Summary

Looking to work with an organization where I can improve the group, organization, and community I support while using and augmenting my technical and managerial expertise.

Qualifications Overview

• Highly motivated, team-spirited, performance driven systems engineer with a blend of leadership, technical and business knowledge/skills
• 2005 Employee of the year for Caelum ISOSS Contract
• Directed effort that led to WSMR being selected to the top 5 best IA operations Army-wide by securing WSMR information systems
• Wrote Army-baseline and custom Group Policy Objects GPOs which increased standardization and security across over 3500 systems
• Proven ability to plan, organize and lead enterprise level technical projects and teams from inception to implementation and maintenance
• Developed automation capabilities that dropped manual patch management labor by 85-90
• Technical systems lead in 3 successful DIACAP accreditations of WSMR networks
• Excellent ability to communicate with all levels of an organization as well as customers and vendors
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in organizing and motivating groups and creating venues to collaborate and come together for common goals
• Developed Information Assurance security program for Caelum-Unitec
• Company subject matter expert on Department of the Army DoA and Department of Defense DoD policies pertaining to Information Technology

Technical Skills Overview

• Operating Systems/Applications Administration of Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 server, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 Workstation, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sun Solaris, Active Directory AD , Group Policy, VMWare ESX and vSphere, Microsoft Cluster Services, MS Exchange 5.5/2003, MS SQL 2000/2005/2008, Microsoft SMS, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Citrix Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Office Suite
• Security and Compliance Windows Group Policy, Windows Encrypted File System, BitLocker, MobileArmor, Windows Server Update Services WSUS , Symantec Corporate Edition and System Center , McAfee HBSS Asset Baseline Manager, Policy Auditor, Host Intrusion Prevention System, Host Firewall , IBM Proventia IPS, McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention System HIPS , Update Expert, GFI Languard Network Security Scanner, Harris STAT, ISS, Retina Network Security Scanner
• Hardware Dell and HP servers and workstations, Dell/EMC Storage Area Networks
• Backup Technologies CommVault, Symantec Backup Exec, data deduplication, legacy backup software
• Languages Windows Script Host, VBScript, Shell script, SQL scripting

Employment

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Network Specialist, Master

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Network Engineer

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Computer System Analyst 2/Information Assurance System Administrator

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Computer System Analyst 1/Information Assurance System Administrator

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Information Assurance System Administrator

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Contributions

• Performed lead systems engineer duties as a government contractor for the US Army such as design system architecture, recommend technical solutions, solve tier 4 problems, and lead teams in system administration
• Technical lead for Alatec ISOSS contract.
• Technical lead for DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process for 3000 workstations and 100 servers on main WSMR network following DoD and DoA security requirements
• Implemented and maintained Intrusion Detection System IDS /Intrusion Prevention System IPS for two separate WSMR networks
• Top level WSMR Organization Unit OU administrator, responsible for setting permissions and OU management
• Automated patch management for all workstations using Systems Management Server SMS , Windows Server Update Services WSUS , UpdateExpert, and scripts, which dropped manual patch management labor by 85-90
• Exchange 2003 administrator with 2500 mailboxes in a SAN environment
• Directly responsible for leading a team in the implementation of WSMR systems security policies and Information Assurance IA per U.S ARMY and Government guidelines for 3000 workstations and 100 servers
• Senior company lead for IA Team of 6 people
• Subject matter expert on DoA security IA Vulnerability Management Program and IA policies for WSMR
• Performed vulnerability assessments on 4000 WSMR workstations and 130 servers
• Designed and implemented Host Based Security System on 4000 systems to increase security on local hosts
• Developed and maintained security baselines and security posture for 3000 workstations and 75 servers using Group Policy, system imaging, and scripts.
• Directly responsible for management of 15 Windows servers
• Designed and tested Smart client technology using Citrix for virtualization of desktops for WSMR admin systems

Sales Associate

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• Customer service professional with primary responsibility for Copy Max project coordination and completion
• Employee of the Month for the Las Cruces store

Co-op

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• Responsible for building, installation and implementation of UNIX and Linux server operations
• Responsible for all facets of system administration duties of Sun Solaris and Linux systems
• Perform troubleshooting and maintenance of Unix-based servers

Technical Assistant

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• System Administrator for 4 W2K servers, 125-client network, with a user base of over 1500
• Responsible for Migrating 4 servers and 50 client computers from Windows NT to W2K
• Performed troubleshooting, maintenance, and upgrades of workstations
• Provided technical assistance to university faculty and students on software and hardware issues