OBJECTIVE

I am a highly motivated individual with an excellent personality and communication skills looking for a position in an information services field for a company that can use my experience and computer skills to assist in achieving a team oriented goal. We have a strong desire as a family for possible relocation outside of the DFW area.

WORK HISTORY

Confidential

Present Sr. Network/Systems Analyst

Responsible for the setup, installation, configuration, and maintenance of all Network, Routing and Server infrastructure in support of Faculty, Staff, and Students at SMU's Lyle School of Engineering. Systems include but not limited to HP Procurve Series 8200, 5400 and 5300, Dell 2650, 2850, 2950, R700, Sun, and DEC Alpha's. OS Platforms CentOS 4, 5, and 6, Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, VMWare, and Solaris. Software experience with all user application tools, Engineering packages such as Cadence and Matlab as well as various other engineering tools. Systems infrastructure includes a firewall running iptables, proxy server software socks5 and squid, apache, mysql, RedHat Cluster Suite 4 and Resilient HA 6.1 w/GFS, postfix mail server, NNTP news server, Opennms monitoring system, OpenLDAP and 389 Directory Server, Samba and many more. Virtualization platforms VMWare and KVM. Recently completed migration from VMWare to KVM to provide more cost effective commodity virtualization in preparation for move to Cloud services. Assist the University's 200 node High Performance Computing HPC Administrator as needed. Some experience with Lustre file system, OSG, and other software layers on the HPC.

Systems Support Confidential

Manager for the Systems, Database, and Desktop Support teams for Belointeractive. Responsible for assessing the proper technologies to meet business needs, working with vendors to identify the proper fit, managing the capital process, and assuring smooth implementation. Manage, motivate, and mentor a highly skilled technical group of 4 Systems Administrators and 2 Oracle/MySQL DBA's. Assign tasks, monitor progress, and identify outside resources if needed. Communicate to upper management the state of technology in the business and our requirements to provide both internal and external customers with high availability systems and service. Plan and provide yearly budget requirements for hardware, software, training and personnel needs for the coming year.

Sr. Systems Administrator/Technical Lead, Confidential

Team Lead and Chief Infrastructure Architect of the group responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of the web infrastructure for the Belo Corporation's Internet division built from the ground up. We centrally host over 50 high volume websites including 5 major newspapers and 19 television stations around the U.S. generating over 6 million page views a day and 5 million registered users. Also manage a high volume publishing system pushing out up to 2500 new pieces of content every 5 minutes, bringing our users up to the minute news. Keeping cost down and showing a prominent ROI is a must so open source solutions are used wherever possible. Duties provide a constant learning curve deploying new technologies in a fast paced ever changing environment. Systems include Sun/Intel hardware with an emphasis on Intel running Linux in a clustered environment using LVS and Netscaler for load balancing across several webservers, database servers, application servers, sendmail servers and all development environments running RedHat versions 7.x through ES 4.0. Was the primary implementation specialist of an Oracle Portal/Application Server that serves a very popular public website for the company. EMC Clarion CX700 storage implementation and management experience. Installation and configuration of Firewalls using IPTABLES. Application knowledge includes the Apache webserver, Squid, Resin java servlet engine , Tomcat, DNS and DHCP on Linux, Samba and Netatalk, majordomo, sendmail, ftp server, ssh, pop3, NFS, perl, ssl, snmp, MySQL, RealMedia/Tacoda ad serving , OpenLDAP, Oracle, Oracle Portal, IIS, and internally written applications such as a Web Registration system. Maintain 10 backend database servers running Oracle on both Linux and Solaris. Very solid knowledge and foundation of Linux, the Linux kernel, and open source in general. Completely comfortable installing and managing software packages using RPM format or from source code. Good working knowledge of Solaris 8 and it's utilities. Good knowledge and understanding of switches, networking, and routing.

Desktop Support/Network Engineer, Confidential

Responsible for the support and troubleshooting of PC's and Servers on a Novell/NT LAN environment. Also perform Network Administration duties to include creating user accounts, setting up user rights, priveleges, security permissions, and group definitions. Duties include the installation and maintenance of all new and existing servers on a 1500 node network, Microsoft Exchange 5.5 administration, Citrix Winframe administration, and the migration process from Novell to NT/Linux. Strong Samba knowledge. Various application software experience includes MS Office, Exchange/Outlook, Rumbah, Reflection, PeopleSoft, and various other packages. Experience in backup solutions using Arcserve and BRU. Duties require a knowledge of networking protocols to include TCP/IP and IPX, and configuring different hardware setups and NIC's on a LAN environment. Some experience with OS/2.

Sr. Information Security Specialist, Confidential

• Responsible for the development and implementation of the facility Information Security Plan as well as the day to day oversight of all Computer Security issues. Primary facility liason to the Defense Investigation Service on computer security issues as the appointed ISSR. Responsible for the review and approval of all encryption hardware/software used on both classified and unclassified systems. Wrote and ensured compliance of all company I.T. security policies. Responsible for the review of all systems logs for discrepancies and suspicious activity on several classified programs, and helped oversee the review of all firewall logs to facilitate both internal compliance as well as external attack based accesses. Designed and maintained departmental website for the company Intranet. Maintained automated facility access control system using PCPAK. Setup and maintenance of central alarm monitoring station using Alarmsoft software.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of the facility SPP for COMSEC, acting as liaison with both NSA and customers, performing duties as COMSEC Custodian, and general oversight of all Communications Security issues.
• Perform duties as a facility Security Representative to include accountability of classified, visit and access control, processing personnel security clearances, briefing and debriefing personnel, oversight of various programs to insure all contractual and government security requirements were met.

COMSEC Custodian, Confidential

• Performed duties as an Alternate COMSEC Custodian, which required knowledge of cryptographic equipment, STU III telephones, and document classification.
• Worked as an assistant to a Security Representative on several Special Access Programs, which included administrative duties such as visit control, briefings and debriefings, and maintained database files.