IT Operations, Security, and Networking Professional
Professional Profile
An innovative IT leader with a proven track record of supporting diverse
computing environments, and improving both customer and employee
satisfaction with technical innovation and communication.
Industry Credentials
TS/SCI/FS-POLY IT Security ITIL v3
Certified
Experience and Accomplishments
Enterprise IT Integration: BAE SYSTEMS 2008 - May
2013
Promoted to technical manager of a new BAE-IT Integration Facility in
Herndon Virginia. Responsible for standup of new facility and oversight-
delivery of integration products, programs and projects (nearly $30M yearly
IT Inventory and service delivery task orders) to multiple customers;
including but not limited to: Configuration and Asset Management of all
customer inventory, order processing, financial control processes and
procedures, and successful completion of integration and deployment of
systems.
Accomplishments
Led critical infrastructure and facility upgrades to support new IT /
Datacenter requirements.
Successful Oracle to DELTEK consolidation and migration of inventory and
material management system. Integral member of transition team which
consolidated multiple integration facilities, and inventories to one
central location.
Became local go to expert for IT financial control processes, audits,
compliance and import/export control.
Served on Enterprise Architectural Team. Responsible for Active Directory,
Unix platform integration, Enterprise Computing and Desktop Distribution.
Technical Lead for Centralized Facility supporting both Internal and
External customers.
CISCO VOIP, WAN / LAN / Wireless installations and upgrades
Assembly and Manufacturing of cross-domain data servers
Installation, configuration of Enterprise Servers and Network Storage
Devices
Imaging of workstations and desktops
Notable Awards and Recognition
Facility awarded successful re-compete of two key long standing customer
projects.
Integration Facility nominated for chairman's award for enhancement of
corporate and customer service.
Nominated by peers to be Site Executive for Safety, Health, Business
Continuity and Emergency Response and Preparedness Team.
Enterprise IT Support: BAE SYSTEMS 2001 -
2008
Technical and project/program lead for support services across multiple
business units in a matrix organization supporting over 700 customers at 3
different sites. Established clear, definable, repeatable processes and
procedures; identified and incorporated new technologies into the
organization's standardized support infrastructure; obtained executive buy-
in and built successful teams which helped enable the customer to win new
business.
Accomplishments
One of first three sites to implement Cisco VoIP with shared directory
lookups.
First non-outsourced site to implement Microsoft Windows Security Update
Services to all laptops, desktops and servers.
First site to automate backup and restore policy for all laptops resulting
in average yearly cost savings of $10,000 to $15,000.
Successfully coordinated regional merger and acquisition activities
including building moves and integration of infrastructures and data
centers with no interruption of services.
Installation/Configuration and Management of enterprise level MS Exchange,
SharePoint and Active Directory
Established site specific Business Continuity Plans (BCP), processes and
procedures based upon organizational goals and requirements.
Integral member of a successful Nation-wide Exchange upgrade and multiple
windows OS upgrades
Notable Awards and Recognition
Exceeded tier two and tier three customer satisfaction service level
agreements (SLA) every year.
Support team nominated for "delighting the customer" annual awards.
Cross functional IT team awarded Chairman's Bronze Award for Innovation and
Implementation - "Enabling the workforce and collaboration initiatives".
Designated Regional Resource Manager for corporate Project Management
Office (PMO).
Designated local POC for all incident response activities.
Additional Professional Experience and Career Accomplishments
Managed Security Center: VeriSign, Inc. 2000 -
2001
Team Member and Shift Supervisor of Verisign's first managed service center
which utilized Tivoli Enterprise Suite, Checkpoint Firewall ISS and Nokia
network security devices.
Nokia and Checkpoint Firewall Configuration, Installation, and Management.
Windows, Linux, Unix, server and database monitoring and management
Installation and monitoring of IDS
Management of Secure VPN and PKI infrastructure.
Designed, configured and implemented customer firewalls, monitoring
devices, secure VPN tunnels and PKI certificates.
Responsible for management of customer security devices and firewalls,
WAN/LAN and server availability from 24x7x365 centralized managed service
center.
Met all reporting requirements of customer Service Level Agreements
performance matrices.
Network Operations: Sherikon, Inc.
1998 - 2000
Network Manager responsible for the operational management of an 800
employee, 12 office national consulting company and IT infrastructure.
Successfully completed corporate wide Y2k, Novell and GroupWise upgrades on
time and under budget.
Reduced operational and maintenance costs by standardizing to CISCO based
WAN / LAN infrastructure.
Integration and Consulting: IMCI, Inc. 1996 -
1998
Technical team and project lead for multiple integration and consulting
projects.
Appointed Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for successful
implementations of customer enterprise networks and management systems
utilizing CiscoWorks, Concord E-Health, HP OpenView, Microsoft Exchange and
SMS.
Systems Administration: GMSI, Inc.
1994 - 1996
Helpdesk and Systems administrator for 2000 plus government user network.
Promoted to task lead for nation-wide Microsoft SMS implementation project.
Redesigned data traffic analysis and monthly reports to customer resulting
in over 50% improvement in time to completion and improved reporting
accuracy due to incorporating historical trend analysis.
Novell and 3D computerized academic lab administrator: Georgetown Univ.
1992 - 1994
Listed as Co-Author on Chairman's research paper for my work with tissue
preparation, electron microscopy and photographic presentation of results.
Education
Guilford College, Greensboro, NC B.S. Biology 1984
Additional Courses and Certification Training:
CISSP #81559 September 2005, BAE Project Management and PMP Study, Novell
CNA, Checkpoint CCSA, VeriSign PKI Training, MS Exchange Administration, MS
SQL Administration, HP OpenView, CiscoWorks, Systems Development Life
Cycle.
Competent Technologies:
Cisco VoIP, Call Manager, Unity
Cisco LAN/WAN Switching and Routing
SAN technology and Management
Virtualization Technologies
Network Management Systems NMS
Enterprise Management and Security, HP Openview, ArcSight, SMS, WSUS
Linux, Unix, MS Active Directory
MAXIMO, Remedy, Microsoft SQL, Exchange and SharePoint Server
Organizations and Associations:
International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2
Information Systems Security Association - ISSA
Project Management Institute - PMI
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEEE