Network Engineer Resume Profile

Summary of Experience

Information Systems professional with more than 25 years of progressive experience with UNIX, Linux, and Windows environments.
15 years as a senior systems administrator/engineer in multiple large and small environments, including afloat and deployable, as well as ashore.
Extensive experience in hardware management and maintenance, network security management and implementation, IDS utilization, switch management and firewall supervision. Solid knowledge and experience with TCP/IP networking services, traffic management and system monitoring.
Four years of information systems management, two years of project management experience and experience as a long range plans assistant.

Skill Sets

Proxy services/Web filtering Squid, Squid Guard, QuintoLabs
System Availability Monitoring Nagios, Icinga, PandoraFMS
Security Monitoring AlienVault
Data mining, Data Collection.
Scripting with Python/BASH/Csh
IDS deployment with Ossec/Suricata/Snort
System vulnerability scanning with Retina and Nessus
System Analysis, design and development, and provisioning of standalone and interconnected appliances.
Tomcat/JBOSS administration
Linux/Unix installation, administration and system hardening.
Creating and maintaining documentation of procedures and systems.
Learning Java, SQL query, content delivery methods.
System Virtualization, System Update Server utilization
SSH/SSHFS/NFS

Experience

Confidential

Network Engineer/Simulations

Responsible for configuration control, hardware and software maintenance for Aggregate and Entity level Modeling and Simulation suites consisting of simulation servers and analyst workstation/servers utilizing Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4/5/6 in order to facilitate development, testing, and continual exercise design for the Marine Air Group Training Facility. Supporting Windows 7 workstations.
Designed and built virtual machines utilizing VMWare and VirtualBox in order to perform independent feature evaluation and testing newer features that required more extensive and isolated research and documentation of features.
Built, managed, and maintained exercise Apache/MySQL/Linux based after action recording server.
Ensured full system hardware and software availability to support all projected and ongoing operations to achieve maximum reliability.
Designed and implemented disaster recovery procedures for installed systems and documented simulation recovery during actual exercises and rehearsals
Managed Jboss application server during implementation of federated exercise.
Managed 20 Linux/Windows Servers in support of federation and data center operations.

Confidential

PC Desktop Support Engineer

Responsible for the hardware and software maintenance and local PC desktop support for a 200 node inpatient network and 125 node outpatient wide area networks scattered across 6 Florida counties.
Managed Windows 2000/2003 network servers, Windows 2000/XP workstation installation and security configuration, system documentation.
Citrix server configuration and utilization. Cisco PIX firewall with VPN configuration and installation. Ensured systems were managed in accordance with HIPAA regulations.

Confidential

Information Systems Engineer/Security Manager

Responsible for the hardware and software maintenance of two local area networks with up to 80 nodes, five file servers, Cisco 4000 and Cisco 2500 routers, Alcatel 2500 series switches, including system update patching, disaster planning, and system recovery. IAVA/IAVB System Monitoring, Management and compliance.
Ensured full system hardware and software availability to support all pier side and deployed operations to achieve maximum reliability.
Managed Windows NT/2000 operating environment, HP-UX/Solaris servers Pair Gain modems, CSU/DSU configuration.
Managed network IDS setup and monitoring, router security and Microsoft Exchange Server, Internet Information Server, Proxy Server, and SQL Server, VERITAS Backup Exec. Ensured system perimeter security and maintained router configurations.
Managed RF spectrum, voice and data transmission equipment in compliance with DOD bandwidth management directives to support the Commanders Intent.