SUMMARY:

• Transitioned to a career in information technology in 2010, leveraging technical expertise gained through more than 10 years as a Confidential intelligence analyst.
• Quickly moved up from hardware installer to system administrator/engineer.
• Quickly picked up new technologies, methodologies and processes in order to rapidly adapt to various program needs to include cloud technologies, virtualization, networking and multiple operating systems.
• Currently working to gain further architectural insight with various cloud and security related projects utilizing devops and agile methodologies.
• Would ultimately like to find a position working with a team as penetration tester or other positions utilizing related skillsets.
• Provided needed AWS expertise and qualifications for company to upgrade AWS partnership.
• Stepped in as network engineer, due to lack of personnel, to harden ( Confidential ) over 30 cisco network devices securing three year ATOs for classified and unclassified networks.
• Identified SPLUNK as a candidate application for deployment within the Confidential environment, supporting installation, deployment, and configuration across test and development environments to maximize application log monitoring not supported within NGA’s ISP environment
• Analyzed the “as built” environments, identifying and resolving critical discrepancies in configuration, documentation, security, and operation of both development and test environments

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assists with technical research and development for new solutions utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Assists in DevOps for the project utilizing industry tools (JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, etc.)
• Supports various components in physical infrastructure.

Confidential

Integration Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in hardening GSAs using the latest STIGs and best practices
• Updated the GSAs when latest releases were approved
• Worked with network, infrastructure, SharePoint and other various teams to properly configure and integrate GSAs within the production environment
• Integrated GSA to utilize SAML bridge and Active Directory connectors to provide single sign on capability when conducting secure searches
• Installed and configured file share connector to feed documents to GSA for indexing
• Installed and configured SharePoint connector to feed URLs to GSA for indexing
• Optimized and tuned GSA to improve performance and limit undesired search results

Security Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the drafting of multiple Confidential, flow diagrams and other project documentation
• Advised team leads on technical matters concerning the remediation of vulnerably findings
• Drafted various documentation in support of Confidential packages for JWICS site/system/application
• Drafted templates and guides to draft artifacts for submission as part of body of evidence

Information Systems Security Officer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Drafted security documentation to include: System Security Plan (SSP), Audit policy, Access Control Model Framework ( Confidential ), Information System Continuous Monitoring (ISCM), for Confidential GLOBE C2S in preparation for IATT submission

Sr Systems Integrator/Cloud Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured, integrated and transported NetApp shelf in support of massive data transfer from unclassified to classified environments
• Setup Alfresco content management server to use as a common document storage location, using Active Directory authentication
• Troubleshot various network, storage and Linux issues

Confidential

Systems Administrator Staff

Responsibilities:

• Installed and maintained various software applications and nuclear effects codes on standalone and high performance computing (HPC) systems
• Assisted in network transition of big data system and setup various dedicated workstations
• Maintained test and production environment networks, which included over 30 network devices, including STIGs and hardening for Confidential on both classified and unclassified networks
• Confidential ’d Linux systems to meet IA requirements for Confidential package
• Tested RedHat Satellite server and updated RedHat systems via Satellite
• Supported several remote access capabilities, utilizing Citrix XenDesktop and Juniper VPN, for users to access server resources and proprietary software and codes in order to coordinate efforts more efficiently between multiple organizations and locations resulting in at least an initial cost savings of over $30k
• Windows (Server 2008 - Server 2012 R2, Windows 7), Linux (RHEL/Centos 6-7), Network (Cisco) administration
• Conducted over 100+ interviews to fill various positions on the team
• Troubleshot issues on big data system utilizing puppet, Red Hat KVM, and Cisco

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployed, configured and administered Red Hat Linux, Windows Server 2008 and ESXi operating systems across a clustered, 250+ VM vCenter environment
• Automated common deployment and administration tasks via bash scripts
• Configured Linux FTP server and client while utilizing GlubTech secure FTP wrapper
• Managed NetApp SAN/NAS shared storage across varied-OS environment with multiple domains
• Installed and administered Active Directory and DNS
• Joined Linux operating systems to Windows domain via Quest Authentication Services and Likewise
• Installed and configured Aspera Enterprise server, proxy, Point2Point and Console.
• Installed and configured Arcsight Loggers/Smartconnectors and Splunk Indexers/forwarders across multiple networks
• Collaborated with Confidential development team to support design, testing, and deployment strategies supporting a phased deployment strategy
• Coordinated with Confidential systems team to deploy Confidential into the Confidential ISP environment, identifying and resolving design and compliance against Confidential standards
• Managed Cisco network devices, VLANs, subnets, and port channels

Systems Integrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leveraged more than 10 years intelligence expertise to provide logistic and technical expertise for an award-winning booth at the 2012 DoDIIS World-Wide Conference and facilitated dialogue between program SMEs and potential customers
• Integrated HP standalone and blade servers, Cisco Nexus, Catalyst, ASA and fabric extension networking equipment and APC power units
• Deployed, configured and administered Red Hat Linux (via Kick Start and Puppet applications), Windows Server 2008 and ESXi operating systems of 130+ nodes
• Installed Puppet agent on all Linux servers and troubleshot issues with puppet configuration
• Deployed and managed VMware vSphere environment, to include vSphere Client and vCenter Server 4.1 and 5.0
• Installed and administered Active Directory and DNS
• Assisted in the installation and configuration of the following high-performance computing environment applications: Cloudera-Hadoop suite, Mongo DB, Kafka, Redis, Kerberos and Elastic Search
• Produced installation documentation, hardware and network diagrams and performed asset management activities of all equipment

Confidential

Tier II Installation/Desktop Support Technician

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support for 50+ active classrooms and 600+ workstations (thick and thin clients) in three uniquely classified domains
• Responsible for XP PC and Windows 7 thin client administration
• Served as GD Multimedia Analysis and Archive System (MAAS) FSR for Full Motion Video (FMV) exploitation course, to include feed initialization and configuration on Windows 2008 virtual servers
• Supported PKI integration into the Confidential environment
• Maintained proper user account configuration via Windows Active Directory
• Supported and troubleshot the following geospatial applications: ArcGIS, RemoteView, FalconView, ENVI, GD MAAS
• Maintained and setup 100+ laptops for Geospatial College mobile training teams.