George S. Walker III

E – Mail: jhqicd@r.postjobfree.com; 757-***-****

Highly Motivated System/ Network Engineer

Security Clearances (NAC, Confidential)

A+ Cert, CompTIA

Windows Server 2003 Certified Professional,

Windows OS Advanced Administration Certified Professional

NASA Certified Linux/Unix Administrator

NASA Certified MS Windows 2K Pro and Server Administrator

NASA Certified NT Security System Administrator

UNIX Security System Administrator

Over 17 years of IT experience with an impressive track of system and network support.

Professional Profile

• Excellent team leadership, instructional, communication and interpersonal skills; effectively train, supervise and motivate operators; interface well with people of diverse levels, backgrounds and personalities. Work well independently or as productive team member.

• High level of accuracy with attention to detail. Career and goal oriented.

• Proficiency in system troubleshooting and problem solving; assist developers and engineers in resolving software and hardware problems in a timely manner.

• Extensive customer service background.

• Effectively prioritize a broad range of responsibilities to consistently meet tight deadlines.

• Demonstrated success in surpassing productivity and performance objectives.

• Consult, design, upgrade, maintain, and secure LAN/WAN/SAN networks.

• Create Risk management, Disaster Recovery, and Security plans that exceed Federal and State guidelines.

• Design, install, troubleshoot, and secure wireless networks.

• Implement back-up strategies and disaster recovery solutions.

• Configure Active Directory, Group Policies, and VPN’s for security and system efficiency.

• Upgrade and migrate workstations, servers and domain controllers.

• Design, install, and optimize video conferencing and VOIP networks

Technical Skills and Qualifications

Hardware: Dell\ HP\ IBM Servers, Cisco\ Cabletron Routers and Switches (6500, Lightstream , and 3500 series), SAN Library(IBM Shark, EMC CX, DMX series, and Hitachi HUSPV SAN), Cisco PIX(506 and 515), Exabyte Tape Backup systems (LTO, DLT), Blackbox Hardware, APS Symmetra UPS Systems, WAN devices and Cabling.

Operating System: (Red Hat ES/WS/AS, Mandriva, Slackware, FreeBSD, SUSE, Ubuntu) Linux, Windows, 2003/2008 Server (Advanced), 2000 server and workstation, XP, NT4, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris 2 thru 10, Mac OS 6 thru X.#, Z/OS and Novell.

Software: Apache, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SMS, MOM/SUS, SharePoint 3.0/2007/2008, MS Visual Source Safe, Citrix, Trend Micro AV products, MacAfee AV products, Symantec AV products, What’s Up Gold, Bindview Reporting Products, Nessus, ISS, Qualsys, Eclipse, Patch link, Altiris, Snort, Big Brother, Backtrack, Samurai, Nagios, ELM, Omniback/Data Protector, IBM SAN(TSM), EMC Networker, EMC Email Extender, EMC Documentum, VERITAS/Symantec(Netbackup, Storage Foundation, and VC) backup products and EMC Legato. PowerBuilder programming framework.

Network Experience(topologies and protocols): TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, OSPF, VPN, L2TP, PPTP, MS-CHAP v1/v2, RAID 5, LDAP, NetBEUI, RADIUS, SMTP, NWLink, NetBIOS, MPPE, DHCP, DNS, ATM,MPLS, OC3,T1/T3, DSL

Professional Experience

2010-2011 Federal Reserve Bank FRIT(APEX )

Richmond, Virginia EPM / Solutions Design Engineering - Build Engineer

Assisted team on the FRIT Two Factor Authentication project, Responsible for building server infrastructure for external and internal CRLs as well as helping define and resolve an “Pin prompt“ issue.

2009-2010 Cenveo\Cadmus (VACO Technologies)

Richmond, Virginia Data Center Lead Engineer

Operated and tuned UNIX and Microsoft-based related systems, servers, and related components to ensure high levels of availability and security of the supported business applications.

• Participated in and supported capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for UNIX and Microsoft-based systems and software in conjunction with end-users and department managers.

• Coordinated with network engineering, business application, and database administration functions to implement UNIX and Microsoft-based systems that utilize industry best practices to meet corporate objectives.

• Installed and configure UNIX and Microsoft-based systems and software.

• Released code and applications to production.

• Supported application development teams throughout project lifecycles.

• Implemented policies, procedures, and technologies to ensure UNIX and Microsoft-based system security through secure system access, monitoring, control, and routine security evaluations.

• Performed standard configuration, management, and maintenance tasks for related file systems, input/output systems, networking, clustering, storage, and applications.

• Performed and tested system configuration backups and restores to ensure system recovery from error or outage.

• Reviewed and deployed UNIX and Microsoft-based system releases and vendor-supplied patches according to company standards.

• Anticipated, mitigated, identified, and resolved hardware and software problems on all UNIX and Microsoft-based systems.

• Monitored, tested, and tuned system performance; preserve and provide system log files as needed.

• Recommended and execute modifications to UNIX and Microsoft-based systems in order to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance.

• Conducted research on UNIX and Microsoft-based hardware and software in support of procurement and system development efforts.

• Remained informed on laws, trends, and issues, including current and emerging technologies and best practices; advise, counsel, and educate executive and management teams on their relative importance.

• Ensured UNIX and Microsoft-based systems comply with policies, standards, licensing agreements, configuration guidelines, and best-practices for maintaining regulatory compliance.

• Ensured secure user access and role validation processes.

• Performed UNIX and Microsoft-based server/database transaction and security audits leading to identification and mitigation of security threats to enterprise data. Recommend and implement changes where necessary.

• Created required reports in response to business user needs.

• Created UNIX shell scripts.

• Developed, documented, and maintained UNIX and Microsoft-based system materials and systems documentation for IT staff.

2008-2009 State of Virginia (VITA/NG Partnership) – Department of Corrections

Richmond, Virginia Re-IP Transformation Systems Engineer/Team Lead

• Responsible for the cleanup, administration, security and maintenance of all servers supporting Department of Corrections.

• Documented the entire DOC network using the EMC network discovery ADM appliance along with manual discovery.

• Documented the structure and dependencies of the Department of Corrections’ “in house” applications.

• Interfaced with end - users and senior executives to resolve problems and improve the productivity, efficiency and quality of the Department of Corrections’ IT infrastructure.

• Discovered and helped to solve the bandwidth issues faced at the Department of Corrections.

• Moved all DMZ services for the Department of Corrections to the NG/VITA MPLS network.

• Support of High availability 24/7 production systems ( EMC SAN, VMS Mainframe)

• Led a team of three (Network, server, and security specialists) in transforming the Department of Corrections network to the MLPS network.

• Created a SPLUNK server to aid local administrators at Department of Corrections in troubleshooting server and network issues.

• Support of Dell and HP blade servers as well as Cisco equipment.

• Assisted security officers in obtaining needed exceptions to the standard policies of VITA/NG due to the agency’s role in public safety.

• Used security tools like Backtrack, Samurai, and Nessus along with administration tools from Solar winds to find weaknesses in DNS, Servers OS, and the network in general.

2007-2008 City of Richmond – Department of Information Technology

Richmond, Virginia Systems Engineer

• Responsible for the setup, administration, security and maintenance of both Linux, Unix, and Wintel Internet servers supporting City of Richmond applications and websites.

• System engineer supporting HP – UX, SUSE Enterprise systems and Windows 2003 systems.

• IIS and support of .NET Internet applications “in house” applications.

• Interfaced with end - users and senior executives to resolve problems and improve the productivity, efficiency and quality of the City of Richmond’s IT infrastructure.

• Support of the City of Richmond’s WSS 3.0 and 2007 SharePoint Farm.

• Moved all FTP services for the city to a cheaper outsourced web solution.

• Administered the City of Richmond’s Omni back /HP Data protector backup and recovery operations.

• Administered the City of Richmond’s IBM Virtual Tape Libraries.

• Support of High availability 24/7 production systems ( IBM SAN, Mainframe Z/OS, EMC DMX)

• Design of new backup system (Backup to Disk/Archive to Tape) which involved evaluating and being trained on solutions from EMC, Symantec, Hitachi, Netapp, and Overland.

• Support of Bind DNS servers.

• Support of Dell servers as well as Cisco GSS and CSS equipment.

• Assisted security officers in testing and evaluation of new application and network scanners for PCI compliance.

• Support of VM ware ESX3 environment. Conversion of old servers to new VM’s . Performance monitoring.

• Configured and administered Webtrends reporting system for the City of Richmond.

• Design and performance monitoring of various systems ( Windows 2K3, HP – UX, SharePoint server farms)

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2006-2007 Media General, Richmond, Virginia

Internet Systems Administrator

• Responsible for the setup, administration, security and maintenance of both Linux and Unix Internet servers supporting Media General applications and websites.

• System Administrator supporting Red hat Enterprise systems and Windows 2003 systems.

• Apache and support of Internet applications (Day, Morris, “in house” apps)

• Support of Coldfusion MX servers and applications.

• Support of High availability 24/7 production systems

• Support of Bind DNS, BEA Weblogic, Apache Tomcat, and IIS web servers.

• Support of Dell servers as well as Cisco GSS and CSS equipment.

• Support of Perl scripts and bash scripts.

2001-2006 NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Chincoteague Island, Virginia

IT Security/System Engineer/Task Lead

• Team lead for configuring and implementing network related issues.

• Support mixed mode environment with Linux, Mac OS X, Active Directory Administration for 300 to 500 users.

• Prepared monthly status reports and 6 month metrics for management reviews.

• Coordinated and supervised contractors when needed.

• Interfaced with users, engineers, technicians and senior executives to resolve and improve productivity, efficiency and quality.

• Created documentation on installs and troubleshooting for cross training.

• Nominated for the NASA Award of Excellence 2003, 2004.

• Task Lead for Wallops Engineering Services Contract (WESC) IT Support Services and IT Security for NASA’s Engineering and Suborbital and Special Orbital Projects directorates.

• Remained on call to diagnose and troubleshoot a broad scope of technical problems and played a key role in implementing plans for after hour issues.

• Responsible for all security data calls for Codes 500 and 800(Tiger Team).

• System Administrator for Wallops Flight Facility Web Servers

o Designed, installed, and administered secure web server farm for public and intranet access.

o Project consisted of implementing and designing Red Hat ES servers to meet security standards for federal agencies.

o Installed and configured Apache, PHP, MYSQL to meet security standards for federal agencies.

o Responsible for system backups and restores using Novastor Netbackup.

o Performed upgrades for server redundancy for disaster recovery.

o Scanned servers for security footprints using Nessus, ISS, and Sandcat Scanner.

o Reviewed server logs for intrusion attempts.

• System Administrator for Code 589(Wallops Systems Software Engineering Branch), Code 598(Guidance, Navigation, and Control and Mission Systems Engineering Branch), and Code 569(Wallops Electrical Engineering Branch).

o Migrated from NT 4 to Windows 2000 rollout project for servers, desktops, and laptops.

o Implemented the only independent W2K AD (apart from the overall Center Network Environment) for Code 589 (Wallops System Software Engineering Branch).

o Maintain and support 30 Windows 2k, 2003 and Linux servers for Wallops Flight Facility and remote sites.

o Implemented and designed Windows 2K, 2003 servers to meet security standards for federal agencies.

o Effectively met tight deadlines for standard remediation items for all codes.

o Installed and configured Windows 2003 AD server, IIS 5.0, and other services.

o Provided support for the overall NASA Windows XP Active Directory migration project.

o Applied policy and security changes to workstations and wireless devices.

o Configured and verified applicable McAfee anti-virus software on servers and workstations.

o 90% first case resolution

o Installed and configured wireless LAN for guest access and to meet federal guidelines.

o Made hardware/software recommendations with vendors for departments which resulted in cost savings.

o Setup test environment for new software and real time operating systems including QNIX, CCTK, Linux (Apache, PHP, PERL,, MYSQL), Borland Builder and Eclipse.

o Prepared monthly status reports for management views.

o Successfully documented and resolved single points of failure in critical areas.

o Responsible for system backups and restores using VERITAS backup products.

o Monitored, inventoried and deployed software to workstations and servers with Patchlink, SMS, and implemented Ticketing server for helpdesk calls.

o Configured printers, NAS devices, and installed environmental controls to meet federal security guidelines.

o Create Risk management, Disaster Recovery, and Security plans for Code 589.

• Developed Wallops Integrated Scheduling and Document Management System (WISDMS) used by Range and Mission Management Office for scheduling of all launches and missions, onsite and off; includes automated services, email notification, web page updates, scripts, report generators, database search engines, forms generator, workflow and import/export tools to meet and exceed NASA’s requirements.

o Designed a 16 server geosynchronous cluster system using Dell\HP servers and fiber channel backbone to 1 TB storage server.

o Provided Window cluster servicing for fault tolerance on critical database

o Installed and configured Apache and Microsoft IIS 5.0 to meet security standards for federal agencies.

o Made hardware/software recommendations with vendors for project which resulted in cost savings.

o Worked with Groveware developers to customize their software for NASA use.

o Performed XSLT/XML, PERL and LITEFEST tweaking as needed.

o Prepared daily reports for NASA and Contractor management.

o Create Risk management, Disaster Recovery, and Security plans for WISDMS.

o Implemented a secure design for extranet and intranet access to WISDMS.

• System Administrator for GPS (Global Positioning System), ULDB (Ultra Long Duration Balloon), WGO (Wallops Geophysical Observatory), ARISE, CREAM, SIPS, MVAT assorted DARPA, and RADAC (Radar And Data Acquisition Computing) projects.

o Configured and implemented VLAN configuration with Cisco 6200 switches for range closed network. This increased security and performance. (DARPA CSSQT projects)

o Assembled, configured and maintained 2 four- processor SGI Series 3000 development servers with Numaflex technology running CCTK software on IRIX 5.x. Configured the servers to supply radar data to six screen workstations via TCP/IP. (RADAC)

o Assisted in installing a Magnetometer with Linux data collection servers at a remote site. (WGO)

o Support mixed mode environment with Linux and Windows XP for approximately 20 users in Antarctica. (ULDB/CREAM)

o Effectively met tight deadlines for standard remediation items for all projects.

1996-2001 Winning Solutions, Chincoteague Island, Virginia

Sole proprietor

• Small Technical Support, DTP, CAD and multimedia business. Business provided LAN/Internet/Intranet solutions and technical support to over fifteen (15) local businesses and approximately 30 individuals.

• Clients included the Island Motor Inn, The Chincoteague Center, Sea Tag Lodge, BBSS, Refuge Motor Inn, and the Chincoteague Chamber of Commerce.

• Projects include: Upgraded the Best Buy of Salisbury, Maryland with a new IBM POS system (4 servers with 25 registers and kiosk), setting up a small LAN at the Chincoteague Chamber of Commerce with high-end printing capabilities, and a reservation system with Intranet at the Refuge Motor Inn.

1996-present Windwater Architects, Chincoteague Island, Virginia

Office Manager/Intern Architect

• Responsible for all drafting (CAD and renderings), construction documents and customer relations.

• Pioneered automation of common office tasks.

• Maintained a network of Macintoshes and NT servers.

• Trained the principle Architect on the use of Archicad.

• Projects included the Oyster Museum and many residential homes in the area.

1993-1995 NC A&T State University Industry Cluster, Greensboro, North Carolina

Database Administrator

1993 – 1994 North Carolina A&T State University SEC, Greensboro, North Carolina

Counselor, videographer

1993 Aetna Life & Casualty (UPS Division), Greensboro, North Carolina

Microfiche Clerk

Education

North Carolina A&T State University: Manufacturing Engineering

Computer Skills

Windows 95/98/XP Pro/W2k/W2K3 Expert Currently used 17 years

Mac Desktop support Intermediate Currently used 9 years

LAN administration Intermediate Currently used 10 years

Mac OS 6 – X(Panther) Intermediate Currently used 16 years

Unix (AIX , Berkley, HP-UX, Solaris, and IRIX ) Intermediate Currently used 8 years

Silicon Graphics Intermediate 3 years ago

MS Frontpage Intermediate Currently used 4 years

AutoCAD Intermediate 2 years ago 4 years

Intergraph Microstation Intermediate +4 years ago 2 years

Ideas Masters Series Intermediate +4 years ago 3 years

Lotus Notes Intermediate Currently used 3 years

Filemaker Pro Intermediate used 4 years ago

Microsoft Office Intermediate Currently used 11 years

Novell NetWare Intermediate 4 year ago 5 years

LINUX(Red Hat, Mandriva, Slackware, SUSE, Ubuntu, Solaris 10…) Intermediate Currently used 6 years

Photoshop Intermediate Currently used 7 years

Dreamweaver & Flash Intermediate Currently used 3 years

Hardware Troubleshooting Intermediate Currently used 17 years

Archicad Teamworks Intermediate Currently used 6 years

Access Intermediate Currently used 6 years

oracle 8 Intermediate Currently used 4 years

C-Language Intermediate 1 year ago 6 years

Java Intermediate Currently used 2 years

Help Desk Intermediate Currently used 11 years

CISCO routers, hubs, switches(2900 series, 6000 series, series),Intermediate Currently used 5 yr

PIX (509) , Intermediate Currently used 5 years

APC Symmetra UPS systems Currently used 6 years

IBM Shark, EMC CX, DMX series, and Hitachi SAN Currently used 2 years

IBM and HP Blade server experience Currently used 3 years

For positions that do not offer relocation please consider that I have established residences in the following cities: Negril, Jamaica W.I. - Canada - Richmond, Va. - Virginia Beach - Melbourne and Vero Beach, Fla. - Maryland and Washington, DC.

References

Mr. Rick Davis Chief Technology Officer, Department of Corrections, State of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219

Telephone: 804-***-**** ext.1788

Ms. Cherrey Wallace Information Security Officer, Department of Corrections, State of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219

Telephone: 804-***-**** ext.1788

Mr. Daniel McCrae Director of Systems Engineering, DIT, City of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia 23219

Telephone: 804-***-****

Mr. Jim Garner Systems Engineer, DIT, City of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia 23219

Telephone: 804-***-****

Mr. Brandon Jackson Internet Group, Media General

333 East Franklin St., Richmond, VA 23219

Telephone: 804-***-**** Email Address: jhqicd@r.postjobfree.com

Mr. Gerald W. S. Carter, Harrell & Chambliss LLP

Eighth and Main Building, 707 East Main St. Suite 1000, Richmond, VA 23219

Telephone: 804-***-**** Email Address: jhqicd@r.postjobfree.com

Mr. Tony Baldwin, Code 589(Wallops Systems Software Engineering Branch), Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia 23336

Telephone: 757-***-**** Email Address: jhqicd@r.postjobfree.com

Ms. Susan Semancik, Code 708(Wallops Information Technology and Communications Office), Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia 23336

Telephone: 757-***-**** Email Address: jhqicd@r.postjobfree.com

Mr. David Davis, Code 589(Wallops Systems Software Engineering Branch), Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia 23336

Telephone: 757-***-**** Email Address: jhqicd@r.postjobfree.com

Mr. Jim Frese, 3243 Eastside Drive, Chincoteague, Virginia 23336

Telephone: 804-***-**** Email Address: jhqicd@r.postjobfree.com

Laura Lintz, AIA (owner Windwater Architects), P.O. Box 946, Chincoteague, Virginia 23336

Telephone: 757-***-**** Email Address: jhqicd@r.postjobfree.com

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