Edward Bosco

Mannington, WV *****

304-***-****

ad29q2@r.postjobfree.com

TECHNICAL LEAD, SYSTEMS ARCHITECT and SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Implementing systems using advanced computing technologies, dealing with several architectures, to create systems that are well documented and maintainable.

LinkedIn Site: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardbosco/

MCID:991280863

Current FRTIB High Risk Public Trust clearance; Prior Customs and Border Protection High Risk Public Trust clearance, Prior DOD Secret

Summary:

An award winning, highly recommended systems engineer with experience across automation, machine vision, real-time process control, neural networks, nuclear control rooms, robotics, embedded systems, networking and computer/systems security. Able to read, understand and create technical documents (specs, reqs, processes and test plans). BS in Physics from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Certifications / Clearances / Awards / Medals / Patents:

Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals – SC-900

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals – AZ-900

Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate – MS-700

CISSP, C EH, CompTIA Security + & RFID+, ITIL V3 Intermediate, DOD OPSEC level II certified, Amazon Web Services Technical & Business certifications, Unisys Stealth LAN solution certified, Certified for underground coal mine R&D work – Section 48.5; Current FRTIB High Risk Public Trust clearance, Prior DOD Secret; Westinghouse Special Service Award, Sevatec Operational Excellence Award, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal; Patent for “System and Method for Validating Radio Frequency Identification Tags” (USPTO # 7,561,022), Patent for “System and Method for Validating Radio Frequency Identification Tags” (USPTO # 7,420,457). Amateur General Class license

Skills:

-Analyst; Workflows and procedures

-Hardware and Software prototyping

-Small team leadership and first level management

-Project Salvage

-Full lifecycle solution knowledge

Projects:

(Oct 2016 – Jan 2023) Enterprise Iron Financial Industry Solutions Inc, Matawan, NJ

AD, VMware, BigFix, Zenoss, Splunk, Azure, O365, Teams, Intune, ServiceNow, PKI, OpenSSL, AAD, DNS, LDAP, SSO, RBAC, JIT role assignments, Zero Trust, Sensitivity Labels, DLP, Windows Server 2003/R2, 2008/R2, 2012/R2, 2016, Disaster Recovery; Tomcat; JBoss, SharePoint

Remote work for the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, helped maintain and secure the infrastructure for ~2500 desktops, ~450 servers, and ancillary equipment. Integrate and support Tomcat / JBoss installs. Support and configure z\OS Perl. Working with Azure / O365 since July 2020. Telephony and conference room work under Teams. Mass migrations from on-prem to cloud / SharePoint, Implement SSO, RBAC, DLP, AD revisions and reorganization. System admin, patching, creation of certificates / PKI, OpenSSL, work instructions and analysis.

(Mar 2016 – May 2016) WarCollar Industries, LLC, Vienna, VA

RMF, 800-53; 800-37; Ansible; Python; Git; GitHub; Asana; Slack; STIG; Red Hat 7; CentOS 7

Remote work for a US Intelligence Agency, participated in a short, high intensity project to create a self-healing intrusion-aware network of systems. As a team lead / assistant team lead designed and executed an Ansible implementation of the DISA beta Red Hat 7 STIG.

(Mar 2015 – Jan 2016) Reston Consulting Group, Reston, VA

Nagios; SNMP; Nessus; Nmap; Wireshark; Python; Red Hat server setup and admin (RH 4, 5 & 6); White papers / Analysis of Alternatives

For the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Cyber Security Center designed and implemented a Nagios monitoring system for the network infrastructure at NOAA. Won an Operational Excellence award in Nov 2015 for that work. Created a series of custom Nagios plugins to support McAfee Web Gateway monitoring among other plugins. Nessus vulnerability scanning; system patching and administration.

(Mar 2008 – Mar 2015) Unisys Federal Systems, Reston, VA

ITIL; Appian; SharePoint 2007, 2010; Red Hat server setup and admin; FTP under IIS and Server 2008 R2; Bugzilla; MySQL; OpenSSL; z\OS Top Secret LDAP, Wireshark; network tools; Tivoli; Remedy; LDAP Identity management; Apache; Tomcat; JBoss; Mod_Perl; PHP; PERL; HTML; FileZilla; Wiki; Unisys Stealth, Procedures design and Knowledge Management.

For the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) / Land Border Integration (LBI) project, helped create the Appian BPM tools used to track construction and installation of the sites. Administered the Red Hat 5.2 servers that host Appian, and administered the Appian suite. Specified the servers and hardware that implemented the first pass of the WHTI infrastructure, and was SSO for the CTLF server installation. Helped create the VPIM software for the lane security computers, developed LDAP Apache 2.2 routines and mod_perl and PHP extensions that access z/OS CA Top Secret LDAP on the LSCs. Currently senior staff in the Operations and Maintenance section that maintains the ~480 WHTI sites, performing root cause analysis of failures and configuration control and extension of the O&M tools. Utilize Remedy and Tivoli in handling tickets and patches. Setup the Bugzilla bugtracking system; implemented and admin a SFTP server under IIS on Windows 2008 Enterprise server. Created and distributed common setups under FileZilla for accessing that site across the several corporate partners in WHTI / LBI. Designed and implemented an Operations and Maintenance Standard Setup under SharePoint. This distributed collaborative document and tool store supports COO and contains Wikis for short HowTos, the patches to be applied, and the documentation, procedures and tools that aid O&M personnel in installing and maintaining the WHTI system. This SharePoint site also contains the O&M internal procedures as well. Selected for Unisys Leadership school (LEAP-3), finishing on 5 January, 2011. Board member Unisys c-ESP Enterprise Security group. Operations Security SME.

(Feb 2007 – Jan 2008) Extreme Endeavors Consulting, Philippi, WV

Hardware / Software prototyping, C, ARMv5TE, PIC, TightVNC, LabView 8.1, Matlab 8.1, Excel 97, Word 97, VMWare server, Scratchbox, NFS shares, Debian Linux, Windows XP, networking, active and passive 900 MHz RFID tag selection and configuration.

Designed and created a Data Acquisition System for a Chemical Safety Board investigation using LabVIEW 8.1 and created custom electronic circuitry to acquire pressures, temperature and flow. Specified and ordered sensors. Utilized TightVNC to display the DAS procedure real-time for lawyers and professional witnesses. Designed and created a Coal Miner Tracking system using an ARMv5TE processor running Debian Linux. Interfaced 3-axis inertial tracker, RFID reader and Pressure/Temperature module with C in a Scratchbox cross-compilation environment, using NFS shares on a Debian Linux platform under VMWare on a Windows XP host. Conceived an innovative use of ceiling-attached RFID tags to recalibrate the inertial tracker within the mine. Analysis of results via MATLAB 8.1 and Excel. Designed new enclosures and modified existing PIC C code for an in-cave data acquisition system. Produced multiple proposals and sales presentations; certified for underground coal mine R&D work.

(Jul 2004 – Nov 2006) ProLogic, Incorporated, Fairmont, WV

Debian Linux, MS 64 bit Enterprise server 2003 setup and admin, TikiWiki CMS, Confluence CMS, Bugzilla, SAN configuration and admin, Subversion setup and admin, Eclipse, Perl, PHP, Apache, VC++ V6.0, MFC, HTML, Wireshark, Nessus

For NASA, helped architect and design the infrastructure for a distributed spacecraft simulation environment. Created the collaborative web site for the REATSS project, specifying and implementing the TikiWiki Content Management System, Subversion Source code control and BugZilla issue tracking. Specified, ordered and built the REATSS Proof of Concept Server hardware. This implemented both rack and blade 8-way Opteron servers under Debian Linux Testing and Windows 64-bit Enterprise Server 2003 servers. Implemented hardening, firewall and backup for these systems. These systems tie to a 3 Terabyte SAN, which I also specified and integrated. Created custom, distributed models for tracking Space Trash and RF / Optical link modeling. Produced both internal and external reports, studies and analyses.

(Dec 2003 – Jul 2004) Guilford Gravure, Guilford, CT

Passive 900 MHz RFID tag selection and configuration; Hardware / Software prototyping; Rabbit embedded computer boards, C, assembler, MySQL, ODBC, Access 97, Word 97, Excel 97

Designed, developed and implemented a RFID tag inspection system. Two US Patents (USPTO 7,561,022 and 7,420,457) were awarded for a method developed for testing individual RFID tags. This method implements real-time interrogation and inspection of single RFID tags, interfacing to MySQL and Access databases. The method and hardware / software developed is currently in use at Perdue Pharma for OxyContin / FDA traceability and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals for Viagra / FDA traceability.

(Dec 2001 – Aug 2003) Virtual Devices, Inc, Pittsburgh, PA

Hardware / Software prototyping; VC++ 6.0, Assembler, VB, PDS 7.0, DOS 6.22, Win98, Win NT; EPP, PCI driver creation and debug

Designed, developed, and implemented a projected Virtual Keyboard. Created machine vision drivers, GUI and demo code under VC++ 6.0, VB and PDS 7.0; DOS 6.22, Win 98, Win NT platforms; EPP and PCI bus custom driver creation, configuration and analysis.

(Jul 2001 – Oct 2001) Lockheed-Martin, Blairsville, PA

Win NT, MySQL, Oracle 8.1, database prototyping, Excel 97, Word 97, ETL

Created an architecture for a land-based data warehouse for US Navy battlegroup system and ship's status data. This system used local distributed sensors within a destroyer or cruiser, and transferred that information to an aircraft carrier, which would further feed that information to a land-based data repository for further analysis. Ultra Wide Band communications were used between ships; a given ship's captain can see the historical data for their vessel. Became familiar with the Aegis Combat System and typical IT architecture of current naval vessels. This was a prototype and test probe for the systems to be incorporated with the DDX; further work delayed by 9/11.

(May 2000 – Apr 2001) Alstom / Bayside Automation, Canonsburg, PA

Project Salvage; Hardware / Software prototyping; VC++ 6.0, MFC, Assembler, Word 97, Excel 97, SQL server, SourceSafe, CVS, PLC programming, ODBC

Led a project salvage effort to resolve a 350 node Sewage Monitoring and Control System for the City and County of Philadelphia. The project was in process for six years. Assembled a team and finished the project in a year's time. Utilized static and dynamic code validation tools to clean the existing code base.

(May 1998 – Apr 2000) USAirways, Pittsburgh, PA

VC++ 6.0, Assembler, Word 97, Excel 97, Access 97, SQL server, SourceSafe, CVS, OS/2, Unix, Airline LOF and Operations, FTP

Performed Y2K remediation and helped create the software packages that shutdown the airline in case of snow or emergency. This software was utilized in shutting down flight operations in the wake of 9/11. Responsible for the Operation Control Center Situation Room hardware and software, and received recommendations for that work. Utilized static and dynamic code validation tools to clean the existing code base.

Additional Experience

-Metals Industry automation – Hot Strip, Cold Strip, Slitter, Blast Fce, Reheat Fce, Rail Mill, Forge

-Hard realtime process control and communications

-Robotics and motion control

-Machine vision system and algorithm design, structured lighting design and specification

-Nuclear Control room automation

-Cybersecurity Training for Industrial Control Systems (Oct 2015)

-Software Engineering Institute training at the SEI, Pittsburgh, PA

Information Security for the Technical Staff

Introduction to the P-CMM

Concepts and trends in Information Security

Software Architectures in Practice

COTS-Based systems for Program Engineers

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