SUMMARY:

• 30+ years of experience providing IT leadership and solutions across several markets including defense, Intelligence, federal government, retail, banking, insurance, entertainment, and manufacturing
• Roles have ranged from software developer to enterprise big data architect, project leader, system engineer, system administrator, system integration specialist and system security engineer
• Previously held high - level US Government security clearance - Top Secret SCI with Polygraph
• Key skill areas include:
• Big Data Evangelist
• Big Data / Hadoop Architecture and Administration (Hortonworks, MapR, Cloudera)
• Big Data Ecosystem Tool Evaluation and Integration (Recommend tools to fit business needs)
• Big Data Security (Kerberos, Apache Ranger)
• Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategy
• IT and Big Data Governance (Program, Platform and Data levels)
• Unix/Linux System Administration (Solaris, HPUX, RedHat, CentOS)
• RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server), data modeling (ER-Win), SQL development
• Server Security (DOD, GSA, DODIIS standards), vulnerability scanning and remediation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Vice President and Co-Founder, Lead Consultant

• Providing IT consulting to companies seeking to leverage newer technology in areas such as:
• Big Data
• Program initiation, development, governance, budgeting, staffing requirements
• Use case identification, requirements analysis and documentation
• Hardware, software and networking recommendations
• Evaluation and recommendations for Hadoop distributions and ecosystem tools
• Cluster installs and upgrades, Hadoop administration
• Cluster security - Kerberos, Ranger
• Enterprise strategy and planning
• Comprehensive analysis of business operations and requirements
• Identification of opportunities to leverage technology
• Work closely with leadership team to ensure alignment with corporate goals
• Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Business Systems Modernization (BSM)
• Data center planning and buildout
• Analysis of hardware, networking, space and power requirements
• Hardware acquisition, rack and stack
• Server builds and security lockdowns
• Operations support, monitoring, log file analysis
• Disaster Recovery / COOP planning, High-Availability and Scalability
• Past clients include:
• Oalva, Inc. ; Service Management Group
• Nvent, LLC; Comcast
• The Gap
• Vincent Benjamin, Oxford International, AZ Tech Finders
• A Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned business

Confidential, AZ

Big Data Solutions Architect

• Served as a Big Data Solutions Architect assisting with enterprise strategy, architecture and tools
• Analysis of current program direction and strategy with recommendations
• Led the evaluation of Hadoop distributions; documented comparative analysis of fit, features, costs
• Big Data Ecosystem Tool research and recommendations for Proof of Concepts

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Lead Technical Architect, Business Intelligence Group

• Joined Confidential to provide enterprise architecture support in the Business Intelligence group
• Primary focus involved Big Data enterprise strategy, architecture and tools
• Evaluated and recommended platforms and ecosystem tools to fit business unit requirements
• Built a research lab with Hadoop clusters to conduct thorough product evaluations

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Senior System Engineer

• Provided lead support as a senior-level system administrator and engineer to US Intelligence Community supporting counter-terrorism efforts
• Duties included building and maintaining racks of Linux servers and fault-tolerant storage arrays
• Assisted in the evolution of the application architecture with recommendations on emerging trends in technology. Built prototypes for big data solutions using Hadoop (Cloudera), EMC Greenplum.
• Other tools used include: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Subversion, Nagios, Ganglia, Splunk, security tools (incl SecScn, Nessus, nmap, Web Inspect, Tripwire, Puppet), JIRA

Confidential

Senior UNIX Administrator

• Provided contract support to Sun Microsystems and Boeing as a senior-level systems administrator to US Intelligence Community
• Responsible for supporting and maintaining a large 24x7 data center
• Configure Solaris Unix servers and storage in a clustered, high-availability, fault-tolerant environment
• Other tools used: Sun Solaris 9/10, Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Clustering, Veritas NetBackup, WebLogic, Oracle 9i/10g, F5 BigIP load balancer, shell scripting, Custom application integration, HP OpenView

Confidential, Washington DC

Sr. UNIX System Administrator

• Provided senior-level Unix Administration support for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington DC
• Provided guidance on setting up a scalable, fault-tolerant, high-availability environment
• Performed security lockdown on servers according to DODIIS security standards
• Tools used: Solaris 10, Oracle 10g, WebLogic, JEDI (DODIIS) security

Confidential, Quantico, VA

Systems Integration Specialist

• Provided short-term contract support to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at Quantico, VA
• Build and maintain Windows and Linux (Fedora, RedHat, CentOS) workstations and servers
• Installed and managed virtual forensic environments using VMware
• Assist management team in building program infrastructure and providing leadership

Confidential, AZ

Sr Systems Administrator

• Contractor to Lockheed Martin IS&GS in Goodyear, AZ as a Senior Systems Administrator and System Integrator on DCGS-AF program including Data Integration Backbone (DIB)
• Duties involved configuration and maintenance of Unix-Solaris 10, Linux and Windows servers
• Also involved in configuration of Active Directory, LDAP, DNS and other tools within the NCES Security framework

Confidential, Washington DC

System Administrator

• Lead System Administrator and System Architect for the Joint Intelligence Virtual University (JIVU) program at Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington, DC
• Install and configure hardware, operating system and application software, EMC Symmetrix SAN
• Plan, configure and support distributed data architecture across multiple intel agencies
• Technology: Sun and HP hardware, Solaris 8/10, Windows Server 2003, Sun Disk Suite, Sun SCSI and FibreChannel Storage Arrays, WebLogic 9.2, Plateau LMS, Centra LMS, JEDI Security, DODIIS, Apache

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

• Primary Unix system administrator on servers used for systems integration with federal agencies
• Installation of hardware, configuration of HP-UX, Oracle, Global Exchange (GEX) and other COTS /GOTS software, configure RAID storage arrays
• Periodic security scans using DISA STIG and other tools, implement necessary changes to secure servers according to security standards established by DoD and GSA
• Led efforts to set up and maintain data interfaces with each federal agency customer