Grant Black Email & Phone Number

Mandeville, La, Us

Head of St Tammany Parish Department of Technology including Cybersecurity, Network Administration, System Administration, Helpdesk, Desktop Support, Geographic Information Services (GIS) and Archives. In this role I develop and execute a comprehensive technology strategy for the organization that supports its growth objectives, while ensuring IT systems and infrastructure are reliable, scalable, and secure. I have developed a Cybersecurity protection and response plan to ensure systems and the information within them are protected from unauthorized access.• Executed a complete overhaul of end-of-life IT infrastructure increasing reliability cutting Mean time between failures (MTBF) from monthly to more than annually• Planned and executed the public / private partnership with AT&T to serve broadband internet to thousands of residents• Moved the Cybersecurity posture from unable to attain insurance to considered a model by the same insurer within 6 months. Implementing by MFA, EDR, MDR and Cloud based backup solutions

Falls Church, Virginia, Us

Contracted to the following:• U.S. Navy Standard Integrated Personnel System (NSIPS)• U.S. Navy Authoritative Data Environment (ADE)Leader of the Production Operations Team of The U.S. Navy’s 400,000 user Personnel System consisting of over 450 AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Instances, Managing a Staff of System Architects, System Administrators, Database Administrators, and Middleware Administrators. Program Manager of the U.S. Navy’s Data Warehousing consolidation program. Creation of a data lake environment in AWS. Design, Creation, and Management of Interfaces and ETL. • Directed the migration of the Navy’s HR system to AWS, implementing the DoD initial mobile access program and reducing hosting costs by over 25%.• Led the US Navy’s data warehousing consolidation program, creating a single data lake in AWS from seven AS400 systems.

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

Lead initial technical interaction with customers. Gather requirements from the sales representative and the customer. bridge the gap between the purchased product and promised functionality. Provide estimates of work for the projects. Verify profitability of each project.

Colombo , Western Province, Lk

Contracted to the following:Navy Information Warfare Center AtlanticTechnical Project Manager of New Programs. Liaison between Program Managers and Technical Staff. While there I design solutions to migrate programs to Virtual Data Center Environment. Coordination of activities between customers and support staff to ensure tasks are completed timely and efficiently, I assigned tasks to DBA support staff to level workload, Lead Coordination between teams to accomplish patching and validation of STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guide) settings for ATO (Authority to Operate) packages. • Managed new programs and liaised between program managers and technical staff.• Performed as System Architect designing solutions to migrate large scale systems from physical servers to our virtual environment.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Contracted to the following:Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP)Navy Oceanographic Office DSRC Stennis Space Center, MSArmy Research Laboratory DSRC Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MdArmy Engineering Research and Development Center DSRC Vicksburg, MsAir Force Research Laboratory DSRC Wright Patterson AFBDepartment of Homeland Security NCCIPS Stennis Space Center, Ms• While there I led the design and move to production of the first-ever 6-way database replication for the HPCMP Organization Enhanced User Environment program. • I also led cross-functional teams in the Department of Defense’s High-Performance Computing Program on technical innovation projects.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Customers: •Navy Information Warfare Center Atlantic •Joint Air Logistics Information System (JALIS)•Navy Air Logistics Office New Orleans, Louisiana•Navy Air Logistic Coordination Center (NALCC) Manama, Bahrain•Fleet Readiness Center Western Pacific Atsugi, Japan•Naval Support Activity Port Operations Naples, Italy•Operational Support Airlift Agency (OSAA) Fort Belvoir, Virginia•Joint Operational Support Airlift Center (JOSAC) Scott Air Force Base, IllinoisDescription of DutiesMaintenance of 9 Production 24/7 Oracle 10.2.0 Databases (Solaris), 1 Production SQL Server 2000 database, 8 Development/Test Oracle 10.2.0 Databases (Solaris.) Maintenance of the 14 production Oracle 10.1.2 Application Servers (Windows.) Mentor Junior DBA’s, Backup/Recovery, Patch, Database Design, Application Design, Interface Design and Management, Create and maintain Entity Relationship Diagrams, Maintenance of an Oracle Designer 10g repository, PL/SQL development, web development, CAC Client Authentication

Administration of 25 Oracle Production Databases, Processing Medical claims for Cigna, United Healthcare and Aetna, Write an interface from the Accounting Btrieve Database to the Oracle Database, Backup/Recovery, Patch, setup of Oracle monitoring and paging processes for the Database, create and update documentation.

Maintenance of the classroom Oracle Databases, Windows NT System Administration, Backup/Recovery, Patch, Create Ghost images and Ghost machines as needed. I opened and was completely responsible for the Miami, Florida office. Technical lead on PeopleSoft Classroom builds of the Boston and Bethesda and Oracle Classroom build outs of the Baltimore and Miami.

Bs, Business Administration, Accounting, Computer Science, Marketing

1994