Robert D. Bromley V

 

senior Network Security engineer

Certified IT professional offering more than 20 years of hands-on experience and a record of achievement designing, supporting, troubleshooting, installing, securing and repairing mission-critical systems and networks.

·   Recognized for deep and broad hands-on experience designing, implementing and supporting complex networks, server, email, LAN/WAN connections, disaster recovery/backup, and security solutions.

·   Noted for ability to work in stressful situations and aggressive deadlines quickly resolving complex issues and ensuring continuity of services.

·   Maintain current knowledge of technology developments to plan for upgrades and make critical business decisions.

·   Solid reputation for root-cause analysis with a collaborative spirit and a passion for seeing a quality job through to completion.

·   Organized take-charge professional, exceptional follow-through abilities, sees projects to successful conclusion maximizing customer satisfaction.

·   Excellent communication skills, able to take intimidating, highly technical, and complex information and translate it into easily understood information that empowers users at all organization levels.

·   Personal strengths include excellent work ethic, broad-based knowledge, flexibility, and organization skills.

 

 

 

 

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CACI International, Inc ²  Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD2010-Present

Provides professional services and IT solutions needed to prevail in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, and federal civilian government arenas.

Information systems security Engineer, Lead

Pivotal member of a QRC engineering team to design and secure the network for a QRC program called Relevant ISR to the Tactical Edge (RITE 3G)

§ Designed, implemented, and managed the core network for a 3G cellular network being used on the Last Tactical Mile Pilot Program in theater to pass biometric data from 3G cellular handhelds on a private 3G network to the CENTCOM FORWARD SERVER-biometric database enabling real-time fingerprint and latent print matching on the tactical edge.

§ Designed and implemented a roaming capability for 3G mobiles to roam from one fixed site to another using backhaul network radios to pass traffic on the fly with no user interaction using OSPF and NAT on the mobile and fixed sites ensuring traffic can reach the war fighters on the edge.

§ Directly responsible for bringing the NIPR network to the tactical edge using 3G mobile nodes on MATVs using Cisco ASA VPNs to authenticate and protect data passing into the NIPR network.

§ Create relevant test plans to troubleshoot and resolve issues that arise in subsystem components, to include handheld biometric devices (SEEKS), 3G Cellular Base Stations (Harris-(Knighthawk), and backhaul radios (Rockwell Collins-QNT).

§ Assist the government IA Lead in documenting and securing system components as they relate to information assurance requirements set forth by CENTCOM.   

US Army, Aberdeen Test Center ²  Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD2010

Direct fire testing center

Senior Network Engineer

Recruited to provide a high level of routing and switching expertise and independently oversee numerous highly visible projects.

§ Configured Cisco 2800 series routers with Cisco NAM modules to provide historical and real-time data for robotic test course using wireless networks. Finished project in 80% less time than budgeted (1 month versus scheduled 5 months).

§ Overseeing Network Characterization project to develop a baseline of normal network traffic at 6 test ranges that test robots on a 3-mile test track. Solution consists of a Cisco ISR branch router that can be disconnected from the ATC LAN while the test range conducts tests and still provide control of wireless access points while logging traffic for later analysis.

§ Designed new solution using Cisco ASA active/active clusters and BGP to handle routing from core to DREN (Defense Research and Engineering Network). Solution provided firewall redundancy should hardware fail and redundant routes in case of link failure. Also increased performance by load balancing both links.

Verizon Business, Inc ²  Beltsville, MD2009-2010

Leading provider of IT, Communications, Security & Network Solutions

Specialist engineer, Firewalls and load balancing

Pivotal member of the 24/7 tier III network technical operations group that rapidly solves client issues on thousands of firewalls, load balancers, routers, and switches across the world in hundreds of locations throughout the USA, Europe, and Asia.

§ Resolved hundreds of security issues and created configurations for premier clients including Budweiser, Nestle, American Express, Novartis, and Accenture, hosted within premier, state-of-the-art data center.

§ Resolved connectivity and security issues related to Cisco PIX, FWSM, ASA, Checkpoint NG and NGX firewalls, Cisco routers and switches, and Juniper SRX.

§ Designed and implemented all firewalls and load balancers for new and existing clients.

§ Resolved load balancing issues on all F5 BIG IP, and Cisco CSS, GSS, Local Directors, Distributed Directors, and Citrix Netscalers. 

§ Troubleshooted VPNs including site-to-site, Checkpoint Securemote, and Cisco remote access.

§ Provided clients technical advice with regard to firewall, network, and load balancing configurations.

§ Documented all implementations, and troubleshooting resolutions to adhere to SAS 70 certification requirements. 

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Old Mutual Financial Network (OMFN) ²  Baltimore, MD2007-2009

Delivers a diverse portfolio of annuities and life insurance products via an established group of master general agents.

Senior Security and Network Engineer

Assisted in leading 11-member support staff in design, implementation, and maintenance of 150+ servers, network security, routing and switching.

§ Directly responsible for all network security related duties throughout the company’s locations within the continental U.S. to include:  Boston, Denver, New York, Atlanta, and Lincoln, Nebraska.

§ Assisted engineers in migration of active directory to a single root domain with multiple child domains throughout the company’s worldwide presence to improve security and single sign-on abilities.

§ Directly responsible for all internal routing and switching designs on a collapsed-core architecture including new implementations, and maintenance to improve network speed, routing issues, and VLAN management.

§ Implemented Fortigate firewalls-unified threat management (IPS, Firewall, URL filtering, anti-virus, and spam prevention) to replace all Nokia Checkpoint firewalls.

SM Consulting, Inc.  ²  Linthicum, MD2003 - 2007

Provides Federal, State and Local governments, and Fortune 1000 companies with contract services in Linguistics, Intelligence, IT, Management Consulting, Business Process Outsourcing, Training, and Logistics.

Senior Network Engineer

Pivotal leader of 3-member support team managing all day-to-day IT operations across 3 Company Divisions and 7 offices. Monitor all mission-critical services and quickly resolve all issues to ensure no disruptions to production. Manage design development and implementation for all technical projects.

§ Spearheaded company’s technology growth from 2-office, 40-user organization to 450+ users in 3 divisions across 7 locations in under 4 years.

§ Built and maintained software development environment of HP and Dell hardware servers and Microsoft virtual servers for application services group to write commercial applications using .Net, SQL, and other Microsoft technologies.

§ Designed bulletproof backup system for mission-critical data and replicated it off site in real-time to separate geographic location to avoid disasters from disrupting business.

§ Improved productivity by designing, implementing, and maintaining the site-to-site VPN tunnels between four offices and one commercial client that provide reliable connectivity to corporate network.

§ Ensured Federal compliance by designing and managing mail archiving system based on government retention guidelines that backs up all incoming and outbound mail for 3 years.

§ Assisted legal team with forensic recovery of hard drive and email information for prosecution of data theft violators.

§ Upgraded corporate email system from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003, and migrated 400+ users on time, on budget, and with zero business disruptions.

§ Managed multi-million-dollar Federal Division project and with less than 24 hours notice on a Friday, procured, and setup 25-workstation dual server network ready for use on Monday morning at 8:00am.

Automatic Data Processing (ADP) ²  Baltimore, MD2001 - 2003

Global provider of transaction processing systems, desktop productivity applications, and investor communication services.

Senior Network Engineer, ADP Brokerage Services

Directly supported on-site personnel and network support including 80+ server farm used by clients to design and print their financial documents including prospectuses, quarterly reports, 401k statements, enrollment packets, etc.

§ Facilitated increased uptime during hardware failures, patch maintenance, and server reboots by designing, implementing, and managing clustered server farm of Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL clustered servers.

§ Designed, implemented, and managed custom production web server farm with network load balancing solution using F5 BIG IP Traffic Management/Load Balancing Switch to route traffic to lesser-utilized servers during high traffic periods.

§ Praised by IT Director for achieving 99.999% system uptime for 3 consecutive years and avoiding all major virus outbreaks including MSBlaster, Love Bug, Nimda, and Code Red.

 

Positions from 1993-2001 removed for brevity, available upon request.