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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
Head of Educational Technology

  • In charge of all things technology for the center
  • Areas include email, web presence, e-commerce and social media
  • Position is currently on a volunteer basis (part-time)

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

  • Chinese (Mandarin), Korean

Security Clearance

  • 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