Network Engineer Cyber Security

Toye Frank Moss Jr.

Homer, New York *****

Clearance: TS/SCI Cleared

Education:

BS Degree, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, City College of NY New York, NY United States, Bachelor's Degree

MS Degree, Systems Science/Engineering, SUNY, Binghamton, Watson School of Engineering Binghamton, NY, Master's Degree

Work Experience

GE Vernova

April 2023 – present

Sr. Cyber Security andNetwork Engineer

Work as a key member of an Integrated Project Team with key network and cybersecurity responsibilities out of Niskayuna, NY.

Conducted site surveys of the location GE New York locations in preparation for the separation of GE into three distinct parts: Aerospace, Vernova and Healthcare. Created and reviewed detailed plans/diagrams of the GE network system so the separation of communication systems for backhaul and delivery of Cybersecurity and Network systems would mesh well during the split of companies. Provided a preliminary design for the main Telecommunications Rooms (TR) for the proposed site that included Long-haul Telecommunications equipment, rack space, power, grounding/bonding, Inside and Outside plant infrastructure.

Constructed detailed engineering design plans for the split methodically. Designed Telecommunications Room to ensure redundancy of long-haul transport communications lines entering the site from both Easterly and Westerly penetrations of the facilities.

Conducted visits to Fixed Station Research Facilities stations in Greenland and the United Kingdom to ensure these key locations were backed into the design. Program Virtual Server to act as a Zero Touch Provisioning platform to provide a source to push IP addresses and an initial configuration to connected switches on the network.

Run Ansible scripts on connected systems and review results to ensure systems have the correct Cyber configurations/hardening set for cutover. Expertly use WinSCP to move documents between the physical and virtual environments as required by Ansible scripts

Manually upgrade and configure switches that are not reachable by the configuration server using Command Line Interface and Linux commands where required. Participate in System Acceptance Testing for newly stood-up. Create detailed Method-of-Procedures (MOPs) to document the process for all technical processes that are repeatable to ensure continuity across the network.

Cayuga Medical Center

August 2021 – April 2023

Network Engineer Ithaca, NY

Directly supports the Cayuga Medical Center with planning, engineering, and prep for implementation of Juniper Routers/Switches using the Juniper MIST Dashboard.

Conduct site surveys of Telecom closets in preparation for installation of Juniper Network equipment.

Provide technical leadership and engineering direction to our project team for creation of Engineering Installation Plans (EIPs) for new installs, upgrades, and add-ons to the Cayuga Medical Center networks throughout the Central New York region.

Conducts expert use of the Zero Touch Provisioning process to add and configure Juniper routers and switches to the Juniper MIST cloud-based management system.

Configures and maintains Juniper switch Virtual Chassis (VC) configurations for up to a 10 VC stack.

Train technical staff in the use of modern cell phone applications that allow for loading of Juniper hardware up to the Juniper MIST cloud-based system for ease of configuration and management.

Work with the Juniper Network Personal Assistant Artificial Intelligence interface for determination of root cause during system outages.

US Army Cyber Command

November 2018 – July 2021

Electronics Engineer

Wiesbaden Germany

Directly supports the 2nd Signal Brigade S-3 Engineering branch with planning, engineering, and prep for implementation of robust and secure IP Network systems that service the United States Army Europe (USAREUR), United States European Command (USEUCOM), United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM) and the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) war-fighting missions.

Conduct site surveys of Technical Control Facilities (TCF), Global Information Grid (GIG) locations, Army facilities, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization facilities (NATO) in preparation for installation of Army IP Network equipment.

Provide technical leadership and engineering direction to our project team for creation of Telecommunications Site Implementation Plans (TSIPs) or Engineering Installation Plans (EIPs) for new installs, upgrades, and add-ons to the Army or NATO networks throughout the European and Southwest Asia theatres.

Load, implement, troubleshoot and document procedures for General Dynamics IP Encryption devices for setup of SIPR and Mission Partner Environment (MPE) services to Army and NATO locations throughout the European and Southwest Asia theatres.

Lead a team of technical professional installers to sites throughout the European and Southwest Asia theatres and install called out and pre-configured IP network equipment and bring up secure tunnels for Army NIPR, SIPR and MPE services.

Conduct Site Surveys of Fire Prevention suites throughout the Army Europe region and provide key data in the form of detailed diagrams and equipment list to transition from existing serial interface (circuit to packet legacy black-box solutions) to an all-Ethernet solution. This includes Fire Prevention security information and event management (SIEM) interface systems integration and tail-end circuit implementation, last-half-mile, assistance

Defense Information Systems Agency

May 2007 – November 2018 (11 yrs.)

Electronics Engineer

Fort Meade, MD

Directly supported the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Engineering branch with planning, engineering, and prep for implementation of robust and secure transport systems, networks and services that support DISA, United States European Command (USEUCOM), United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM), United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM), United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE), United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) and the Missile Defense Agency.

Provided critical thinking and technical expertise to our DoDIN (Department of Defense Information Network) customers with an engineering plan to access DISA's communication superhighway to include hardware, software, interface and bandwidth possibilities.

Worked as a Senior Electronics Engineer for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Europe and a key communications mission partner to the Navy in support of the rollout of an Aegis Ashore Ballistic Missile Defense Systems (BMDS) in Eastern Europe.

Provided technical leadership and engineering direction to our contractor project team for creation of Telecommunications Site Implementation Plans (TSIPs) for new installs, upgrades, and add-ons to DISA's networks throughout the US, European and South West Asia theatres in support of critical Missile Defense Agency customer hardware testing and implementation.

Conducted site surveys of Technical Control Facilities (TCF) and Global Information Grid (GIG) locations in preparation for installation of DISN Core on-ramp equipment.

Prepared drafted documents, Site Concurrence Letters/ Memorandums of Agreements for TCF/GIG buy-in of Engineering/Installation plans that included site responsibilities for rack space preparation, power, cooling/air conditioning systems, cable runs and grounding requirements. Prepared briefs, presentations, action items responses, information papers and monthly readiness/availability reports for presentation to the customer.

Worked as a communications key mission partner to the Navy in support of Aegis Ashore Ballistic Missile Defense Systems (BMDS) in Eastern Europe.Worked as a communications key mission partner to the Air Force, Army and Navy in support of the Army Navy Transportable Radar System (AN/TPY-2) also called the Forward Based X-Band Transportable (FBX-T) long-range, high-altitude active electronically scanned array radar.

Worked as a Cyber/IA professional in all matters concerning transport systems hardening and Tier III troubleshooting of malicious trunk/circuit activity using trunk/circuit taps and Wireshark packet analyzers.

Worked with Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and Cyber Command Combat Cyber Teams (CBTs) to identify malicious threats to the DoDIN.

Deployed on a moment’s notice to remote Ballistic Missile Defense Systems (BMDS) fixed Phased Array radar locations as the communications expert during communications technical refreshes, new installations or upgrades.

Attended BMDS key stakeholder meetings at Ramstein Air Base, Germany in support of Ballistic Missile Defense throughout the US European Command Area of Operation.

Acted as the primary mission partner at DISA to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for all communications engineering and technical coordination associated with the Presidentially Mandated European Phased Adaptive Approach (PAA) for roll out of a missile defense shield in support of the US and its European Allies.

Provided technical expertise across the program acquisition life cycle in quality, mission assurance, vendor selection and manufacturing to the government for assigned MDA programs.

Implement DISA and MDA quality and mission assurance requirements by providing subject matter expertise for the identification, evaluation, and mitigation of risks associated with various aspects of the design, development, manufacturing, fielding, and operation of MDA critical communication early warning systems.

Assisted with review and assessment of hardware and software compliance with quality and related mission assurance requirements, including support of failure investigations, failure review panels and audits. Was a key member of the tiger team that would determine the root cause of failures of DISA and MDA critical communications early warning hardware.

Worked as the primary mission engineer for the DISA National Leadership Command Capabilities Center (NLCCC) providing protected senior leadership communications to the desktop.

SAIC (8 yrs)

April 2006 – May 2007

Sr Systems Engineer

Ofallon, IL

Engineered and implemented a Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) lab consisting of 4 racks of Network and communications equipment for the SPAWAR TSw TIP program out of Norfolk, VA.

Set up long haul communications support for a remote SPAWAR lab.

Provided network engineering support to maintain network optimization of the Nortel 3500/5200 Synchronous Optical Network/Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (SONET/DWDM) backbone infrastructures at Scott Air Force Base.

Performed Instillation, Test and Acceptance on all new nodes added to the Base SONET/DWDM Network.

Performed Configuration Management for all Base SONET/DWDM network nodes.

Performed systems engineering planning, performance management, capacity planning, testing and validation and benchmarking on the Base Nortel SONET/DWDM Network.

Performed all software configuration and upgrades on the base SONET/DWDM nodes.

Performed circuit cutovers and testing on the Scott Air Force Base Nortel SONET/DWDM Network. Performed setup of short term and long-term test using a host of Acterna professional test equipment.

Managed and configured all Cisco routers/switches for In-Band management to Nortel SONET/DWDM devices and trained Technical Control personnel on base SONET/DWDM systems.

SAIC

November 2004 – April 2006

Network Design Engineer

Stuttgart, Germany

Attended Ballistic Missile Defense Systems or BMDS key stakeholder meetings at Ramstein Air Base, Germany in support of Ballistic Missile Defense throughout the US European Command Area of Operation.

Conducted detailed planning for Satellite backup/redundancy communications as a ternary means of communications for the Aegis Ashore site.

Coordinated with host nation Telecom for lease lines/data transport lines back to Germany.

Directly supported the Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) Theater Network Operations Center (TNC) Tier II Operations Department. Effectively worked with a team of multi-disciplined technical personnel to include military, government, and contractor personnel to troubleshoot and correct a range of Network and communications issues.

Provided technical leadership and engineering direction to the upgrade and maintenance of DISA networks throughout the European Theater through the use of expert requirements analysis/definition and functional analysis coupled with accurate performance measurements.

Performed Fault Management across all transport technologies. Engineered, implemented, and cutover extensive customer traffic to a highly complex DWDM, SONET, Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH), ATM, and PROMINA Backbone with management enclaves that provided for timely and appropriate integration of all engineering disciplines.

Identified problems and risk areas and evaluated impact, then communicated these findings professionally and effectively through a monthly transport presentation for DISA-Europe executive level military and civilian decision makers. Was also responsible for developing Standard Operating Procedures, Bill Of Materials (BOM), Multiplex Plans through the use of AutoCAD and Visio for installers to use during project installs. Additionally, was responsible for Configuration Management (CM) across all technical foundations/platforms through the use and upkeep of Configuration Management software/database.

Performed the seamless integration of technology advances into existing and new operations and systems.

SAIC

October 1999 – November 2004

Network Design Engineer/C2 Test Engineer

Stuttgart, Germany

Effectively worked with a team of multi-disciplined technical personnel to include military, government, and contractor personnel.

Implemented, managed and operated highly complex telecommunications networks using proven and then emerging technology that supported collaboration across disparate networks.

Directly supported the Global Command and Control Systems – Army (GCCS-A) network while working in support of 5th Corps during all Command Post Exercises at Grafenwehr Germany and while working with United States Army Europe (USAREUR) at Heidelberg Germany. Other networks included the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network and the Classified and Unclassified Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

Responsible for analyzing telecommunications requirements and engineering fully integrated solutions.

Responsible for network fault resolution, Configuration Management (CM) and Performance Management (PM) using high-end Sun micro computer workstations and multiple software tools such as UNIX, Sun Solaris, HP Open View, FOREView, REMEDY and other tools used to track network health.

Managed the WANDL network modeling tool that provided for solid what-if network strategy planning.

Developed, maintained, implemented, and updated network implementation procedures. Performed software scripting for features such as Switched Permanent Virtual Circuits (SPVCs), LAN emulation (LANE), Constant Bit Rate (CBR), Available Bit Rate (ABR) and other Quality of Service (QoS) parameters.

Directed and conducted on-site installation of network equipment. Conducted Initial Test and Activation (IT&A) of network equipment and the transmission path.

Used sophisticated test equipment to include transmission analyzers (e.g. Fire BERTs), protocol analyzers (E.g. T-Bert) and spectrum analyzers.

Job Related Training, Skills and/or Certifications:

Juniper Networks, Introduction to JUNOS, Jan 2021

JNCIA Certification, Feb 2021 - Certification

System Security Certified Practitioner, SSCP, Oct 2020 - Certification

Security plus, SEC+, Mar, 2019 - Certification

CCNA, May, 2019, Training

NSA Lean Innovation workshop, Nov 2017

BISCI - ITS Design Fundamentals - Media Selection, Oct 2013

BICSI - ITS Design Fundamentals - Structured Cabling Sys, Aug 2013

BISCI - ITS Design Fundamentals - Grounding and Bonding, June 2013

Project Management Professional (PMP), Sep 2011, Training

ITIL, IT Service Management, EXIN, Jun 2010 - Certification

Unix for professionals, SPECTRUM Network Management

Global Command and Control Systems (GCCS)

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