Ubuntu; all of this work was exclusively command line for construction, modification, driver installation, testing, and sharply limited updates; range of h/w included handheld, portable and non-portable systems, and wired and wireless connectivity technologies. • Oversaw fleet of diverse h/w, including multiple firmware re-flash, multi-OS host, non-OS host, multiple media types, re-imaging and versioning control.

• Conceived, designed and deployed two complete development environments for the testing of specialized software applications; each contained 30+ physical and virtual servers, 50+ workstations with VDI, Citrix and vb scripting; performed all security plan preparation and presentation; work demanded extreme flexibility to accommodate new customer requirements and hardware issue mitigations per application. • Constructed servers for Windows, RedHat, CentOS, and Scientific Linux to include all construction, modification, and updates; oversaw planning, installation and testing of firmware updates/upgrades in a complex data-system environment.

• Created, implemented, and tested virtual servers for various operating system versions; presented to engineers for development and testing of software/hardware operating system, security patches and Lotus Notes upgrades, all within the VMware 3.0 and 3.5 environments.