Skills

Employment History:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as an organizational ITIL process subject matter expert towards the approval of the Juniper Network Connect VPN client for usage on the unclassified network so that the FBI WMDD BCU could reach their externally hosted LAMP based Drupal web server.
• Developed a security test plan for testing the Juniper Network Connect VPN client to pass the TCCB.
• Built a WAMP, and Drupal, unconnected software stack for usage while waiting for the VPN client testing and accreditation process to complete.
• Prepared organizational ITIL briefing documents for customer to strategize paths to VPN client accreditation success including the possible usage of DSL drops to unconnected PCs.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported the entire Application Server Environment, from JBoss Middleware components to Operating System of both Virtual and Physical Windows Servers.
• Responsible for maintaining over 8 different, Java based applications and corresponding logs and services for customers.
• Perform Preventive Maintenance, Security Patching and STIGS and overall Operating and Sustaining of systems.
• Worked with Windows 2003 2008, JBoss AS 4.2.3, 5.1, 7.x, JBoss EAP 6.x. and Red Hat Linux.
• Worked on programming language environment which supports scripts, programs written for a run time environment
• Assisted in transitioning the FBI's production web application environment from JBoss AS 4.2.3 to JBoss EAP 6.x.
• Worked in Project management life cycle, activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problem
• Created, configured, and installed, SSL key pairs for importation into an F5 load balancer, and a JBoss application server, for one customer, FISAMS, so that they could transition from a single instance to a load balanced configuration.
• Secured server based communications from end to end documenting this, for the first time, for the FBI.
• Worked with the 8 JBoss web application customers FIDS, FISAMS, IIFQ, and others , in yearly FBI disaster recovery procedures failing over all JBoss production applications to a backup site.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• O M administration, on 3 enclaves, of over 50 VMware 4.1 Windows 2003 virtual servers, their physical ESX hosts and applications such as SQL, Exchange, etc.
• Migrated Exchange accounts tested backup data integrity with a restoration using Backup Exec
• As the first strategic administrator of any kind , worked with engineers to assist them in standing up servers, and the network and provide basic continuity to follow on personnel
• Performed DIACAP quality control for command
• Worked in Project management life cycle, activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problems
• Worked on programming language environment which supports scripts, programs written for a run time environment

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• The Only Server Environment Manager, and Systems Administrator, for a, NATO cleared, completely virtualized, Windows 2003 NIPR and SIPR development, and production environment, for the U.S. Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned, through AT T, at Quantico, VA.
• After initial SAN and VMware Engineer finished putting new, redundant, iSCSI based Clariion EMC AX4 SAN based NIPR and SIPR hardware into place, refreshing non-redundant, physical and virtual environments continued transition project, until hardware was placed into production,
• Worked on WebCenter which is a unique and powerful web-based platform that manages packaging pre-production approval and project life cycle.
• Worked on programming language environment which supports scripts, programs written for a run time environment
• Worked in Project management life cycle, activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problems
• Working directly with the developers, who continue to program on, the U.S. Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned web site, utilized Microsoft Project, as a scheduling tool, to set dates, and work-a rounds, transitioning the site itself from the old physical, non-redundant hardware to the new redundant hardware mentioned in the previous bullet
• Performed daily and weekly backups, using an already in place copy of GhettoVCB at the command console or with putty .
• Worked with the development team to set up a test environment, within the development 3.5 ESX Host VMware/EMC based SAN, for the future Windows 2008 Server virtual machines to test to see if these would work together with numerous upgrades like Cold Fusion 9

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported and trained on iGeoSIT, the Interim Geo-Spatial Satellite Intelligence Tool and additional FAS applications for NCSA, and CJ6, at KAIA in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Supported an extremely complex Apache web server that used numerous load balanced Tomcat services and ODBC to pull together maps, data, and images, from many sources

Confidential

Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed a project to replace a physical server environment, for the ALTESS developer team, for all of that team's external customers
• Supported the entire Application Server Environment, from JBoss Middleware components to Operating System of both Virtual and Physical Windows Servers.
• Part of a Windows 2003 Server support team supporting several hundred Windows Servers including about one hundred virtual machines, at ALTESS Acquisition Logistics Testing Enterprise Systems and Services , at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Radford, VA.
• Using VMware vSphere 4.1, supported Cold Fusion 8 with SureSync, Citrix Bastion Host servers with Citrix Presentation
• Worked on programming language environment which supports scripts, programs written for a run time environment
• Worked in Project management life cycle, activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problems
• Server and a thin client Citrix environment
• Worked on WebCenter which is a unique and powerful web-based platform that manages packaging pre-production approval and project life cycle.
• Installed and configured a pre-STIGed Windows 2008 VM, running a Multi-Server instance of Cold Fusion 9, as a template, to clone 7 additional virtual machines so that several government customers could be transitioned to new hardware

Confidential

Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed various projects such as the one where I went through all steps to get almost all of San Antonio, TX. DISA's servers backing up, automatically, using Veritas Netbackup 6.5.3.1
• Built and secured STIGed servers to DOD standards with the DISA Gold Disk and Retina
• Administered over 50 of DISA's Dell and HP Windows 2003 web and database servers in an Active Directory development, development test and production test DOD network
• Worked with Tier 3 consultants to install, patch, upgrade, troubleshoot and utilize Java, Apache Tomcat , Business Objects BOXI , Oracle Enterprise Manager and Client, Loadrunner, Serena, Sybase SQL Anywhere, Infomaker, the sniffer Wireshark and other applications
• Worked with Microsoft to solve difficult DNS replication and DNS High Memory utilization issues
• Worked in Project management life cycle, activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problems
• IOCd domain controllers finalizing their operational status before handing them off to OKC DISA
• Supported the entire Application Server Environment, from JBoss Middleware components to Operating System of both Virtual and Physical Windows Servers.
• Created Lessons Learned documents and worked with McAfee, Symantec and HBSS

Confidential

Windows Systems Administrator

• Supported over 400 of the VA's Windows 2003 / 2000 servers using BMC Patrol, RDP and other technologies
• Created, and maintained, a web page for the 310 Wintel Support Group
• Worked on Web Center which is a unique and powerful web-based platform that manages packaging pre-production approval and project life cycle.
• Supported the entire Application Server Environment, from JBoss Middleware components to Operating System of both Virtual and Physical Windows Servers.
• Single point of technical support for 3rd shift on 2 days of the week
• QCd, and corrected, incomplete, or incorrect, server build documentation

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As the senior of two systems administrators, supported 50 mostly Windows 2003 servers for the world's largest training center, the Army Medical Department Center and School AMEDDC S , at Ft. Sam Houston, for the right hand of the G6 commander
• Managed most AMEDDC S server related projects including one where I worked with the junior administrator, one DOIM vertical blade server administrator, and two server design engineers, to spec out HP ProLiant BL200c vertical blade servers to replace all of the existing 50 AMEDDC S Dell servers
• Served as the senior technical liaison between AMEDDC S and Ft. Sam Houston DOIM personnel
• Worked on Web Center which is a unique and powerful web-based platform that manages packaging pre-production approval and project life cycle.
• After the junior systems administrator found another position, managed all 50 servers while training, and managing, both replacement, civil service, systems administrators
• Before the advent of AGM pre-STIGged OS images, pushed through both the securing, and CCB approval, for operational usage, of a war games analysis server in one week
• Supported Docuware, NREMT, LXR, NRI, Sybase, ASAT, Solaris 9, HP-UX, Informix, DMLSS, and Clustered Microsoft SQL 2000 2005 Servers
• Supported webmasters, .NET programmers, DBAs, IIS, clustered web SQL servers, and one, two node, SharePoint cluster
• Stopped a congressional investigation by signing, and taking responsibility, for, and working with the vendor to upgrade Docuware from 4 to 5 and thus securing TRADOC student school records after DOIM personnel locked that unsecure database down
• Recovered lost Sybase data when backed up data was unavailable
• Secured servers to Army, DISA DOD standards manually, and with Hercules and Retina Scans, in conjunction with IA and prepared some for AKO / SSO
• Moved, troubleshot, configured, and copied, a VMWare virtual server in support of DMHRSi and developers needing to harden web code after a primary web page was SQL injected hacked
• Presented my work, before the Change Control Board CCB , after security hardening the operating system, for the above server that was hacked, to allow it to go back into production in agreement with standard ITIL practices.

Confidential

MIS Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed all information systems including a Windows 2003 domain, with 26 mostly Windows Dell Compaq servers, 66 Cisco devices such as the 3550, 2950, etc. , a PIX 515E firewall, eWatch, LightSpeed, Ironport, Kronos 5.2 and Exchange 2003
• Created a technology plan for the school district
• Implemented WSUS DST patches and assisted with an implementation of SQL Server 2005
• Used MS Expression Web, Homesite Paint.net to create CrystalCityISD.net
• Supported Windows Vista, Windows XP, and desktop when needed
• Taught personnel webmaster skills with MS Expression Web Homesite