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Security Clearances
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Top Secret - Active - Last Investigation APR 2024
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Entry on Duty (EoD) - Able to be reactivated
U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) Position of Public Trust - Able to be reactivated
U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) Position of Public Trust 6C (NACI/MBI) - Able to be reactivated
Summary
A seasoned Enterprise Architect and thought leader with deep technical expertise in both identity and access management (IdAM) and data center consolidation utilizing virtualization (cloud, grid, and high-performance computing), as well as application containerization (Docker and Kubernetes), and security including information assurance compliance. Broad theoretical and hands-on practical experience to design, implement, and support both the technical and managerial aspects of multitenant (government and commercial) single-tenant and multitenant cloud enterprise computing environments. Specialties include: high-security computing environments, Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC/SDN/SDS), storage architectures, enterprise applications, knowledge management and search, wireless and mobile devices; and secured VoIP, e-mail, and instant messaging services.
Open to long term FTE direct hire opportunities, with a preference for opportunities in the Centreville ( Fairfax County ), VA/Washington DC area, but will consider other locations (NYC/NJ/Philadelphia).
Work History
Certifications
CONTINUING EDUCATION
December 2020 - Amazon Web Services - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional 2020 (Training Completed / AWS SAP-C01 Certification Pending)
December 2020 - Amazon Web Services - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2020 (Training Completed / AWS SAA-C02 Certification Pending)
July 2019 - Microsoft Corporation - Microsoft Azure Architect 2019 (Training Completed / MS AZ-301 Certification Pending)
August 2019 - Microsoft Corporation - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals 2019 (Training Completed / MS AZ-900 Certification Pending)
July 2018 - Google, Inc. - Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect (PCA) (Training Completed / GCP-PCA Certification Pending)
July 2017 - Google, Inc. - Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
July 2017 - VMware, Inc. - Advanced Introduction to VMware NSX Security
Certified Information Systems Security Professional - CISSP (Certification Pending)
Education
Awards and Honors
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT, Inc.) - Engineer of the Month Award - November 2018
SRA International, Inc. - Project of the Year Award - 2010
UNISYS Corporation - Achievement Award for Excellence - December 2000
UNISYS Corporation - Achievement Award for Excellence - November 1999
LANDA - Local Area Network Dealer's Association - Certificate of Appreciation
Clubs and Organizations
IODD - Institute of Database Developers - http://www.iodd.com
LANDA - Local Area Network Dealer's Association
ABCD - Association of Business Computer Dealers
ACM - The Association of Computing Machinery
Skills
Operating Systems
Microsoft - Windows & Windows Server | LINUX - RHEL, DEB, SUSE | Apple OS/X |
UNIX - AT&T, BSD | OpenSolaris |
Cloud & Virtualization
VMware vSphere ESXi |
Microsoft Azure Microsoft Hyper-V |
Amazon Web Services - AWS |
Google Cloud Platform | Open Source - KVM, Xen | XCP-NG & Proxmox |
Nutanix AVH |
Cloud Management
VMware vCenter | VMware vCloud Director - vCD | VMware vRealize Automation - vRA |
VMware vRealize Configuration Manger - vCM | VMware NSX | VMware Horizon VMware View |
VMware Virtual SAN - vSAN | VMware Site Recovery Manager - SRM | vRealize Orchestrator - vRO |
VMware Cloud Foundry | OpenStack Open Source and VMware Supported |
OpenNebula NebulaOne |
Application Virtualization & PaaS Containerization
VMware ThinApp (aka Thinstall) |
Microsoft App-V (SoftGrid) |
Spoon Camayo |
Microsoft Windows Containers | Docker & Kubernetes Rancher UI/RKE2/Longhorn/Harvester Podman |
RedHat OpenShift |
Equipment
Intel/AMD Blade & Rack Servers (2-way to 32-way) |
ARM 32/64 Linux and Windows 11&10 ARM |
Apple (6502/68000/PowerPC/x64/Mx) |
Networking
Layer 2 and 3 Switches (Cisco, Dell, HP) |
Firewalls Barracuda, Fortinet, Cisco, Juniper, OPNsense, PFsense |
Infiniband |
VPNs |
Load Balancers F5, HALON |
Fiber Channel Switches Brocade |
Layer 7 Appliances, Proxy Servers, Reverse Proxy Servers (Traefik, NGINX, HAProxy, Squid, Apache APISIX) |
Zero Trust Architecture |
Storage
Dell |
HP StorageWorks EVA, VSA |
NetApp |
ZFS |
Pure Storage |
NAS QNAP, Synology, Drobo |
Cloud Storage Gateways |
Applications - Development Languages
Scripting PowerShell/bash/csh/ksh/zsh |
xBase Microsoft Visual FoxPro / Clipper / dBase |
Microsoft SQL |
Microsoft Access |
Internet & Database Services
Microsoft Internet Information Server - IIS Apache |
Microsoft Exchange Server |
Microsoft Skype for Business |
Identity Management Services
Microsoft Identity Manager Server (MIM) |
RadiantLogic Virtual Directory Server RadiantLogic RadiantOne |
SailPoint IdentityIQ |
Okta |
Duo Security | Thales |
CyberArk |
ManageEngine Password Manager Pro |
Axiomatics Policy Server |
HashiCorp Vault |
PKI / X.509 |
Network Management Tools
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager - SCCM | Microsoft System Center Operations Manager - SCOM | Event Logging Splunk, Sawmill, LogFusion, WAZUH, VMware vRealize Log Insite - vLI |
ZABBIX | Chocolaty/WinGet |
Customer Relations Management / Sales Force Automation
Microsoft CRM | Siebel eBusiness | SugarCRM |
Service Desk
BMC Remedy ITSM |
Microsoft System Center Service Manager (SCSM) |
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus |
VoIP/PBX
Digium Asterisk | 3CX | SIPfoundary |
FreePBX | Incredible PBX |
Vertical Markets Knowledge
Accounting | Finance Retail Banking, FX and IMM Trading |
Data Conversion & Cleanup (Normalization and Modeling) Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) |
Government | Insurance | Internet Commerce E-Commerce |
Legal | Point-Of-Sale | Customer Relations Management - CRM Sales Force Automation - SFA |
Telephony | Multimedia & Audio-Video Systems - IPTV | Videoconferencing |
Portfolio
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