SUMMARY

• Network/Server/Security Engineer System Administrator worked on a variety of different programs with different customers in depth knowledge conveying analyst tracking monitoring networks and Security events for different agencies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Workstations: Pentium Systems (PC’s), and Macintosh Systems

Peripherals: HP Scanners, HP LaserJet, Color printers, External/ Internal CD - ROM, HP CD-Writers, Iomega Jazz and Zip drives.

LAN/WAN Networks: Win2k/Active Directory, NT 4.0, Novell Netware 5.0, TCP\IPOther Hardware: 3COM NIC Cards, Internal modems, Adaptec SCSI Controller Card, IDE Hard Disk Controllers, SIMMS, Motherboards, Sound cards, Video cards

Specialized Applications: Symantec Ghost, HP Open View & Java Console, Telnet, Pc Anywhere, LANDesk, VMware cloud computing

Help Desks/Call Centers: Remedy 5.0, MS Access Data Entry system

Office Applications: WordPerfect 9.0, Microsoft Office 95-2000 Standard and Pro, File Maker Pro 5.0, Paint Shop Pro 5.0, Adobe Photoshop 5.0, Lotus 1-2-3, MS Visio, Crystal Reports 9.Cognos 8, SharePoint, Net backups, AWS Amazon web services.

Groupware: Lotus Notes 6.5, Microsoft Outlook 98-2000, Microsoft Exchange 5.0 Server and Client, CC-Mail Pop, SNMP TCP/IP

Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, Sun Solaris 2.1, Win XP, 9, Win 2000 Adv. Server & Client, Win 2003 Server, DOS 6.0,IIS Microsoft Server, Active Directory, IBM Guardian

Development Environments: Macromedia Flash 4.0-5.0, MS FrontPage 98, 2000

Programming Languages: Java, HTML

Databases: MS Access 97-2000 MS SQL Server Database and Database backups

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Security Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create instance in the current C2S AMAZON Cloud and cloud gateway technologies
• Practice security concepts / best practices
• Install and configuring Citrix technologies including, but not limited to, XenApp, XenDesktop, Provisioning Services, and NetScaler appliances, and related technology
• Create design and implement hosting stack using AWS and Docker.
• Integrate Splunk with a wide variety of legacy data sources and industryleading commercial security tools that use
• Work with Load Balancing, Routing Protocols, SSH, Network Monitoring / Troubleshooting tools
• Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule and cost constraints Build out a Corporate Virtual Information Processing Environment, virtual environments using VMWare ESX
• Ensure management and monitoring tools are integrated with Pivotal Cloud Foundry and have rules / alerts for routine and exceptional operations conditions
• Provide support of middleware technologies and applications that’s on AWS Cloud, VMWare and physical environment
• Integrate Splunk with a wide variety of legacy data sources and industryleading commercial security tools that use various protocols.
• VMware products.
• Monitor the Citrix environment including DDCs, XenApp servers, PVS, VDI desktops, and supporting infrastructure using a variety of tools
• Administer VMware 5.1/5.5 environment of approximately 300 hosts and 1500 virtual servers
• Maintain and manage VM resources to include (CPU, Memory and Disk) usage.

Security Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Install and configuring Citrix technologies including, but not limited to, XenApp, XenDesktop, Provisioning Services, and NetScaler appliances, and related technology
• Create design and implement hosting stack using AWS and Docker.
• Airch Sight also other sime tools.
• Daily Duties include creating new ghost images using Symantec ghost for the hospital network.
• Build new VM hosts and instances to support customer requirements.
• Transfer all production data to the newest VM infrastructure/platform.
• Resolve VM related incidents in compliance with organizational incident management process.
• Work with the Storage team to attach and manage Fibre Channel storage on VMware clusters
• Daily duties also included monitoring daily backups and Enterprise backup. Work on a team of Systems Engineers supporting AWS Cloud Infrastructure. Scripting (BASH, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc.) and building required automation (using standard technologies such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef) and tools
• Work on automation and tooling such as Jenkins, Containers, Chef and the AWS SDK
• Deploy open source software such as CoreOS Linux, etcd, Quay.io, Tectonic, rkt
• Lead and contributing to the development, maintenance, and usage of deployment and task automation (OS, database services, virtual networks, or other platform services)
• Provides technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology.
• Incorporates new plans, designWork on a team of Systems Engineers supporting AWS Cloud Infrastructure. Scripting (BASH, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc.) and building required automation (using standard technologies such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef) and tools.
• Lead and contributing to the development, maintenance, and usage of deployment and task automation (OS, database services, virtual networks, or other platform services)
• Provides technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology.
• Incorporates new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations.
• Deliver software and training to customers, focused on CoreOS Linux, Kubernetes, and/or Tectonic
• Develop technical documentation. Develops system Architecture and system design documentation. Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans.
• Interact with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts. Ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility. Communicates with other program personnel and customer management.
• Work with Virtualization technologies such as VMWare or Hypervisor
• Provide day to day support and configure VM on the Storage Area Network (SAN) block-level and Network Attached Storage (NAS) - file-level.
• Create instance in the current C2S AMAZON Cloud and cloud gateway technologies
• Practice security concepts / best practices
• Work with Load Balancing, Routing Protocols, SSH, Network Monitoring / Troubleshooting tools
• Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule and cost constraints Build out a Corporate Virtual Information Processing Environment, virtual environments using VMWare ESX
• Ensure management and monitoring tools are integrated with Pivotal Cloud Foundry and have rules / alerts for routine and exceptional operations conditions
• Provide support of middleware technologies and applications that’s on AWS Cloud, VMWare and physical environment
• Deliver software and training to customers, focused on CoreOS Linux, Kubernetes, and/or Tectonic management.
• Work with Virtualization technologies such as VMWare or Hypervisor
• Provide day to day support and configure VM on the Storage Area Network (SAN) block-level and Network Attached Storage (NAS) - file-level.

Security Systems Engineer/Network Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop technical documentation working with splunk. Develops system Architecture and system design documentation. Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans.
• Interact with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts. Ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility. Communicates with other program personnel and customer
• Responsible for leading the Fisma Security Assessment using and managing the whole fisma process.
• Information System Security Engineering expertise with a strong knowledge in both current and legacy Security Risk Management Framework (certification &accreditation) processes and procedures.
• Also have experience with TV Policy requirements and approval process
• Responsible for preparing NSA Information Systems Certification Accreditation (C&A) as required by NISCAP procedures and DCID 6/3.
• OS, database services, virtual networks, or other platform services)
• Write, automation code using Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
• Maintain a multi-tiered Citrix infrastructure that is highly available, secure, and meets performance standards. Installs, tests, evaluate and integrate various applications and 3rd party products into the Citrix environment.
• Create and configure Splunk dashboard management, creating custom searches and reports, and reach-back to Splunk resources as appropriate.
• Install and configuring Citrix technologies including, but not limited to, XenApp, XenDesktop, Provisioning Services, and NetScaler appliances, and related technology
• Create design and implement hosting stack using AWS and Docker.
• Integrate Splunk with a wide variety of legacy data sources and industryleading commercial security tools that use various protocols.
• Collaborae with engineering teams on design and architecture of everything from APIs to backend/DBs
• Develop work with engineers on Docker and debugging bad builds using docker-machin, docker-compose, etc
• Work with automation/configuration management on a day to day basis using Chef or an equivalent
• Support configuration, and maintenance for automating system administration, management, alerting, and monitoring for an enterprise level application using Solarwinds, Puppet and Chef.
• Worked with network teams, DNS, LDAP and Active Directory administrators on access and authentication - troubleshoot issues as needed
• Recommended and implemented system enhancements (software/hardware updates) that will improve the performance, reliability, and security of the Citrix infrastructure and ensure the environment adheres to Citrix best practices.
• Coordinated with project managers to complete Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and other Citrix technology related projects.
• Responsible for the design, implementation, and support of Splunk at client site
• Develop, implement, and document configuration standards, policies, and procedures for operating, managing, and ensuring the security of the Splunk infrastructure
• Develop custom Splunk searches, programming, and reporting
• Support users of CoreOS by answering questions via email and IRC, work to resolve bugs and improve usability
• Participate on fast-paced DevOps and SysOps Engineering teams within Scrum agile processes
• Worked directly with architects and developers to debug problems and solutions
• Implemented cloud infrastructure designs provided by architects
• Install, configure, and provision storage hardware.
• Responsible for operating, maintaining, and supporting the overall server architecture in a 5,000 user, multi-site environment. The current project maintained responsibility over all Windows servers and the Active Directory domain, including the associated accounts, permissions, Group Policies and DNS.
• Install, configure, and use storage management software
• Streamline servers and storage provisioning process through automation and orchestration at both on-prem (colocation) and cloud (AWS ) environment Deliver consulting and training to customers, focused on CoreOS Linux, Centos and Red hat
• Work with other DevOps engineers to maintain day to day applications development implantation with tools such as Cloud Foundry, Chef, Puppet, Kubernetes, Docker, Heroku buildpacks and BOSH.
• Perform administration of VMware environment by managing the following VM components to include but not limited to the VMware Virtual Center, Site Recovery Manager, Operations Manager, Cloud Director, and other
• Work with Network Transport team to configure or acquire network resources and configure either standard switches on ESXi hosts or dynamic switches on VMware clusters
• Design, build, support and maintain Splunk infrastructure in a highly available configuration
• Standardize Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance in Linux and Windows platforms
• Collaborate with internal teams to integrate data feeds to a centralized Splunk platform
• Develop and maintain production quality dashboards, custom views, saved searches and alerts for Splunk Operations and for other clients as per their requirements
• Assist internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production quality dashboards
• Monitor Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization
• Install, modify, support and maintain scripts, policies, procedures and documentation for automation and configuration management.
• Install configure application servers administration, including WebLogic, Tomcat, IIS and JBoss.
• Setup high availability for application servers e.g., Tomcat, Weblogic, ESB, JBoss
• Build, configure, install, maintain, diagnose, troubleshoot, repair, and debug EMC and NetApp products.
• Manage & customize Cloud Foundry Buildpacks & Services
• Build, manage and operate highly available systems utilizing Docker, Linux, Ubuntu, CoreOS, HAproxy, nginx, uWSGI, Couchbase, Zookeeper, Mesos, Marathon, Rabbitmq and Percona clusters
• Integrate storage solutions with physical hosts and virtual machines.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on data storage utilization.
• Establish continuous delivery pipelines for deployment of Pivotal Cloud Foundry and related products in a customer’s infrastructure
• Manage and automate solutions on CoreLogic’s PaaS Solution (Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Security Systems Engineer/Network Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Inc Duties include writing requirements and developing system architecture for various systems.
• This includes creating and analyzing requirements and validating requirements from both the user
• And system prospective. Other duties include system documentation and guiding threw life cycle of effort.
• Provided security expertise to create the required documentation and put the required project components thru the security process to receive ATO Status. Daily duties include accessing the ssp using the xacta database. Also responsible for oracle 10 g database.
• Along with the changes that I make I also coordinate with the ISSO and ISSM to make sure changes to the network and servers are added to the (SSP) System Security Plan. AWS also experience with working Amazon web services.
• Responsible for keeping all system diagrams along with all other documentation updated in the (NCAD) after any changes were made to systems.
• Systems Engineer /Linux Systems Admin Northrop Grumman FLE
• We used UNIX and Linux while in this position, we was also responsible for performance tuning and capacity planning of servers writing Perl. Daily duties include logging on to Puppet and LDAP to troubleshoot issues with network devices and various line cardsfor process automation of databases, Worked on group/user administration, start up and shutdown scripts,crontabs, file system maintenance and backup scripting and automationTroubleshooting and analysis of hardware and software failures for various Linux servers (core dump and log file analysis).
• Also responsible for large scale Hadoop cluster environment, also handled all hadoop environment builds, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring with exceptional technical, organization, and communication skills. Daily duties include managing a 50 node cluster with each cluster pulling over a terabyte of data a day.

IT Security Specialist Level 3

Confidential, Columbia MD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning and implementing the organizations Information Security.
• Provided support for facility and identified their current security infrastructure and defined future implementation of security related to IT Systems.
• Daily duties also included logging on to various sites using a KVM Switch in A Red Hat environment. Daily duties also include performance tuning Red HAT Enterprise Linux in computer cluster environment.
• Daily duties would also include restarting blades using the IBM Blade Center
• Daily duties also include monitoring security events using sight protector as they appear on agency network. Based on the various security findings we prove the security event either is a false positive or we create a case using Arc Sight Console.
• We also create cases for various outages scheduled and unscheduled which are then sent to the Security Officer.
• Also worked Global Services Desk Microsoft Server Os and Services, Active Directory, Linux, File Print services, Exchange, IIS, SQL
• Also worked to support VDI Users for various Nsa Customers.
• We also use various agency tools along with current commercial products to help with proving the security events to be either false positives or Arc Sight Cases. The Cases are then sent to the Security Officer for review.
• Responsible for making sure that any information reported on various systems are updated in NCAD.