OBJECTIVE

• Pursuing a position that would allow me to utilize my computer skills while allowing me to contribute to a dynamic business environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Linux administration (CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu)
• AWS Administration (EC2/S3/RDS/Route 53)
• Azure Administration (VMs/Storage Accounts/VNets)
• VM’s
• Storage Accounts
• VNet integration (securing storage access via ACL’s)
• Function Apps (Powershell)
• VNet integration
• WebApps (C#)
• VNet integration
• Windows Server administration
• Active Directory/GPO administration
• VMWare EsXi 5.x/6.x
• Writing and maintaining Bash scripts
• Writing and maintaining Perl/Python scripts
• Nagios administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chapel Hill, NC

Cloud Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a Cloud Systems Engineer at UNC Chapel hill, I am responsible for assisting in the setup and configuration of Azure infrastructure to support cloud based Secure Research Facilities (including Windows Virtual Desktop WVD - Cloud based Windows 10 VDI, CentOS 7 and accompanying network and storage infrastructure primarily Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and VNet integration to secure the storage accounts ).

Confidential, Fayetteville, NC

IT Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• As the IT Operations Manager with the Confidential I was responsible for managing a staff of 8 (3 QA staff, 2 Oracle Developers, 2 Linux SysAdmins and 1 Sr. Oracle DBA) leveraging the staff to plan, coordinate and implement production deployments in support of various business critical applications requiring attention to detail as well as a focus on customer service.
• In addition to managing my staff, and providing guidance on the most appropriate troubleshooting techniques to leverage for a given Application/Server issue.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• As a Solutions Architect with the Confidential I performed in a customer facing capacity providing top-notch Customer Service while maintaining attention to detail while working with PWC customers.
• While in this role I was responsible for interfacing with various business units in order to gather requirements, design and implement solutions for a number of different projects ranging from converting legacy Unix/Progress-database based applications to automating day-to-day workflows in order to assist PWC business units in their pursuit of increasing efficiency.
• I also took the lead in migrating our customer web portal to Amazon Web Services, designing and implementing a high availability solution leveraging Route 53, custom AMI's (utilizing Ansible playbooks to create the AMI), Application Load Balancers and Auto-Scaling groups. In addition to my primary role, I also acted as the backup Linux SysAdmin for our group after promotion to Solutions Architect;
• I also maintained my role as our departments primary script developer, writing and maintaining various business critical custom programs, communicating verbally as well as via e-mail and chat with various customer/business units to gather requirements as well as to coordinate testing and post-deployment support.
• One additional function of this role was to assist with troubleshooting issues; leveraging my problem solving skills along with my Oral communication and written communication skills to narrow down the scope of issues encountered and to facilitate timely remediation of the issue at hand.

Confidential, Liberty Lakes, WA

Sr Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• While employed with Confidential I was responsible for administering the cloud based assets of various large corporate customers.
• As part of this responsibility, I frequently interacted with customers at various levels, seniority and billets, ranging from entry level non-technical staff to the CIO's of various organizations.
• As part of these interactions I relayed technical information, at the appropriate level of details depending on my audience.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As a Systems Administrator with the Confidential I was responsible for maintaining a wide array of infrastructure, ensuring that system security and maintenance was maintained without negatively impacting production workflows. In my role my team and I managed 270 servers, working with ESXi 5.5, Oracle Enterprise Linux (5.8 — 6.10), as well as Server 2000 — 2012r2.
• While with PWC I took the lead on implementing monitoring (Nagios), streamlining processes (KickStart/Puppet), version control (Git), researching and implementing new technologies to improve customer experience and system uptime (GlusterFS + Samba/NFS HA cluster), as well as assisting in code deployments to our Oracle CC&B instances.

Confidential, Durham, NC

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As a Systems Administrator with Confidential, I was assigned a contract position with a third party as a Systems Security Engineer.
• As a Systems Security Engineer, I was tasked with configuring, monitoring and managing ArcSight and FireEye products.

Confidential, Fredericksburg, VA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As a Systems Administrator with Confidential I was responsible for configuring, maintaining and upgrading a myriad array of operationally critical systems, applications and network infrastructure.
• In addition to maintaining both the Linux (CentOS 6.4) and Windows (Server 2000 — 2008 R2) systems that were in place, I also acted as the lead for implementing and configuring server monitoring software (Nagios), backup software (Bacula and Veeam), as well as in migrating the majority of the internal server infrastructure over to a VMWare based virtualization solution and assisted in migrating our web facing servers to AWS (Zope, Wordpress).

Confidential

Computer Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• As a Computer Support Specialist with Confidential associates, I was responsible for configuring and maintaining both Windows (Server 2003) and Linux (CentOS 5.5) servers, Windows and Mac workstations, VMware virtual machines, pre-release software testing, providing End User support (include training on proprietary software applications) and creating/maintaining Bash and Perl scripts.
• In addition to my core duties I also acted as an Assistant Security Officer, maintaining JPAS accounts, initiating E-QIP’s and ensuring Visit Requests were up to date.

Confidential

Assistant Facility Security Officer

Responsibilities:

• As the Assistant Facility Security Officer I was responsible for all aspects of the Security process; ensuring proper adherence to the dictates of the NISPOM while assisting the customer in maintaining mission readiness and accomplishment.
• In my role as the AFSO I assisted in reviewing DD-254's, submitting personnel for Investigations/Clearances, conducted briefings, fingerprinted personnel and served as the primary Point of Contact and information for the Security department.

Confidential

Security Specialist

Responsibilities:

• As a Security Specialist with Confidential I was responsible for various aspects of the Security cycle.
• Some of my various duties included in-processing employees who required Security Clearances, eligibility and access as well as conducting collateral security briefings and monitoring the status of deployed personnel in several theaters of operation.
• In the process of properly indoctrinating employees I utilized several software applications and databases to include JPAS(JCAVS), SIMS and various other proprietary database programs.
• In addition to indoctrinating employees in JPAS I was also responsible for reviewing and submitting various security documents to DSS, OPM and INSCOM (ie. SF-312, SF-86, SF-85P and Declaration For Federal Employment).