Help Desk Tech/System Administrator

COREY SOLANA

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CAREER OBJECTIVE

Recent college graduate with a BS in Computer Science, nine years of work in the information technology field and a veteran of the United States Air Force. Seeking to leverage acquired academic knowledge and work experience. A dedicated worker and self-starter who works great with a team or individually.

EDUCATION

University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX

BS in Computer Science, May 2017

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Non-Active TS/SCI

HANDS ON PROJECTS

Layered Pixel Animation Framework, UTRGV Senior Project

-JAVA and JAVAFX layer based pixel art creator and animator

Machine Learning to Face Recognition UTRGV Digital Image Processing

-Built using JAVA and the JAVA based OpenCV library to classify, train and ultimately “teach” the program to detect and identify single or multiple faces in a digital image

VacPack Student Planner UTRGV Senior Software Engineering Project

-Complete implementation of the software process (Planning, Requirements, Design, Implementation, Testing and Maintenance)

-Applied the Agile software process methodology with SCRUM

-Collaborative use of the Git/GitHub repository system

-Unit and Post-Unit testing

-Graphical User Interface Design using JAVAFX

-SQL backend for record storage

WORK EXPERIENCE

Isla Grand Beach Resort, South Padre Island, TX (Part time job to support myself through college)

Night Audit, Aug 2012– May2017

Prepare, analyze, and verify daily/monthly reports, financial statements, and other records (hotel capacity, avg. daily rate per unit), using accepted accounting and statistical procedures to assess financial condition and facilitate financial planning.

Greet, register, and assign rooms to guests of hotel. Keep records of room availability and guests' accounts, manually or using computers.

Perform book keeping activities, such as balancing accounts and conducting nightly audits.

Post charges, such as those for rooms, food, liquor, or telephone calls, to ledgers by using computers.

Data Systems Analysts, Fairfax, VA

Lead Specialist Engineer, Jan 2005 –Feb 2011

Responsible for the installation, integration, configuration, testing, and implementation of varied systems and applications on platforms including Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP and Sun Solaris 8.0.

Engineering and implementing messaging services for over 150 Defense Intelligence Agency organizations transitioning from legacy messaging solutions.

Engineered, installed and maintained the messaging and directory (LDAP) backbone for the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Service(DoDIIS).

Engineered and implemented the DoDIIS communities’ cross domain messaging solution (through the use of the BAE Systems High Assurance Guard), giving intelligence analysts the ability to generate and receive intelligence reports between disparate security domains.

Additional duties included the administration of the Northrop Grumman Decision Agent, a suite of software that includes MS Active Directory, MS Exchange2003, IIS, and MS SQL 2000

United States Air Force, Lackland Air Force Base, TX

Staff Sergeant (E-5), Aug 2000 – Jan 2005

Answer user inquiries regarding computer software or hardware operation to resolve problems.

Install and perform minor repairs to hardware, software, or peripheral equipment, following design or installation specifications.

Troubleshoot network or connectivity problems for users or user groups.

Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.

Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations.

Diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems.

Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures to protect data, software, and hardware.

Configure, monitor, and maintain email user agents

Train people in computer use

TECHINCAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows/Windows Servers family, Linux OS (Ubuntu, Susse), Sun Solaris

Experience using and administering various versions of MS Active Directory and MS Exchange

Proficient in the use of each of the MS Office suite products (Excel, Access, Word…)

Proficient in JAVA, C# and C++; Familiar with (Python, C, Ruby, JAVAScript)

SCM (Software Configuration Management with Git/GitHub)

Networking TCP/IP Stack

LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, RDP, ICA,SMTP

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