SUMMARY

• Former Unix Platform Security and Compliance manager for Confidential of South Carolina, ensuring that the RHEL, Solaris and AIX platforms meet security, audit and compliance requirements.
• I was responsible for all aspects of system management, planning, acquisition, configuration, administration and maintenance, Disaster Recovery (DR) planning and testing, security monitoring and performance, system auditing, and for ensuring that production, test and development systems were maintained and monitored in strict accordance with all applicable authorised Federal policies and procedures.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: TSM, AIX 4 - 7, Sun Cluster 4, PowerHA, HACMP, XIV, LVM, Axiom, PowerVM, Storix, RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), LVM, Oracle Enterprise Linux, VMware, Microsoft Office, VLANs, C, Korn Shell, WebSphere, Antivirus software, Splunk, Assembler, SAS/C, COBOL, Fortran, PL/1, Mark IV, Access, HTML, ColdFusion, Red Hat Satellite Server, C++, WYLBUR, TSO, SAS/C, Gerrit, Git, Puppet, Solaris 8, 10 and 11, ZFS, Zones/LDOM, Package Management, IPF Firewall, Jumpstart, OracleVM, RedHat 5 and 6, AIX 6.1 and 7.1, Tivoli TSM, IBM BigFix, CA ControlMinder, Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTPD, Oracle DB, Mongo, Java, Javascript, SQL, Azure, DB2, PHP.

Hardware: IBM pSeries (Power Hardware), JSeries, IBM Mainframes, RS6000, Oracle/Sun T4, SPARC, X86, Dell R900, Brocade, IBM XIV Storage, Parallel Axiom Storage, SAN, Fiber/Copper cable termination, LAN/WAN Cabling, EMC, Rack Installation, IBM Tape libraries, DataLocker, Mac, and numerous workstations, servers, printers and peripherals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

UNIX Security and Compliance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided managerial and technical expertise necessary to ensure that Solaris, RHEL and AIX computing platforms are configured and maintained securely and in compliance with DISA, Confidential, FISMA and HIPAA guidelines, and, where required for deviations or exceptions, generate appropriate risk documentation pursuant to corrective action required.
• Served as the Point of Contact (POC) for system audits, UNIX system configuration compliance verification, vulnerability assessment and remediation and the management of Plan of Actions and Milestones (POAMs).
• Provided technical guidance and direction as needed across multiple teams and divisions for the testing, assessment and verification of AIX, RHEL and Solaris systems to ensure they were fully compliant with all security and regulatory specifications.
• Provided technical and administrative leadership and guidance to all levels of management as needed.
• Resolved “trouble” tickets concerning system security and compliance matters.

Confidential

IT Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Managed and administered Confidential (DOC) computer systems hosting major global financial and scientific applications and databases, providing solutions for SaaS and PaaS customer needs.
• Lead System Administrator and Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR). Performed administration and patching for AIX, RedHat and Solaris systems. RedHat Satellite Server administration, UNIX system backup and disaster recovery, ad-hoc hardware and software problem resolution, performance tuning and management, complete system life cycle planning and management, platform to platform (physical to physical) and physical to virtual system and application migration, installed hardware and software, ran fibre and networking cables, managed all pre and post installation technical requirements including floor space and electrical needs, etc.
• Provided technical and administrative leadership and guidance to Senior Confidential management and customers as needed.
• Served as the lead technical interface/Point of Contact (POC) for annual business system audits.
• As Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative I performed all tasks necessary for the procurement of new systems including hardware, software and 4th level support resources for break/fix incidents. This included developing technical requirements, conducting market research, writing Request for Proposals (RFPs), Statements of Work (SOWs), and developing proposal evaluation criteria. In addition I ensured that proper contracting processes and procedures were adhered to, and subsequently performed source selection based on my proposal evaluations for technical and cost acceptability.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As Senior Programmer Analyst, I provided systems analysis, technical expertise and support services for applications and databases operating on micro and mainframe computing platforms. This included global financial applications and system software, new systems development, configuration, design and implementation.
• Led the effort in the design, development and implementation of advanced PC and mainframe system software the C C++ and COBOL programming languages.
• Project Manager for the Division of Payment Management (DPM) Electronic 272 Payment Management 272 System, which automated a manual disbursement reporting process initially to a PC-based client- server software system which was implemented at over 10,000 customer sites world-wide, including state and local governments, tribal governments, universities and charitable organisations, than then ultimately it developed into a Web application.
• Project leader and system administrator for the Electronic Imaging System, which is an automated financial records management and archival system.
• Provided on-call technical support for the Payment Management System, which was the Division’s tool for transmitting Federal payments to grant recipients.
• Designed, directed and implemented the system that enabled DPM to exchange financial data to and from Federal Reserve Banks anywhere within the USA.
• Security and System administrator for the US Department of the Treasury’s Electronic Certification System.
• Desktop and helpdesk support.