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WAYNE A. BLOCKEL, CISSP
Meridianville, AL 35759
Security Clearance – TOP SECRET
SUMMARY
Technology leader with progressive experience in industry leading companies who exhibit superior business, financial, and technical acumen. Over 30 years experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of large-scale systems, across multiple hardware and software platforms. I have a history of demonstrated, quantifiable, success in the leadership of multi-discipline, high-performance work teams and in the development of efficient and effective systems solutions in response to diverse and complex business problems. Strengths are: Cyber Security assessment and implementation; strategic planning, leading network design and application development teams, aligning IT and business strategies, and building customer-focused organizations. Exemplary leadership, technical design, communication, project management, software development and customer service skills.
* Strategy Formulation: Participate in strategic and operational governance processes of the business organization as a member of the senior management team. Formulate and deploy long-term strategic plans for acquiring and enabling efficient cost-effective information processing and communication technologies. Technical lead for the merger and acquisition process. Responsible for strategic technology integration plan for all new acquisitions.
* Organization Alignment: Experienced at aligning IT organization to changing business strategy while providing integrated technology support to internal customers, external business partners, and end consumers. Lead IT strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technology systems across an organization. When necessary, re-engineer applications support to ensure it aligns with business processes, tactical planning, and strategic vision. Experienced at developing program management plans with an integrated communications plan. Routinely communicate project milestones, service level agreements, and resource allocation to executive team, department leads, support staff, and end users.
* Technology Organization/Staff Leadership: Built (and rebuilt) high performance IT teams. Experienced assessor and developer of existing staff. Compelling recruiter of technology professionals. Have directed all areas within the information technology function. Identify opportunities for the appropriate and cost-effective investment of financial resources in technology systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, purchasing, and in-house development.
* Vendor and Partner Relationship Management: Mature manager of technology vendors and partners; broad knowledge of hardware, software, and service marketplaces. Experienced as key technology liaison with business (b-to-b) partners. Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analysis for technology spending and initiatives.
* Spending Effectiveness: Directed major technology expenditures ($2 million to $20 million) with a record of quantifiable results. Experienced with incremental spending and measurement approach. Develop, track, and control the IT annual operating and capital budgets. Set and continually manage project expectations with all stakeholders. Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones, track project milestones, and deliverables.
* Management: Have courage of convictions; Assertive without being aggressive; Change agent; Champion of change. Ability to exercise independent judgment and creative problem solving techniques in a highly complex environment using leading-edge technology and methodology.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
LOGICORE CORPORATION, Huntsville, AL, Apr 2011 to Present
LogiCore Corporation, headquartered in Huntsville AL, is a technology services and solutions company that offers its customers systems integration solutions and expertise to support their mission-essential needs.
VP of Information Technology
As the executive technologist I am responsible for LogiCore’s internal technology profile. In that capacity I direct the planning and implementation of enterprise IT systems in support of business operations in order to improve cost effectiveness, service quality, and business development. Technical accomplishments in this position include: Virtualized all servers using VMware and EMC SAN VNXe 3100; Implemented an SSL VPN secure access point using a Juniper SA700 appliance; Implemented secure tailored customer web sites for exchanging program data; Implemented a company Intranet using Intranet Connections off the shelf software branded and tailored for LogiCore; Co-authored two cyber white papers addressing the use of supercomputers in Cyber Modeling and Simulation and, the application of traditional supply chain management/security techniques to a network of systems.
CAMBER CORPORATION, Huntsville, AL, May 2003 to Apr 2011
Camber Corporation is headquartered in Huntsville, AL specializing in providing best value services, products, and technology to both the government and commercial market spaces.
VP of Information System and CIO
As Camber’s CIO I provided vision and leadership for developing and implementing information technology initiatives. I instilled operational excellence in maintaining, monitoring, and controlling business critical production systems with high availability. In my role I served as the key leadership in communicating technology strategies, directions, goals, and progress to the Executive Staff and Board of Directors. I was the technical representative for the Merger and Acquisition team when we successfully purchased and integrated 3 companies over a 5-year period. My team’s technical accomplishments while at Camber include: Re-staffed the entire IT department, changing the makeup of IT to be aligned with the business and be a service unit; Virtualized 50 servers using VMware and EMC iSCSI SAN technology; Installed and configured BGP failover networking between two communications providers; Implemented predictive log analysis for the purpose of intrusion detection; Implemented PacketMotion tracking software; Implemented all new IT policies and procedures that resulted in an outstanding rating from our ISO audit and a satisfactory rating from the DCAA; Created portable technology in support of Camber’s tradeshow schedule that allowed our brand and technology to be easily shown and remembered. During my time at Camber we were nominated for and won a spot on Information Week’s Top 500 Most Innovative Companies.
OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE, INC., Tampa, FL, Aug 2002 to Jun 2003
Consulting Director Voice and Data Networking
As the Consulting Director I was responsible for the implementation of networked computing structures, including web technologies: Internet, Intranet and Extranet development, implementation, and system maintenance. Maintained and enhanced the voice and data network, anchored by the XcelleNet application used to exchange data with an 800+ store heterogeneous WAN made up of DSL, Cable, Satellite, Frame Relay and, integrated T1 service.
CATALINA MARKETING, St. Petersburg, FL, 2000 to 2002
IT Director
As the IT Director I managed a staff of 35 IT professionals including a software development group of 10 programmers. I was responsible for the LAN and WAN, 6000 sq. ft. Datacenter, all Catalina workstations and non-data warehouse servers. Catalina used the XcelleNet application to exchange data with a 15,000 grocery store WAN accessed nightly via dial up modem. Raw shopping intelligence data was retrieved from the stores, loaded into an Oracle-based data warehouse, analyzed for shoppers buying patterns and then predictive coupon data pushed back to the stores. During my tenure at Catalina Marketing the company moved from its one story headquarters to a custom built four-story complex. I was integrally involved in all aspects of the building process and directly responsible for the wiring plant. During the transition I contracted with Verizon to provide a point-to-point dark fiber connection between the old building and the new. By doing this we were able to cohabitate in both buildings and appear as a flat LAN to all desktops and servers.
CERTEGY (formally Equifax Check Services), St. Petersburg, FL, 1998 to 2000
Director of Software Development
Certegy, formally Equifax Check Services, received check information sent to us from point of sale (POS) terminals at customer stores. We were responsible for receiving the check information, running a credit score calculation, confirming the validity of the check itself and returning an electronic approval or decline to the POS within 3 seconds. I lead a staff of 15 software developers who wrote the check handling software as well as the POS software. Some of the retailers who used our code and processes were Best Buy, Shoe Carnival and Sears.
RAYTHEON (Formally E-Systems), St Petersburg, FL, 1990 to 1998
Software Engineer
As a software engineer I was part of the development team for the CEC – Cooperative Engagement Capability weapons platform. Specifically I worked on the PBIT/PET boot software. I designed software using Rational object-oriented modeling, wrote code using Assembly Language, C++ and Ada and was trained in the use of object-oriented design and object-oriented programming methodologies. In addition, I worked on the software-based radio system. This system relied on custom-built printed circuit boards (PCB) that were then loaded with custom code to give the radio system selectable ‘personalities’. On this task I designed the black processor circuit board using Autodesk CAD software and Pro/E modeling software. In addition I wrote the power on initialization code for the black processor EPROM.
GENERAL DATACOMM, Middlebury, CT, 1985 to 1990
Data Communications Test Engineer
At GDC I was responsible for final test and acceptance of new communication products as well as developing hardware and software fixes for existing fielded products. I designed and implemented a new carrier detect circuit which allowed a high-speed digital modem to function properly for Frito Lay. In addition I designed and built a PC-based test bed with fixtures and communications patching capable of testing all GDC communication gear prior to its release to production.
GENERAL ELECTRIC, Pittsfield, MA, 1980 to 1985
Electronics Technician
I helped design and build a Submarine Electrical Power Systems Land-Based Evaluation Facility inside our engineering building for the sole purpose of testing and improving Submarine power generation gear. I worked aboard both Fast Attack and Fleet Ballistic Missile class submarines. I participated in several Special Weapons Test (SWT) exercises at New London, Norfolk Shipyard and Kings Bay. I wrote the code for the first data capture PCs using QuickBasic.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
CISSP, Certified Information Systems Security Professional, (ISC)2
ISSM, Information Systems Security Manager, (DSS)
Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Science, Florida Metropolitan University, Tampa, FL
Associate of Arts in Engineering, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
TECHNOLOGY
Cyber Security: DIACAP, IA, Certification and Accreditation, Snort, Tripwire - Cisco: PIX, VOIP, Call Manager - Deltek: CostPoint, Time and Expense, GovWin, Cognos Reporting – Juniper: SA700 SSL VPN – VMware: ESXi – ESM: Express Metrix - MS: Windows XP/7/Server, Sharepoint, Exchange, SQL Server - Dell: SAN – EMC VNXe 3100 SAN, Legato – XcelleNet - Capacity Planning, Disaster Recovery – PacketMotion – Packeteer Packet Shaper - Informix, Lawson, Siebel - IBM: WebSphere - Telco: Inter-Tel, NEC, Avaya, Mitel - Network: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, Cisco SAFE, BGP, PIX
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