SUMMARY:

TS/SCI Full scope and CI Systems Engineer with 20+ years of experience. Background skills include: AWS, Big Data, DevOps, Virtualizations, Storage, Cloud Technology and Networking

TECHNICALSKILLS:

• UNIX (Solaris, SGI, HP AUX, AIX Centos, Ubuntu)
• Linux Red Hat
• AWS
• Cloudera
• Windows Server 8R2
• 2012
• 2016
• OpenStack
• Puppet
• Hadoop
• EMC Isilon
• VNX
• NetApp
• Html
• Internet Explorer
• Netscape Navigator
• McAfee
• Heat Management Tools
• Lotus Notes
• Pine
• Hummingbird exceed (NETBackup
• VMWare Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop) EMC
• Isilon
• VNX
• Cisco Nexus
• SQL Server 2012
• Active Directory
• Certification and Accreditation Process (C&A)
• Security Scanning Tools
• Varonis
• LINUX Server and workstation Administration
• HPC Administration
• NAS and SAN Administration and Engineering
• System Security Administration and Engineering
• System integration
• Data Migration
• Computer Systems Certification and Accreditation
• Data Center Management
• Data Center Migration
• Big Data Management
• Tanium Foundation
• Operations & IR Deep Dive

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Sr Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Automate and manage our AWS infrastructure and deployment processes, including production, test and development environments.
• Build AWS - based services supporting production SaaS platform including web applications and data analytic services
• Migrate existing on-premises services to an AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Integrate Splunk with 3rd-Party applications such as FireSight, Tanium, SyslogNg, etc.)
• Work with Tanium Foundation, Operations, & IR Deep Dive tools in customer enterprise AWS space
• Standardize Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across a variety of platforms
• Deploying and using enterprise EDR products such as Tanium
• Define, manage, and promote various development activities for DevOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous testing, and continuous monitoring
• Support AWS Cloud infrastructure automation with multiple tools including Gradle, Chef, Nexus, Knife, Docker and monitoring tools such as Splunk, New Relic and Cloudwatch
• Responsible for designing, scaling and deploying various cloud services, modernizing processes and workflows along with building a consolidated and collaborative integration of IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS cloud services
• Manage all components of the DevOps Configuration Management platform (Jenkins, Nexus, GitLab, Sonar, etc.)
• Create tool to migrate HBase installation to Accumulo
• Perform security log analysis during Information Security related events, identifying and reporting possible security breaches, incidents, and violations of security policies.
• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, troubleshooting, deploying and maintaining Splunk solutions, reporting, alerting and dashboards
• Implemented and supported Cloud Networks. Collaborate with security and network team to ensure all cloud platforms adhere to security models and compliance requirements for the cloud infrastructure for either on-premises or Cloud network. Assist in the support and troubleshooting of cloud network infrastructure along with the network support team to resolve complex operational issues
• Manage, configure and install VMware vSphere environment: vCenter, hypervisor on new hosts, virtual machines, datastore creation and maintenance
• Perform daily system monitoring of Virtual Infrastructure which includes VMware and Amazon Cloud Service
• Work with various teams to design, implement, integrate and operate AWS cloud solutions for high availability and scalable service delivery.
• Conduct and remediate Windows Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) and NESSUS system scans
• Configure ACAS (Security Center) Webinspect, Appdective and NESSUS to manage Windows server patches
• Work with Automating configuration management, infrastructure, and application deployments in a toolset such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible or Salt
• Implemented distributed data storage system using Accumulo and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for storing and running analytics on large volumes of data.
• Install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere environment: vCenter, hypervisor on new hosts, virtual machines, datastore creation and maintenance.
• Responsible for system administration, engineering, provisioning, operation, maintenance of vCenter, vRealize Operations, VMware Configuration Manager and support..
• Assist in the proper operation and performance of Splunk, loggers and connectors
• Integrate data feeds (logs) into Splunk administering Splunk and Splunk App for Enterprise Security (ES) log management
• Design and developed Hadoop MapReduce programs and algorithms for analysis of cloud-scale classified data stored in an Accumulo database
• Standardize Splunk agent deployment, configuration and maintenance across a variety Of UNIX and Windows platform
• Work on System Center and Tanium design and deployment initiatives

Confidential, Reston, VA

Sr Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the upgrading of operating systems and design of systems enhancements.
• Provide input for documentation on new or existing systems.
• Design and implement container orchestration systems with Docker
• Implement and managing private register and containers orchestration with tools such as Artifactory, Nexus, Docker and Docker Register
• Support the implementation of VMware hardware and operating systems solutions to provide hosting services to multiple data centers.
• Provision Virtual Machines and patches to the software and hardware hosting infrastructure
• Research, design and develop end to end technology stack (front end/backend) in support of Api’s to help support high volume web transactions
• Develop technical roadmaps for future AWS cloud implementations.
• Automate/configure management using Docker, Puppet, and Chef
• Design and develop web applications, RESTful API’s, prototypes, or proofs of concepts (POC’s)
• Architect and deploy Splunk Enterprise implementations in small to medium sized customers.
• Administer Splunk and Splunk App for Enterprise Security (ES) log management.
• Integrate Splunk with a wide variety of legacy data sources that use various protocols.
• Consulting with customers to customize and configure Splunk in order to meet their requirements.
• Perform implementation of security and compliance-based use cases based on the NIST 800-53 Rev4 security controls.
• Technical writing/creation of formal documentation such as reports, training material, slide decks, and architecture diagrams.
• Work closely with middleware (e.g., WebLogic, Tomcat), database, UNIX, network and storage administrators for routine operations such as performance tuning, upgrades and backup.
• Deploy applications on multiple Weblogic Server and maintain Load balancing, high Availability and Fail over functionality
• Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
• Migrating an existing on-premises application to AWS
• Design and help to lead the implementations of cloud security solutions such as Web Application Firewalls, SIEM integrations, monitoring and auditing tools, and more.
• Implementing and controlling the flow of data to and from AWS
• Assist AWS Security Assurance team in determining the strategic direction of the various AWS compliance programs based on customer interaction and demonstrative metrics.
• Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements
• Help design and implement hosting stack using AWS and Docker.
• Work with developers on understanding identified vulnerabilities and their underlying causes to develop plans of mitigating actions and comprehensive corrections.
• Install and configure AppDetective, WebInspect and Nessus out the box
• Uses a variety of tools (Nessus, HP WebInspect, AppDetective, Fluke Network Tester) to provide full range of system security testing.
• Configure applications in the C2S AWS environment on Chef configuration management tool
• Work with engineers on Docker and debugging bad builds using docker-machin, docker-compose, etc
• Conduct formal tests on web-based applications, networks, and other types of computer systems.
• Work on physical security assessments of servers, computer systems, and networks.
• Work with a team in charge of the management, maintenance, and operation of the customers HPC systems.
• Plan design, engineer, and project support for HPC hardware and software;
• Design and managing petabyte-scale data storage, with uses ranging from collaborative software development environments to multi-terabyte scientific datasets;
• Establish strategic relationships with vendors; collaborating with peers across the DOD .
• Collaborate with customers to address security and compliance challenges, and implementing and migrating customer solutions and workloads onto AWS
• Conduct regular security audits from both a logical/theoretical standpoint and a technical/hands-on standpoint.

Confidential

Sr Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Network Engineering Support and Services (Network Engineer required)
• Assist in designing and implementing CDM solutions including hardware, software and other network components.
• Test and analyze all elements of the network facilities including power, software, security features, communications devices, lines, modems and terminals and for the overall integration of the enterprise network
• Monitor and control the performance and status of the network resources.
• Troubleshoot Window 2008, 20012 server hardware and software problems, take appropriate corrective action and/or interacts with IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support and troubleshooting functions
• Utilize software and hardware tools, identify and diagnose complex problems and factors affecting network performance.
• Maintain strong understanding of vendor products and have the ability to match vendor products to client needs.
• Provide guidance and direction for less experienced network support technicians.
• Work with the team and application sponsors to resolve issues that arise in the daily administration of the UNIX/Linux environment
• Assist with continued Windows and Linux integration projects
• Manage Windows Server 2012 configurations, security patches and applications.
• Provide operational support and performance tuning of all Linux servers and applications; including performance of daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance tasks.
• Responsible for operation, troubleshooting, and securing Linux systems
• Provide basic systems administration, operational support and problem resolution for Windows 2008, 2012, and 2016 server systems.
• Providing enterprise virtualized environment support by providing high-end engineering; support Windows Server-based services; and deployment and maintenance of systems supporting CDM customers

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Sr Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

• 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, 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

Confidential

Advisory Consultant remote

Responsibilities:

• Build virtual servers according to desired specifications and security standards
• Diagnose and troubleshoot problems with the virtualization environment including Microsoft and Linux O/S
• Provide Operation and Sustainment support for the virtualization environment
• Ensure virtualization systems are compliant within required security standards
• Create new virtual machines
• Update virtual machine templates
• Clone existing virtual machines
• Migrate virtual machines between data stores
• Create and reverting virtual machine snapshots

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Sr Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead and contributing to the development, maintenance, and usage of deployment and task automation (OS, database services, virtual networks, or other platform services)
• Write, automation code using Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
• Plan, create and manage cloud infrastructure in a Microsoft Azure environment
• Create design and implement hosting stack using AWS and Docker.
• Perform as a data scientist leveraging expertise with distributed scalable Big Data store, including Apache Accumulo, Apache Hadoop, MapReduce programming and technologies, and Real-time data processing with Apache Spark.
• Support the installation, configuration, and tuning of various technologies comprising a Azure-based solution.
• 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
• Design Customer Solutions ­ Collaborate with the wider AWS teams to help customers and partners architect HPC Solutions that leverage AWS Services
• Deployed and implemented Hadoop, Accumulo (or other big table solutions), data extract, transform, and load technologies, and the development and implementation of the analytics that act on data within the environment infrastructure
• Devise Strategy ­ Engage with Solution Architects, Account Managers, Professional Services, and Partners to define an HPC Engagement strategy for AWS .
• 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
• 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
• Administer Cloud environment from the Azure command line and the Web portal
• 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
• Maintain the Microsoft Azure and Office 365 Cloud Environment.
• Worked directly with architects and developers to debug problems and solutions
• Implemented cloud infrastructure designs provided by architects
• Install, configure, and provision storage hardware.
• Support HPC environment and implement significant HPC architecture changes to support the diverse scientific disciplines within the customers enterprise environment
• 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 VMware products.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Responsible for assisting GDIT researchers with porting, optimizing, debugging, and modifying their codes to run on HPC systems.
• Responsible for performing benchmarking on HPC systems and tuning system hardware and software for optimal performance
• 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

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Sr Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Develop work with key data center systems and concepts a plus: Datacenter SW, Comms Infrastructure/networking, Storage, Virtualization, Hadoop, Cloudera, VMware,
• OpenStack, Public/Private Cloud, Technical Computing/HPC, Network Function Virtualization, Big Data Analytics.
• Work with Splunk to design solutions and concepts for data aggregation and visualization.
• Lead the client through the process of re-architecting a legacy platform and suite of tools using Azure services
• Configure, administer, and operate highly scalable, available, and elastic solutions that implement industry best practices using Microsoft Azure and other Cloud service providers
• Design configure deploy current and future datacenter network environment.
• Manage Azure based SaaS environment
• Design, build and operate the infrastructure, continuous delivery framework and configuration of the Cloud Foundry environment
• Provide cloud architecture design guidance on Azure cloud computing to meet our business requirements
• Configure build Linux RedHat, Centos Ubuntu operating systems on the enterprise physical and virtual environment.
• Aid in the creation of a short-term and long-term strategy for establishing a secure enterprise environment in Azure.
• Setup, configure and deploy VMware-based systems for high-availability and efficiency, including vCenter, vSphere, and ESXi v5.x.
• Run scan operations in Accumulo while developing custom filters and iterators to control the data being returned in scan operations
• Migrate existing physical and Hyper-V virtual servers to VMware-based vSphere/vCenter system.
• Leverage virtualization capabilities to further automate systems management, analysis, and performance monitoring.
• Setup/Configure/Deploy VMware-based systems for high-availability, including vCenter, vSphere, ESXi v5.x, and VMware.
• Build out and improving the reliability and performance of cloud applications and cloud infrastructure deployed on Amazon Web Services, building the next generation of web applications and systems infrastructure, focusing on automation, availability and performance.
• Design, test, and implement solutions in AWS, Microsoft O365, and other cloud environments using security offerings from vendors that focus on securing data in the cloud.
• Monitor and manage the security of premise and cloud solutions and take remediation actions to address security events and incidents.
• Perform Hadoop installation, configuration, and administration Management of Hive and Impala on the Hadoop Platform configuration Management of Linux systems.
• Provide day-to-day support for SAN requests/requirements including SAN requests, modifications, provisioning, and administration.
• Analyze, design, test, document, and implement storage solutions for continuous data availability, integrity, storage and protection. Allocate storage to Windows servers using EMC tools.
• Build and maintain code to populate HDFS, Hadoop with log events from Kafka or data loaded from SQL production systems.
• Design, build and support pipelines of data transformation, conversion, validation
• Design and support effective storage and retrieval of BigData >500Tb
• Assess the impact of external production system changes to Big Data systems on Hadoop or Spark and implement changes to the ETL to ensure consistent and accurate data flows.
• Design and implement best practices for cloud based cluster deployments of Hadoop, Spark, and other BigData eco-system tools.
• Assist Engility Pivotal’s customers in migrating existing apps to Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Confidential, Hanover, MD

Senior Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Configure vSphere ESXi, host, cluster, datacenter in the customers current enterprise environment.
• Configure network and VLANs to maintain Dev and Production environments.
• Install configure VMWare vCenter 5.5 to managed current and future virtual environment
• Edit create Linux RedHat, Centos and Ubuntu templates for the current VMWare vSphere environment.
• Analyze logs, building searches and visualize them using dash boarding capabilities of Splunk as per business requirements.
• Splunk Admin activities like Forwarder management, Data Ingestion, Indexing and Field
• Develop, Architect, Deploy Splunk in a large Linux environment
• Automate threat feeds and integration with Splunk Enterprise Security
• Develop Splunk modules to support implementation and deployment activities
• Develop Splunk interfaces and automated feeds and support integration of Splunk with other enterprise security platforms, databases, etc.
• Support Splunk performance optimization efforts
• Contribute design and architectures to support evolution of security monitoring
• Support the gathering of business requirements and capabilities
• Integrate Splunk with a wide variety of legacy data sources.
• Ensure the security of Splunk resources, systems, access, etc.
• Provide day-to-day support for SAN requests/requirements including SAN requests, modifications, provisioning, and administration.
• Installed and configured of storage hardware and software. Which includes firmware and driver updates of all hardware components including HBA's, Switches, SAN/NAS units, multi-pathing software, and other specific point products related to storage.
• Monitor Analyze all security systems log files, review, and keep track of triggered events ArcSight. Research current and future cyber threats; reconcile correlated cyber security events.
• Provide network forensic and analytic support of large scale and complex security incidents such as targeted attacks and network/system infiltration.
• Perform system design, integration, deployment, and administration tasks to migrate a large enterprise-scale system housed in a data center to a cloud environment leveraging cloud technology solutions, predominantly AWS and OpenStack.
• Deploy security services across enterprise solutions supporting AWS cloud application deployments.
• Assist in Design/Architecture of AWS and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Design and Build world class high-volume real-time data ingestion and processing frameworks and advanced analytics on big data platforms.
• Research, develop, optimize, and innovate frameworks and patterns for enterprise scale data analysis and computations as part of our big data and Internet of Things initiative
• Lead the implementation of Hadoop platform strategy development by creating architecture blueprints, validating designs and providing recommendations on the enterprise platform strategic roadmap
• Architect solutions in AWS based cloud deployments of big data platform
• Architect solutions in AWS based cloud based deployments of big data platforms.
• Develop a big data platform which enables collection, storage, modeling, and analysis of massive data sets from numerous sources
• Install, upgrade, patch, configure and support (hardware and software) for the various Hadoop components including but not limited to: Hadoop, Flume, Hbase, Hcatalog, Hive, Hue, Impala, Mahout, Oozie, Pig, Cloudera Search, Sentry, Spark, Sqoop, Whirr, ZooKeeper and Cloudera Manager

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Sr Systems Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide support on Linux Red Hat, Window server 2003 and 2008 on a daily basis’s.
• Use Netback Backup and Recovery Methods to provide daily monthly backups.
• Work with Network engineer on the current and future Cisco Switch Architecture.
• Help support and maintain Splunk environment, including event log consolidation from servers, endpoints, network appliances, and applications
• Contribute to event log collection activities, and remediation of errors/inefficiencies
• Maintain and enhance a Splunk dashboard that tracks against enterprise security requirements
• Configure automated alerts for security events
• Troubleshoot configure monitor servers that on Linux (ex. RedHat, Debian) OS. Make sure operations and networking are current and working on servers on the enterprise.
• Support current environment on VMware 4.1 and 5.1. Trouble shoot current (virtual switching and routing).
• Perform necessary storage infrastructure maintenance in accordance with EMC and NetApp best practices and, Company change management policies.
• Provide support NetApp SAN to include Snaps, storage provisioning, management
• Software, recovery procedures, hardware installation and security of Logical Unit Numbers (LUNS) and access to each to provide EDM SAN support.
• Evaluate, test, design and integrate NetApp new storage technologies and processes to meet changing business needs. Provide recommendations for future capacity growth
• Use NetApp management tools to analyze performance and identify bottlenecks or slowdowns and take appropriate action to resolve.
• Deploy, manages, and troubleshoots VMware vSphere 5.1 Enterprise plus, vCenter server, vCenter Operations Manager and VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Configured the vCloud Networking and Security.

Confidential, Hanover, MD

Sr Wireless Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed and maintain several Linux Windows servers in a heterogeneous wireless computing environment.
• Design, install, and support wireless solutions for many clients in the tristate area.
• Overall working knowledge of system architecture, redundancy and fault tolerance, databases, personal computer hardware, local area networks, wireless networking, IP Voice Solutions, and cabling topologies.
• Coordination of all storage related activities between business units, IT/Infrastructure Systems, and the hardware vendor(s) for new/existing projects. Manage storage changes to the Development, Test, Staging, and Production environments, application/server change management functions, and daily production status reporting.
• Communicate effectively to business and technical groups within the company.
• Deploy Splunk Enterprise to integrate with the organization and customer’s existing system infrastructure with Splunk.
• Assist internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards.
• Troubleshoot Splunk platform (search head, indexer, heavy, intermediate) and universal forwarder problems and issues.
• Monitor the Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning, scalability, and optimization
• Participates in management of wireless network environment work support various vendor’s storage platform technologies (SAN/NAS) including architecture, operational procedures related to management and monitoring of various storage software and hardware components.
• Design/architect wireless networks, including integration with the core LAN for connectivity, authentication, and management services authentication, management and other relevant services.
• Provide day-to-day support for SAN requests/requirements including SAN requests, Modifications, provisioning, and administration.
• Formulate technical action plans for analyzing and resolving problems related to 802.11 WLAN networks and/or their wire line dependencies.

Confidential, Hanover, MD

Sr Systems Architect Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Install, patch and upgrade NetApp OnTap versions for all production storage systems.
• Trouble shoot with monitor NetApp environments using, Management software, Operations Manager, Provisioning Manager, and Protection Manager.
• Responsible for protecting NetApp storage environments by configuring NetApp
• Work as a Technical team lead to Architect, design, migrate, deploy and support new data center technologies.
• Experience using Opsware in administrating and architecting automation solutions across large-scale distributed UNIX/Linux and Microsoft environments.
• Experience with software packaging (e.g. RPM, MSI, etc.) And software distribution.
• Coordinate a vulnerability remediation process involving submitting change tickets to Appropriate resolver teams to remediate detected vulnerabilities.
• Work with Strong virtualization tools and concepts (VMware, XEN, Hyper-V)
• Worked on backup designing, implementation capacity/scaling challenges (Oracle Fusion, SAP, Web sphere, Exchange, Active Directory etc.).

Confidential, Fort Meade, MD

Storage Architect Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Trouble shoot with monitor NetApp environments using Management software.
• Responsible for protecting NetApp storage environments by configuring NetApp Protection software to include setting up Snap Mirror connections and NDMP.
• Responsible for designing, administering and troubleshooting a SAN solution which Consists of three Cisco MDS 9513 switches, six 3070c Network Appliances running Data Ontap 7.3 in an Active-Active cluster configuration (three clusters) with 10 DS-14 disk shelves between each cluster.
• Provide VMware technologies architectural design and guidance to clients and to the consulting organization in the field.
• Provide technical oversight of the customers Virtual infrastructure and management projects within multiple security domains environment. Virtualization projects center on
• Technical hardware / software migrations ("Physical to Virtual" and/or "Virtual to Virtual migrations) in the Windows environment, including working with SANs, backups, applications, clients, and similar virtualization tasks.

Confidential, Fort Meade, MD

System Administrator Senior Professional

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for moderately complex technical and team management activities related to system and database administration.
• Perform moderately complex systems and database administration. Monitors and tunes appropriate systems to ensure optimum level of performance.

Confidential, Eldersburg, MD

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work with NetApp software suites such as NetApp Protection software, Snap Manager Products, and NetApp Management software suites.
• Trouble shoot with monitor NetApp environments using, Management software, Operations Manager, Provisioning Manager, and Protection Manager.
• Responsible for protecting NetApp storage environments by configuring NetApp Protection software to include setting up Snap Mirror connections and NDMP copies as Required.
• Administer Storage systems and supporting hardware: EMC, DDN, Broadcom and NetApp storage hardware and software.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Design the Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions and support the installation, customization, and integration of the solution.
• Provide consultant support for NetApp footprint from competitor solutions by fostering customer relationships, educating customer technical teams in NetApp solutions & concepts, and identifying & developing way-ahead solutions for customer mission.

Confidential, Fort Meade, MD

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Backup Windows 2000 cluster server and Database with VERITAS Netbackup solution
• Build Windows 2000 cluster server /and SQL server configure them to be put on the network
• Trouble network issues and connectivity problems with servers, workstations
• Design network and Data Flow diagrams with MS Visio
• Build racks and install UPS and Servers into the racks

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Active Directory Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Monitor the performance of the systems and make performance improvements as necessary
• Performs tasks for large size systems responsible for the entire installation
• Provided Microsoft Engineering Support for a Confidential Server Consolidation and migration Project.
• Responsible for keeping the Unix, Windows systems running; monitoring, analyzing and optimizing system performance, including making recommendations for improving performance; performing system backups; assigning user IDs and passwords; allocating and tracking disk space; providing consulting support and advice regarding specific applications/servers; identifying and ordering needed supplies, hardware, software and accessories; and performing hardware and software upgrades on Unix and Windows Servers
• Perform analysis of Active Directory needs and contribute to design, architecture, integration, structure and installation of Active Directory including Organizational Units and Group Policy Objects