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Summary

An experienced Enterprise I.T. Engineer and Leader with a strong background in infrastructure architecture and project management. I have successfully designed and implemented both on-premises and cloud/hybrid-cloud infrastructure solutions for satellite mission data processing systems. I have a proven track record of managing multi-million-dollar projects and ensuring optimal performance and scalability of systems. I am skilled in requirements decomposition, contract management, and effective communication with non-technical stakeholders. I've led high-performing teams focused on obsolescence. modernization and implementing innovative solutions; as-a-service (XaaS), virtualization, containerization, IaC automation & DevSecOps approaches. My expertise and accomplishments make me a valuable asset for organizations seeking a knowledgeable and results-driven Enterprise I.T. Engineer and technical team leader. 

Key Qualifications

  • Technical expert across an expanse of technologies; Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization, cybersecurity, aerospace ground-control systems, GPS and GPS-derived timing.
  • Manages and integrates the workflows of teams of engineers and analysts across business units and agencies
  • Fosters a team environment, focusing on inclusion and empowering individuals to take on leadership roles
  • Utilizes metrics to identify success factors and key indicators to track and achieve results
  • SAFe Certified Product Owner (AGILE)

Experience

INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT, PROJECT RIPCORD

RAYTHEON, AN RTX COMPANY
MAY 2024PRESENT
  • Acted as lead infrastructure architect for a satellite mission data processing system valued at $250M, responsible for designing both on-premises and cloud/hybrid-cloud infrastructure
  • Served as a solutions expert on vendor scale-up, scale out Infrastructure-as-a- Service (IaaS), ensuring optimal performance and scalability of the system.
  • Successfully consolidated Bill of Materials (BOM) and Request for Quotation (RFQ) for a time-phased procurement ensuring costs fit within yearly budget constraints
  • Developed and presented architecture content for business proposal on a multi-year contract utilizing executive color team review approach
  • Conducted requirements decomposition and derivation for contracts, ensuring alignment with customer needs and project objectives.
  • Demonstrated strong project management skills, effectively managing timelines, deliverables, and resources to meet project objectives. and refine the proposal.

HARDWARE INFRASTRUCTURE TEAM LEAD, *REDACTED* PROGRAM

RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES
APR 2023MAY 2024
  • Led a high-performing hardware infrastructure team in the successful execution of a DOD classified program, ensuring the seamless integration and functionality of hardware and platforms.
  • Served as the lead engineer and infrastructure team lead on a DOD prototype contract competition valued at $30M, delivering innovative solutions that met and exceeded customer requirements.
  • Implemented a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Modern Software Factory approach, optimizing efficiency and productivity in hardware engineering processes.
  • Oversaw the end-to-end engineering responsibility for hardware build, integration, accreditation, and customer demonstrations, ensuring adherence to strict quality and security standards.
  • Developed and implemented comprehensive CONOPS and processes, enabling unclassified work on systems prior to their transition to classified and restricted data centers.
  • Successfully managed a team of engineers, providing guidance, conducting performance reviews, and overseeing staffing plans to ensure optimal team performance and project success.
  • Maintained accurate timecard records and provided charging guidance to ensure compliance with project budgets and financial requirements.
  • Conducted candidate interviews and facilitated the onboarding process, ensuring the acquisition of top talent and seamless integration into the team.

SYSTEMS ENGINEER-LAUNCH & CHECKOUT SYSTEM, *REDACTED* PROGRAM

RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES
AUG 2022Present
  • Senior Principal Engineer
  • Complete obsolescence effort of hardware and virtual infrastructure on operationally fielded GPS ground control segment
  • Planned, tested & executed full Active Directory domain migration and upgrade
  • Planned, tested & executed VMware infrastructure migration and upgrade
  • Revamped operational documentation
  • Created automated tools to assist in AD domain management to assist operational support staff

INFRASTRUCTURE Team Lead, *REDACTED* Program

Raytheon Technologies
MAR 2021AUG 2022
  • Led a high-performing team of 20 systems engineers and integrators, overseeing the build, integration, and sustainment of the GPS-OCX NextGen ground control system valued at $3B+.
  • Successfully planned and executed project schedules, providing accurate forecasting and regular status reporting on IMS and Level-5 schedules.
  • Managed the Bill of Materials (BOM) and costing of hardware and software upgrades, ensuring cost-effective solutions and efficient resource allocation.
  • Held approval authority for engineering decisions and provided oversight of technical documentation for the Department of Defense (DoD) customer.
  • Orchestrated the efforts of over 10 teams of subject matter experts (SMEs), facilitating seamless cross-functional collaboration and integration.
  • Collaborated closely with the Integrated Product Team (IPT) and Program Management Office, as well as the DoD customer, to forecast project requirements, conduct risk assessments, identify efficiencies, and propose improvements.
  • Integrated solutions across multiple IPTs, working closely with Segment Integration, Test, Security, and Deployment Integration teams.
  • Demonstrated effective team management skills, including timecard approval, conducting performance reviews, providing charging guidance, conducting candidate interviews, onboarding new team members, and developing staffing plans.

Infrastructure Product Owner, *REDACTED* Program

Raytheon Technologies (ITEC)
AUG 2020MAR 2021
  • AGILE Product Owner of satellite ground control system infrastructure worth $14M, on a project with a total budget of $80M
  • Overall responsibility for infrastructure delivery and managing 4 teams and 40 people
  • Leveraged team planning sessions to increase ROI on every deployment iteration
  • Rapidly assumed role and identified team deficiencies and recommended changes to AGILE/Scrum processes
  • Presented metrics on team capacity and velocity using JIRA and Confluence
  • Technical SME to leadership, recommended & successfully implemented new technologies to program; automation, monitoring, virtualization management
  • Utilized AGILE process to achieve ~100% team capacity/velocity consistently sprint to sprint

Systems Engineer, *REDACTED* Program

Raytheon Technologies (ITEC)
DEC 2018AUG 2020
  • Complete architecture design for virtualization and obsolescence of GPS monitoring stations & legacy ground antenna sites, major design component of multi-million-dollar Dept of Defense GPS contract.
  • The implemented design delivered improvements to the expansion, survivability and continued operation of the GPS satellite constellation
  • Results of design shaped future infrastructure planning and design
  • Overall responsibility for IT security plan and adherence for hardware in accordance with STIGs, and cybersecurity, privacy and accessibility policy
  • Advised IA/cybersecurity leadership on security plan and posture guidelines for remote elements of GPS OCX
  • Advised GPS OCX chief engineers on decisions that shaped program policy and future planning for GPS OCX projects and operations
  • Primary responsibility for a total rewrite of program-wide implementation processes for GPS-specific hardware systems
  • Facilitated and coordinated project tasks across multiple agencies and entities
  • Technical authority and lead of integration engineers 

Integration Engineer, GPS-OCX (Next-Gen GPS) Program

Raytheon Technologies (ITEC)
Apr 2018DEC 2018
  • Identified obsolescence targets in GPS OCX infrastructure
  • Assisted in obsolescence design, planning and project implementation
  • Advised decision-makers on future hardware acquisition options & worked on trade-study team
  • Designed and maintained VMware VDI infrastructure for software development team
  • Supported Windows and Linux clients and servers
  • Designed and maintained build servers for software build automation
  • Performed Root Cause Analysis and built virtualized demos to prove the solutions.

Virtualization Engineer, Virtualization Infrastructure

Infrastructure Support Division, Internal Revenue Service
AUG 2017APR 2018

Responsible for 95% of enterprise server infrastructure; ~800 VMware hosts, ~10k VMs 

  • Project lead for several multi-million-dollar proof-of-concept and migration projects.
  • Full-scope planning and implementation of new infrastructure increasing enterprise virtualization systems health and allowing future expansion.
  • Managed workflows of contractors to integrate of the virtual environment with enterprise monitoring allowing for expanded metric/data ingest, ticket correlation and dashboards.
  • Rapid architecture and implementation of new hybrid virtual-physical environment to meet the needs of executive directives for filing season on a compressed timeline.
  • Worked with hardware sales contacts to procure demo units of proof-of-concept systems.
  • Technical lead and provided training on VMware ESXI, vCenter, vROps, HPe OneView, HPe 3Par Storage, HPe C-Class Servers & Synergy, Cisco UCS.

I.T. Specialist, Monitoring Implementation

IT Operations Command Center Division, Internal Revenue Service
Feb 2013AUG 2017

Responsible for development & implementation of enterprise monitoring tools

  • Technical lead of end2end/HPe Monitoring Implementation Team
  • HP Service Manager, BSM, SiteScope, Ops Manager, Service Health Reporter, uCMDB, 
  • Maintained secondary workflow for management special projects
  • Technical Lead for Enterprise Change Request Technical Review Approval Boards
  • Created new process for outage triage, reducing outage times by 1-2 hrs per incident.
  • Managed, migrated & redesigned SharePoint site collection
  • Trained team & leads on HPe monitor suite, including new employee on-boarding.

Additional Professional Experience

Senior Windows Server Administrator

Netlink
Aug 2010Feb 2013
  • Managed ~500 physical/virtual corporate and customer servers, including VMware ESXI & vCenter
  • Development and implementation of disaster recovery processes & health monitoring.
  • Total-scope of server build, implementation, maintenance and support.
  • Contracted to Olympia Entertainment/Detroit Red Wings for IT support for 6 months.

Network Systems Analyst

Mercy Memorial Hospital
Jun 2007Jan 2008
  • Responsible for maintenance and support of hospital-essential IT infrastructure. 
  • Active role on the Network Plan & Implementation team for hospital campus renovation.
  • Maintained and supported WAN connections to remote/off-campus medical offices.

Network Administrator L2

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
Jul 2005May 2007
  • Proactive monitoring and remote support of HP managed customer sites. 
  • Supported 1000+  Cisco routers, switches and PIX firewalls.
  • Work with 3rd party vendors and HP staff to coordinate on-site support.

I.T. Administrator / Project Manager

National Industrial Maintenance
Feb 2004Sep 2005
  • Managed multiple concurrent projects involving CCTV footage processing and archiving.
  • Responsible for all company IT assets including industrial CCTV Crawler cameras.
  • Established new processing and archival process which expedited project completion. 
  • Revamped processes helped facilitate a contract win totaling over $2 million.

Owner, Technical Account Manager

myPCtech, LLC
May 20032013
  • Built managed IT services company from ground up. Company sold to employee. 
  • Overall responsibility for customer service, technical support, sales, accounting and management of system administrators and sales employees.

Network/Server Administrator

Netlink Software Group
Feb 2003May 2004

Network/Server Administrator

Karmazin Products Corporation
Jun 2000Sep 2002

Education

Pursuing BS in Intelligence Studies (Counter-terrorism focus)

American Military University
2020Present

Military Service

Intelligence Analyst (Craftsmen), E-6 Technical Sergeant

United States Air Force, Michigan Air National Guard
Jul 2011Present

Operations Inherent Resolve & Freedom's Sentinel

Contingency War Planner (Journeyman), E-5 Staff Sergeant

United States Air Force, Michigan Air National Guard
May 2003Sep 2009

Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom | Honorable Discharge

Veteran's Preference Status

10-point Veteran's Preference Points (Eligibility letter available upon request)