Craig A. Lehman, Jr.

Craig Lehman

Denver, CO 80203

(518) 368-3238

Craig.Lehman.jr@gmail.com        

 

 

IT Professional

 

 

     Highly-focused, disciplined IT Professional with 10 years combined Military/DOD experience and a Top Secret/SCI Eligible Clearance. Professional demeanor, with enthusiasm for tackling new challenges and learning new skills.  Experienced in analyzing, installing and maintaining network infrastructure. Skilled in troubleshooting, repair, performing diagnostics, and system performance analysis. Dedicated, hardworking extrovert with strong communications skills. Excellent project management and team management skill set. Thrives working under pressure as part of a team or independently to achieve goals and objectives. Goes above and beyond to bring projects in on time and under budget. Active CCNA and JNCIA.

 

Technical skills include:

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery 501c3, Denver COAug/2014 - Current

Founder, President

•       Started with just myself and after 2 years, I now have 4300 members.

•       Lead the board of directors to ensure the organization stays true to its humanitarian beliefs.

•       Analyze operating and financial statements for profitability ratios.

•       Meet financial objectives by preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, initiating corrective actions.

•       Seek out and approve contracts with local businesses.

•       Handle customer questions, complaints and issues.

•       Run all social sites and digital marketing.

•       Establish local connections with Police and Forest Service to facilitate and expedite search and rescue efforts.

•       Provided ground work to establish policy and procedures with the goal in mind “to keep everyone as safe as possibly” leading to no injuries to date, yet. 

•       Provide training for members on basic trail first aid, recovery operations, recovery equipment use.

•       Research and ensure legal compliance with IRS, Colorado, FED-USA, and Forest Service.

•       Recovered over 90 vehicles in 2015 including rollovers, abandoned vehicles, and reported missing persons at no cost to the owner.

 

 

WELLS FARGO, Denver COSep/2015 - Current

System Analyst, Data Center Facilities Manager

•       Responsible for all on site activities

•       Coordinate repair activities

•       Create tickets for subnet creation, patch panel installation, and power management.

•       Brought online 4 new racks, 4 firewalls, 1 router and 9 new switches.

•       Configured and migrated 170+  network connections without failure.

•       Installed and configured server and networking equipment.

•       Troubleshot all equipment in a break/fix environment.

•       Fixed cable management system from previous employee.

•       Implemented database for tracking equipment rack changes.

•       Software testing for new Wells Fargo phone systems ensuring phone and app compatibility. Cisco 7900 and 8800.

•       Support 252 Cisco phones in a test environment with daily use by the app development team.

 

 

 

CRGT, Buckley AFB, CO      Oct/2012 - April/2015

Hardware Maintenance

•       Modified Firewall access lists for inbound and outbound traffic

•       Ensured data integrity using state of the art cryptology equipment

•       Responsible for updating daily, weekly, monthly, and annual cryptography key changes in compliance with NSA guidelines

•       Monitored network SNMPs for circuit degradation or breach

•       Incident response management, testing, and implementation

•       Enforced COMSEC requirements per regulation

•       Performed general hardware troubleshooting in a break/fix environment

•       Create and update equipment policies and procedures.

•       Document changings circuit paths

•       Troubleshoot network and equipment outages for both local and all remote sites.

•       Recovered, replaced, or reconfigured downed hardware equipment

•       Responsibilities included any hardware equipment installation, wiring, electrical and mechanical troubleshooting and repair.

 

 

 

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, Westover ARB, MAFeb/2006 – Feb/2012

Computer Network Systems Specialist, Reserve

•       VTP, Vlan configuration

•       Configured networking equipment, pre-deployment, to expedite network setup when deployed.

•       Satellite uplink, VOIP, Video Conferencing.

•       Supported emergency command center for natural disasters.

•       Ensured redundant power to keep equipment online.

•       Setup deployable antennas for UHF, VHF, and Satcom.

•       Configure Civilian and Air Force radios for use with Air Force Equipment.

•       Draft and review technical instructions, plans, and system installation schematics

•       Skilled in the use of specialized testing equipment

•       Plan and execute testing, maintenance, and repair activities

 

 

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Albany NYMay/2010 – Sept/2010

VMware Deployment Lead and Help Desk

•      Deployed VMware vSphere

•      Deployed Windows 7 OS

•      Troubleshoot Remedy helpdesk tickets including Exchange, Blackberry, Office, XP, 7, Oracle, network degradation

•      Support VPN/Video teleconference systems

•      Assess/implement/and complete inventory of hardware equipment.

 

 

NMCI (Hewlett-Packard), USA                                   March/2008 - May/2010

Tech Refresh Seat Deployment Supervisor

•      Tech Refreshed legacy computer assets from Dell to Dell and Dell to HP nationwide for the USN/USMC.

•      Worked with Field Services to pass on any ongoing issues post deployment.

•      Converted remote sites from their private LAN to the company WAN.

•      Prioritized ticket and troubleshooting requests

•      Actively accessed router configurations to manipulate port security. 

•      Worked closely with the Site Supervisor to keep a status of seats deployed and issues resolved.

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate August 2015

JNCIA - Juniper Networks Certified Associate Oct 2014

 

 

 

United States Air Force Community College, Keesler, MI

Computer Networking and Cryptographic Systems, Certificate March 2007

Electronic Principles, Certificate November 2006

 
 

 

 

References available on request