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Springfield, Va

Built and maintained multiple logically separated environments for the purpose of concurrent testing and development.Provided remote support for mission partners to resolve high visibility production outages.Leveraged recycled equipment to save the customer over $2 million.Secured enclaves in accordance with ICD503/NIST SP's/DISA STIG's.Provided training and education to peers and coworkers.

Fort Belvoir, Va

STIG'd baseline template for RHEL 6.5 guestsBuilt and deployed development LDAP infrastructure, including CAC authentication through SSH.Built and deployed Saltstack infrastructure (configuration management) for RHEL 5, RHEL 6, Solaris 10.Configured a STIG'd LDAP multimaster setup for RHEL and Solaris clients (including HBAC and RBAC for both OS's)Manage McAfee Email Gateway systems.DNS Admin, including DNSSec (through BIND and Infoblox appliances)Installed, configured, and migrated data to new Netapp Storage.Migrated infrastructure applications from failing hardware on solaris systems to new STIG'd RHEL systems.P2Vd solaris systems and zones to RHEL systems.Member of a small team that maintained all aspects of multiple enclaves containing 300 systems.Provided assistance to users and developers with data migration and archival, recovery of files, anomaly resolution, and application development.

Springfield, Virginia

Built esxi 5.1 infrastructure including AD and SSO with VDR and VDP backup solutions.Built developmental instances of KVM with Ovirt frontends.Administered Microsoft Hyper-V 2008R2 clusters.Re-engineered storage (production and backups), including DAS, HP EVA systems, Eonstor appliances, Sun StorEdge, Netapp filers, a DataDomain, and DAS on both NAS and SAN (both iscsi and fiber and their associated infrastructures).Built NetApp, Linux, and Unix hosted NFS services.Reconfigured Networking on switches and hosts to support LACP and configured hosts with LACP and DNS Round-Robin to support higher data throughput.Manually migrated/upgraded CentOS 5 hardservers to new VMs.Built multimaster OpenLDAP 2.4 on LDAPS and ported an OpenLDAP 2.3 database to it.Performed open source and COTS application maintenance and installs.Implemented LDAP authentication and LDAP/Authnz ACLs into subversion and apache httpd systems.Secured every aspect of a windows enclave from perimeter security to AD components, to workstations and obtained a full ATO for the secure network.

Silver Spring, Md

- Built, configured, secured, and maintained RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6 systems for developmental use and Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04. - Rebuilt, upgraded, and maintained a VMWare infrastructure. - Built a Bacula Backup infrastructure and delivered working backup technology, documentation of the configuration and use, and media to the customer. - Maintained, upgraded and stabilized an HP Lefthand SAN and assisted others in the development of other open source storage solutions (OpenFiler). - Ran Nessus Security scans to ensure security and compliance and documented any security findings. - Repurposed old hardware to build firewalls to protect public facing systems. - Updated and consolidated old documentation for the infrastructure and generated explanations for security exceptions. - Improved customer relations and provided service exceeding mandates in the SLA.

Falls Church, Virginia

- Coordinated efforts between production and test sites and production sites in Europe, across the U.S. and in the Pacific to troubleshoot urgent production issues. - Remotely assisted efforts of production sites by providing instructions to fix or maintain their equipment based on vendor documentation and provided log data. - Wrote, performed, verified, and corrected Change Requests for maintenance for a McAfee e- Policy Orchestrator Server (ePO) to prevent DoS attacks and maintain CM. - Maintained Windows and Linux OCSP enclaves, troubleshooting problems with Operating systems, applications, F5 Big IP devices, and HSM devices for projects with extremely high customer visibility. - Maintained and rebuilt Certificate Authorities and their associated equipment, including re-configuring Cisco ASA 5505s, 3750s, and 5540s. - Read physical network diagrams and used them to troubleshoot networking issues. - Performed troubleshooting and maintenance on Cisco networking equipment, upgraded networking equipment BIOS versions, and updated configuration profiles. - Performed infrastructure upgrades at multiple locations on foreign and domestic customer locations. Assisted in resolving networking issues at customer locations. - Wrote, performed, verified, and corrected Change Requests for maintenance for Windows systems (Server 2003 and Server 2008r1). - Performed, verified, and corrected Change Requests for maintenance for Linux and Solaris systems.

Fairfax, Virginia

- Designed, implemented, and utilized diagnostic and repair procedures.- Prepared Powerpoint presentations to educate Computer Associates on correct policies and procedures.- Analyzed problems and determined most expeditious solutions to repair personal and school property and preserve critical data.- Researched answers for technical questions for students, faculty, and departments, and then explained how to resolve any issues they had.- Utilized various software and hardware methods for recovering data; from changing operating systems to placing hard drives in the freezer.- Instructed students, faculty, and staff on how to use various hardware devices, operating system functions, and security software.- Configured Juniper client for end users so that they could connect to the network.

Doctor Of Engineering, Engineering/Industrial Management

Ms, Applied Information Technology

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English Language And Literature, General, 3.4

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History, 3.4

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society

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