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Drew Roman
Columbia, MD

A hands-on, engaged leader with a wide, unique range of experience and a long history of coming up with innovative and cost-effective IT solutions

Employment

Decisive IT, Inc., Columbia, MD
January 2008 – Present
Owner, Principal Consultant

Providing IT Management consulting services to a wide variety of customers
Typical engagements include IT Infrastructure, Virtualization, Oracle/MSSQL Database Administration and Deltek Technical Consulting

National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), Upper Marlboro, MD
January 2008 – Present
Director of Educational Technology

Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD
August 2006 – January 2008
Manager, Corporate Infrastructure, Headquarters IT Group

Successfully migrated an aging, disparate set of Linux-based email, file and web systems to a scalable, standardized, fault-tolerant infrastructure using VMWare Virtual Infrastructure 3 (ESX Enterprise), VMWare VirtualCenter, a HP MSA Fibre Channel SAN, Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange 2003, Ironport anti-spam appliances, Windows Server 2003 file and print services, CentOS Linux web servers, Symantec Backup Exec 11d, an Exabyte Fibre Channel LTO-3 tape library and other technologies
Designed, planned and implemented the architecture described above from the ground up in less than 6 months with minimal service disruption while maintaining and managing the existing systems.
Downtime on the new systems is now planned verses unplanned and measured in minutes instead of days.
Tightened security across the board, including implementing Sonicwall PRO 4060 firewalls, multiple network security zones, strict security policies/procedures in all areas as well as promoted a general mindset of security among the IT staff and end users
Acted as mentor to technical staff as well as a technical adviser to upper management
Additional duties include: Oracle DBA, Linux/Solaris Administrator, Technical Lead for Deltek ERP (Costpoint and Time and Expense) and Cognos BI platforms and Interim Webmaster for all HQ-hosted web sites

Deltek Systems, Inc., Herndon, VA
October 1998 – August 2006
Principal Technical Consultant, System Solutions Group

Provided project management, design, deployment, maintenance and lifecycle management relevant to IT infrastructure supporting Deltek applications for customers worldwide
Wide range of experience deploying client-server, n-tier applications, network/server hardware and numerous 3rd party applications
Actively involved in business development activities, developing new service offerings and conducting research and development of new products
Assisted in the management and training of Junior and Senior Technical Consultants
Routinely presented at Deltek International User Conferences and Regional User Group meetings, primary topics include Security, Disaster Recovery Planning and Application Deployment Strategies
Relevant technologies including, but not limited to, Oracle 7.X-10.X, Microsoft SQL Server 6.5-2005, Windows NT Server-Windows 2003 Server, Linux (various versions and distributions), Sun Solaris 2.5-2.9(9), Citrix/Terminal Server, HP/Compaq Proliant servers, Sun SPARC-based servers, Dell PowerEdge servers, TCP/IP networking, LDAP, IIS and Apache web servers, BEA Weblogic Java Application Server, server virtualization technologies such as VMWare ESX/GSX Server, Microsoft Virtual Server 2004/2005 and numerous vendors’ networking equipment

MicroAge, Columbus, MS
June 1997-September 1998
Field Engineer/Webmaster

Deployed and maintained a wide range of Servers, Networks and PC’s for a variety of different clients
Designed and maintained company web site
Relevant technologies included Compaq Proliant Servers, HP x86 servers, Windows NT 3.51-Windows 2000 Server, Novell Netware 3.X-4.X, SCO OpenServer 5.X, IPX and TCP/IP networking, IIS and Apache web servers, Linux and various COTS packages

U.S. Air Force
September 1990-May 1997
Cryptologic Linguist/Intelligence Analyst

Primary duties included intelligence collection, analysis and reporting
Secondary duties included support of proprietary computer systems, Sun Solaris (SPARC) servers/workstations, TCP/IP networks, web servers and specialized applications in support of intelligence activities in South Korea and at the National Security Agency

Languages

Security Clearance

Active DoD Secret, Previously held Top Secret/SCI with SBI and CI Polygraph (not active)

Education

Working towards Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems with approximately 80 hours of credit accumulated to date with a long-term goal of obtaining a technology-focused M.B.A.
15 months of intense training in Mandarin Chinese at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California and National Security Agency

Certifications

Certified Netware Administrator (4.x), A+ Certified Technician, numerous HP platform specific certifications
Currently working towards VMWare Certified Professional (VCP) certification

References available upon request