Eli Adams
Waltham, MA ***** • 260-***-**** • *****.****@**********.***
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Raytheon Technologies, Tewksbury, MA 2019-present
Network Engineering Manager II (Assigned to RMD, Tewksbury) (2020- present)
• Leads 15 professional network engineers across 4 states
• Maintains network projects that support development of various products within Raytheon
• Maintained budget to support the replacement of end of life devices across all sites.
• Managed customer relationships for various mission areas to facilitate better communication and workflow. Principle Network Engineer (Assigned to RMD, Woburn) (2020- 2020)
• Supported various classified information systems to help facilitate engineering and design work on Raytheon projects.
• Worked with labs and customers to provide a product that was both secure, cost efficient, and streamlined.
• Maintained STIG compliance for lab networks
• Maintaining Top Secret clearance
Senior Systems Engineer II (Assigned to Kessel Run, USAF) (2019-2020)
• Technical lead for design and implementation of state of the art global black core network o Design was focused on implementing SD-WAN infrastructure from Juniper Networks. o Managed customer relations both in KR and external stakeholders
• Provided oversite of LAN & WAN security for ISSM at KR o Performing internal penetration tests and security perimeter assessments o RMF NIST 800-53 was used primarily, but ISO 27001 was referenced as well.
• Suggested and implemented technical plans to mitigate work from home slowdown for users during the initial stages of COVID-19.
Joint Special Operations Command (ON B E H AL F O F SalientCRGT), Fayetteville, NC 2016-2019 Senior Network/ Systems Engineer
• Technical site lead at data transit hub site
• Site manager for 5 contractors
o Career planning and development / Mentoring
• Managing design and buildout of new data transit hub site o Consisting of ~50 classified networks from ~20 different foreign countries o Designing new black core network and datacenter for unattributed networks o Implemented solutions that used open source and COTs solutions to help reduce costs and streamline projects.
• Directed and helped in baselining and SITG compliance Network/ Systems Engineer II
• Built new primary data transit hub and data storage/compute site o Consisting of networks from black core (transit network) to top secret o Backbone network relied on Ethernet, Line of Site, and GEO and MEO Satellite solutions.
• Suggested and submitted for review methods of procedure (MOP) documents for changing of network devices once stood up
• Participated in reviewing of (MOP) documents to support flawless network operations.
• Helped develop baselining documents to gain DISA SITG compliance for CCRI Windstream Communications, Little Rock, AR 2015-2016 2
Network Engineer II
• Developed MOP documents to support service provider network changes within Windstream’s Regional Network o Network was located in 26 states with ~1 million customers
• MOP review and change requests as needed to support 99.999% uptime
• Configured and worked remotely on routers and switches supporting major metropolitan SONET rings o Dallas, TX
o Minneapolis, MN
o Charlotte, NC
U.S. Army (Arkansas National Guard), Little Rock, AR 2009-2018 35M Human Intelligence Collector (2009-2018)
• Facilitate training of new interrogators consistent with Geneva Convention Law of Land Warfare o Developed a training plan for soldiers for pre-deployment operations
• Deployed to Kosovo in support of Joint Peace Keeping Mission (KFOR) o Managed human sources and collections to support command directed requirements o Managed about 6 sources
o Managed and worked with 2 Romanian Intelligence Collectors o Generated detailed reports based on intelligence collected during source meetings o Briefed Command element on source collections and plans for collection in the future. o Briefed and reviewed other teams sources at source review boards
• Facilitated language training for soldiers returning from language training
• Managed physical fitness training for company of soldiers
• Top Secret Clearance (Active
2010 – Current)
• Cisco CCNA
• Cisco CCNP (Ongoing)
• Security +
C LE A R A N C E & C ER T I F I C A T I O N S
• Cisco CCNA – Security
• Project +
• LPIC-1 (Linux +)
• LSI Scientific Content Analysis
• LSI Scientific Content Analysis - Advanced
• Basic Open Source Intelligence
• Certified Interrogator
T EC H N I C A L S KI LL S
Routers: Cisco ASR & ISR Juniper MX Alcatel Lucent Redback Switches: Cisco Catalyst & Nexus Juniper EX HP Calix C5/7 & E5/7 Firewalls: Cisco ASA Palo Alto PFsense Suricata Wireless: Cisco access points; WLAN controllers; WCS; Unifi DD-WRT Collaboration: Cisco Call Manager, Unity, phones & video codecs Protocols +: EIGRP, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, ATM, PIM, IGMP, MPLS, DMVPN, IPSEC, 802.1x, VPN, HSRP, GLBP, VTP, STP, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, DNSSEC, TACACS+, RADIUS, IPv6, QoS, SNMP, 802.11a/b/g/n, MQTT
Programming: Python, Java, NodeJS, SQL, NoSQL, Bash OS & other: MacOS Windows (10, Server) Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, Kali, Alpine) VMware vCenter (6, 6.5, 6.7, 7) Docker/Kubernetes IoT OpenVPN Wireguard E DUC AT I O N
• Cochise College Associates in Applied Science Intelligence Operations Studies GPA 3.75
• Western Governors University Bachelor of Science Information Technology – Security Emphasis
• Northeastern University Master of Science Cybersecurity