Since discovering blockchain technology and Bitcoin in 2012, captivated and fascinated with the possibility for blockchain and smart-contract technology to disrupt and revolutionize industry after industry through disintermediation, efficiencies, immutability, inclusion and neutrality. ♦ Setup and operation of Bitcoin and Lightning nodes, Ethereum execution layer nodes, Ethereum consensus layer validators node, and NKN nodes; including administration and monitoring.♦ Advocate Genesis Member of Andrew Yang’s Lobby3 DAO (lobby3.io)♦ Founder Member of PAC DAO (pacdao.substack.com).♦ Participate in the governance of several Layer 1 protocols (e.g., Cosmos, Secret Network). Yield generation in DeFi using different strategies, collateral asset models and hedging to achieve capital efficiencies and risk mitigation in the layer 1, layer 2 and stable arenas.♦ Provide liquidity in automated market makers (AMM) (e.g., Curve, Uniswap, SiennaLand, Osmosis).♦ Staking (e.g., Avalanche, Cosmos, Curve, Polkadot, Polygon, Solana).♦ Participation in lending protocols (e.g., AAVE, Solend, Parallel Finance, SiennaLand) and yield vaults (e.g., Yearn, Beefy).

Created and engaged physical and virtual infrastructure aspects of widely-distributed private service mesh network focused on self-discovery, load balancing, failure recovery, obfuscation, with traffic and workload isolation. Devised, noted, and executed networking, server, and storage expansion across multiple data centers.♦         Delivered design and deployment plan for service mesh physical and virtual compute, storage, and network infrastructures.

Oversaw Skype for Business deployment and Unified Communications infrastructure initiatives supporting 40,000+ employees at 105 locations. Deployed Microsoft’s Call Quality Dashboard and data warehouse for gathering, analyzing and reporting on Skype for Business audio and video call quality. Supervised two senior system engineers and two systems engineers and trained and mentored nine other individuals. Documented designs and infrastructure including change management, operations, maintenance and troubleshooting procedures.♦         Over the projects lifetime, saved $8.9M+ versus traditional telecommunications services transitioning to Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business infrastructure. Servicing over 40.3 million calls totaling 285 million minutes, hosting over 853,000 conferences totaling 38.1 million minutes and processing more than 264 million instant messages.♦ Built and deployed Microsoft Lync 2010, Lync 2013 and Skype for Business production, development and testing environments.Played key role in internal cloud program including developing Azure architecture and design for services and resources. Produced migration plan to migrate services and resources into Azure cloud (Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Skype for Business, OneDrive and SharePoint)♦         Joined with Microsoft Engineers and GDIT IT Security Architects to address risks within Microsoft Azure design plan for services and resources to be migrated from on-premise to Azure cloud.♦         Configured and deployed Dell servers, Dell switches and Dell/EMC storage array network infrastructures.♦         Engineered and deployed Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, VMware vSphere and VMware ESXi virtual infrastructures.

Managed two system engineers, two senior systems administrators and one system administrator. Guided design for virtualization, telecommunication, network, server, and classified programs. Tracked and sustained cybersecurity compliance across applications, hardware, and servers. Designed and executed disaster recovery and backup procedures. Furnished backup, retention and recovery for VMware vSphere, virtual machines, SQL databases and distributed file systems. Configured and maintained Dell servers, Dell switches and Dell/EMC storage array network infrastructures. Engineered and maintained Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, VMware vSphere and VMware ESXi virtual infrastructures.♦         Served as main expert and engineer for ISD’s NATO infrastructure and telecommunications upgrade contract.♦         Built redesign and expansion of server, network and storage infrastructure at Intelligence Services Division’s headquarters and server and network infrastructures for classified locations in Chantilly and Springfield VA plus classified program spaces in Herndon, VA.♦         Appointed to incident response team for classified information spills.’ Devised and employed technical proof of concept for private-cloud based, IaaS architecture, and chargeback model for providing IT services and DevOps to business units.♦         Architected and introduced highly-available, clustered instances of VMware vSphere/vCenter. Oversaw consolidation of numerous standalone vCenter instances into centralized model.♦         Served as lead architect and engineer for design and deployment of redundant, highly-available distributed file system (DFS).

Spearheaded IT Headquarters support for Army Solutions Division with 1,900 staff. Directed two senior systems administrators and three system administrators. Prepared, built, and managed Dell servers, switches, and storage infrastructures. Designed, configured, operated, maintained, and administered VMware virtual infrastructures. Configured, updated, and administered local and wide area networks and VoIP phone systems. Analyzed systems and network infrastructure solutions for ASD business unit. Created and maintained documentation of system and network infrastructures. Provided end-user IT helpdesk and customer technical support, and problem resolution for systems and applications.♦ Oversaw application virtualization of multiple enterprise applications, company-wide testing and deployment for Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise, and enterprise-wide network and server monitoring deployment