PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2/2012- Present ARMA
Global Communications
Network Engineer
Serves as a Network Engineer and
perform network analysis on total throughput needs including analyzing data
communication traffic volumes, network bandwidth capacity, peak loading
spikes, and the overall effect of any modifications. Utilizing network
monitoring tools SNMPc, NetFlow, and Solar winds ORION to find, analyze,
direct troubleshooting work flow, and troubleshoot network anomalies to
provide maximized bandwidth utilization and technical aids, which help
maintain a 99.999% uptime and reliability of the voice, video, and data
networks. Experienced with HAIPE In-line Network Encryption (INE) equipment,
KG-75 FASTLANE, KG-175 and KG-175D TACLANE, KG-250, managed Cisco Unified
Communication Manager (Call Manager), CISCO (NCM) Network Communications
Manager, Cisco Paging Server, Cisco Expressway Series, and Cisco Unity
Express, ASA 5500 Series firewalls, and Remedy to track trouble tickets to
direct work progress and assign work priorities and solutions. Provide
operational, system and technical analysts to support the Army’s Force
Modernization Proponent for Cyberspace Operations (DCO, OCO, Cyber SU and the
PTE) supporting the capability development, acquisition, and employment of
products utilizing Information Technology in Cyberspace Operations and
computer networking solutions. Support consists of developing proponent
and non-proponent concepts, doctrine, and material requirements documents to
ensure Cyberspace Operations concepts and capabilities are developed to
support Unified Land Operations. Provided operational, system and technical
analysts to support Joint Special Forces Command (JSOC) Force Modernization
Proponent for Cyberspace Operations (DCO, OCO, Cyber SU and the PTE)
supporting the capability development, acquisition, and employment of
products utilizing Information Technology in Cyberspace Operations and
computer networking solutions. in coordination with (ICW) INSCOM, to
develop OCO capabilities as directed under AR 70-1, Army Acquisition Policy
and to develop OCO Doctrine (ICW) INSCOM, ARCYBER, NETCOM and other joint and
Army cyber and EW stakeholders. Provide operational, system and
technical analysts to support Capability Development, and employment of Cyber
SU capabilities in support of Unified Land Operations. Support consists of
developing proponent and non-proponent concepts, doctrine, and material
requirements documents to ensure Cyberspace Operations concepts and
capabilities are developed to support Unified Land Operations while
working in a data center for the past four (4) years.
9/2009- 2/2012 XVIII
Airborne Corps, G6
Network Engineer and
Information Assurance Officer
Serves as the Senior Network and
Cyber Engineer for the XVIII Airborne Corps, Engineering, planning, lifecycle
replacement, management and operation control (FCAPS) of the Corp's tactical signal
network. Served as the senior network technical expert for managing the
Joint Network Transport Capability (JNTC) equipment, SMART-Ts, HCLOS radios,
HAIPE In-line Network Encryption (INE) equipment, managed Cisco Unified
Communication Manager (Call Manager), Redcom PBX IP/analog telephony network,
and Video Tele-Conference (VTC). Managed the organization’s COMSEC logistics
support operations, procurement, planning, physical security, safeguarding,
upgrade, software updates, and handling of cryptographic material.
Conducted network security assurance, testing and eliminating
vulnerabilities, and enforce security policies. Provided operational, system,
and technical analysts support for Cyberspace Operations, Cyber Situational
Understanding and EW integration pertaining to critical portions of
programmed work within several key capability developments, training and
proponent functional areas which includes current technology upgrades as well
as new information technology enhancing information superiority on the
battlefield for Army and Joint Interagency Intergovernmental Multinational
(JIIM) force mission requirements. The support shall include
products and deliverables for the documentation and integration development
of network/system software/hardware materiel solutions, concepts,
organizational designs, concepts of operations (CONOPS), refinement of
doctrine, tactics, techniques and procedures; capability needs assessments
and Cyber School training development literature. Assisted in the development
of a User Defined Operational Picture (UDOP) applicable to an Army
information sharing strategy and the Global Information Grid Information
Assurance information sharing capabilities. Support the implementation
of standards and protocols that support the Command Post Computing
Environment (CP CE) and that operate within the Computing Operating
Environment (COE). Assisted in the development of an Army Cross Domain
Solution (CDS) Community Roadmap strategy for placement of CDS services,
Support TCM Cyber in coordination with (ICW) INSCOM, to develop OCO
capabilities as directed under AR 70-1, Army Acquisition Policy.
Support TCM-Cyber to develop OCO Doctrine (ICW) INSCOM, ARCYBER, NETCOM and
other joint and Army cyber and EW stakeholders. Provide operational,
system and technical analysts to support Capability Development, and
employment of Cyber SU capabilities in support of Unified Land Operations,
while deployed to Iraq to reduce the US forces footprint in Iraq and closure
of bases. Provided COMSEC assessments, risk management, disaster recovery
planning, and analysis of internal COMSEC operations dispersed throughout the
installation and areas of on-going contingencies of equipment. Developed
procedures for immediate notification and enforce a formal IA security and
training program. Conduct semi-annual reviews of all Information Systems (IS)
and networks. Negotiate Certification and Accreditation (C&A) issues with
DAA, for incoming systems, and make recommendations. Validate and maintain
training and certification records for appointed IA personnel and use IA
awareness training records in ATCTS database. While having over three (3)
years of experience in data center operations.
3/2009-8-2009 School of
Information Technology Fort Gordon, GA
Network Engineer/Operations
Manager
Network Operation Center manager establish and
adjust priorities for helpdesk operation, Information Assurance, network
monitoring, frequency manager, WAN/LAN admin team. Designed, installed, and,
maintained the Fort Gordon School of Information Technology Test Center and
Lab. Lead the engineering, planning, management, future planning, and operation
control (FCAPS)
of the Bridge's tactical signal and strategic network. Serves as the
senior network technical expert advisor for the management, SDLC, operation,
system analyst monitoring the network consisting of two Joint Network Node
(JNN), two Command Post Nodes (CPN), three KU satellite terminals, SMART-Ts,
HCLOS radio, eleven Command Post of the Future (CPOF) systems, Blue Force
Tracker system, VTC, Adobe Connect, and IDMT web system. Implemented
and managed Cisco Call Manager/ Unified and Redcom PBX IP/analog telephony
network, HAIPE In-line Network Encryption (INE) equipment, promina
multiplexer infrastructure. Project manager for MAN Area Distribution
Node (AND) and fiber ring design and purchasing agent, that saved the
government $20,000 dollars and WAN solution for 101st finance company that
saved $100,000 dollars. Utilize network monitoring tools SNMPc,
NetFlow, and Solar winds to find, analyze, direct NETOPS work flow, and
troubleshoot network anomalies to provide maximize bandwidth utilization and
technical aids for briefing. Provide the Commander network-centric
operations for C4SIR real time situation awareness dominance to command
Logistical units from Kuwait to the border of Turkey. Supervise and direct 10
IT specialists personnel and contractors. Worked with the Warfighter
Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Limited User Testing (LUT).
9/2007-2/2009 116th Military Intelligence Group, NSA/CSS
Fort Gordon, GA
Network Engineer/Message
Center Officer in Charge
Served as the senior network
technical expert for NETCOM and INSCOM for managing the NEWSDEALER messaging
system and COMSEC manager providing real-time messaging and security
operations for the command; Project manager for the unclassified VOIP and
classified S-VOIP telephone system upgrades and fiber ring design, assisted
the purchasing agent with oversight, that saved the government $50,000
dollars and developed a WAN solution for (NSAG) National Security Agency
Georgia-Central Security Service that saved the command over $100,000
dollars. Primarily used HP OpenView software to manage the IT infrastructure
components in an ordered, standardized manner, defining rules, actions and
alerting characteristics on faults or potential issues within the NSAG-CSS IT
environment. Monitored servers, devices, networks, databases &
applications to ensure faults were detected and alerted upon in a timely
manner. Proactive monitoring to ensure alerts were received before a fault
occurs, thereby providing time to fix a potential problem before it escalates
and affects the
6/2005-8/2007 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) G6,
Fort Campbell, KY
Network Engineer
Senior Network Engineer for 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) G6
led the engineering, planning, lifecycle replacement, management and
operation control (FCAPS)
of the Division's tactical signal network. Served as the senior network
technical expert for managing the division Joint Network Transport Capability
(JNTC) equipment, SMART-Ts, HCLOS radios, HAIPE In-line Network Encryption
(INE) equipment, managed Cisco Call Manager/ Unified and Redcom PBX IP/analog
telephony network, and VTC for a Multinational Division in Tikrit, Iraq.
Provide direction and technical guidance for fourteen JNNs, 44 Battalion
Command Nodes, twelve SMART-Ts, over 100 routers, and over 60 MSE
assemblages. Designed, supervised, and implemented the upgrade of the fiber
ring and Layer 3 switching of the 101st
Airborne Division’s communications network. Perform network analysis on total
throughput needs including analyzing data communication traffic volumes,
network bandwidth capacity, peak loading spikes, and the overall effect of
any modifications using SNMPc and Solar Winds which helped maintain a 99.999%
uptime and reliability of the voice, video, and data networks. Provide
technical network guidance and supervision to the Division G6 and staff.
Develop, wrote, and implement doctrine, standards, and unit policies for the
Army's only Airborne (Air Assault) modular digital Division.
1/2004-5/2005 35th Signal Brigade (CORPS) (Airborne)
Fort Bragg, NC
Network Engineer
Network Engineer for 35th Signal Brigade (CORPS) (AIRBORNE)
with over 700 personnel with Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE) consisting of
One Single Side Switch, Nine Node Centers, 18 Forced Entry Switches, 56 Small
Extension Nodes, five Multi-Channel Tactical Satellite Terminals, four
Enhanced Position Location Radio System (EPLRS), and four Retrans teams with
a worldwide short notice deployment mission. Assists the Brigade S-3
with technical guidance for planning, installing, manage, critical thinking,
and troubleshooting automated switching voice and data networks that provides
C4I for the 18th Airborne Corps. Supervises and manages allocation,
distribution, accountability, upgrading, and use of communications security
(COMSEC) material and devices. Installed, operated, and maintained HP
OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM) to manage the entire complex and large
network of the Iraqi Theatre of Operations for MNFCI, using SNMPc and other
technologies retrieves the information it required, to provide simple and
intuitive network status summary, maps of networks both physical and virtual
and quick view of incoming alarms. If a problem occurred HP OpenView was able
to analyze data from all of the network to determine the cause of the
problem. This early warning allowed my team to fix potential problems from
escalating to bigger
11/2001-12/2003 82nd Signal Battalion Fort Bragg, NC
Network Engineer
Network Engineer and advisor for
82d Airborne Division with over 450 personnel with Mobile Subscriber
Equipment (MSE) consisting of three Node Centers, six Forced Entry Switches,
24 Small Extension Nodes, five Multi-Channel Tactical Satellite Terminals, four
Enhanced Position Location Radio System (EPLRS), and four Retrans teams with
a worldwide short notice deployment mission. Assists the Battalion S-3
with technical guidance for planning, installing, manage, critical thinking,
and troubleshooting automated switching voice and data networks that provides
C4I for the Third Infantry Division and the 18th Airborne Corps.
Supervises and manages allocation, distribution, accountability, upgrading,
and use of communications security (COMSEC) material and devices.
9/2000-11/2001 501st Military Intelligence Brigade
(Theatre) Seoul, Korea
Chief Automated Network
Engineer/Security Manager
Manage Seoul Director of
Information Management Telecommunications and automation center and supervise
30 personnel. Directed the day-to-day operation of the Camp Humphrey
Node Exchange servers, Defense Message System (DMS), Technical Control
Facility, and PKI solution. Responsible for the supervision, scheduling
software upgrades, daily operations, and maintenance which provided automated
data processing, record communications, establish special WAN circuits
connectivity, and e-mail in support of over 25,000 customers and
Headquarters, United Nations Command (UNC), Combined Forces Command (CFC),
United States Forces Korea (USFK) and the Eighth U.S. Army.
9/1998-8/2000 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Fort
Campbell, KY
COMSEC Security Manager
Managed the organization’s COMSEC
logistics support operations with over 3000 line items which was one of the
Army’s largest accounts, procurement, planning, physical security,
safeguarding, upgrade, software updates, and handling of cryptographic
material. Conducted network security assurance, testing and eliminating
vulnerabilities, and enforce security policies. Provided COMSEC assessments,
risk management, disaster recovery planning, and analysis of internal COMSEC
operations dispersed throughout the installation and areas of on-going
contingencies of equipment and 95 divisional and tenants units on Fort
Campbell, and Campbell Army Airfield. Supervised and evaluated the
performance of 16 employees responsible for COMSEC operations and maintenance
of over $20 million dollars worth of COMSEC equipment.
9/1997-8/1998 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Fort
Campbell, KY
Division Network Engineer
Network Engineer for 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) with
over 700 personnel with Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE) consisting of three
Node Centers, Six Forced Entry Switches, 12 Small Extension Nodes, five
Multi-Channel Tactical Satellite Terminals, four Enhanced Position Location
Radio System (EPLRS), and four Retransmition teams with a worldwide short
notice deployment mission. Assists the Battalion S-3 with technical
guidance for planning, installing, manage, critical thinking, and
troubleshooting automated switching voice and data networks that provides C4I
for the 101st Airborne (Air
Assault) Division and the 18th Airborne Corps. Supervises and manages
allocation, distribution, accountability, upgrading, and use of
communications security (COMSEC) material and devices.
Education
2009 School of Information
Technology, Fort Gordon, GA
Security+ Certification
2009 School of
Information Technology, Fort Gordon, GA
PearsonVue Certified
Administrator
2008 School
of Information Technology, Fort Gordon, GA
Cisco Certified Network
Professional
2008 Crofton, MD
Cisco Unified Communications
Manager (Call Manager) Certificate
2008 Linthicum, MD
HP OpenView Certificate
2007Warrant Officer Career
Center, Fort Rucker, AL
Warrant Officer Staff
Course Advanced study of Military Science and Operations
2007Fort Campbell Combat
Communication School, Fort Campbell, KY
Information Management Officer
(IMO) Course
2006 School of
Information Technology Fort Gordon, GA
Cisco Certified Network
Associate
2006 Warrant Officer
Academy Fort Gordon, GA
Warrant Officer Advance Course
Advance study of WAN/LAN networks
2001Concordia University Minneapolis-St
Paul, MN
B.S. Information Technology
Management GPA 3.5
2001Greely Hall Fort Huachuca,
AZ
Local COMSEC Management System
(LCMS) Electronic COMSEC key management
1998Signal Regimental Academy
Fort Gordon, GA
Standardize COMSEC Custodian
Course COMSEC Key Management
1998Signal Regimental Academy,
Fort Gordon, GA
Network Planning Terminal
Certificate Advanced study of network analysis and planning management
1998Signal Regimental Academy
Fort Gordon, GA
IP NETWORK MANAGEMENT PLANNING
Certificate Advanced IP and network planning for network managers
1997Signal Regimental Academy
Fort Gordon, GA
Warrant Officer Basic Course
Basic network area support/WAN technology
1995US AIR FORCE TECHNICAL
SCHOOL, Sheppard AFB, Witchita Falls, TX
SL-100 DIGITAL SWITCHING
Advanced study and training of commercial digital switching networks,
installation and construction of commercial cell towers.
1995US AIR FORCE TECHNICAL
SCHOOL, Sheppard, AFB, Witchita Falls, TX
FIBER OPTIC TRAINING Advanced
study and training of installing, maintaining, and repair of fiber optic
networks.