Core Skills

Managerial/Supervisory/Leadership

• 6 years of field leadership/supervision related to managing communication platforms.
• 4 years of leadership/supervision within dangerous areas of operations.
• 3 years of team leadership while serving in the US Army.
• 3 years of coordination monitoring maintenance of multimillion-dollar communication equipment and service equipment.
• Technical/Maintenance
• 11 years of computer network operational experience.
• 7 years of real world usage of circuit diagram, schematics and troubleshooting chart to assist with troubleshooting communication equipment.
• 5 years of radio communication equipment operation, maintenance and repair.
• 7 years LAN/WAN and Administration of wireless communication equipment to include configuration, operation and troubleshooting.
• 9 years of data/video/voice software and hardware configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting to include UNIX and LINUX.

Experience

Confidential

Lead Network Engineer

• Acting as the Lead Network Engineer for the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay Naval Air Station, duties included managing a three man network engineer section, to include weekly tasking's, priorities and presenting the plans and order of business not only for day to day operations, but major network projects as well.
• Functioned as the Tier III support entity within JTF, aiding multiple entities and organizations with Network design or operations and maintenance requirements.
• Acted for over 4 months during contract changeover as the Network Operations Chief, and later as the Deputy Network Operations Chief for the remainder of the contract timeline. This is required organizing reporting methodologies and giving direction to both the Network 3 personnel and Systems Engineer 5 personnel sections in the NOC.
• Aided the JTF with WAN, layer 3 and layer 2. Along with the support of other entities within the JTF umbrella of responsibilities. Assisting those entities with LAN/WAN support utilizing CISCO, Juniper and Dell equipment in both a network function as well as Systems engineering requirements.
• Continued a proven track record designing and maintaining Cisco Network Infrastructure to include 39XX Routers, 65XX, 450X Data Center Switches, the Cisco Nexus family and 3850 series, 3750, 3550, 2960, 3560 and HP Procurve switches.
• Maintained network monitoring servers that included GEMX for TACLANE monitoring and configuration.
• Completed and Assisted with the installation of multiple CISCO ACS servers along with the implementation of 802.1X on multiple networks as part of the CISCO IBNS package.
• Maintained Solar Winds servers to use CISCO Netflow on Core network infrastructure as well ensure of continued operations.
• Utilized a Vsphere 5.1/5.5 infrastructure with monitoring virtual machine operations and health to include virtualization of Solarwinds, CISCO ACS, Spectrum and other network monitoring systems such as Cisco Prime.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Engaged with the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay Naval Air Station as a network engineer, aiding the JTF with WAN, layer 3 and layer 2. Along with the support of other entities within the JTF umbrella of responsibilities. Assisting those entities with LAN/WAN support utilizing CISCO, Juniper and Dell equipment in both a network function as well as Systems engineering requirements.
• Designed and maintained Cisco Network Infrastructure to include 39XX Routers, 65XX, 450X Data Center Switches, the Cisco Nexus family and 3850 series, 3750, 3550, 2960, 3560 and HP Procurve switches.
• Created and maintained numerous Network Infrastructure monitoring software packages to include CISCO Prime, LMS 4.2.
• Tested and created a GPON mock network to ascertain the validity of GPON in a production environment.
• Completed and Assisted with the installation of multiple CISCO ACS servers along with the implementation of 802.1X on multiple networks as part of the CISCO IBNS package.
• Engineered and Maintained Solar Winds servers to use CISCO Netflow on Core network infrastructure as well ensure of continued operations.
• Modified, Maintained and operated multiple CISCO R200 servers utilizing ESXi 5.0 to run a Publisher Call Manager version 8.5.1 and the CISCO Unity voicemail system.
• Utilized a Vsphere 5.1/5.5 infrastructure with monitoring virtual machine operations and health.
• Operated/Configured a Cisco Call Manager 8.5.1 Cluster, consisting of a Publisher and Subscriber operating model.
• Maintained and established SOP's for day to day Network operation scenarios.
• Maintained Daily operations of Network hardware support to include NIPR, SIPR.
• Assisted Joint Service Members in a SME role to cover Network, Systems and Help Desk areas.
• Additionally assisted the Help Desk/J6 section in day to day operations.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Maintained and operated assorted CISCO network equipment to include 3800 and 2800 series routers in a WAN environment. Configured, installed and maintained up to 25 CISCO switches from the 3750 series stacked and 3560 series.
• Part of a team with the IP migration for all three enclaves NIPR, SIPR and CX-I. Configured Core and main routers to use DHCP to server Voice and Data IP addresses across the network.
• Tested, configured and deployed a GRRP system. To include the BGAN satellite modem, Pioneer router system and Secnet54 encryption devices.
• Created and maintained Network Diagrams and IP trackers to facilitate ease of administration.
• Troubleshooting, configuring and operating KG175 TACLANE family in a multi-domain network.
• Assisted in troubleshooting system and network issues with the General Staff IMO, to include network connectivity and CISCO switch, router and ASA configurations.
• Maintained and operated local Storage Systems to include MD3000i and MD2000i Dell Storage Devices utilizing iSCSI, and LUN's connected to Dell R310 and R510 Server Hardware.
• Managed and maintained a Windows 2008 Domain Group Policy objects to include troubleshooting, design, testing and implementation of domain wide GPO.
• Assisted Joint Service Members in a SME role to cover Network, Systems and Help Desk areas.
• Assisted joint military personnel in a domain migration. Moving from MS Active Directory 2003 design to a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory design and Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007.

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator

• Monitored, installed, maintained and implemented VMware ESX VM systems and Host hardware.
• Assisted in the design of a new Enterprise level network infrastructure. Including the task of combining NetApp and EMC storage products into a VMware ESX server infrastructure to provide almost continuous uptime and response across the domain.
• Created and implemented workstation imaging solutions to reduce workstation deployment time from 3.5 hours to an hour per machine without moving the equipment.
• Designed and presented VMware and Storage Appliance solutions for an Enterprise Network.
• Installed and maintained Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 server, along with its supporting MSSQL backend servers and Active Directory Domain services.
• Functioned in a SME role with day to day operations of the Tactical domain and its systems. Assisted the S6 shop within the local US Army forces on the base with day to day operations as well as providing solutions to issues, and increasing network operational knowledge throughout the deployed area.
• Maintained coverage for both Systems and Network administration when required.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

• Assisted in the administration of a Tactical network consisting of multiple Dell Servers, switches and NetApp Filers FAS270. Administrated and implemented additional network administration programs such as Solar Winds Orion SLX, Microsoft Operations Management 2005.
• Helped to design and implement fail over technologies both with Clusters MSCS, SQL 2005 Clusters and Snap Mirror with the FAS270. Designed, installed and implemented a fail over site for SharePoint MOSS 2007, SQL 2005 and iSCSI SAN systems.
• Assisted in creating network documentation to ease later transitions
• Monitored, installed, maintained and implemented Vmware ESX VM systems and Host hardware.
• Managed and installed a Pearson VUE test center, and as well became familiar with the installation and administration of a prometric test center.
• Functioned in a SME role with day to day operations of the Tactical domain and its systems.
• Designed and built a classroom domain based on VMware technologies.

Confidential

Systems/Network Administrator

• Monitored and maintained a LAN/WAN that consisted of multiple networks and its support infrastructure.
• Managed daily operations of the LAN/WAN, consisting of Windows 2003 based Exchange, File, Application, Domain Controllers and IIS 6.0 Maintained and managed these services on the network. DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, Web servers and SharePoint servers.
• Assisted in planning, installation of expansions of the infrastructure.
• Planned, implemented VMware based virtualization technology in a production environment.

Confidential

Remote Install Team Supervisor

• Built and deployed packages consisting of four Enterprise servers and CISCO networking equipment to include PIX 515, 2851 Router, and C3560G switches to remote locations throughout Iraq. Supporting the IDN Iraqi Defense Network .
• Configured, tested equipment to include the Dell Power Edge 2950, 1950 Family of servers.
• Lead and supervised multiple teams consisting of over 15 individuals in ISP/OSP functions, to include Fiber, Cat5e and internal data wiring in remote locations.
• Installed and tested the VSX8000 series of PolyCom VTC equipment in multiple sites.
• Responsible for the creation and the maintaining of Symantec Ghost Images for both Workstations and Servers.
• Maintained and created Inventory databases to aid in delivery of final equipment. Managed equipment pricing and delivery.