SUMMARY:

I have had the opportunity in my career to become intimately familiar with electronics, telecommunications, computer systems, and networking. My years of experience has been in engineering related communications, information systems administration, organization and management of data, telecommunications, software designing, writing and troubleshooting system analysis, and both packet based & ATM networking with more than ten years of specialized experience as an educator and developer of system maintenance and training.

Lead for Telecommunications: My forty years of military service and follow on experience as a field and network engineer for multiple government contractors has brought me vast amounts of background experience to support, maintain, & troubleshoot Navy, Air Force and other government network, telecommunication and radar systems. I have the unique capability of looking at a system as a whole and troubleshooting it down to its lowest replaceable unit, even to component level if necessary. Tasking has been presented to me for new systems, to learn and know it well enough for installation, troubleshooting, writing course curriculum, and presenting the material to a classroom. There has been a total of nine years supervising up to 15 people.

Proven Record - Across Multiple IT Systems and Equipment: I have experience with ATM & Packet Based networking, VLF through SHF RF analog and digital communications, troubleshooting under pressure to successfully meet a timeline. The background that I have on older systems helps me to adapt easily to newer systems presently in use. I have twenty-five years of experience in the IT field from surveying, building, operating and maintaining wired and wireless networks, SAN & data backup, software creation and troubleshooting programming language code. Tasked with training three carriers and four Navy shore facilities on the end-to-end ATM networking operation using Lucent’s PSAX switch, I coordinated the first ever ATM communication AOR turnover with the USS Theodore Roosevelt from the Atlantic to the Pacific AOR to set the record for the fastest transition ever completed. While with JPI, I successfully installed multiple VSAT and wireless systems troubleshooting and maintaining these systems with some of the most challenging environmental conditions. With Confidential, I successfully completed the expansion of FOB Shindand for Dyn Corp for the growth of its VSAT, network and wireless connectivity with full help desk support. Many challenging issues were solved during installation and maintenance and when we went to a corporate worldwide network. I was qualified as a Senior Missile Technician and Missile Launch Crewmember on nuclear air-to-ground and ICBM missile electronics. Trained in Air Force electronic theory and mathematics, and Navy electronic component level troubleshooting, repair and replacement, it has given me the ability to understand electronics at an engineering level from a systems standpoint. Having always referred myself as a “systems” engineer, I know and understanding the entire communications path and can easily narrow it down to the source of any problem.

International Experience: I have traveled quite extensively during my career. The majority of my overseas travel has required that I work alone and it has taken me from the Republic of Georgia, Italy to Hawaii, Greenland, Afghanistan, Kuwait and many places in the United States. With Raytheon I spent a year at the UEWR site in Thule, Greenland and assisted all Raytheon users with any computer or networking problems. While working for JPI and Confidential in Afghanistan, I was installing and maintaining VSAT, wireless and ISP, and supporting systems for Dyn Corp, Lockheed Martin, Joint Robotics, and the Rapid Equipping Force including the military to have personal wireless. While supporting Riverbed, I traveled to Kuwait to support GEMS (Global Enterprise Modeling & Simulation) collecting and modeling the Army network.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Performance Consultant

As a subcontractor to Riverbed, I installed, operated, maintained and gave introductory training on the Global Enterprise Modeling & Simulation (GEMS) applications for the US Army Conus and OCONUS utilizing VMWare configuring and setting it up on the virtual servers.

Modeled the Army’s Enterprise Network so the engineers could proactively troubleshoot to discover issues before they became serious. Identified devices that had high packet loss, CPU activity, RAM, and Bandwidth to maintain the health of the network.

Identified devices that didn’t meet STIG and multiple other requirements. Discovered rogue devices and tracked them down to their port connection. Identified daily any changes to devices while the software kept a history of all changes.

Worked with the RNEC/LNECs and senior Army leadership from the brigade level down briefing results of the applications, providing introductory training and seeking what they would like to see displayed so they can quickly resolve any issue.

Schedule 40hrs/week with some OT

Confidential

VSAT/Senior Network Engineer

Served as the Logistics Manager and Senior VSAT/Network Engineer for PCI for Afghanistan under Lockheed Martin and other customers to provide installation, removal, troubleshooting and maintenance for the VSAT systems to provide them with internet and VoIP phones.

Traveled to multiple sites within Afghanistan to install and troubleshoot their satellite systems.

Worked directly for the Lockheed PMO’s and Country Manager to ensure that all the sites VSAT and network systems were maintained and operational so they could continue to stream their data to the appropriate locations.

Followed up on Lockheed VSAT shipment’s to make sure all material was present.

Monitored all the sites so I knew immediately when they went down. Contacted the site to investigate and worked with the NOC to resolve issues quickly. Worked with iDirect modems, Cisco Business SFE2000 switches, and firewalls (Cisco PIX and 5505 ASA) loading scripts and pointing/re-pointing the dishes.

Served as the Logistics Manager and Senior VSAT/Network Engineer for PCI supporting the VSAT sites in all of Afghanistan under Dyn Corp International, providing support for the remaining Dyn Corp sites and other PCI customers.

Lead/Senior VSAT Network Engineer and Supervisor at Shindand. Installed a full SCPC VSAT 2.4M system, revamped an entire network structure and layout, managed all cables, coordinated with the Labor, Carpentry and Electrical Departments for burying and installing cable runs, installed and connected remote departments via wireless shot. As the Help Desk maintained customer connectivity through Active Directory & Windows Server 2012, DNS, DHCP, GPO, RAS, TCP/IP, QoS, Solar Winds, HP OpenView, UDP, POP, SMTP, HTTP, SSH, LAN, WAN, Telnet, Putty and FTP, performed all repair and update functions for Windows 7 OS; completed network improvements/additions, configuring routers (2811 & 3945), 46 Cisco switches (2960 & 3560), over 450 VoIP Cisco phones, 34 Wireless radios (Canopy, Cisco Bridge & MicroTik) using multiple VLAN’s, numerous firmware upgrades on all components and maintained customer integrity with both corporate and government entities for FOB Shindand, Afghanistan.

Monitored network for security and high bandwidth usage tracking down offenders. M aintained a full VSAT suite with router, Riverbed and Fortigate; surveyed and designed new LAN layouts and brought new departments online along with solving customer issues from software to hardware. I work from the simplest to the most complex within a network of over 850 people at FOB Shindand.

Imaged computers using Acronis, Ghost, Seagate Disk Wizard, Windows Imaging (WIM), and Clonezilla. Completed deep hard drive data recoveries using Power Data Recovery. Established an HP Windows Server 2012 infrastructure and maintained it for two years installing, configuring and resolving issues for DNS, Exchange, Hyper-V, and Active Directory.

As Lead/Senior Engineer, I directed up to eight personnel, advised two Regional Managers, covered in their absence and assisted multiple technicians and engineers all across Afghanistan and the ProActive NOC in Killeen, Texas. As necessary reported to the Site Manager concerning any communication issues.

Monitored and maintained departmental logistics handling shipment requests to other sites.

Schedule 12hrs day/7days week.

Confidential

VSAT/Network Engineer

VSAT Engineer providing full installation of VSAT and ISP connectivity for the soldier’s internet at various FOBs and COPs in Afghanistan. It involved a unique skill set where in some places material wasn’t available and you had to think outside the box to get the job done. Used networking and computer skills to solve problems and customer issues. Installed, troubleshoot and maintained Cisco routers & switches, Comtech & Paradise modems, with MicroTik, Canopy, Engenius, and Vivato wireless devices .

Schedule 12hrs day/7days week.

Unemployed - 24

Confidential

Senior Field Engineer

Completed SGI IRIX and military fiber certification; upgraded computers, terminated fiber and pulled cables for the UEWR Radar Upgrade at Thule, Greenland.

Held position as the Logistics Manager at Thule, completed preparation and logistics to ship class/unclassified equipment from the US to Greenland. Transported personnel as needed.

Established and maintained the satellite connection and local network verifying and was the Help Desk for the UEWR contracted users. Schedule 12hrs day/7days week

Served as an SME assigned to the UEWR at Beale AFB, CA.

Schedule 8hrs day/5days week.

Confidential

Network Administrator for LAN & WAN, Lotus Notes, Desktop & Server, Active Directory, & Domain Server supporting the radar network. Also supported and maintained the in-house Raytheon network users as help desk support, company server and Active Directory management.

ROTHR Administrator utilizing VAX 6000 and ALPHA 8400 servers utilizing the OpenVMS Operating System and Compaq Proliant servers with Windows 2000 and the companies Windows 2000 server managing active Directory. Maintained and performed the SAN, tape backups, monitoring, troubleshooting and repair day to day using Unix based scripting.

Schedule 8hrs day/5days week.

Unemployed

Confidential

Engineering Tech V

As an Engineering Technician V, I was an instructor under the SPAWAR Institute. I taught the Lucent PSAX 1250/2300 ATM switch and theory courses. Shipboard ATM - USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Ronald Reagan, USS Eisenhower, NCTAMS-Naples, Italy, NCTAMS-San Diego, NCTAMSPAC-Wahiawa, HI, and NCTAMSLANT-Norfolk, VA - all tied into the Navy’s High Speed Global Ring (HSGR), ATM Core switch, Sun Solaris Server & Windows XP, INMARSAT B HSD, AN/FCC-100, FASTLANE, TACLANE, Juniper switches, and Cisco switches that includes NEXUS. Reviewed, revised, and taught the course curriculum for the Transmission System Technician (NEC2379) training of the US Navy’s Information Technicians (IT) concentrating in the Automated Digital Network System (ADNS) system at FTC Norfolk, ET School. Presented course curriculum in radio and radar operation procedures for the Republic of Georgia’s Coast Guard. Assisted the Georgian Base Commander in establishing a Communications Plan for state-of-the-art digital HF radios. Taught the AN/SPS-67 (V) 3 radar repair course (NEC9608) to students from Spain and the US Navy at FTC Norfolk.

As an instructor for the International Maritime Satellite (INMARSAT) B, KY-58, FASTLANE and TACLANE, AN/WSC-3 UHF communications system, and Lucent’s PSAX ATM switch . I qualified on the SPS-67 radar & SPA-10 repeater maintenance course at Navy “C” school, completed training in 12 weeks which normally is two years and then taught sailors from the Spanish Navy. Taught six classes of the radio, radar and radio operator course to the Republic of Georgia’s Coast Guard.

As the System Engineer/Hardware Administrator using Windows NT and Sun Solaris, maintained the Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) for Fleet Combat Training Center Atlantic (FCTCL) Dam Neck Naval Training Center. Responsible for daily administration, traffic management, troubleshooting connectivity, and developing new subnets for existing users. Maintained and repaired over 1300 computers and printers for FCTCL Dam Neck. On an IP based network, utilized serial, Ethernet, and Fiber Distribution Data Interface (FDDI) to establish intranet/internet SECRET Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET) communications and established OTICIXS and TADIX across SIPRNET for the training command. Administered the hardware with Sun Solaris and HP OpenView Network Node Manager monitoring and configuration.

Built, tested, repaired, installed and troubleshot computers for the U.S. Navy’s System Network Architecture Program (SNAP) for submarines. Managed computer software and hardware configurations accomplishing preparation of computers for seamless installation at the designated sites.

Set up the first in-house network and a local server in the office with Windows 2003 so users had a common place to access files.

Schedule 40hrs week with some OT

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ATM, Communication Systems, Component Level, Troubleshooting, Integrity, Instructor, Honesty, Dependability, Cryptographic, DBaseIV, FDDI, Fiber Optic, Field Engineer, Firmware, Foxpro, VLF, LF, HF, VHF, UHF, SHF, ISP, LAN, Layer 2, Layer 3, WAN, Logistics, Marconi, Microsoft Project, Missile Systems, Network Architecture, Network Engineer, Riverbed Applications (OPNET, NetCollector, NetPlanner, NetAuditor, Portal, GEMS), NMap, Novell, OSPF, OpenVMS, PSAX, Routers, Cisco, SAN, Satellite Communications, Self -Motivated, Scripting, Irix, POP, SMTP, SNMP, Solaris, Solar Winds, Switches, Systems Analyst, TCP/IP, Teaching, Telecommunications, Traffic Analysis, Training, UDP, VMware, HyperV, VSAT, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10, Wireless, Wireshark, Performance Consultant, Fibre channel, DHCP, TCP/IP, QoS, POP, HTTP, Telnet, and Putty.