QUALIFICATION EXPERIENCE:

Over 17 years experience in Information Technology and Leadership positions to include active military, defense contracting, and commercial sectors. Possesses strong analytical, creative problem solving, interpersonal and decision-making skills. Results-oriented, aggressive self-starter extremely committed in supporting complex, deadline-driven operations able to identify goals and priorities and resolve issues independently.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Title: Infrastructure Architect Team Lead

• Designs, develops, and maintains an infrastructure architecture that enables realization of the overall solution vision and satisfies all operational, performance, and information security requirements.
• Defines and enforce enterprise platform environment, SOA, and related technology principles, standards, operational guidelines.
• Develops and maintains the technical roadmap for timely product upgrades and orderly migrations to future technical products, software, tools, and services.
• Collaborates with solution, application and data architects to align work with the overall solution vision.
• Collaborates with internal and external project management, acquisition, contracting, engineering, testing, and other teams to develop required business cases, schedules, plans, acquisition artifacts and metrics to support program execution.
• Title: GCSS-AF Enterprise Service Bus ESB Infrastructure Lead - ECSS Program Office
• Responsible for architecting and supporting the technical infrastructure and integration comprised of several different data transfer protocols including web services, message queuing, and file transfers for ECSS program interfaces between Legacy systems and GCSS-AF ESB.
• Provided technical guidance to the ECSS System Integrator SI and PMO teams pertaining to the use of the data transfer protocols within the ESB and for each interface object during their developmental cycle.
• Participated in Interface Control Document ICD TIM's to answer technical connectivity questions and also to gather details to start putting together information to establish connectivity to Trading Partners.
• Collaborated with multiple DoD organizations including government program management offices PMO , government contractors, and civilians to implement strategic infrastructure solutions.
• Assisted ECSS Test Teams SI, PMO, ECSS RTO and GCSS RTO within the CIE and GCSS-AF with troubleshooting and testing of all interfaces through each test phase and production.
• Title: Senior Network Analyst
• Designed a broad range of IT technologies and infrastructure architectures to meet client business and technical requirements. In-depth technical and management skills implementing and supporting network architectures, network and system administration, firewalls and related security devices, and disaster recovery/business continuity solutions.
• Participated in proposal development for commercial and government contracts with specific duties that includes Request for Proposal RFP review and analysis, bid determination, proposal management, proposal writing and preparation of technical solutions and labor estimates.
• Provided technical on-site and remote IT support to commercial clients throughout Southeast Ohio. Responsibilities include responding to emergency support requests as well as conducting routine system maintenance and implementing upgrades.
• Maintained a diverse range of customer-specific business applications that provide Enterprise Resource Planning ERP functions for the small/medium business private sector.
• Developed and maintain professional relationships with customers. Actively consult with customer to understand their critical business processes to ensure responsible IT systems provide the necessary services and meet availability requirements.
• Title: Senior Migration Lead
• Participated in the planning, design, and implementation phases of a data center migration for a regional hospital to an off-site 3rd party facility. Lead Technician for Internet security systems, remote office Virtual Private Networks VPNs , and Co-Lead for network infrastructure and server systems.
• As Lead Technician for Internet Security, implemented Checkpoint Firewalls in a high availability configuration to provide fault-tolerant Internet connectivity capability to the hospital that was required to support time-critical transfer of patient data to other healthcare organizations. Deployed Websense to establish a web content-filtering capability that increased end-user productivity and improved desktop security. Implemented an anti-virus and anti-spam e-mail protection solution using technology from Barracuda Networks that reduced spam messages from 100 per day per user to virtually zero messages.
• Assisted with the consolidation of multiple dedicated application and management servers into a virtual environment using VMware ESX Server running on an IBM BladeCenter connected to an EMC Clarion Storage Area Network SAN . This approach provided the customer with a new fault tolerant server capability and made more efficient user of server hardware investments.
• Created VPNs with over 20 hospital vendors and customers using various firewall devices to provide restricted access to internal hospital application servers. Installed Checkpoint Edge devices at radiologist's home offices to create VPN connectivity back to hospital. This solution enables doctors to read cases from home and allowed the hospital to economically meet their care delivery requirements.
• Title: Microsoft Exchange Consultant
• Participated in an enterprise-scale project to consolidate hundreds of local Exchange servers distributed across 15 locations into two regional shared data centers for Air Force Materiel Command AFMC .
• Supported the migration and maintenance of consolidated Exchange servers that provides e-mail services for more than 160,000 users at multiple AFMC locations across the country.
• Participated in the development and execution of test and migration plans, end user training, technical documentation and delivery plans for the Exchange migration.

Confidential

Title: Project Leader

• Directed and managed several USAF projects ensuring that objectives were accomplished in accordance with customer priorities and contractual obligations.
• Analyzed results of operation and service delivery to discover more efficient ways to utilize resources.
• Responsible for assisting managers in and writing technical proposals and estimating labor hours.
• Reviewed project status reports during each operational phase of the projects.
• Prepared weekly project status reports for management.

Title: Senior Tech Team Leader

• Led team of consultants and architects responsible for the development and testing environment of the Financial Information Resource System FIRST , an Air Force ERP financial system development project.
• Designed, procured, configured, and managed the FIRST development facility over a four year period starting at contract award to the Accenture team.
• Negotiated and maintained contract relationships with a variety of vendors, ensured quality services were provided in a cost-effective manner and met agreed-upon service levels by writing clear proposal requests, executive summaries, and scopes of work.
• Supported the development, implementation, and operation of Virtual Private Networks VPNs , firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems IDS , vulnerability assessment techniques, STIG's, and other security boundary technologies and processes.
• Implemented, administered and monitored network architectures, including LANs/WANs, LAN internetworking, and connections with the WAN environment, DNS server, Active Directory, Group Policy, Internet Information Services, Microsoft MOM 2003 Servers, Microsoft Exchange 2003 Servers along with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft BizTalk 2004 Server, Solaris Servers, NCR Teradata nodes, EMC Storage Solution. NetApp Storage Solution, Check Point Firewalls, Cisco router, and multiple Cisco switches in VLAN configurations.

Confidential

Title: Sr. Secure Systems Engineer

• Responsible for certifying and accrediting computer systems for network connectivity in multiple U.S. Air Force communities.
• Developed and analyzed technical documentation detailing the integration and system performance of various Air Force Systems.
• Familiar with AF System Security Instructions, Policies and Manuals as they relate to Network Security, Information Assurance and the Certification and Accreditation process.

Confidential

Title: System Engineer

• Analyzed and defined security requirements for security needs throughout AFMC.
• Developed and analyzed technical documentation detailing the integration and system performance of various Air Force systems.
• Interfaced with client to determine technical information about the client's mission, goals, existing security products, and on-going programs in the security arena.

Confidential

Title: Network Administrator

• Responsible for the administration and configuration for a 1500 client network running on twenty NT 4.0 servers and three Microsoft Exchange 5.0 servers.
• Performed daily network management functions including user account management, data management, and application backups.
• Provided training to Help Desk personnel on the troubleshooting techniques of Microsoft NT and various network and computer problems.
• Title: Migration Team Lead
• Led a team of technicians during the migration of 1500 client machines from Windows 3.11 and Banyan Vines to NT 4.0 client/server and Exchange mail sever.
• Was involved in the planning phase and designing installation instructions for the migration.
• Provided end user training during the migration on the operation of the newly installed system.

Title: Lead Help Desk Technician

• Divided workload among technicians to ensure the highest quality and quantity of work in minimal time.
• Monitored, troubleshot, and maintained network connectivity down to the user's desktop.
• Provided phone support for various small computer hardware and software issues.
• Developed and coordinated Help-Desk procedures to ensure optimum performance of numerous Customer Service functions.

OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE:

Software Programs /Topologies/Hardware/ Networking Protocols

• Detailed knowledge of Microsoft based technologies - Windows Server 2000/2003, Active Directory, Exchange 2003, Windows Group Policy, Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista, MOM 2003, BizTalk Server 2004, SQL Server 2000, Microsoft SharePoint, MS Project, and MS Office to include Outlook client
• Rational Clearcase, Rational Test Manager, Rational ClearQuest
• Veritas NetBackup Datacenter, and Computer Associates ArcServe
• Websense Enterprise web content filter
• Barracuda mail Anti-Spam filter
• Servers from these vendors: IBM, HP, COMPAQ, Sun and Dell Servers
• VMware VSX Server
• Cisco Routers and Switches
• Checkpoint, Cisco Pix, ASA and Sidewinder Firewalls
• TCP/IP, Novell, IPX/SPX, SQL, SMS, IIS, SNMP, SMTP, POP3, DHCP, Active Directory LDAP , DNS, WINS, IIS, Ethernet, Token Ring, Wireless configuration and security and SSH