Engineer Engineering

Randolph Houston

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Home Phone: 703-***-**** Home Fax: 540-***-****

Email: ***************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Mr. Houston has 30 years of experience in systems engineering, administration, and information

technology, including being the team lead of the Office Network Support teams responsible for operations

and maintenance of Windows NT and Lotus Notes domains. He also has a vast amount of experience

administering and engineering Lotus Notes networks running Release 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and Notes/Domino 8.

Experience administering Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

L-3 STRATIS June 2012 – Present

Reston, Virginia

Senior Systems Engineer

Mr. Houston currently works in the Collaborative Services Engineering Branch (CSEB) as a Senior Systems

Engineer. He is responsible for maintaining the current Notes/Domino environment which includes server

monitoring, resolving mailfile and database issues, resolve mail routing and replication issues, just to name a few.

Ramping up to speed on the new MS Exchange environment as well. He assists with the user transition and

troubleshoots user/systems issues in both environments at the tier 3 level.

Houston Technology Solutions Inc May 2010 – November 2011

Stafford, Virginia

Senior Lotus Notes Engineer

Mr. Houston worked in the Applications Development Branch (ADB) as their sole Lotus Notes engineer. He

designed, developed and engineered Domino solutions for ADB. He worked with various branches to get new

servers into the environments and ensured that the servers were delivered according to specifications. He also

was responsible for moving databases from development to the production environment. This included submitting

Change Requests (CR) and DNS requests as well as signing agents and modifying ACLs. Depending on the

complexity of the databases, this process could be timely so he kept the developers informed every step of the

way.

Houston Technology Solutions Inc November 2008 – April

2010

Stafford, Virginia

Senior Lotus Notes Engineer

Mr. Houston supported a Agency’s Technical Center as a Senior Lotus Notes Engineer. He lead the engineering

efforts to collapse the Domino domains from 5 to 1 as well as upgraded the servers and clients from version 6.5.4

to 7.0.2. He installed and configured GroupShield (antivirus) across the enterprise as well as setup other

programs to ensure that the servers were operating at peak performance. He also installed ND 8.0.1 with

Sametime in a test environment so that the other admins and developers could familiarize themselves with the

new enhancements and features. There were 2 junior admins on the team and Mr. Houston worked with them on

a daily basis to teach them more about the Notes/Domino application.

Houston Technology Solutions Inc October 2004 – October

2008

Stafford, Virginia

Senior Lotus Notes Engineer

Mr. Houston supported the Open Source Center, OPS Engineering Team as a Senior Lotus Notes Engineer. He

designed, developed and engineered the efforts to upgrade all Lotus Notes clients and Domino servers from R5 to

ND6 in the SUN enterprise. He also implemented AdminP and ADSync which are two tools that allow the System

Admins (SAs) to complete their admin tasks more efficiently. In addition to the other Notes/Domino engineering

tasks, Mr. Houston worked closely with the SAs as they support the day to day operations of the Notes/Domino

environment.

Houston Technology Solutions Inc March 2002 – September

2004

Stafford, Virginia

Senior Lotus Notes Engineer

Mr. Houston supported the Agency’s Notes Team, Collaborative Services Engineering Branch (CSEB) as a Senior

Lotus Notes Engineer. He was the lead engineer of the new ICE-mail system that was responsible for delivering

messages to various organizations in the Intelligence Community. His Domino expertise and knowledge were

used on several other projects such as Hierarchical Naming Convention (HNC) and Mail Template Upgrades just

to name two. Other duties included being responsible for investigating problems and providing technical expertise

on the Agency’s Domino server infrastructure.

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Houston Technology Solutions Inc April 2000 – February 2002

Stafford, Virginia

Senior Lotus Notes Engineer

Mr. Houston supported the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) SCI Consolidation Program as the

Senior Lotus Notes Engineer. He was responsible for engineering, designing, and implementing the entire Lotus

Notes domain for NIMA. In addition to his engineering efforts, Mr. Houston orchestrated the movement of 1500+

Lotus Notes accounts and 100+ databases from the NIMA network to the new Common Workgroup Environment

(CWE) environment.

BAE Systems September 1994 – March

2000

McLean, Virginia

Senior Systems Analyst

Mr. Houston supported the BAE's Operations and Maintenance contract for NIMA at the Washington Navy Yard.

He was the functional area manager of the Office Network Support LAN teams that provided operations and

maintenance support for Windows NT, MACs, and Lotus Notes computer systems used by the imagery analyst

and the support staff. The Intelink team provided systems and database administration, and applications

integration and development support to the NIMA Intelink Production Coordination Center. The ILS team supported

the integration of the integrated library system into the NIMA libraries.

Electronic Data Systems November 1992 – August

1994

McLean, Virginia

Systems Engineer

Mr. Houston performed daily LAN administrator tasks. He added and deleted users, viewed console logs, and

conducted system backups. He installed new client/server products for test and evaluation and performed

upgrades of existing packages on the network. He installed, configured, and troubleshot the Lotus Notes servers

and Soft'Switch Lotus Notes gateway.

White House Communications Agency February 1987 – October

1992

Washington, DC

Supervisor

Mr. Houston directed the daily activities of the network systems section and managed the first agency-wide

Ethernet LAN. He procured and configured hardware and software, and he researched and developed new

products. He traveled to remote locations worldwide to provide data communications support to the President of the

United States and his staff. As the office automation administrator, Mr. Houston supervised a three-person team in

the administration of two high-level E-mail systems supporting the White House staff. He developed training plans

and served as the primary trainer for all E-mail customers to the level of the National Security Advisor to the

President.

Department of the Army January 1984 – January

1987

Oberursel, West Germany

Programmer/Analyst

Mr. Houston directed the daily programming activities including creating and maintaining COBOL application

systems. He designed, developed, coded, tested, and implemented structured COBOL programs to track

equipment and cargo entering the European Theater. He maintained the air cargo system that provided vital cargo

statistics to the command. He created systems functional descriptions through analysis and design procedures.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Training and Other Courses:

• Configuring, Managing and Troubleshooting MS Exchange Server 2010 (February 2013)

• IBM Lotus Domino 8 System Administration Bootcamp (June 2008)

• Government - Industry Project Management Course

• Lotus Notes courses (Technical User, Application Development I and II, Systems Administration I

and II)

• Primary Leadership Development Course

• Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course

REFERENCES

Excellent references available upon request.

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