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Oklahoma, United States

Contractor for the DISA Cyber Directorate working on their Zero Trust Reference Architecture.Analyzing complex software and hardware systems, including planning, designing, evaluating, selecting of operating systems.Designing Zero Trust systems and hardware solutions to support the portfolio of cyber programs.Utilizing on-premises vCloud Director and AWS to show proof of concept designs utilizing Ansible and other automation tools.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Contractor for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Automation team to build an enterprise solution to provide Automation tools to speed up workflows.Supported multiple efforts across all line of businesses (LOBs) to assist, create and evaluate tools and technology to provide quicker turnaround by utilizing automation tools such as Ansible and Ansible Tower.Created multiple proof of concept examples, such as deploying a pre-production Secure Cloud Computing Architecture (SCCA) environment by utilizing Automation to be used by DISA to test changes for their SCCA environment using both manual and automation workflows.Assisted in creating automation to utilize DISA's and GDIT's milCloud2 platform via Ansible automation which included custom Python Ansible action plugins catered towards GDIT's custom milCloud2 (OpenStack) environment.Created and provided multiple deliveries including Ansible Playbooks, roles, workflows, and custom Python action plugins to speed up manual processes using Ansible best practices.Project examples provided included a custom Tower install, Oracle install, Oracle STIG, RHEL STIG & a STIG Parser.

Tinker Afb, Oklahoma

Providing technical support for engineering and design of large-scale processor solutions that meet agency requirements for server environments (Unix, Windows, and Linux) and provide cost-effective solutions with emphasis on virtualization and emerging technologies including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)-engineered systems.Providing support and analysis for server optimization initiatives, infrastructure integration, engineering of system recovery, data replication plans/methodologies, Assisting with Tech refresh efforts, and subject matter expertise for resolution of systemic and enterprise operational issues with respect to server engineering and integration.Analysis of real-time data for trouble-shooting, sizing, interoperability and performance in both environments.Responsible for resolving systemic process and system workload issues that typically require a broader range of knowledge and authority to resolve.Defining and communicate processor hardware and architecture standards for the DISA enterprise. This includes vendor contract management.Serving as the facilitator of various OS Technical Working Groups (TWGs). These TWGs define OS standards, to include supported versions and configurations as well as documents, communicates, and enforces these standards throughout the DISA enterprise.Defining the engineering standards for various DISA virtual environments, to include VMware ESXi, Oracle VM for SPARC, HP-UX iVM, and IBM AIX Power VM.Responsible for sizing and ordering server capacity for the various virtual environments to maintain high availability and overhead for rapid VOE growth.Responsible for defining the virtual operating environment rate for DISA customers. This rate is calculated based on DISA's costs to provide a highly available virtual environment.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Civil Service employee, GS-2210-12 for the B2 Program at Tinker Air Force base with a Top Secret Clearance. Responsible for planning, designing and maintaining System Security Plans (SSP) in order to achieve Authorization to Operation (ATO) using a variety of methods and tools such as the Joint SAP Implementation Guide (JSIG), Risk Management Framework (RMF), Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) and Assured Compliance Assess Solution (ACAS). Ensured that all systems are compliant and proper security controls put into place based on best practices.Provided direction to management to align IT security requirements with business requirements.Ensured confidentially, integrity and available by performing incident responses, IT security assessments, data sanitization and data extractions.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Contractor for the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) team at Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) with a Top Secret Clearance. Engineering and implementing the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure – roughly 180+ Nutanix nodes, 300+ virtual machines with the intended rollout of 10,000+ users, migrating DISA’s out of band (OOB) users to an isolated virtual platform. VMware Products: vSphere Suite, Horizon Suite, vRealize Operations, NSX including Guest Introspection.Nutanix Products: Controller Virtual Machines (CVM), Prism, Acropolis Hypervisor.Liquidware Products ProfileUnity, Stratusphere.Provides solutions that require scripting, utilizing a mixture of PowerShell, Batch, Python and Shell languages.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Civil Service employee, GS-2210-12 for the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) team at Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) with a Top Secret Clearance. Engineering and implementing the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure – roughly 180+ Nutanix nodes, 300+ virtual machines with the intended rollout of 10,000+ users, migrating DISA’s out of band (OOB) users to an isolated virtual platform. VMware Products: vSphere Suite, Horizon Suite, vRealize Operations, NSX including Guest Introspection.Nutanix Products: Controller Virtual Machines (CVM), Prism, Acropolis Hypervisor.Liquidware Products ProfileUnity, Stratusphere.Provides solutions that require scripting, utilizing a mixture of PowerShell, Batch, Python and Shell languages.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Serve as a senior IT Specialist and systems administrator for the geographically diverse enterprise level environment. Blackberry/Mobility Administrator for Defense Enterprise Email solution supporting the United States Army and various DoD organizations around the world.Provide support for the installation, configuration, and administration of BlackBerry Enterprise & BlackBerry Administration (BES & BAS) Servers.Provide a full spectrum of administrative support for all user accounts, and maintain high availability via a one-to-one ratio.Troubleshoot hardware failures and systems conflicts on BlackBerry platforms by performing fail over testing, and non-production server tests.Provide Windows Systems and Systems Security support in order to cover the necessary support required when necessary.Experienced with system administration, installation, support, and maintenance with servers running Microsoft Windows 2008 server and Linux operating systems. The servers include a combination of both physical and virtual operating environments. They are also both local and remote systems administration. Ability to perform system administration, troubleshoot and determine solutions for servers running MS Windows 2008 and Linux operating systems.Knowledge of security software and security regulations as they pertain to operating systems.Experience with all facets and segments of the DEE system including cross-platform training, data flows, and troubleshooting enterprise wide for applications such as Exchange 2010 SP2, Active Directory forests, System Center Operations manager (SCOM), and power shell scripting. Administration is accomplished via remote management tools such as Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Remote Desktop Connection Manager, HP Onboard Administrator (OA) and Integrated Lights Out (iLO) applications, VMware vSphere, Terminal Services, and WSUS.Experience with MobileIron, Fixmo, Samsung Knox, and Enterprise Mobile Management Center (EMMC) applications.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Serve as a senior IT Specialist and systems administrator for the geographically diverse enterprise level environment.Implement and administer system diagnostic and maintenance tools to ensure availability and functionality of the system.Evaluate and recommend the selection of new system diagnostic tools.Manage the installation of software and hardware, system fixes, updates and enhancements.Install and configure commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications and software/hardware enhancements.Ensure application of information security/information assurance policies, principles, and practices developing procedures responding to new threats to systems to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability.Blackberry/Mobility Administrator for Defense Enterprise Email solution supporting the United States Army and various DoD organizations around the world.Provide support for the installation, configuration, and administration of BlackBerry Enterprise & BlackBerry Administration (BES & BAS) Servers.Provide a full spectrum of administrative support for all user accounts, and maintain high availability via a one-to-one ratio.Troubleshoot hardware failures and systems conflicts on BlackBerry platforms by performing fail over testing, and non-production server tests.Ability to perform system administration, troubleshoot and determine solutions for servers running MS Windows 2008 operating system.Experience with all facets and segments of the DEE system including cross-platform training, data flows, and troubleshooting enterprise wide for applications such as Exchange 2010 SP2, Active Directory forests, System Center Operations manager (SCOM), and power shell scripting. Administration is accomplished via remote management tools such as Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Remote Desktop Connection Manager, HP Onboard Administrator (OA) and Integrated Lights Out (iLO) applications, VMware vSphere, Terminal Services, and WSUS.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Operating System/TroubleshootingEmail Support in collaboration with Defense Information Security Agency (DISA)Network Troubleshooting for ‘Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Network’ (NIPRNet)Also supported ‘Secret Internet Protocol Router Network’ (SIPRNet)Telephone ‘Defense Switched Network’ (DSN) SupportMobile Phone (Blackberry) SupportCommon Access Card (CAC) SupportComputer Hardware/Software Support24/7 Service DeskSecret Clearance RequiredRequires Information Assurance Awareness (IAA) certificationRequires Information Assurance Fundamentals (IASO) certificationRequires CompTIA Security + certificationRequires ITIL Foundations v3 certificationRequires Microsoft Certified IT professional 70-685 certificationPerformed over flow for multiple accounts, fulfilling multiple dutiesInvolves logging in remotely if issue is above skill level of that particular user. Work with sensitive information ‘For Official Use Only (FOUO)’Applied & maintain current knowledge of IT security/information assurance policies, principles and practices in the delivery of customer support services at the IAT I & II levels. Top 10 overall of phone agents, management decided to transfer me from phone agent to email agent to further assist users via email requests.After first month of being on the email team, I was ranked #1 and was elected to move to a new Workload Manager position that was created to further assist the email team. This involved: Being a Liaison between the email agents and Network Enterprise Centers (NECs) to confirm or change the process for the email agents.Coordinate with NECs in case of a prolong outage to ensure all customers inquiries are handled in time.Required to maintain reports of the email team to send to the manager

Bachelor Of Technology Degree, Information Assurance & Forensics, 4.0

Associate In Applied Science, Networking/Cyber Security, 3.5

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa, Foundation Scholarship, National Science Foundation Cyber Security ScholarshipGraduated.

General Studies, Ged