·               HoneyPot management for US Govt. Agency

·               PCI/DSS certification and scanning of ecommerce hosted customers

·               Validation of exploited systems

·               Setup hosted VOIP systems using Asterisk

·               Setup Pay by Phone systems using PHPAGI on Asterisk systems

·               Provide security and OS/Application Security hardening techniques for ecommerce customers

·               Managed server upgrades for nearly a hundred Microsoft servers including software certification, testing and implementation for the network services team.

·               Served as liaison, ensured business owners have functional and regression testing plan and system resource to build servers/virtual systems on W2K8 with OS SME’s to assist.

·               Conducted weekly meetings with business owners and software vendors to identify W2K8 gaps.

·               Enforced migration of Legacy Avaya G3R to Avaya IP based switch, reengineered Microsoft based CTI software for Redhat Linux 4 compatibility.

·               Handled Avaya Enablement Services, allowing the use of CRM systems in its current form without expensive customization and enhancements.

·               Handled transition, documented and conducted training on project/application to voice operations team.

·               Conducted intermediate level Linux training including a dedicated RHEL 4 environment to Voice Operations team. Ensured ability to support and maintain new Linux based telephony systems.

·               Served as network director representative, handled streamlining of RPM building process. Provided architectural and design strategy for security review, creation of SPEC file based on archive and effective streamlined Linux software process.

·               Served as technical lead and liaison between voice projects team and the business owners.

·               Handled architecture and documentation of software upgrade requirements.

·               Managed timeline upgrades and scheduled SME’s to assist SME’s with OS/Software defects.

·               Served as project leader for the migration of over 2,000 apps running on Solaris for porting on RHEL.

·               Spearheaded testing team conducting functional/regression testing and UAT. Ensured QC is conducted on all functional and regression testing process.

·               Created and implemented Disaster Recovery testing strategies for telephony solutions, which validates service functionality during component failure, or disaster to primary datacenter.

Bunge Jun 2007 – Nov 2007

Senior Linux Administrator

·               Managed Linux applications support and handled more than 60 Enterprise Red Hat Enterprise servers. Provided level III support for more than 3000 Microsoft Exchange and 100 Lotus Notes mail users.

·               Provided support on Linux applications including but not limited to Tibco, Websphere, Lotus Domino and VMware on Linux ESX platform.

·               Managed and administered reverse proxy servers and assisted in penetration testing for exploit discovery, web applications and PCI compliance.

·               Served as technical lead for the support and architectural delivery of more than 60 RHEL servers and provided technical support on hardware installation. 

·               Handled setting up of HP Proliant hardware in the data center, KVM and OS installation. Designed and implemented Linux based services including implementation of IPTABLES a Linux Firewall, Samba, Apache, Tibco, FTP and Websphere.

·               Provided Level III support for mail users, both Exchange and Lotus Domino. Implemented Zabbix monitoring which trends and monitored over 100 machines.

·               Developed and executed Bash scripting which automated and streamlined companywide business functions.

Confidus GroupNov 2000 – Feb 2007

Senior IT Consultant/Senior Network Architect

·               Handled multiple e-mail systems migration including IBM Lotus R4.8 to R5. Provided webhosting support, CRM/ERP integration and dedicated server-hosting solutions for over 1000 customers.

·               Handled setting up of email systems with IBM Lotus R5 for multiple companies including Thompson Learning, Missouri Highway Patrol and Astaris.

·               Served as technical lead and IT consultant, performed systems upgrades and email platform migrations to Lotus Domino.

·               Developed and executed import/export mail scripts of NAB and mail files to support data migration and system upgrades.

·               Created and developed multiple e-commerce websites for Confidus/Integranet based clients.

·               Implemented SBS 2003 hosting which leveraged Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and designed multiple domain catalog servers and SQL servers for large SharePoint implementation.

·               Managed and implemented mobile device delivery with BlackBerry Enterprise Server and Active Sync. Created architecture design based on customer’s requirements and implemented mail scanning resources and best practices.

·               Managed Data center, provided after hours and on-call support.

·               Handled and supported hardware and operating systems installation and maintenance.

·               Conducted server and network architectural review and implemented enhancements to improve network performance.

·               Developed and maintained more than 1000 web-hosting sites on cPanel platform.

·               Assisted customers with Perl, MySQL, Postgresql, and PHP issues

·               Handled installation and provided support to high-end customers with dedicated Microsoft Exchange servers with Blackberry Enterprise Servers. Handled root cause discovery on email gateway issues. Implemented storage/backup strategies while providing 99.999% SLAs.

State Farm Insurance Oct 2004 – Oct 2006

Microsoft Exchange Architect

·               Served as exchange 2003 Architect, managed message and collaboration area handling more than 178,000 mailboxes. Served as liaison between Microsoft and TAMS, provided support during service outages. Conducted analysis and documented root cause of service issues. Identified and documented root cause utilizing skills on Microsoft Active Directory services, Domain Catalog, SMTP routing frontend and bridgehead servers.

·               Led the Avaya Unified Messaging project, allowing users to receive voicemail via Microsoft Exchange.

·               Worked as a liaison between State Farm and Avaya to identify and implement the best architectural solution per the requirements set forth in the effort.

·               Managed Avaya Unified Messaging project, which allows users to receive voicemail via Microsoft Exchange.

·               Served as liaison between State Farm and Avaya, identified and implemented architectural solution in line with the established requirements.

United States NavyMAR 1992 - MAR 2000

IT Manager

·               Managed over 40 personnel within the supply department.

·               Ensured network systems are available to users, authorized and installed request for resources in workstations.

·               Managed Novel NetWare 3.12 to Windows NT 4.0. Implemented Novel to Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 for authorized users including installations of NT4.0 operating system, migrations of large file volumes from NetWare to Microsoft FAT16.

·               Managed adding and removing of Windows NT user accounts.

·               Handled installation of hubs, switches, fiber and copper wiring. Provided 900 service calls in a six-month period including installation of Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 3.11 on workstations, replacing hardware such as hard-cards and hard-drives, network cards and motherboards.

·              CEH v8

·              CPT

·              CISSP (Currently working on)

·              RHCSA on Redhat 6 Certification# 130-221-468

·              MCSE on Windows 2000 -MCP ID# 2956842

·              MCSA on Windows 2000 -MCP ID# 2956842

·              MCP on Windows 2000 -MCP ID# 2956842

·              Microsoft NT 4.0 Administrator -2001 Brain Bench

·              Computer Industry Knowledge Expert -2002 -Brain Bench

·              Microsoft Windows 95/98 Specialist -2002 -Brain Bench

·              Cisco Voice Gateways and Gatekeepers (GWGK) v2.0 – October 18, 2007

·              Cisco Data Center UNIFIED FABRIC (DCUFI) – October 5, 2012 Certificate number: 70959

·              Associate of Arts in Business Administration Degree (AABA)

American InterContinental University