Senior Systems Engineer

JOHN J. CONNOLLY

**** **** ******, ***********, ** 21228

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Technical Expert ~ Troubleshooter ~ Self-Starter

Dynamic professional possessing 24 years of system engineering, development, and administration expertise with commercial industry and the federal government sector. Mastered numerous computing and communication analysis platforms and state of the art technologies to ensure optimal business performance. Able to grasp the big picture and deliver complex, efficient and cost-effective technology solutions. Excellent communication skills, interacts easily with technical and non-technical staff, clients, and vendors. Accomplished team leader with established track record in designing and implementing technical solutions to enhance business productivity.

Specific Areas of Expertise:

System Strategy, Design, Engineering and Implementation, Troubleshooting and Problem Resolution,

Development & Expansion Project Management,

Quality, Performance & Productivity Improvement,

Installation and Build Technology Expert

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

- Managed large scale system deployments, integration, change and sustainment activities for massive, big data Department of Defense (DoD) systems across the globe. Kept systems operating at peak efficiency 24-hours-a- day, seven days a week with five nines (99.999%) operational efficiency per ITIL method. (DoD)

-Engineered dynamic I.T. global system processing solutions in support of Department of Defense missions. Each solution was architected weeks ahead of schedule saving large sums of money to the US investors. (DoD)

- Ensured optimum 24-hour I.T. business performance with managing completion of I.T. trouble tickets towards quickest resolution time and increasing maintenance turn-around efficiency by 25% daily. (DoD)

- Instituted immediate workarounds with detected telecommunication satellite asset anomalies for optimal operations. Efforts were instrumental in guaranteeing perfect yearly corporate award fees. (Lockheed Martin)

Exercised exceptional technical acumen to master the following technologies:

o Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, MS Server 2000/2003/2008/2012, Solaris, Red Hat and CentOS Linux 5/6/7, VMware ESXi & VCenter

o Telco/Networks/Protocols: Satellite transceivers, amplifiers, modems, GLIMMERGLASS optical switch, LASER 2000 optical amplifiers, TCP/IP, OSI model, UDP, Foundry, Juniper M7/M10i, CISCO Catalyst, DHCP, FTP, DNS, NTP, Samba, BGP, RIP, OSPF, LDAP, SCP, RSYNC

o Software (Network & Other): Microsoft Office Tools (Access, Visio, Project), What’s Up Gold tool, Big Brother, RH Satellite Server configuration, Foundry Ironview Manager, ClearCase, Clearquest, McAfee, Remedy, HP Performance Insight, Dell DRAC, HP iLO, PuTTY, PSCP, PFTP o Programming/DB: Visual Basic, VBA, Perl, Python, Visual C++/C#, JAVA, XML, HTML, Dreamweaver, Oracle 9/10g, Microsoft Access, Visio, Microsoft Studio 2010

o Product Skills: Dell Poweredge 1000/2000/R600/R700/R900, Fujitsu Computers (900, 2500), SGI (Altix 3700, 3500), AT&T 3B15’s, IBM AIX, HP 100/300 series, IBM Bladecenter H, Cisco Catalyst, Juniper, Avocent, NetAPP

o Certifications: ITIL v3, ITIL Foundations 2008, Fiber Optics 123 Installer, Light Brigade, 2012

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Department of Defense, Overseas Location 2013-Present

Senior Engineering Leader

-Engineered complex big data cloud architecture solutions; achieved operations weeks ahead of schedule

- Installed fiber optics technologies in large data center environment; ensured optimal network configurations

- Solved complex big data infrastructure system anomalies; ensured 999.999% system uptime efficiency

- System Deployment Lead for large systems in overseas data center using environmentally friendly practices

- Managed network access control lists (ACL) to ensure optimum network connects for approved systems

- Managed multi-million dollar funding in support of system deployments and technical personnel resourcing

- Team lead for 20 diverse system engineering/development teams; drew ten projects to a successful conclusion

- Configured operating system parameters for user environments using LDAP and Windows Active Directory

Department of Defense, Maryland 2006-2013

Senior Systems Engineer

- Mentored five person engineering team on critical I.T infrastructure operations in support of DoD strategies

- Collaborated with commercial partner teams on I.T. architecture designs to support customer strategies

- Researched technical material and advise on best use cases for funding customer infrastructure solutions

- Executed DoD purchase requests for state of the art technologies needed to support custom architectures

- Created Access database to provide first of its kind metrics capability to support large sum I.T. budgets

- Designed Microsoft VISIO layouts to provide first-of-its-kind visual orientation of wide area networks (WAN)

- Executed superior customer service with DoD I.T. asset management for 100% government audit accountability

CAREER HISTORY

Department of Defense Contract Support; Lockheed Martin, CTC, Advanced Concepts; 2001-2006

- Ensured 99% technical task order efficiency affording yearly, large sum government award fees to stockholders

U.S. Air Force; Honorable Discharge; Field Assignment Overseas (2 years) and Hawaii (3 years); 1991-2000

- Awarded two joint service commendations awards for superior service engaging with DoD civilian, contractor and military community

EDUCATION

Graduate Certificate, Foundations in Information Technology,2015

University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, 2002

Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, HI

Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S) in Communications Applications Technology, 1996

Community College of the Air Force, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL

REFERENCES

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