Bio

Work Experience

I have held a variety of positions in my career. I have been responsible for the design, testing, evaluation, implementation, and support of various platforms (hardware, operating systems, software, and systems tools). I have provided direct technical support and consultation in life cycle planning, problem management and resolution, and integration. Implement releases, upgrades, and/or changes into the environment. My responsibilities have included ensuring that platform performance and availability meet enterprise objectives through monitoring, timely service restoration, and tuning. My duties have included capacity planning, workload modeling, system maintenance/administration, and diagnostics. I have been the lone Unix administrator in the group responsible for not only the servers but all applications and services running on them. I have written lesson plans and taught operator level technical school. I conducted weekly training sessions on various systems for other team members. I have proven leadership skills through successful team/shift leader assignments.

1. Georgia Institute of Technology – Network Operations Center shift supervisor
2. Delta Air Lines and IBM – Web Applications System Administrator
3. PanAmSat, Co –
a) Network and Systems Administrator – Unix/Linux
b) Teleport Maintenance Engineer
4. General Dynamics – Unix System and Network Administrator
5. Military experience -
a) Ft Campbell, KY – Intelligence and Communications Team Leader
b) Camp Humphreys, Korea – Intelligence System Department Leader
c) Fort Huachuca, AZ – Instructor
d) Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras – Intelligence System Team Leader
e) Fort Hood, TX – Intelligence System Operator

Technical Training Courses

1. Solaris 10 for Experienced Administrators – Sun Microsystems, 2006
2. Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND) – Information Management Systems, 2003
3. UNIX Tools and Utilities – Kennesaw State Univ., 2002
4. UNIX: DNS and bind – Kennesaw State Univ., 2002
5. Network Node Management Administration – HP Education Services, 2002
6. Networking and Security Administration – Red Hat Training Services, 2001
7. Info System Security Managers Course – US Army, DISC4, 2000
8. A+ / Net+ Certification Training – Ameritrain, Inc, 1999
9. Solaris 2.6 System Administration – Sun Microsystems, 1999