Richard A. Raber
342 North Third Street
Surf City, NJ 08008
(609) 290-5238
scraber@comcast.net

Summary Of Qualifications
Senior Network Engineer in 300,000+user environment with current Interim Top Secret Security Clearance from DOD. Over 15 years experience in the Information Technology field. I am a team player with reputation for successfully meeting deadlines. Current Cisco CCNA and CompTIA Security+ Certified, with past Novell CNE certification. Possess extensive knowledge of TCP/IP, as well as Cisco and Microsoft products. Excellent written and oral skills developed from past experiences as a teacher, reporter, and corporate trainer.
Professional Experience
Naval Warfare Center Lakehurst, New Jersey (EDS) March 2006 to Present
Information Assurance Specialist, Naval Marine Corp Intranet
Responsible for 24/7 Information Assurance on world’s largest intranet, NMCI, for the Greater New Jersey Area. Job duties include hardware and software upgrades to network intrusion devices such as Symantec Manhunt and Netprowler running on Dell hardware platforms with mix of Unix and Windows OS platforms, due diligence of physical security as it pertains to the NMCI, and various other security related issues.. Also responsible for maintenance, evaluation, and storage of firewall and other intrusion detection logs and alerts. Also responsible for determination and investigation of IA related incidents pertaining to the health and welfare of the NMCI.
Naval Air Warfare Center, Lakehurst, New Jersey Dec 1996 to March 2006
Senior Network Engineer – NIPRNet & SIPRNet & DREN
Hardware: Cisco 3640, 8510, 8540, 6500, 4006, 831, Long Range Ethernet, Lightstream 1010, 2948, 3500’s, 2950, 2950 LRE, 585, Aironet 1100 and 1200 Wireless Access Points, PIX Firewall, Cisco Telephony with Call Manager, IP/TV and Cisco Works. Cisco IP Phone 7960, Linksys Wireless access points and routers.
Compaq: 1850r, 3000, 5000, 6000, 7000, DL380, G1 and DL380 G3, ML570, RAID and SCSI controllers, MSL5000 Backup Library, DLT and SDLT Tape Libraries, and Remote Insight boards.
Other Vendors: F5 Firepass and Big IP, NetIQ AppManager and Security Reporting Center, Lucent Definity G3 Telephone PBX, Octel Voice messaging system, DEC Alpha Servers for Exchange, Dell, Gateway, Intergraph, 3-COM, CD-Rom Jukeboxes, Vbrick Video, Canon cameras DSL Cayman, 802.11b and 802.11g wireless cards.
Software: Various Cisco IOS and Catalyst images, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2003 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Server Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Professional, SCO Unix, Linux, Exchange 4.0 and 2000, Windows XP, 4.0, 9X, Citrix, Microsoft SQL, Compaq Insight Manager, VB Scripting.
Responsibilities span 3 independent networks:
Network 1 (Primary Responsibility) Maintain network infrastructure and reliability on dual GigE and ATM backbone for Research Network at Naval Air Warfare Station, Lakehurst. Administer PIX firewall. Maintain WAN access lists into network via outer router per Navy Netwarcom direction. Monitor Pix Firewall activities with 3rd party applications. Maintain authenticated EIGRP internal routes. Troubleshoot network with EtherReal packet sniffing. Setup VPN access. Maintain PIX access lists. Setup Multicast on network and through PIX to WAN via GRE tunnel. Setup IpSec in PIX for network access. Configure and maintain various Cisco switches and routers. Configure and maintain Cisco IP Telephony Call Manager and Lucent Definity PBX. Setup Cisco IP/TV. Maintain Microsoft Active Directory on Compaq Servers running 2003 Server and Advanced Server. Manage user network environment via Group Policy and Microsoft VB Scripting in Active Directory. Maintain Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition version 9 as well as Veritas Backup Exec version 8. Developed Backup routine with disaster plan. Maintain various Operating Systems, including Windows 9x, XP, NT, Windows 2000 & 2003. Servers are configured with Raid 5 with online spare. Configured and maintain Compaq Lights Out out of band network management solution. Responsible for hardware and software upgrades on all platforms.
Network 2 (Legacy Network) Configure and maintain outer router (Cisco 3640) for Internet\WAN access with BGP routing logic. Assist Remote Administration of Cyberguard Firewall as well as F5 Big IP. Maintain aging Compaq Servers running Microsoft NT4.0 and 2000 Server, as well as clients running Windows 9x, XP, NT, and 2000. Servers are configured with Raid 5. Windows NT 4.0 network configuration includes 3 PDC’s with 6 local BDC’s and 1 remote BDC, with the following Microsoft Services and software - Wins, DNS, DHCP, Proxy, IIS, SMS and SQL Server. Administration of Exchange clients on DEC Alpha servers. Administration of RAS. Configure and maintain print queues. Monitor network via NetIQ AppMananger. Install and configure users for access to applications via CITRIX Metaframe. Create reports for analysis using SMS queries and Crystal Reports. Veritas Backup Exec with SQL and Oracle agents. Configure Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.0. Install and maintain wireless Access Point and routers including NETGEAR and LinkSys connected via DSL and Cisco Switches. Maintain Definity G3 Telephone switch as well as Octel Voice Messaging system. Maintain Defense Messaging System using SmartCard. Project lead on Email and Network Conversion/Upgrade teams.
Network 3 (NMCI Network) Government liaison responsible for granting and enforcing rights to folders and subfolders to users in the NMCI Windows Active Directory environment.
American Tech May 1994 to Dec 1996
Senior Client Support Representative: Responsibilities: Implement, maintain and upgrade Novell 3.11, 3.12 and Windows NT 3.51 servers on network. Responsible for all corportate backups including system critical servers and workstations using Backup Exec. Traveled extensively to coordinate on-site training workshops. Telephone support.
Century Consultants July 1992 to April 1994
Oracle and Cobolr Programmer: Responsibilities: Programming in Oracle Forms and RM Cobol 85 in SCO Unix, HPUX, and AIX environment . Traveled extensively for training workshops.
Education:
Bachelor of Arts – English, Montclair State College, Montclair, New Jersey
Certifications:
Cisco CCNA (current)
Comptia Security+ (current)
Novell CNE (retired)
Reference available on request