Damian J. Osborne1324 Kent Ave Gwynn Oak MD

(443) 742-4416 (cell)

damianjosborne@aol.com

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Proven Computer Science Professional with 16years experience in Network/Server/Security Engineer Environment worked on a variety of different programs with different customers in depth knowledge conveying analyst tracking monitoring networks and Security events for different agencies. Background skills include: AWS, Big Data, Virtualizations, Storage, Cloud Technology and Networking.

 

 

TECHNICALSKILLS:

UNIX (Solaris, SGI, HP AUX, AIX), Linux RedHat, Html, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, McAfee, Heat Management Tools, Lotus Notes, Pine, Hummingbird exceed (NETBackup, VMWare)

 

 

 

Education/Certifications

·   Security Plus + Completed February  15, 2011

·   Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

·   BS (Computer Science), Sojourner Douglass University, Annapolis MD, 04-06-2005

·   Completed Course 2273  Managing and Maintaining Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Virtual Pc  Environment August 2008

·   A+ Certification, PC Omega Technology School, Hanover MD, granted May 2001

·   Computer Operations Certification, Fleet Technical School, Annapolis MD, granted June 2000

·   High School Diploma, Mead High School, Fort Meade MD, granted June 1999

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance - active

Agency Special Background Investigation/Full Lifestyle Polygraph/Counter Intelligence Polygraph Hardware/Software

Experience

Workstations:	Pentium Systems (PC’s), and Macintosh Systems
Peripherals:	HP Scanners, HP LaserJet, Color printers, External/ Internal CD-ROM, HP CD-Writers, Iomega Jazz and Zip drives.
LAN/WAN Networks:	Win2k/Active Directory, NT 4.0, Novell Netware 5.0, TCP\IP,
Other Hardware:	3COM NIC Cards, Internal modems, Adaptec SCSI Controller Card, IDE Hard Disk Controllers, SIMMS, Motherboards, Sound cards, Video cards
Specialized Applications	Symantec Ghost, HP Open View & Java Console, Telnet, Pc Anywhere, LANDesk, VMware cloud computing
Help Desks/Call Centers:	Remedy 5.0, MS Access Data Entry system
Office Applications:	WordPerfect 9.0, Microsoft Office 95-2000 Standard and Pro, File Maker Pro 5.0, Paint Shop Pro 5.0, Adobe Photoshop 5.0, Lotus 1-2-3, MS Visio, Crystal Reports 9.Cognos 8 ,SharePoint , Net backups, AWS Amazon web services.
Groupware:	Lotus Notes 6.5, Microsoft Outlook 98-2000, Microsoft Exchange 5.0 Server and Client, CC-Mail Pop, SNMP TCP/IP
Operating Systems:	Linux, Unix, Sun Solaris 2.1, Win XP, 98, 95-3.11, Win 2000 Adv. Server & Client, Win 2003 Server, DOS 6.0,IIS Microsoft  Server, Active Directory, IBM Guardian
Development Environments:	Macromedia Flash 4.0-5.0, MS FrontPage 98, 2000
Programming Languages:	Java, HTML
Databases:	MS Access 97-2000 MS SQL Server Database  and Database backups

 

Professional Experiencece

Security Systems Engineer/Network Admin January 7 2016 to Current

· Kforce Network duties involve installing computers on hospital Domain using a DHCP table. Also responsible for setting up offsite offices with new computers, printers and ensuring the computers are setup using the correct IP address.

· Daily Duties include creating new ghost images using Symantec ghost for the hospital network.

· Standard Operation procedures also included supporting the network staff with daily network monitoring and network security.

· Also responsible for doing tape backups incremental, differential and full backups.

· Also responsible for nesus scans.

·   Perform administration of VMware environment by managing the following VM components to include but not limited to the VMware Virtual Center, Site Recovery Manager, Operations

             Manager, Cloud Director, and other VMware products.

 

·   Administer VMware 5.1/5.5 environment of approximately 300 hosts and 1500 virtual servers

·   Maintain and manage VM resources to include (CPU, Memory and Disk) usage.

·   Build new VM hosts and instances to support customer requirements.

·   Transfer all production data to the newest VM infrastructure/platform.

·   Resolve VM related incidents in compliance with organizational incident management process.

·   Work with the Storage team to attach and manage Fibre Channel storage on VMware clusters.

·   Install configure application servers administration, including WebLogic, Tomcat, IIS and JBoss.

·   Participates in management of wireless network environment work support various vendor’s (EMC, IBM, HP etc.) storage platform technologies (SAN/NAS) including architecture, operational procedures related to management and monitoring of various storage software and hardware components.

·   Setup high availability for application servers e.g., Tomcat, Weblogic, ESB, JBoss.

·   Provide technical oversight of the customers Virtual infrastructure and management projects within multiple security domains environment. Virtualization projects center on

·   technical hardware / software migrations ("Physical to Virtual" and/or "Virtual to Virtual migrations) in the Windows environment, including working with SANs, backups, applications, clients, and similar virtualization tasks.

 

Security Systems Engineer/Network Admin April- 2015 to December 2015

Leidos

·   Responsible for leading the Fisma Security Assessment using and managing the whole fisma process.

·   Information System Security Engineering expertise with a strong knowledge in both current and legacy Security Risk Management Framework (certification &accreditation) processes and procedures.

·   Also have experience with TV Policy requirements and approval process

·   Responsible for preparing NSA Information Systems Certification Accreditation (C&A) as required by NISCAP procedures and DCID 6/3.

 

 

 

Security Systems Engineer/Network Admin April- 2014 to April 2015

Engineering Resources Inc

              Duties include writing requirements and developing system architecture for various systems.

              This includes creating and analyzing requirements and validating requirements from both   the user       

·   And system prospective. Other duties include system documentation and guiding threw life cycle of effort.

·   Provided security expertise to create the required documentation and put the required project components thru the security process to receive ATO Status. Daily duties include accessing the ssp using the xacta database. Also responsible for oracle 10 g database.

·   Along with the changes that I make I also coordinate with the ISSO and ISSM to make sure changes to the network and servers are added to the (SSP) System Security Plan. AWS also experience with working Amazon web services.

 

·   Responsible for keeping all system diagrams along with all other documentation updated in the (NCAD) after any changes were made to systems.

 

Systems Engineer /Linux Systems Admin August 2011 to April 2014

Northrop Grumman FLE

 

We used UNIX and Linux while in this position, we was also responsible for performance tuning and capacity planning of servers writing Perl. Daily duties include logging on to Puppet and LDAP to troubleshoot issues with network devices and various line cardsfor process automation of databases, Worked on group/user administration, start up and shutdown scripts, crontabs, file system maintenance and backup scripting and automationTroubleshooting and analysis of hardware and software failures for various Linux servers (core dump and log file analysis).

Also responsible for large scale Hadoop cluster environment, also handled all hadoop environment builds, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring with exceptional technical, organization, and communication skills. Daily duties include managing a 50 node cluster with each cluster pulling over a terabyte of data a day.

 

·   Daily duties also include troubleshooting systems working with Linux 5.8 systems. Daily duties include stopping and restarting process in Linux.

 

 

·   Also responsible for setting and explaining system status in various meetings.

 

·   Responsible for being lead Engineer on this Sigint program.

 

·   Also responsible for using VMware virtualization software packages to monitor workstations and desktops.

 

 

 

IT Security Specialist Level 3August 2010 to August 2011

ELEVI Associates, LLC, Columbia MD

 

·   Responsible for planning and implementing the organizations Information Security.

 

·   Provided support for facility and identified their current security infrastructure and defined future implementation of security related to IT Systems.

 

                Daily duties also included logging on to various sites using a KVM Switch in A Red Hat  environment.

                Daily duties also include performance tuning Red HAT Enterprise Linux in computer cluster environment.   

             Daily duties would also include restarting blades using the IBM Blade Center

·   Daily duties also include monitoring security events using sight protector as they appear on agency network. Based on the various security findings we prove the security event either is a false positive or we create a case using Arc Sight Console.

 

·   We also create cases for various outages scheduled and unscheduled which are then sent to the Security Officer.

 

·   Also worked Global Services Desk Microsoft Server Os and Services, Active Directory, Linux, File Print services, Exchange, IIS, SQL

 

·   Also worked to support VDI Users for various Nsa Customers.

 

 

·   We also use various agency tools along with current commercial products to help with proving the security events to be either false positives or Arc Sight Cases. The Cases are then sent to the Security Officer for review.

 

·   Responsible for making sure that any information reported on various systems are updated in NCAD.

 

Network Administrator (mid-shift) October 2009 to August 2010

Keyw Corporation, Hanover, Junction, MD

 

·   Responsible for fixing issues with NTOC domain and supporting the NTOC floor.

·   Responsible for putting computers on the property domain and troubleshooting them as needed while on this network. Also worked Mid Shift overnight handling high priority issues.

 

·   Daily duties include logging into Linux and UNIX servers and transferring files from one Linux server to a windows server location. Also worked with cloud computing

 

·   Also work as a technician to work check system status on UNIX server to make sure systems are up and running. Duties also included working as a network admin on SharePoint Systems.

 

·   Daily duties also include creating and deleting of user accounts on a various domains.

Responsible for creating user accounts and adding them to the domain as well as deleting them

·   Tickets are worked through remedy ticket system as needed or assigned to proper group as they come in the

System.

 

·   We also use big brother and network monitor to see when users are up or down on the network to troubleshoot when devices go down on the network.

 

·   Another major function is transfer data from one network to another based on user access and permissions. Responsibilities also include sending out messages on various outages when needed.

 

 

Network Administrator                                               December 2008 to August 2009

Waterman Engineering, Annapolis Junction, MD

 

·   Responsible for putting computers on the domain.

 

·   Also responsible for daily installation configuration of computer desktop equipment and software through out the agency on a normal basis. Responsible for setting up several offices at a time.

 

·   Responsible for setting up computers in remote software before adding them to the domain.

               Responsible for creating user accounts and adding them to the domain as well as deleting them

Security Systems Engineer                                          July 2007 to December 2008

Perot Systems, Annapolis Junction, MD

Lead Engineer

·   Responsible for leading the Fisma Security Assessment using and managing the whole fisma process.

·   Information System Security Engineering expertise with a strong knowledge in both current and legacy Security Risk Management Framework (certification &accreditation) processes and procedures.

·   Also have experience with TV Policy requirements and approval process

·   Responsible for preparing NSA Information Systems Certification Accreditation (C&A) as required by NISCAP procedures and DCID 6/3.

 

·   Developed the TV policy requirements and the approval process.

·   Provided security expertise to create the required documentation and put the required project components thru the security process to receive ATO Status.

 

·   I have provided full spectrum Systems Security Engineering support to NTOC for existing projects,          emerging projects and mission capabilities. The position requires a strong background as a systems security engineering practitioner with recent experience bringing systems through the complete security certification and accreditation process at NSA.

 

 

·   Lead the team on & flexibility in developing realistic, achievable solutions for a variety of systems security engineering and program management endeavors.

 

·   Along with the changes that I make I also coordinate with the ISSO and ISSM to make sure changes to the network and servers are added to the (SSP) System Security Plan.

 

·   Responsible for keeping all system diagrams along with all other documentation updated in the (NCAD) after any changes were made to systems.

 

·   Updated and maintained System Security Plans SSP and Security Concept of Operations (SECONOPs).

 

·   Designed and Implemented test procedures in accordance with government stated criteria. Provided (PUG) Privileged Users Guide along with test procedures to certifiers, which is known as a Security Requirements Traceability Matrix (SRTM).

 

·   Also walked certifiers through each test procedure that I had created based on our system and DCID 6/3.

 

·   As a part of over all testing was also the lead on setting up penetration testing on the systems to see if systems were safe from a network attack.

 

·   Responsible for loading wasp vulnerability scan tool to our system and finding all system vulnerabilities and reporting potential issues to certifiers in a timely fashion.

 

 

·   Also Ensured that all users have the requisite security clearances, authorization, and need to know and are aware of their security responsibilities before granting access to the Information System (IS)

 

·   Also responsible for upgrading NSA system from Pl Level two up to Pl level three ATO Stats. Security for   the system was upgraded to Medium.

 

·   Responsible for managing the (CDW) Corporate Data Warehouse Dell application servers and workstations on the daily basis.

 

·   Daily duties include logging into servers to make sure servers are up and users are able to access data through Cognos and Crystal applications.

 

·   Also make sure latest windows patches were applied to the servers as needed. Responsibility also included loading PKI Certificates to Servers and updating certificates if needed.

 

·   Daily checks also include verification that VERITAS Backups are complete.  I also maintain a copy of the Sql Server backups on the servers and check to see that the data in those backups are up-to-date.

 

·   Responsible for documenting all configuration and changes to the Servers as needed IP Address Software loads and also computer upgrades.

 

·   Worked as a lead on getting all the Servers upgraded to 2003 using VMware.

 

·   Also worked as a lead on getting and developing a disaster recovery plan in place.

 

·   Daily duties also included client installs of Oracle, My SQL Server, Erwin and

 

               Responsible for creating user accounts and adding them to the domain as well as deleting them

Network Engineer  November 2004 to July 2007

Eagle Alliance, Annapolis Junction, MD

·   Provide daily network monitoring, support and troubleshooting using the remedy ticket system. Daily duties also include using LANDesk to connect to computers remotely to troubleshoot network issues. 

·                                Creation and troubleshoot of Win2k/Active Directory workstation and user accounts including scripting and group polices. Provide 2nd and 3rd level support adding new users to exchange sever to access their new email accounts.

 

·   Ability to use HP Open View Java Console to manage, monitor and troubleshoot Ethernet, printers.

Daily duties also include walking users through domain password resets.

·   Daily duties also include troubleshooting of Cisco network switches and foundry devices. Also responsible for bringing network devices back up on the daily basis. One other daily function was daily port securities on the regular basis.

·  Responsibilities also include Monitoring Windows and Unix Servers and notifying EA Techs about current outages. Responsible for creating user accounts and adding them to the domain as well as deleting them

Network Administrator   October 2002 to November 2004

Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, MD

· Network duties involve installing computers on hospital Domain using a DHCP table. Also responsible for setting up offsite offices with new computers, printers and ensuring the computers are setup using the correct IP address.

· Daily Duties include creating new ghost images using Symantec ghost for the hospital network.

· Standard Operation procedures also included supporting the network staff with daily network monitoring and network security.

· Also responsible for doing tape backups incremental, differential and full backups.

· Responsible for creating user accounts and adding them to the domain as well as deleting them.

Desktop Support September 2000 to October 2002

Bank Detect, Church ton, MD

·   Daily Duties also include FTP transfers using Pc Anywhere and WinZip to upload data to users machines. 

·   Creation of NT Workstation user accounts, and email accounts on Ms Exchange/NT 4.0Server as well As conduction daily backups and Monitoring of Windows NT Servers.

Network/Applications Support SpecialistSeptember 1998 to October 2000

On site Technologies, Columbia, MD

·   Fielding inbound and outbound calls, including daily customer service calls, first and second level technical support, and assisting customers with information on specific software solutions via phone, e-mail, etc.

·   Provided second level technical support for of Lotus Notes accounts.

·   Walked users through setting up software property software.