TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Sun Ultra 10, Sun Blade 2000, IBM Servers, HP/9000, HP3000/900 series computers, Cisco 2924, 2948, 2980, 3550 - 12 and 3550-24 switches, Cisco 2503 Router, Cisco Catalyst 4000 series and gigabit fiber connection, HP 2300 and HP 2567C printers, Dell PowerEdge Servers. Intel/AMD Servers, PC and Laptops, Mac Book.

Operating Systems: HP-UX 10.02 and 11.0, Solaris 8 - 10, Microsoft Windows 3.1, NT 4.0 server and workstation, XP and Vista, Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu), Cisco IOS and CAT OS, MPE/iX, IRIX, AIX 5L, MS DOS 1.2 - 5.0, DR DOS 7, FreeDOS 1.0, Xen, OS X (Snow Leopard - Mavericks)

Fierwalls: Untangle, PFSense, Cisco PIX

Network Monitoring: Status Cake, Snort,, Zabbix, Nagios, Uptime Robot, Cabletron Spectrum, HP OpenView for Windows 7.2 version C.02.06

Remote Management: Jamf-Casper

VoIP Systems: SwitchVox

Cloud Services: AWS GovCloud (EC2, S3, Glacier, EBS, VPC), Google Apps fro Business, Backupify, Spanning Backup

TCP/IP & Network Protocols: DNS, HTTP, FTP, SFTP, SMTP, Gopher, IMAP, NNTP, NFS, POP, Telnet, NTP, MTP, IRC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Senior Systems Engineer / Senior AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implement AWS EC2 GovCloud network
• RedHat and CentOS systems Administration
• Installation, implementation, and troubleshooting of virtual systems
• Write process and procedure documentation
• Monitor systems performance
• Manage system updates and upgrade planning
• Perform system and application STIGs

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement multi - site HA solutions

Confidential, Reston, VA

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, implementation, and troubleshooting of UNIX systems
• Write process and procedure documentation
• Administer the corporate mail servers
• Administer the corporate chat server
• Perform end user support for Confidential
• Maintain Apache Web Servers
• Perform system upgrades
• Perform hardware installation and upgrades
• Installed and maintain VoIP phone system (Switchvox)
• Implement AWS EC2 Govecloud network
• Server migration to EC2
• Devised and implemented a a backup solution incorporating local and EC2 servers and S3 storage. Using a combination of OpenVPN, rsync, automated EC2 snapshots and s3cmd via custom bash scripts.
• Managing Google Apps for Business for 90+ accounts and a couple dozen email list.
• Maintain network and firewall (openvpn, iptables, pfSense, Untangle) Protocols: DHCP, DNS, TCP, UDP, SMTP

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, implementation, and troubleshooting of UNIX systems
• Write process and procedure documentation
• Administer the corporate mail servers (Zimbra)
• Administer the corporate chat server (OpenFire)
• Perform end user support for Confidential
• Maintain Apache Web Servers
• Perform system upgrades
• Perform hardware installation and upgrades

Confidential, Springfield, VA

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• UNIX Systems Administrator for HP-UX 11i, Red Hat RHEL 4 / RHEL5, AIX 5L Version 5.2 Solaris 9
• Installation, implementation, and troubleshooting of UNIX systems
• General administration task including managing user and group accounts, managing files and directories, disk management, performance monitoring and networking.
• Monitor NetBackup tape libraries and robots.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Sr. Network/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• UNIX Systems Administrator for HP-UX 11i, Red Hat RHEL 4 / RHEL5, AIX 5L Version 5.2 Solaris 9
• Installation, implementation, and troubleshooting of UNIX systems
• General administration task including managing user and group accounts, managing files and directories, disk management, performance monitoring and networking.
• Monitor NetBackup tape libraries and robots.

Confidential

Principle Technical Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Perform system process trouble shooting
• Write process and procedure documentation as defined by the Confidential
• Act as a liaison between the Confidential and the Desktop Field Support group

Confidential, McLean, VA

Principle Technical Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Contracted to Confidential, working on contract for Confidential
• Perform system process trouble shooting
• Write process and procedure documentation as defined by the Confidential
• Write ISO procedures for use by Trawick and L3 employees on contract to Confidential
• Act as a liaison between the Confidential and the Desktop Field Support group

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

System Administrator/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Host Racking/Powering
• Network Cabling
• Auto Provisioning/ Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
• Administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
• Disk/Hardware Installation and Replacement
• Console Configuration/Problem Resolution
• Physical and Port Level Network Troubleshooting
• Cisco 3750 Install/Configure/Deploy/Troubleshoot

Confidential, McLean, VA

Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Climbed existing communications and radio towers to install wind energy resource measurement equipment
• Configured data acquisition boxes and cellular data link systems

Independent Contractor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked for several companies as an independent Climbing instructor and High Ropes Challenge Course facilitator
• Companies include Nirvana Climbing Guides, Point of Rocks, MD ; Upward Enterprises, Darnstown, MD; Go-Adventure Sports, MD; Sandy Spring Friends School, Sandy Spring, MD

Confidential, Greenbelt, MD

Network/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed full LAN upgrades for multiple contracted projects
• Implemented WAN hardware & configurations to include Cisco 2924, 2948, 2980, 3550-12 and 3550-24 switches, Cisco 2503 Router, Cisco Catalyst 4000 series and gigabit fiber connection
• Handled service calls from field engineers and performed remote trouble shooting during site installations
• Implemented HP-UX upgrades from 10.20 to 11.0, for several FAA TRACON and ARTCC sites throughout the United States. This involved full data backup of all systems. Systems were upgraded from a single Ignite server after it had been manually upgraded.
• Installed and relocated Cisco ICM Call Centers for the IRS.