SUMMARY:

• To obtain a position that will utilize, challenge, and enhance my Unix Security Engineering, Unix Administration, Architectural Systems Analysis, Network Management and Data Warehousing skills as well as provide opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• Possess over 20 years in Confidential working in Confidential, Confidential, Enterprise Security Management, Quality Assurance, Architectural Systems Analysis, Unix Systems Engineering, Firewall/VPN Management, Network Management, LAN/WAN Management and Data Warehousing.
• Experience in documentation of technical security policies, procedures and standards.
• Ability to prepare presentations and reports of findings.
• Capable of independent action in implementing and documenting security mechanisms for multi - platforms and operating systems.
• Enterprise Security documentation proficiency.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Confidential workstations and Servers (Blades to E10 Intel PCs HP (L,K,N-class servers) RISC Based Servers/workstations, IBM (Xseries,S70, S390,RS6K, Shark, Power 6, Power VM) CISCO routers (2500, 4k, Catalyst 5k, 7k, 7700 series), Sequent NUMA-Q Series 3COM Lanplex/Cellplex routers/hubs, Confidential SYMMetrix Cabletron Hubs (MMACs), Confidential Cellara Synoptics, Nokia IP330 Firewalls and Load Balancers Bay routers /hubs/switches, Dec Alpha Series Servers and Workstations IBM (sys-36,38), Checkpoint VPN-1 Accelerator cards (45 Mbps PCI for Confidential ) Amdahl, Confidential Blade,V210,240,3k, 4k, 6k, 10k, 15k, 25k Macintosh

Software: Security Engineering eTrust Access Control (EAC), support/built EAC rule-set to enforce SOX - Shared ID compliance; PKI (RSA Keon, Fishnet Keon), STDI BoKS, VRRP (for Secure Redundancy), Two-Factor Authentication, VPN’s, SecureID, RAS, Entrust Products (TruePass, GetAccess, Entrust Intelligence, Entrust Authority, Auto/RA), Encryption Security Standards Confidential, Security Confidential, Security Utilities Utilized for following OS Platforms Internet, Firewall, Unix( Confidential, AIX,HP-UX,LINUX), WIN2k, NT, Exchange, Mechanisms (swIPe,IPSEC,PPTP), Encryption Algorithms (RC2, RC4, DES, 3DES, IDEA,CAST),Encryption Negotiation (ISAKMP,SKIP), EKE Algorithms (RSA,Diffe-Hellman), UNIX Systems Administration SUSE Linux Enterprise, IBM SUSE Linux, Confidential OS (up to Confidential OS 2.3), Solaris (2.4 up to Solaris 8, Sunfire), HP-UX (8.x to 11.x), AIX (3.x.x to 4.x.x, AIX 5L, AIX 6.1.x), AIX (VIOS, NIM, Power HA 6.1), Sequent, SCO (3.x to 6.x) Unix Shells - POSIX, Bourne, Korn, C, Pearl), Linux (up to v7.x), Confidential LDAP, NIS, NIS+, NFS, AFS, Samba, H-A Cluster Systems, GLANCE, CDE, Solstice SyMon, Sendmail Administration, Confidential Jumpstart / Kickstart Server Engineering,Firewall/VPN Management Check Point Firewall-1, VPN-1 Gateway,VPN-1 Secure Remote,VPN-1 Secure Client, VPN-1 Secure Server, Checkpoint High Availability, VPN-1 Certificate Manager, ISM Raptor Eagle (up to V.6.5/app level proxy), RE Enhanced Generic Service Passers (GSPs), Firefox NOVIX(Server/Client Based)

Network Management: Server Patch/Hotfix Revision Checking, Audit Logging/Baseline reporting, HP Openview(v3.x, 5.x), Tivoli (nsr & Storage Manager), Cisco Works, Netview, Cabletron Spectrum, Confidential Net Manager, RMON, IBM LAN Network Manager, Big Brother, Big Sister, SLA Monitoring Tools (Netscout, NetQOS, MOM, etc.), MS WIN 2003 WIN2K, NT (3.x,4.x), Novell (v3.x to 5.x), Banyan Vines(v2.x to 7.x); Hitachi, Confidential LAN/WAN/SAN Management NFS, Hitachi HDS Adoptable Modular Storage (HDS), (Universal Storage Platform V model), Hitachi USPV, NetApp hardware and software (SnapMirror, SnapManager, SnapDrive, ArcServe for SAN Backups), working knowledge on CIFS and NFS protocol usage, SAN (Fibre switches) Experience on FCP and ISCSI Brocade 4900 Fabric Switches, Brocade 4800 Directors, Confidential PowerPath Etc.

Data Warehousing: VMware Netapps Confidential Data Manger (EDM), Symmetrix Manager, TimeFinder (for creating multiple BCV’s), SRDF for VPN over IP, PowerPath, Confidential DiskSuite, Veritas (Volume Manager, Net Back Up), HP SAN’s, Legatto

Life Cycle Project Management: Requirements Analysis; Design Development; Technology & Product selection/Justification; Solution implementation; User pilot testing; Organizational implementation; Product support

Protocols: TCP/IP, IPSEC, ISAKMP, Oakley, SA, PPTP over VPN (Microsoft servers), UDP, SRDF (over IP), FDDI, Gigabit Ethernet (2,4Gbps), ATM (OC-3, 12, 24, 48), Token Ring, AppleTalk/LocalTalk, 56K, ISDN, Ethernet, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, SCSI, Fibre Channel, Fast Ethernet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Unix/Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• CJIS Certified JBOSS Sr. Unix/Linux Systems Administrator
• Configured/Administered/Troubleshot Unix/Linux-based systems (RHEL, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX)
• 20+ years in Dev/Ops in Unix/Linux and Windows Environments
• Configured/Administered/Troubleshot Webservers: (Apache, Nginx, Node.js, IIS)
• Developed/Deployed Strategies for configuration Management
• Automated Infrastructure leveraging utilizing (Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker) creating repeatable scalable infrastructure
• Configured/Administered/Troubleshot Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Crowd, and Bitbucket
• Developed/Administered/Troubleshot Security and Recovery plans; Defended Business from threats including from data loss, disaster, and security breaches
• Designed/Implemented effective monitoring schemes that promoted proactive discovery and resolution of issues
• Configured/Administered/Troubleshot JENKINS Continuous Build and Deployment
• Supported MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB deployments, migrations to include performance tuning and replication
• 4+ years Administering Cloud Hosting on AWS and Azure
• Experience with Active Directory and server security and domain administration

Confidential, Wilson, NC

Unix Disaster Recovery Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architected and designed all hardware for Data Migration projects
• Designed, implemented and installed all new Unix / Linux and SAN H/W
• Architected, Built and Administrated 200+ TB Confidential Symmetrix and DMX SAN with Brocade directors
• Assets project costs and ordered appropriate H/W for Unix architecture
• Handled all flavors of Unix architecture for Confidential Servers
• Intrader Servers - Operating System Upgrades - Solaris 9 to 10 “Live Upgrade”
• Legatto ServerOS Upgrade - Solaris 9 to 10 - and PowerPath Upgrades
• Solaris Live Upgrade Process Documentation and Training
• Veritas Volume Manager Maintenance- (13) Servers
• PowerPath and Device Driver Upgrades on Confidential Servers - 75 servers

Confidential, Greenbelt, Maryland

UNIX Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Engineered Confidential Java Identity Management Suite v7 across Confidential Public Network
• Programmed XPRESS language into Confidential Identity Manager
• Planned, designed and implement Enterprise Security Architectures and Systems Design Methodologies.
• Provided architectures, implementations and PKI solutions based on multiple CA platforms including UniCERT, Entrust, RSA, VeriSign, CheckPoint and Microsoft.
• Provided engineering/integration/support for PKI and Identity Management hosted in a high security Confidential datacenter with over 4K diverse customer services.
• Performed UNIX Administration/Engineering involving over 4800 UNIX servers including:
• Administering over 2400 utilizing Solaris v. 8, 9, and 10.
• Administering over 1200 utilizing AIX 4.x, 5.x, and 5L.
• Administering over 1200 utilizing Red Hat Linux.
• Performed UNIX Administration/Engineering utilizing full VERITAS Suite including:
• Utilized VERITAS Volume Manager to build and manage logical volumes.
• Utilized VERITAS Net Back Up for tape backups.
• Performed SAN Engineering duties utilizing Hitachi, Confidential, and Confidential including:
• Checkpoint Firewall Management.
• Virtual Private Network management for site-to-site VPN configuration.
• Satellite Communication Configuration.

Confidential, Annapolis, Maryland

NOC Manager/Sr. UNIX Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide testing, implementation and maintenance of new security systems and applications.
• Assess and define security control requirements and risk assessment.
• Manage security analysis, architecture and system administration functions.
• Establish security policies and procedures.
• Establish, document and publish Enterprise Security White papers for in-house use.
• Developed and maintain an in-house Departmental Security and Accreditation Program.
• Developed and maintain a computer Security Awareness Program.
• Perform risk and intrusion detection, vulnerability testing, and manage accreditation services.
• Perform UNIX engineering duties, including configuring, building, testing, and implementing enterprise wide servers.
• Utilized Capacity Planning for enterprise-wide configuration management.
• Project management / Engineering of Designing/Building/Testing/Implementing secure enterprise-wide Public Key Infrastructure solution
• Perform UNIX engineering duties, including configuring, building, testing, and implementing enterprise wide servers.

Confidential, Beltsville, Maryland

Senior UNIX/WAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed Unix Systems Administration
• Performed Windows 2000/NT Server and workstation administration.
• Designed, built, and tested Data Warehousing Solutions.
• Administrated Network Management.
• Performed application server software installations.
• Conducted Virtual Storage Hierarchy Configuration Management.
• Performed RAID Configuration Management (Host based & Controller Based on Solaris/HP-UX/AIX servers).
• Managed wireless VSAT/ RSAT satellite systems (Illuminet).
• Utilized NAS solutions for remote connectivity.
• Managed capacity planning, virtual storage, NFS, NIS/NIS+, GLANCE, CDE, SyMON, X, SSH FC-AL, SAN, Netware (4.x) installation/ configuration/ administration on 26 NDS servers.
• Performed Samba installation and maintenance.

Confidential, Merrifield, Virginia

Senior UNIX Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed UNIX systems engineering including building, testing, administration and support of Solaris installations and HP-UX hosts.
• Built, tested and Administrated Network Management software including HP Openview, Netview, and Remedy.
• Conducted SNMP management.
• Conducted RMON management (utilizing DG Sniffer, Netscout).
• Conducted hardware maintenance (SPARC 5, 20).
• Installed and administered Solstice Symon for desktop hardware management.
• Provided HP 3000 administration and maintenance.
• Conducted protocol analysis utilizing Network General’s Foundation Manager Spectrum SPMA.
• Designed, built, tested, implemented, and maintained Bay 28K Switching (VLAN).
• WIN NT (4.x) and Novell Netware administration (4.x).
• Built, Tested and administrated RAID configurations (host-based & controller-based) on Confidential Servers and HP-UX Servers.