Robert Ray Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Richmond, Virginia, US

Richmond, Virginia, US

• Co-founded a technology consulting startup that specializes in the architecture and engineering of solutions for companies looking to move their businesses into the cloud.
• Currently work as an Amazon Web Services Consulting Partner, focusing all cloud-service integration into the AWS platform.
• In the first three months after business formation, acquired three clients with a wide-ranging scope of cloud solution needs. Client acquisition included direct marketing, free initial consultations, presentation.
• Experience with AWS compute, storage and content delivery, database, networking, security and identity tools, as well as experience with AWS enterprise applications. These tools include AWS EC2, S3, Glacier.
• Using web-application software Asana and Agile-inspired project management skills, I work effectively as a PM by directing the other partner/engineers through tasking and by balancing multiple projects simultaneously.
• While executing my roles as an engineer and project manager, I've also honed my skills as an entrepreneur with responsibilities as varied as writing the company business plan, acting as the company.

San Antonio, TX, US

• Worked on a project transitioning Naval Health facilities from a traditional on-premises physical desktop environment to a VMware View virtual desktop environment.
• Worked as site deployment lead at locations in Beaufort, SC, Okinawa, Japan, and Camp Pendleton, CA. Worked to manage a seven-figure budget, which included hardware procurement, labor hours, and travel costs.
• Was elevated to the position of project manager over all CDP deployments, which required me to manage multiple ongoing deployments while resources were being cut.
• Proved myself to be a top resource of project knowledge throughout the clinical desktop program workflow, due to my extensive work in nearly all of our knowledge domains. These domains include network, storage, VDI.
• Having been both an engineer and project manager, I’ve worked my way into the invaluable position of mediator and facilitator between management and engineering. I’ve often been the source of help and mediation when.
• Attended a certified PMI-ACP course, which has allowed me to fine-tune the project management skills I’ve learned and better apply them into an Agile environment using Agile tools. This has also given me the ability to.

Reston, VA, US

• Worked as part of a team transitioning Naval Health facilities to a virtual desktop environment.
• Worked as primary F5 engineer responsible for load balancing all internal and external connections into VMWare View Security and Connection servers through F5 Virtual Load Traffic Managers.
• Was asked and began work as lead storage engineer for same project, managing NetApp controllers and storage architecture in both lab and production environments.
• Took on responsibilities of network engineer, becoming one of only two people with access and responsibility of configuring Cisco Nexus 5000 series switches.
• As network engineer, also responsible for creating and submission of ports, protocols and services requests at various levels of the DoD network architecture.

Global, US

• Managed one of five major data centers in the Army, including failovers to COOP sites.
• Controlled and maintained all networking and information security devices from the ADRP stack to the workstation switches.
• Created and managed policies on Juniper ISG2000 firewalls and Cisco ASA 5585 security appliances. Configured routing interfaces, upgraded images, and maintained devices.
• Sandbox trained on Palo Alto 5060 firewalls and helped develop changeover plan from Juniper and Cisco to Palo Alto.
• Configured and maintained core Nexus 7000 Series switches.
• Maintained IP registrations on Infoblox. Managed Microsoft DNS servers for interior networks. Configured and maintained Extreme switches, Cisco 3750 switches, and Juniper QFX switches. Configured Gigamon for spanning.

• Early-stage car-sharing startup. Worked with founders to develop website, including reservation system, user management system, billing system and remote wireless communications.
• Wrote Python web-application using Django framework, partly to help protect against having to write any SQL, therefore protecting site from SQLi.
• Stored all passwords with a cryptographic hash, verifying that all client password information was encrypted and never stored in plaintext.
• Worked on the design of a keycard, and implemented RFID communication with the server.
• Wrote secure code using best practices for web application development suggested by OWASP.

• Small business and home technology and security consulting and hardware repair.
• Typical work included hard-drive repair, data encryption, WiFi setup, firewall configuration, penetration testing, printer configuration, software installations, VPN setups, security patches.
• Software and Hardware used: VMWare, Virtual Server, Parallels, VirtualBox, SolarWinds, PacketTrap, WhatsUp Gold, Splunk, rrdtool, TrueCrypt, Checkpoint IPSec VPN, Juniper SSL VPN (SA2500), Juniper Firewalls (IDP75).

Technician assigned to the Ramadi base in Iraq. Brought 48 sites online, including 615 computers and 170 phones: replaced 42 computers, 17 VOIP phones, and 6 modems. Configured MAC address filtering on 48 Cisco switches. Managed system security and intrusion countermeasures. Setup 32 satellite dishes to optimize RF signal strength. Compiled 9 weekly.

Washington, DC, US

Configured and managed firewall to filter traffic for 12,000 users on dual secure and nonsecure networks. Managed Windows network, supporting Active Directory and Exchange. Managed application server and core router ACLs. Promoted to manager upon returning from deployment and trained 18 Marines in specialty IT skills, including over forty hours of.

Bachelor Of Arts Degree, Political Science

Bachelor Of Arts Degree, Political Science

Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications