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Sterling, Va, Us

Leesburg, Virginia, United States

Provide strategic guidance and oversight to a non-profit makerspace, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and mission.Contribute expertise in IT, writing and 3D printing to support the makerspace's mission of fostering innovation, creativity, and incubation in a welcoming and inclusive environment.Participate in fundraising efforts, including donor cultivation and grant writing, to secure financial resources for sustainability and growth.Collaborate with fellow board members to develop and implement policies, programs, and initiatives to support the makerspace community.Represent the makerspace at public events, conferences, and meetings to promote awareness and foster partnerships with other organizations.

Executed numerous complex document transcription and writing projects as a freelance writer. Skilled editor accustomed to large projects requiring project management skills and superb writing ability.

Chantilly, Virginia, United States

Merger of Leidos and Lockheed Martin: ISS effective August 2016.Designed, planned and implemented LAN/WAN architectures.Management and administration of switches, routers, firewalls, SONET muxes, and associated infrastructure.Implemented fault tolerant solutions through sound design and use of appropriate technologiesDeveloped, deployed and maintained Cisco Unified Communications Manager based VoIP & VTC networks.Owner and focal point for multiple portable networking systems.Lead engineer for new customer network, responsible for delivering a cost-effective solution to meet a critical customer networking need.Lead Engineer for new VPLS networking infrastructure to provide a common transport network replacing multiple independent transport networks servicing over 200 unique physical locations.Assisted with on-call work to resolve issues and outages in a timely manner.Developed documentation and process standards to be applied across the contract.

Chantilly, Virginia, United States

July 2009 to August 2016 (Merger of Lockheed Martin: ISS & Leidos)Designed, planned and implemented LAN/WAN architectures.Management and administration of switches, routers, firewalls, SONET muxes, and associated infrastructure.Implemented fault tolerant solutions through sound design and use of appropriate technologiesDeveloped, deployed and maintained Cisco Unified Communications Manager based VoIP & VTC networks.Owner and focal point for multiple portable networking systems.Lead engineer for new customer network, responsible for delivering a cost-effective solution to meet a critical customer networking need.Lead Engineer for new VPLS networking infrastructure to provide a common transport network replacing multiple independent transport networks servicing over 200 unique physical locations.Assisted with on-call work to resolve issues and outages in a timely manner.Developed documentation and process standards to be applied across the contract.Promoted to Network Engineer Senior Staff - March 2014Feb 2005 to July 2009Network Engineer on Metro DWDM/SONET network.Lead Engineer for new facility installations (inside and outside plant, fiber and equipment)Design, implementation and testing of circuits (DS-3 to OC-192)Tier 3 network supportOn call 24x7 to resolve issues and outages in a timely mannerWorked alongside customer management on a daily basisMarch 2003 to Feb 2005Duties included implementation, O&M and coordination with customer organizations.Tested integrity of Windows and Unix/Linux networks.Collaborated in engineering and implementation of customer test network.

Ashburn, Virginia, United States

Responsibilities included network design review, configuration development, certification testing, documentation and training of Customer Premise Equipment for the full range of WorldCom IP services over Frame Relay, PPP and ATM circuits for both domestic and international customers. CPE and GW devices included Cisco, Juniper, Lucent, and IBM with circuits ranging from 56k to OC-3. Gigabit Ethernet testing of Cisco and Extreme Switches.Development and Presentation of training for internal organizations (Install Engineers, Sales, Marketing, etc.) on the capabilities, use and configuration of CPE devices.Extensive testing of IP VPN services (IPSEC/GRE) for Cisco and Lucent routers.Starting Title: Network Consulting Engineer II. Promoted to Network Consulting Engineer III in Sept. 2001.

Reston, Virginia, United States

Web Engineer/Network Engineer. Web Responsibilities: designing and maintaining program intranet website; developing Web-based tools for internal and Program customer usage (using Active Server Pages, HTML and VB Script); maintaining Windows NT/IIS based Web Servers.Network Responsibilities: network and software Troubleshooting, maintaining software baseline on 300 node Win NT4.0 Network, desktop support.Program MIS Migration effort, transitioning Unix-based NeXT systems to Windows NT based LAN. Responsibilities: Hardware/Software Configuration Development/Management and Systems Administration.Starting Title: Associate Systems Engineer. Promoted to Systems Engineer in March 2000