SUMMARY:

• Project Lead role to program and deploy Motorola VMX1000 Mobile Digital Video Recording System, Wifi Network, and BackOffice infrastructure, for Imperial County Sheriff Dept.
• Project Lead role to design, program, and deploy a Firetide Wireless Mesh 5.2GHz & 900MHz 802.11n Outdoor radio nodes for network backhaul, to support the Otay Water District SCADA and Security data traffic to corporate network management system.
• Tasked as primary dedicated Network/Communications support resource for SDG&E Sunrise Powerlink Project. A 1.8B dollar project, to bring green energy to the San Diego region. Deployed and supported a geographically diverse data, voice, and radio network that covered the 119 mile long project, from Imperial Valley to San Diego.
• Developed, installed, documented, and monitored an integrated IA/CND security component (HBSS), for DoD, US Navy CONUS Excepted Networks.
• Provided Network Engineering leadership and mentoring to Network Technician team members in support of US Marine Corp COC (Combat Operations Center).
• Led team of civilian contractors to develop, test, implement, document, and execute project to measure network health and performance of US Navy Pacific Fleet surface ships. Received Lightning Bolt achievement award from SPAWAR.
• Designed an upgraded network infrastructure, and implemented all related network systems for a new corporate home site of the startup telecommunications company ( Confidential ), to support business model objectives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Senior Systems Engineer

• Provide pre and post sales activities and support for new business and projects, including: Identifying current and future customer service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual customers, and other persons in a position to understand service requirements. Provide product, service, or equipment technical and engineering information by answering questions and requests. Prepare cost estimates by studying blueprints, plans, and related customer documents; conducting site walks, consulting with engineers, architects, and other professional and technical personnel. Additional responsibilities include: Provide SME contracted support of Motorola 2way radio systems to various public safety organizations (Police, Sheriff, Fire) throughout Southern California. Provide SME contracted support of Motorola 2way radio systems to local Transit, University, US Navy, and US Army organizations. Provided engineering support to Motorola and San Diego County for FCC Narrowbanding efforts of radio communications systems. Project Lead role to design, program, test, and deploy a Firetide Wireless Mesh 5.2GHz & 900MHz 802.11n Outdoor radio nodes for network backhaul, in support of the Otay Water District SCADA and Security data traffic to corporate network management system. Project Lead to program and deploy Aviat Microwave equipment at 30 sites, to interface with IP network backhaul for SDG&E.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

WAN/LAN Network Engineer

• Working through the Computing Infrastructure - Network Integration group, I provided dedicated technical support to the Sunrise Powerlink Project. Tasked to complete communications network buildout in support of data, voice, and radio requirements. Provided ongoing technical support to maintain communications network uptime, including all Juniper routing, Foundry/Brocade switching, Aruba Wifi Access Point, and Airspan 802.16 Wimax support. Tasked to deploy Wimax and Wifi solution at Rough Acres Field site, in support of the inventory yard asset management requirements. Provided support to the project Aviat microwave and Motorola radio communications system, utilizing remote access to the field installed devices. Tasked to deploy the Wildland Fire Detection System on the project transmission towers. The fire detection system is comprised of a solar and battery powered unit, an IP camera, 5.8GHz and 900 MHz radio links, and an OPGW fiber backhaul to a dedicated monitoring system containing the WFDS Server software. Utilized the CA Spectrum Network Management tool for RCA of all Sunrise Powerlink network issues. Supported data center network equipment (Juniper MX Series routers, Brocade MLX Series routers, Cisco Nexus 5000 series switches, Juniper NetScreen FW/VPN, and F5 load balancers). Tasked to configure, test, and deploy 8 mobile emergency communications trailer units throughout San Diego County, providing voice and data communications through a SatCom link. Additionally tasked to configure, test, and deploy an upgraded router system to support the CBM (Condition Based Maintenance) and Security System of the Electrical Substation network. Network protocols and technologies supported: MPLS, MP-BGP, LDP and OSPF. VPN/VRF, VRRP, VLAN, TACACS+, AAA, NTP, SNMP, and SSHv2

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Information Assurance Engineer

• Civilian contractor to the United States Navy (SPAWAR), providing information assurance engineering support. Tasked to implement and maintain DoD HBSS operations on US Navy Excepted Networks, residing behind IA/CND suite. Monitor, analyze, review, and report on multi-command operational services, utilizing the HBSS Monitoring System. Tasked to identify, investigate, and diagnose for action, all operational events, alarms, and incidents in accordance with INFOCON baseline directive, and client site process requirements. Work with data in diverse formats to produce reports and measure metrics in support of NAVNETWARCOM, NCDOC, and NCTAMS PAC/LANT. Develop and maintain operational (CONOPS), technical (SOP), and process documentation. Maintain DISA guided security posture on IA/CND systems through accreditation utilizing Gold Disk, Retina Scans, IAVA/B, and STIG compliance.

Confidential, Camp Pendleton, CA

Network Engineer

• Civilian contractor, providing engineering field support for the US Marine Corp, ICE2 Program. Support for the US Marine Corp COC (Combat Operations Center), a common, mobile, deployable, modular, reconfigurable Command and Control (C2) system, from the Battalion to the Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) level. Provide SME support for the NIPRNET/SIPRNET (Cisco 3745 routers and Cisco C3560G-48TS switches, IOS configuration with AAA and TACACS+ security), VOIP intercom, Network servers (HP with MS Windows Server 2003), workstations (Dell M90 laptops), Net Apps FAS270 disk storage unit, visual display equipment (Jupiter video server and SMART board), and DSAN (General Dynamics) digital to analog system for radio communications, designed to provide mobile field command communications. Working knowledge with GETT Tactical generator, ECU, and associated grounding requirements for the GETT and COC.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Network Technician

• Civilian contractor to the United States Navy (SPAWAR). Provided shipboard and distance support, IT services for US Navy Pacific Fleet (PMW 160), utilizing the Remedy ticket system. Lead role in Carrier LAN Assessment project. Tasked to develop testing and network monitoring (NetScout/Wireshark) procedures to establish baseline performance requirements for all classes of naval surface ships in accordance with FCAPS model and DoD requirements. SME support for all shipboard Alcatel backbone and edge switches. SME support for all shipboard Cisco routers loaded with IOS configurations, plus TACACS+ and AAA security authentication, and configured with OSPF routing protocol. Lead role for SLEP program to upgrade shipboard network systems with switch blades, switch XOS code, router memory, and router IOS code upgrades. Lead role for installation project of new USNS T-AKE MSC ships, including: Software installation of MS 2003 Enterprise in COMPOSE, COTS/GOTS environment, on HP DL 385 servers. Built DHCP Scope to accommodate VLAN configuration, with DHCP scope assignments defined by 80/20 rule between the primary and secondary domain controllers. Performed installation and configuration of Alcatel backbone and edge switches, based on ‘variant developed’ configuration templates. Performed installation and configuration of Cisco 2691 routers, based on ‘variant developed’ configuration templates. Additional tasks accomplished included integration support of ship specific sub-systems (ie. GCCS-M), into the ISNS program network.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

IT Consultant - System Administration

• Contract position providing IT project management and desktop-helpdesk support to the Magellan Labs facility. Network and system administration for a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain. Led team of 3 on project to gather site hardware and software inventory, to be assembled in a corporate wide database (Altiris), for tracking resources and assets. Led team of 3 to retire old WINNT 4.0 domain, and merge remaining systems to the Windows 2000, AD domain. Administered the clustered server system nodes. Led team to upgrade database server to MS SQL 2000. Responsible for implementing a new backup tape rotation policy for the onsite Exchange 2003 Server. Teamed with corporate IT Messaging Group to centralize the Exchange 2003 Server administration responsibilities for all mail servers. Re-installed and configured the Windows SUS Server for consistent network patch and update distribution. Configured SUS update policies through AD Group Policy. Reconfigured McAfee Enterprise ePolicy Orchestrator, to provide a consistent distribution of virus engine and .dat file updates to all networked systems. Deployed Cisco ASA FW, Solarwinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, and Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor for network management.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

IT Manager

• Responsible for Infrastructure assessment, budget planning, and implementation of all IT projects. Areas of responsibility: All levels of computer installation, setup, and helpdesk support. Monitoring of network and computer system performance. Managed and maintained documentation for all hardware, software, and vendor service contracts. Administration, monitoring, and maintenance of all networking devices (Cisco routers and switches), security (Cisco PIX 520 firewall, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition), messaging (Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 and Blackberry), remote access (Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrator), and data redundancy policies (Veritas Backup Exec v9.0). Support for a mixed; Windows NT,2000,XP, Sun Solaris, Redhat Linux, client/server environment. Provided leadership to staff for upgrading the domain structure to Windows 2000 Active Directory.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Network Systems Administrator

• Led project to spec two new database severs to be used for an upgrade from Microsoft SQL 7.0 to Microsoft SQL 2000 for the Finance Department. Tasked to design and implement an IMAP Enterprise Messaging system for the existing Microsoft Exchange 2000 server, using Outlook 2002 clients, and Ximian Evolution email client for UNIX/Linux systems. Network administration for a Microsoft NT/2000 mixed mode domain structure, with a Cisco routed and switched network. Provided NOC data center support for client hardware and software, including: Server, Switch, Router, and cabling for rack mounted equipment. Provided Helpdesk computer systems support for the Engineering, NOC, Administration, Finance, Sales, and Marketing groups.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

IT Consultant - Systems Support

• Provided all Helpdesk support and setup of computer systems. Designed and implemented a 100mb switched based LAN, with a FDDI backbone. System administration of the UNIX and Microsoft workstations and domain controller, data, and Microsoft Exchange 2000 servers. Shell scripting (bash, using vi editor), to automate administrative tasks. Configured Samba on a Red Hat Linux workstation. Implemented segmentation of the UNIX/Sun Solaris network, and Microsoft Windows2000 domain, to separate subnets. Setup and configuration of Sun systems, including the Cadence tool, for the development processes required by the RF Engineers. Setup and configuration of a Sun Ultra60 with disk array. Installed a Sun tape library to the Ultra60 server, and installed Veritas software, for scheduled backups. Setup and administration of an HP system with HP-UX11, for data storage. Installed and configured a Cisco 2620 router for T1, Internet access through a contracted ISP. Installed and configured Checkpoint software on a Sun Ultra5, for the firewall/security.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Network Administrator

• Led a team of 4 IT staff members to design, implement, administer, and support the corporate LAN/WAN in a Windows XP/2000/WINNT, UNIX, client/server environment. Designed and installed all rack mounted hardware and cabling in server room, data center, and throughout company building. Hand built/dressed and installed all cabling on site. Implemented WINS, DHCP, and DNS. Implemented MS Terminal Server for remote administration and application sharing. All levels of Help Desk support. Remote Access, VPN, dialup configuration, and support. Implemented and administered the data backup system on an Adic Scalar 100 with Veritas Backup Exec. Assisted in implementation of ERP system on Oracle. Email administration of an Exchange 5.5 server. Led team in Exchange Server upgrade, to Exchange Server 2000 Enterprise Edition onto a new Dell server. Support for Panasonic phone system. Administration of security and virus protection with CheckPoint software firewall and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition. Implemented a Cisco 2948G, Layer 3 switch for VLAN configuration.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

IT Consultant

• Provided IT Helpdesk and technical support to the Global Business Services Division, supporting the onsite campus of 1,500 employees. Led IT team of 2 staff members to design, implement, and support an on-site, computer based, training facility. System administration and performance monitoring of corporate server farm on Compaq systems. Participated in corporate upgrade of servers from NT4.0, to Windows2000 Server Enterprise Edition. System administration and monitoring of Corporate Microsoft Exchange servers, including upgrade from Exchange 5.5, to Exchange Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. Administration of domain issues including: group accounts, user accounts, resource allocation, and security. 2nd Level Help Desk support for all business partners. Network support of the LAN/WAN environment, monitoring, maintaining, and upgrading the Cisco infrastructure.