TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Oracle, Sun Microsystems HardwareWindows - Dell Hardware

Operating Systems: Solaris UnixMicrosoft Windows

Other: Solaris Network System AdministratorAMC DCAPES Advanced CourseVeritas Volume ManagerVeritas Cluster ServerRemedy Administrator IISS Real SecureWindows 2008 System Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Computing Security Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Perform Information Assurance responsibilities in accordance with current policies and provide oversight to ensure computing infrastructure, data, and applications are protected according to the Joint Special Access Program series (JSIG), the Boeing Security Manual (BSM), NISPOM and other DOD directives or customer contractual requirements.
• Evaluate computing and information security risks and initiate response plans to mitigate or address identified risks.
• Analyzes and records computing security events and verifies that security parameters are in place.
• Ensures security compliance for several operating systems - both physical and virtual assets - Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
• Ensure systems are operated, maintained and disposed of in accordance with internal security policies and practices outlines in the security plan.
• Ensure users have the requisite security clearances, authorization, and need-to-know, and are aware of their security responsibilities before granting access to the IS.
• Experience in preparing system security plans and certification and accreditation packages and obtaining authority to operate from U. S. Government customers.
• Conduct administrative inquiries or more detailed investigations, as needed, of inappropriate activities involving proprietary computing systems.
• Provides leadership, consultation, and advice on computing security issues at the over-all program level.
• Provides compliance and audit support to maintain inspection readiness.

Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Solaris 10 and Windows 2008 remote and onsite system administration support in the deployment, operation, and maintenance of Global Freight Management (GFM) system architectures, including hardware, software, and operating systems. Interfaces with government management personnel, contract managers and technical personnel, customer agency representatives, and vendor support personnel as required.
• Supports GFM configuration management processes through the response to requests for data calls, baseline management, and documenting changes.
• Provide data back-up, restore, and recovery assistance. Manages all local enterprise backup software installations. Coordinates with the SDDC Enterprise Back-up team to satisfy GFM data back-up requirements as needed.
• Perform system monitoring and provide system performance and security reports as required.
• Implement secure data transfer configurations (utilizing protocols such as SSH, SSL, SFTP, etc.) as required.
• Conducts routine hardware and software audits of workstations and servers to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines.
• Perform and maintain detailed inventories of GFM server and related hardware equipment. Provide disaster recovery support during disaster recovery operations. Establish and maintaining user, system, and application accounts. Assist in the planning and execution of system maintenance activities.
• Create and maintain system administration documentation and perform and coordinate with vendor technical personnel as required in the resolution of GFM hardware and software technical issues.
• Implement system changes in accordance with guidance provided by vendor technical specification and/or government technical team members. This includes vendor supplied patches, system configuration changes, and shell script modification/ creation and application installations. Provide basic IBM Unidata and Oracle database implementation services as requested by the GFM Application, Database, and Application Teams. Provide after hour system administration support, onsite and remotely, as required.

Confidential

Senior System Analyst, NCI Information Systems

Responsibilities:

• System Administrator for the USTRANSCOM systems. Performs software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages on Solaris UNIX and Windows 2003/2008 virtual servers.
• Schedules installations and upgrades and maintains them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures.
• Monitors and tunes the system to achieve optimum performance levels.
• Ensures workstation/server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions.
• Ensures data/media recoverability by implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations.
• Supports media management through internal methods and procedures or through off-site storage and retrieval services.
• Develops and promotes standard operating procedures.
• Conducts routine hardware and software audits of workstations and servers to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines.
• Develops and maintains a comprehensive operating system hardware and software configuration database/library of all supporting documentation.

Solaris Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Solaris 10 operating system and application administrative support for USTRANSCOM J6 web servers.
• Update and install Solaris 10 recommended and security packages and patches, maintain Solaris volume manager, create modify and update Unix shell scripts, ColdFusion MX 7.0.2, apache 2.0.64, java 1.42 19, apache-tomcat 5.5.33, OpenSSL-0.9.8r, Openssh 5.8 and other software as required.
• Schedules installations, upgrades and patches and maintains servers in accordance with established policies and procedures. Monitors and tunes the system to obtain optimum performance levels. Interface with development representatives to upgrade/update software as required.
• Ensures server data integrity by evaluating, implementing and managing appropriate hardware, software and backup solutions.
• Member of a 24/7 rotating pager team for the web shop responsible for providing troubleshooting resolutions for Solaris 10 and Windows 2003 servers.

Solaris/Database System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Solaris operating system and application administrative support for Global Command Control System (GCCS) on the GCCS Air Force Expeditionary Center Training Center.
• Responsible for installing, monitoring, tuning and installing per the standardized guidelines and troubleshooting all of the hardware and software components of Sun Solaris 10, Sun V890, V440 and V240 servers.
• Utilized Solaris 10 zones, UNIX shell scripts, monitored Oracle 10g/Oracle 11g database instances, BEA Weblogic and other COTS software on the AMC GCCS Training servers.

Senior Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed administration and configuration of applications, including: user account security access, setup alerts, configuration, use of and modifications to HP NNM and Service Navigator maps, enterprise maps, and AGMEMS MOM web portal.
• Supported the mission of the ESC by reviewing security alerts generated by the system and determining areas where system enhancement is warranted to provide improved proactive notifications of issues.
• System Administrator for Unix Solaris 10 and Windows 2003 server systems.
• Provided team support for the EMS Security Planning and execution by interface with DISA Security and AT&T Security.
• Provided system administrative support of the operation of ATT Government Enterprise Management System monitoring toolset, including HP Open View and perform standard server tasks such as maintaining user accounts/permissions.
• Generated reports using Remedy and Crystal Reports.
• Ensures Windows 2003 server systems, IIS web services and Active Directory and network connections are operational on a daily basis.
• Provided team support for EMS Provisioning, including the provisioning of assets/services for DTS-C AO and DATS, asset validation and process interfaces with the GNSC, EMC and Tier 3 NJ organization.
• Maintained licenses and maintenance agreements documentation for EMS Sun Unix and Windows 2003 server hardware and software interface with vendors for software and hardware support.
• Schedule systems hardware maintenance and initiate the implementation of software updates on the EMS servers, patching, shell script modification and upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Possess knowledge of HP OVO and NNM, BMC Remedy and Crystal Reports applications as deployed in the current AGMEMS tool suite.

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Solaris UNIX Operating System and Application Administrator for AT&T Yahoo DSL helpdesk application Self Support Tool SBCIS servers.
• Solaris UNIX (8/9) Operating System daily system administration and application technical lead for Motive Self Support Tool application software.
• Interface with Vendor to plan and conducted all preparation for installation/update of application code.
• Stage/Prepare product(s) for deployment on the test and production servers and create instructions/check-list to be used during actual deployment to facilitate a smooth deployment.
• Executed software deployment (nighttime and weekend off-shift), for production maintenance window and during critical testing periods, validate, work to resolve any issues and document deployment procedures and maintain a log of deployment executions.
• Update and install Solaris OS patches, Cfengine, sun explorer, patrol and EMC, iPlanet Web Server, apache, tomcat, shell scripts and other software as required.
• Installed EMC storage array control center software, ECC Widesky software, EMC Volume Logix and loaded JNI (HBA) configuration software. Made configuration changes to the Solaris kernel /etc/system and kernel.drv and sd.conf and other required updates to files.
• Implemented Solaris live upgrades and created/maintained VERITAS Volumes and updated network configurations and maintenance/upgrade of VERITAS Cluster Server Configuration.
• Utilized Vantive ticketing system for troubleshooting and server maintenance support.
• Supported off hour and weekend on call rotation for five other enterprise applications as a member of a 24/7 rotating pager response team.

System Administrator/Helpdesk

Responsibilities:

• System Administrators for UNIX, Metaframe, Exchange, Citrix and Web Server Technical support.
• Installed and configured operating system software on Sun 3000 and NT 4.0 client and Exchange 5.0 server systems.
• Provided PC client end-user support for Microsoft Windows NT users.
• Assists in the identification and troubleshooting of network connectivity issues.
• Participated in the determination of communication system specification, input/output processes and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility.

Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building and deleting classified accounts in an Access database.
• Reviewed intruder alert and TCP wrappers for security related information.
• Ran Internet Security Systems scans to test client/server systems for vulnerabilities.
• Monitored added, deleted and updated security accounts in the database.
• Downloaded and updated virus fixes on security servers.
• Archived audit files from the server to tape utilizing Ufsdump.
• Ran Crack on all Unix/NT system accounts.
• Reviewed security reports for compliance with government directives.

Intrusion Detection Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided integrated network and host based detection, forensic analysis, and analytical and operation services in support of the Incident Management Teams investigation of and recovery from computer incidents.
• Initialized and completed the setup and installation of the intrusion detection systems.
• Assisted in the testing and installation of the Real Secure intrusion detection monitoring hardware and software on the Window NT and Sun (UNIX) servers.
• Analyzed security data via the Real Secure Console 5.0 intrusion software for unauthorized activities and conduct computer security incident analysis, response and reporting.

Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Served as a member of the Unix Production Server Support Team, which maintained the production servers for the defense mapping agency. Environment included E6000, E4000, E3000, E450, Ultra 10 and 60 servers running Solaris 2.5/2.6/2.7, and VERITAS Netback up.
• Conducted backup and recovery operation using Veritas Netback up and Ufsdumps.
• Troubleshot user login problems and network connectivity issues.
• Built new systems to add to the network loaded OS software, Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 and Cold Fusion, adobe acrobat, GNU, Photoshop, IE4 and Mosaic, gzip, Gimp, CGM draw, Gear, Ups, Motif, Pearl, SQL 15 ( HP printer software), Smartcd, NFSmaestro, Big brother, ArTestak, cops, crack, Netscape Enterprise, Xpaint and varied other packaged software for Solaris systems.
• Added and deleted new users, load new software on the Solaris system.
• Downloaded new Solaris patches form Sunsolve and loaded on the system as required. Edited network file systems to add systems to the Veritas Netback up system.

Information Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided computer security analysis and reporting for the Defense Information Systems Agency Scott AFB Computer Emergency Response Team.
• Analyzed data via the network intrusion detection software and conducts computer incident analysis, response and reporting.
• Administrated and maintained Sun (UNIX) sparc station.
• Analyzed Network Intrusion Detection software logs for potential intrusion.
• Solved security incidents on UNIX Sun Solaris systems.

NT Network Support Technician

Responsibilities:

• Assisted daily client network and Microsoft software application troubleshooting, as well as installation and training assistance.
• Window 4.0 network administrators as well as answering calls from customer support and assistance.
• Installed software/hardware to connect systems to the network, Microsoft NT 4.0, Microsoft Office software (PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Word etc). Installing specialized customer software.
• Provided basic microcomputer repairs, including: network cards, cables, replacing monitors, CDROM and disk drives, installing additional memory