SUMMARY:

Top secret cleared IT professional seeking to continue supporting the best of America; our military. I have supported our war - fighters on mission-critical operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe, the UAE, and CONUS.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 , Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, VMWare 5.5 and 6.0, Exchange 2010/2013, Netbackup, Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), SCOM, HP Operations Manager, Linux/Unix, IDS/IPS, Splunk, Confidential (McAfee ePO), Information Security, SolarWinds, WDS, WSUS, Power Shell, Remedy, Lync, Firewalls, Cisco Switches, Norton, McAfee, Office 2010/2013

EXPERIENCE & NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS:

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Principal VMware engineer, assigned to Peterson AFB in support of the N2ITSM contract supporting NORAD. upgraded NORAD’s virtualized environment from version 5.5 to version 6.0.
• Additional duties are to assist in daily operations and maintenance in a large enterprise environment utilizing Server 2008 and 2012, VMware, NetApp and Veeam backup solutions.

Confidential, Cape Canaveral, FL

SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR - CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Major contributor to the operation and rapid expansion of this start-up aerospace engineering and space transport company.
• Built, managed and administered a rapidly-growing, mission-critical IT environment including: Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, VMWare.
• Lead IT engineer of Recovery department, including 3 * Lead engineer of all VMware for the Confidential enterprise landing zones, 2 automated drone-ships, 30 personnel, with locations of Florida, Texas, California. recovered rocket first stages, telemetry and data. * One-hundred-day project completed with distinction

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed and deployed new base at Kabul Airport and all communications. Instrumental in all administrative duty of SOCOM NPR/SIPR/Centrix networks, as the sole systems administrator on base.
• Provide full IT support, administration and engineering for over 150 Special Forces personnel. Cyber incident responder, Confidential administration.

• Exchange 2010-2013 migration of 3000 users.
• Created/maintained high availability and resiliency through DAG’s and failover clustering.
• Linux version 14, Ubuntu administration on multiple servers running specialized applications for military
• Provide maintenance to systems, continuously improving efficiency and ensuring always-on connectivity with secure, breach-free environments.
• Deploy and configure servers, provision VMWare virtual machines, SCCM administration, PKI infrastructure
• Certification and Accreditation - evaluated, tested, and examined security controls; accepted residual risks of using applications for a specified time-frame.
• Train all users on information security awareness, administrate ePO ( Confidential ) and respond to IA incidents.

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in the delivery and administration of e-mail systems, ensuring always on availability and system uptime, applying regular updates and ensuring functionality of incoming and outgoing servers, new account creation, installs and updates.
• Classified infrastructure utilizing PKI.
• Oversaw the operation and installation of mobile messaging applications and configuration for e-mail delivery on mobile devices with secure data connections.
• Improved processes and increased efficiency through authored Power Shell scripts, performing routine tasks through automation before this was readily available.

Confidential, Fort Carson, Colorado Springs

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Operated System Center Configuration Manager, designing update packages, ensuring client compliance, building collections, extensive reporting and obtaining metrics.
• Identified areas of opportunity to increase efficiency in updating the enterprise, such as running compliance reports to send updates to only the machines that needed them instead of sending to all machines
• Obtained Windows and third-party updates and packaged them for push delivery throughout enterprise, ensuring security, update installations and adherence to military and DISA regulations.

Confidential

Lead Field Support Engineer | IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in the management of Confidential Training Mission for Afghanistan’s systems engineering and technical assistance mission, leading and directing subcontractor missions through streamlined installation activities, while clearly addressing challenges with a detailed resolution in completing projects on time, task and budget for 100+ military personnel.
• Designed and deployed multi-million-dollar IT infrastructure installation projects, providing Afghan National Army bases connectivity to Afghan Ministry of Defense network, including telecommunication bridges.
• Performed certification and accreditation - evaluated security controls; accepted minor risks of application usage

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Engaged in operations of C2BMC Suite, including but not limited to server builds, configurations, updates, patches and overall ensuring availability and uptime of computer systems and network access for missions.
• Original team member of United States Missile Defense Agency in Ramstein AFB, Germany, in collaboration with other IT professionals, performed systems administration operations, performed security-related duties, including network security, physical security, cryptography management, access control, Linux v14, Unix, Symantec System Center, PKI infrastructure. Cyber incident responder, Confidential administration.