SUMMARY:

• Accomplished System Integration Engineer with 18 years of experience in the management, engineering, and testing of information systems.
• Solution - driven, effective leader with the ability to develop and manage cross-functional teams throughout the entire development lifecycle.
• Proven success; implemented new technologies and decisive leadership of personnel on technology solutions and innovation.
• Extensive experience in systems testing, administration, design, development, programming and installation.
• An avid learner; able to pick up new skills and apply them quickly and effectively.
• Certified A+, Security +, and ITIL Foundations.
• Stood-up QA program instrumental to the successful launch of the Confidential enabling Confidential access to critical training from home, effort lauded by Confidential leaders.
• Innovated network solution for future integrations saving $150K on development costs.
• Engineered a VMware Modeling and Simulation System to test future capabilities, troubleshoot methods and serve as a development model for all new system platforms resulting in savings of $1.5M in development, testing and operation costs.
• Led the deployment and disposition of an 8 network warfare systems with a $5.7M hardware and software equipment budget which resulted in reducing utility costs and increased operational efficiency.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Development Lifecycle Management
• System Innovation
• IT Security
• Network Engineering
• Server Technologies
• Test Engineering
• Agile Scrum Project Management
• Technical Writing - White Papers
• Cloud Integration
• Quality Assurance
• Test Management
• ITIL-F, SD & ST

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Systems: Windows Server, Linux, LAMP - CentOS, Ubuntu, Solaris, ESX, ESXi, Hypervisor, Citrix

Hardware: Cisco (Routers - Switches - PIX Firewalls - VoIP) Network TAPs, EMC, REDCOM, Dell, Sun, Iron System, SuperMicro, HP, GPS timeservers (Symmetricom), Crypto Devices, Antennas, CSU/DSU, RAID, Drobo, SAN, SAS, Signal Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, Raritan KVM, NICs, Modems/Copiers/Printers/Scanners

Software: HP UFT, AEM, Blackboard, Team Foundation Server, Service Now, MS Test Manager, IIS, SharePoint, Adobe, .NET, VMware, vSphere 4 - 5.5, HTML5, XML, JavaScript, Java, J2EE, C/C++, Python, SQL, Apache, Nagios, Norton Ghost, Avocent, Lariat Traffic Generator, MS Access, MS Project, Excel, MS Office Suite, Exchange Server, DOS, Norton Anti Virus, MacAfee Antivirus, Zone Alarm, Remedy, JIRA, SVN, Scripting, PHP

Network: TCP/IP, Novell, IPX/SPX, Ethernet, FDDI, VPN, SNMP, FTP, SNORT, Wireshark, Observer, PBX, Telecom Enterprise level, F5

Architecture: Cloud, PaaS, SaaS, Capacity Services, AWS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Senior Integration Engineer/ Test Team Manager/ DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed first of its kind test program for Confidential and TIMS, managed cross functional agile test teams worldwide on multiple concurrent efforts.
• Designed unique testing methodology which collects real-time metrics, identifies and triage bugs, and speeds resolution throughout the entire Developmental Life Cycle.
• Key engineer on future Cloud LMS for the US Confidential to include new development, evaluation of Adobe AEM, and Blackboard pilot programs.
• Led the integration of the Confidential from localized server to DISA capacity services;
• Created Team Foundation Server environment on existing development network; enabled developers to collaborate more efficiently.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Principal Professional Services Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led all phases of product integration, operations, maintenance, and troubleshooting of technical issues related to the product suite as Program Engineer.
• Streamlined and decreased the system approval and accreditation process from over six months to four weeks which resulted in complying with the required Presidential Executive Order before assigned deadline.
• Installed premier Insider Threat Defense Monitoring System into the Confidential networks two weeks ahead of schedule by coordinating with various entities and working with multiple computer systems and software.
• Oversaw problem resolution, new product features, and future product direction as internal customer advocate.
• Managed and resolved all technical customer issues and documented product problems and associated defects/solutions.

Confidential, TX

Senior Network Systems Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Installed, upgraded, maintained and provided disposition for mission system components.
• Utilized Agile Kanban project management methodology to develop an activity tracking tool which increased productivity and reporting by enabling system metrics to predict system failures more accurately.
• Provided engineering/sparing recommendations and modeling/simulation capabilities for proposed system features.
• Completed troubleshooting, testing and trend analysis and engineered and developed systems.

Confidential, TX

Technician Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted daily system diagnostics, troubleshot and resolved complex technical system malfunctions.
• Decreased compliance wait time for client systems by automating Windows Vista deployment while deployed overseas.
• Implemented security updates and performed physical security measures for over 3,000 wing computers.
• Resolved multi-organizational computer problems and wing local area network (n/w) deficiencies.

Confidential, TX

Test Range Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw over $5M in equipment assets which including repairing, troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Administered Network Warfare Test Range for 5,000 user workstations and Unix/Windows servers.
• Managed patch levels and group policy updates for real world testing environment and diagnosed and resolved data collection technical issues.
• Designed, installed and integrated network attack range that can be modeled and scaled to meet client’s exact criteria while running multiple tests at once at different classification levels.
• Led the Confidential only Confidential Block 25 and 30 Network defense testing and implementation.
• Researched and evaluated cutting-edge technology to ensure future compatibility.

Confidential

Lead Maintenance Technician

Responsibilities:

• Maintained a 99% uptime ratio and coordinated over 1,200 monthly maintenance actions.
• Wrote and updated service manuals for 44 satellite computer and radio systems and trained over 50 personnel on over 35 mission systems which decreased system downtime by 50%.
• Engineered 23 Unix/Solaris/Windows based mission critical data analysis systems processing 34 TB every day.
• Performed priority maintenance on 44 satellite computer and radio systems.

Confidential, Bellaire, TX

Senior Account Executive

Responsibilities:

• Drove Imaging, equipment and software services by obtaining 26 new clients over one year and increasing sales by 65%.