Employment Experience:

• Feb. 1996 - Sep. 2009 – Systems Administrator at Noblis (previously Mitretek Systems); Falls Church, VA and McLean, VA
  • Assisted DBAs, developers, and users (disk space, access permissions, server performance, missing email, restoring files); supported application upgrades and maintenance
  • Installed OS upgrades; maintained OS patches; installed hardware upgrades
  • Contributed to the System Security Plan: documentation, implementation, auditing
  • Disaster Recovery: planning, site configuration and installation, test planning; enabled and tested OS security features
  • Wrote scripts for ad-hoc requests
  • Applications and Services supported
    • Oracle (database); Oracle Financials; PeopleSoft; JAMIS (time reporting); Sunflower (asset tracking)
    • Sendmail (SMTP boundary gateway); SecurID (access authentication); FW-1 (firewall); VTCP (VPN)
  • Classes
    • Sun Solaris 10; Sun Solaris TCP/IP Network Admin; Sun Solaris 2.X System Administration
    • Harker Systems Sendmail and DNS Training; Computer Associates International Unicenter; Netrex Firewall-1; Windows-NT
    • Sequent ptx/SVM; HIPAA Training & Awareness
  • Awards
    • Noblis President's Award Team (Oct 2008) – establishing a corporate disaster-recovery site in Arizona
    • FISMA Project Team (Apr. 2008) – establishing, implementing, documenting, and auditing security policies
    • Oracle Financials and PeopleSoft Upgrades Team (May 1999) – major application upgrades
  • Other Special Recognition
    • Noblis Brand Initiative Celebration – corporate name change from Mitretek Systems to Noblis: widespread changes across all IT services, with minimal disruptions, and done in relative secrecy (need-to-know basis)
    • Corporate Relocation Recognition Luncheon – move from McLean, VA to Falls Church, VA: extensive configuration changes, minimal disruption of services
    • Payroll Disaster Recovery – critical data correction
    • Daylight Savings Time Transition – DST rule changes affecting applications (mini Y2K)
    • VOIP Implementation
• Oct. 1989 - Feb. 1996 – Systems Administrator at The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
  • Duties and activities largely the same as at Noblis/Mitretek above.
  • Originally supported departmental computer labs; later supported corporate data-center servers.
  • Secret security clearance.

Programming Languages:

• csh/tcsh, ksh, Bourne shell; awk, sed; C, Pascal, RPG II
• various Assemblers (8086, 6800, Z-80, 6502);
• BASIC, FORTRAN, APL, PL/I, ALGOL, SNOBOL

Operating Systems:

• UNIX (Sun Solaris/SunOS, Mac OS X, Sequent Dynix, AT&T AIX, Apple AUX); SUSE Linux; AmigaDOS

Hardware:

• Sun Microsystems (Blades, SunFire, Enterprise, Ultra, SunBlade, SPARCserver, SPARCstation);
• EMC (CLARiiON CX500) and MTI (V400) SANs; Sequent (S81, S5000/80)

Educational Background:

• Graduate of Princeton University with a B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.