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Washington, Dc, Us

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

Lead a team of Qmulos engineers for a major federal customer in their Cybersecurity division in order to comply with their compliance strategy and framework. (NIST-800-53 rev 5, ICS 500-27 and OMB-M-21-31 framework)Provide direction and leadership to the team on daily and weekly stand up calls, using agile methodology, in order to deploy Qmulos Compliance continuous monitoring tool for compliance on Splunk's big data platform. Review user stories, backlog in a scrum environment to ensure coverage of disparate IT systems.Mentor, teach and give guidance on Splunk Knowledge Objects (event types, tags, data models), so that the team understands how data in Splunk is correlated and used to power dashboards in Splunk premium apps, including Qmulos suite of applications. Validate and review the configuration and deployment of Qmulos Compliance meets the requirements of our customer. Hold regular meetings with team members on the quality and integrity of data in Splunk is populating dashboards.Engage in planning meeting to ensure client's IT systems is forwarding proper logs/events into the Splunk environment, and identify what data sources do not meet the standard required for formatting and validation. Track compliance scorecards with the greater team and investigate when there are deficiencies and gaps.Provide demo to senior leadership team on near real-time machine data that is presented in the Qmulos Compliance and Audit software.

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

Led the success of deploying custom dashboards and applications to monitor vulnerability and overall IT health in Splunk Enterprise platform for a government agency's cybersecurity division. Successfully deployed Splunk TA's and applications, including Qmulos product (Q-Compliance) on Splunk enterprise architecture for security engineers who require near real-time monitoring of security operations. Lead client's requirements for big data monitoring tools, dashboards for cybersecurity within the Splunk environment using Agile/Scrum methodology. Onboard new data source for clients into Splunk by configuring and deploying Technical Add-Ons (TA's), Forwarders and ensuring configs are properly built, validated, and tested to ensure data validation. Ensure new data feeds from different sources (Mainframes, Linux, Databases, Network appliances) have the correct timestamp, line breaks, field extractions, and calculated fields. Built custom Splunk applications and Technical Add-ons (Splunk TA's) to ensure custom data types have the correct field extractions and formatting. Evangelize Qmulos Q-Audit, Q-Compliance applications for security control monitoring, IT compliance, and monitoring cybersecurity in real-time within Splunk Enterprise framework.

Contracted with client working on cloud migration of Oracle systems for DC Department of Health. Architected and designed Virtual Private Cloud to connect to the government's network via VPN connection: established IPSec tunnel to customer's Cisco ASA appliance, created subnets for development, test and production environments, configured and tested Linux compute instances.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Oversaw the capacity management of FIOS video infrastructure and footprint by gathering subscriber growth data, server health and capacity of compute, memory, storage.Monitored the capacity and reliability of FIOS video system at the network and transport layers (TCP/IP, UDP) of Verizon’s medium haul network.Presented monthly capacity metrics, project updates and insights to director level and above.Upgraded and deployed large scale OSS/BSS systems on virtualized machines (VM), on-premise servers (RHEL), and flash storage arrays (SAN) at data center and central offices. Analyzed capacity metrics, RESTful API requests, and extract big data model on video utilization to gain deeper business and operational intelligence.Managed the engineering, deployment and turn up of new IPTV platform within Verizon’s private CDN and data center.

Dublin 12, Dublin, Ie

Established thought leadership on Openet’s mediation software and drive monetization for Video and Cable OSS/BSS solution such as Wi-Fi analytics, OTT IPTV, Settop Boxes, Subscriber Engagement, and B2B SMB opportunities. Drove pre-sales engagements with clients by incorporating clients’ requirements into product offering and release.Developed detailed OSS/BSS architecture for audience measurement, TV Everywhere and IPDR collection solution that enable operator’s greater visibility and contextual data of subscriber behavior.Evaluated ROI and stay current on product roadmap and new features, provide estimates of hardware sizing, timeline and licensing of our product solution.

Dublin 2, Ie

Implemented entitlement solutions for IPTV, VOD, and linear video delivery of future product releases. Defined strategy, objectives, and roadmap for major MSO on OTT IPTV delivery for next-gen products.Consulted with business leaders and architects on defining order flow and provisioning for OSS/BSS solution.

Dublin 2, Ie

Provided functional and technical expertise to plan, analyze, define and support the delivery of future capabilities for OTT/IPTV video applications.Supported an end-to-end architecture of an Apple iOS video application that communicates to the settop box.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Provisioned digital video platforms and determine stability of enhancements prior to production launches. Designed digital headend networks for field trials and evaluate feasibility of future technology from planning and engineering.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

System integration and testing of new digital video products for the Home & Networks Mobility division. Led integration and testing of Motorola's Conditional Access products; managed test cycles of new product introduction.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Identify root cause of software issues in EPG and VOD applications on Motorola HD and DVR settop boxes for the Cable and Telco markets. Expert in Motorola Digital headend systems.

Mba, Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering