Christopher Griffin

375 Conestoga Way, Unit 3513

Henderson, NV  89002

chrgrf@gmail.com

(702)467-7440

 

OBJECTIVE:

Dedicated Information Technology professional with over 16 years of increasing responsibilities in leadership, technology and process management. Proven ability to lead and manage personnel and projects. Able to communicate effectively in diverse environments. Proficiencies include but are not limited to Advanced Networking concepts, Information Security and Assurance, and System Administration.

-          TS/SCI (Date Granted: September 2011)

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

JT3, LLC             Las Vegas, NV

March 2011 to Present

Field Engineer III and IV (Senior Network Engineer)

 

-          Evaluate system requirements to determine technical solution that will meet/exceed customer expectations

-          Design solutions in compliance with local and overarching guidance, policies and procedures

-          Evaluate new technology standards and products for integration into existing infrastructures or applicability towards future projects

-          Develop, maintain and guide the execution of system life cycle plans

-          Serve as Tier 3 support

 

S-COM/Clearwire Communications (Contractor)             Las Vegas, NV

July 2010 to March 2011

Network Operations Center (NOC) Event Management Technician

 

-          Assist field technicians, tier 2 and tier 3 personnel with troubleshooting and resolution of system issues

-          Quickly recognize and pursue issues in the field related to system components

-          Manage 3 person team through daily troubleshooting logs.  Creation, updates and closure of networks issues via trouble ticket system.

-          Engage business partners and Telco carriers to identify and resolve production network impacting issues.

 

Global TechPro, LLC              Langley AFB, VA

December 2008 to June 2010

Network Administrator AOCWS (FTC) – 710^th COS (TBMCS-FL)

 

-          Design, install and  manage local area network (LAN).  Perform a variety of maintenance, evaluation, installation and training task to ensure LAN performance met company and user requirements

-          Support System Administrators as required with various operating systems and platforms.

-          Conduct system audits to ensure appropriate access and management

-          Recommend, test and implement system improvements

 

United States Air Force              (Various)

December 98 to December 2008

Network Engineer – Manager (Oct 03 – Dec 08)

 

-          Evaluate system requirements to determine technical solution that will meet/exceed customer expectations

-          Design solutions in compliance with local and overarching guidance, policies and procedures

-          Evaluate new technology standards and products for integration into existing infrastructures or applicability towards future projects

-          Develop, maintain and guide the execution of system life cycle plans

-          Serve as Tier 3 support

-          Supervised 35 personnel in 2 divisions through daily maintenance and sustainment activities for 600+ network devices supporting 13k+ customers

 

Wireless Communications Specialist (Dec 98 to Sep 03)

 

-          Maintained Air Traffic Control radio systems, digital voice recorders and Radar approach control systems

-          Developed a 6 year/$15M plan for Land Mobile Radio system upgrade

 

 

SKILLS:

Experienced on the following systems, software and operating systems:

Various network devices/manufacturers (Cisco, Brocade, Ciena, Juniper, Linksys, AT and more)

-          Various network devices/manufacturers (Cisco, Brocade, Ciena, Juniper, Linksys, AT and more)

-          Firewall (McAfee, Palo Alto and Cisco)

-          Management Software (Solarwinds, HP OpenView and CiscoWorks)

-          Cisco Unified/Unity (Call Manager, Unified Communications)

-          Windows (2k, XP, Vista, 7, 10, Server 2000/2003/2008, Solaris 8 (Sparc), VMWare vSphere 4

-          Long Haul (SONET, DragonWave and Ceterus)

-          Wireless Access Points (Motorola DAP, Motorola NextNet, Huwawei and Samsung)

-          Storage (NetApp and EMC)

-          Netcool Network Monitoring

-          Microsoft Enterprise/Office (2003, 2008, 2010, 2016, Active Directory, DNS and DHCP)

-          Symantec SEP, Symantec GHOST

-          Fluke (Link Runners and Optiviews)

-          Adonis DNS

-          Retina OS Scanner

-          Wireshark and various portable network testing applications

 

 

EDUCATION:

 Capella University                                                                      Minneapolis, MN

 

BS Information Assurance and Security

5 classes remaining

 

  Community College of the Air Force              Maxwell-Gunter AFB, AL

 

Associate of Applied Science Electronic Systems Technology

 

CERTIFICATIONS:

CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) – 2008 (Current)

CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) – 2011 (Expired)

CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) – 2009 (Expired)

 

TRAINING:

 

CISCO

-          Certified Cisco Design Expert (CCDE) Bootcamp

-          Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) Bootcamp

-          Securing Network Devices (SND)

-          Building Scalabe Cisco Internetworks (BSCI)

-          Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN)

-          Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices (ICND)

-          Implementing CiscoWorks for Enterprise Management

-          VOIP Implementation (various)

 

Information Security

-          Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Bootcamp

-          Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI)

-          Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH)

-          Security + (CompTia)

 

Additional

-          Risk Management Framework

-          McAfee Secure Firewall Administration Basic & Advanced

-          NetApp Data ONTAP Fundamentals

-          Introduction to Ghost Suite