SUMMARY of QUALIFICATIONS

Result's driven, highly skilled, IT executive with demonstrated success in information technology, network architecture, and application integration. Strategically focused expertise and passion for technology, resulting in superior business benefits. Consistently recognized for successful on-budget, on-time management of complex IT projects. Exceptional Can do attitude, provides outstanding client relations and motivation to colleagues on project initiatives. Strive to ensure scalable, stable business process application improvements and increased efficiency. Outstanding verbal/written communication and strong leadership skills to effectively resolve problems. Provide genuine commitment to quality and customer service in a deadline-driven environment. Agility to work independently as well as provide thought leadership for teams.

Areas of expertise include:

• Problem Resolution Systems Administration Application Support
• Technical Consulting Technology Deployment Systems Analysis
• Project Management Strategic and Tactical Planning Customer Service

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Security and Forensics

• Analyze and review cases until closure this includes investigating and recommending appropriate corrective actions for over 20 billion cyber security incidents per month. Communicating with the implementation staff responsible or taking corrective actions
• Provide technical analysis and direction of forensic investigations.
• Carry out post mortem analysis on logs, traffic flows, and other activities to identify malicious activity.
• Hands on install/configuration and monitoring of: FireEye, Sourcefire. Qradar and other SIEM technologies.
• Symantec products: SMS SEP .
• Encase forensics software
• Responsible for the research, evaluation, recommendation and administration of systems and procedures to ensure the protection of information processed, stored or transmitted. Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of complex security violations at the highest technical level and suggests procedures to halt future incidents. provide virus monitoring and crisis management. Provide assistance to system users relative to information systems security matters. provide enterprise continuity program planning and testing along with business disruption and crisis management.

Confidential

Lead AWS and Linux Administrator Security

• Responsible for connecting some of the brightest minds in DNA research to the largest collection of Genomic samples in the world, hosted on an SGI UV2000 that is one of a kind with 1024 cores 16 tb memory and 1.1 petabytes of disk. Quintessential Big Data in the Cloud. Lead Amazon Administrator managing a million dollar a year AWS account. Advanced Cloud Clustering using MIT StarCluster and the largest size instances Amazon has to offer, sequencing DNA at speeds never seen before. NetApps clustered ONTAP training. PBSPro job scheduling and SGE
• cluster services.

Confidential

Senior Network Administrator

• Oversee and provide tactical solutions for numerous business process applications, database, software, and hardware roll out projects. Manage relationships with communications vendors, consultants, and representatives. Maintain budgets, and perform purchasing for multiple globally located divisions. Partnered with business heads to ensure technology goals aligned and complied to a highly secure and auditable environment. Train, mentor, coach technical staff and end users. Install, configure and support, IDS/IPS, Virtual machines running in a Private Cloud. Virtual machines include Linux and Windows which provide Remote Desktops to hundreds of users at multiple locations. Manage ESXI servers, virtualizing Linux and Windows production servers.
• Strategic visionary leading cost effective virtualization of business process application servers.
• Collaboration with customers to provide in house, database driven job tracking application. Led design, platform selection. Oversaw code development and implementation.
• Reviewed established business process application, recommending transformation to private Cloud based corporate ERP application. Achieving accomplishment of secure, scalable and stable environment with redundancy
• Virtualization migration projects - Production Windows enterprise /Linux SQL Servers ESXi4,ESXi5
• Efficiently managed and coordinated several office re locations, downsizes, and expansions.
• Extensive LAMP experience, over 10 years. Installation, Configuration, Monitoring, Traffic Tracking and Geo-location 10 years' experience working with Apache logs to generate statistics of traffic

Confidential

Network Manager

Provided direct support for over 1,000 nodes in a multi-platform LAN/WAN environment.. Imaged, Configured, installed Microsoft desktop/laptop workstations, printers, phone systems, and various wireless devices. Implemented, deployed, and troubleshoot software, hardware, and email systems. Managed task teams and coordinated with vendors.

VMware

• Virtualization experience dating back to 2003
• VMware server experience starting from ESXi version 3.5 through 5.1
• Installation of the ESXi server on hardware configuration and monitoring
• VMware license management
• VMware vCenter Server, VMware vSphere
• Virtual machine Backup and replication using Veeam software
• Virtual machine disk resizing and virtual machine relocation Windows and Linux.
• Converting physical machines to virtual

Linux Experience Starting with Red Hat 6.0 in 1999, just about every Linux flavor imaginable including Red Hat , CentOS, Fedora, Mint, Mageia, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu Install types: Servers, PC's, Terminal Servers, Virtualized, Network boot images, Embedded board, Compact Flash, Live CD, AWS Cloud. Dual Boot with Windows. Sliced and Diced every which way possible to minimize size and/or increase compatibility. Experience with Driver recompiles from Windows drivers for wireless cards and extracting Red Hat rpm code to re-compile into .deb install files.