Wayne Taylor Email & Phone Number

Germantown, Md, Us

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

- Responsible for engineering, securing, and maintaining Windows 2016, Windows 2019, Windows 2022 on-premises servers with iDRAC support and cloud platform solutions.• Responsible for engineering and maintaining on-premises VMWare ESXi host server with iDRAC support.• Responsible for the performance tuning, maintenance, capacity planning of physical and virtual servers.• Review and install OS server updates on Windows servers and VMWare ESXi • Analyze and implement DISA STIG… Show more - Responsible for engineering, securing, and maintaining Windows 2016, Windows 2019, Windows 2022 on-premises servers with iDRAC support and cloud platform solutions.• Responsible for engineering and maintaining on-premises VMWare ESXi host server with iDRAC support.• Responsible for the performance tuning, maintenance, capacity planning of physical and virtual servers.• Review and install OS server updates on Windows servers and VMWare ESXi • Analyze and implement DISA STIG compliance via Active Directory group policy & document variance settings to reduce vulnerability exposure and improve cybersecurity posture.• Review and implement Nessus vulnerability reporting for servers and workstations remediations and compliance. • Responsible for NIST 800-53 rev 5 assessment, compliance, and artifact providence.• Responsible for reviewing and implementing cybersecurity notifications from CISA and DHS groups.• Improve cybersecurity posture using MFA applications, PIV / CAC cards, installation of security updates onto servers and network appliances. Reduced exposure to ransomware and data breaches.• Ensure PII and PIA data protection and perform DOD wipe hard drives upon end-of-life processing• Responsible for infrastructure application AdAudit, AdManager, AdRecovery, EndpointCentral, McAfee ePO, McAfee / Trelix antivirus, Ivanti Security Controls, IBM BigFix, WSUS, SCCM, SCOM, Veritas BackupExec using SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2019.• Participate in the planning and execution of annual disaster recovery (DR) test.• Responsible for daily operations of the local office consisting of 12 servers, 200+ workstations and 200+ end users.• Responsible for oversight of outsourced environment consisting of 60 Windows servers and 20 UNIX servers with Oracle databases.• • Function as deputy contract project manager, reporting to COTR and remote site staff. • Function as campus technical liaison with main headquarters. Show less

Linthicum Heights, Maryland, United States

• Responsible for enterprise deployment, management, support, upgrades & maintenance of all McAfee AV & Symantec AV solutions on 300 Windows & Novel servers with compliance reporting.• Enterprise responsibility for installing Microsoft security updates, vulnerability assessment scanning, remediation, compliance reporting and computer forensic analysis on 300 Windows servers.

Calverton, Maryland, United States

• Designed, configured, and supported mission critical servers using UNIX SUN Solaris software on SUN enterprise servers, reviewed server performance reports, logs for alert notifications, applied security kernel patches, replaced defective hardware, maintained user account and security access authorizations.

Columbia, Maryland, United States

• Onsite IT service provider for UNIX SUN Solaris server hardware support, software upgrades, performance tuning, problem analysis, user account maintenance, security modification, routine hardware maintenance and hardware components. • Onsite IT service provider for Windows NT/2000 server hardware support, software upgrades, performance tuning, problem analysis, user account maintenance, security modification, routine hardware maintenance and hardware components.

Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

• Installed and provided application support for company software “SAM” with interfaces to MVS, OS/390, UNIX, Windows NT, DB2 and NetWare platforms using TCP/IP and VTAM connectivity. Technical liaison between product development in Germany & Switzerland with United States customers.

Buffalo, New York, United States

• Provided product support of MVS/ESA, OS/390, VTAM, NCP, IMS, JES2, DASD, MULTI IMAGE MANAGER, NETSPY, NETVIEW, STOP-X37, CA1, CA7, CA-ACF2, RACF and OMEGAMON/MVS.