Senior Systems Engineer with 8 years’ experience in system virtualization and network security. A motivational team leader with the ability to align cross-functional teams with business objectives to achieve key metrics. Served in the United States Air Force, Early Unix Security in the Pentagon and worked as the Lead Engineer for Special Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. After trading in the boots for slacks and collars best known for excellence in defining and integrating cutting-edge technologies to improve automation and reliability.
Single point of administration for patches, updates, backups and security on 40 Red Hat Linux servers worldwide throughout the DIA Enterprise Datacenters.
Proficient in RHEL/Debian for multiple server installations to include APCs Data Center Operations Server.
Subject matter expert on site for DCIM tool Data Center Expert(DCE) 7.2 and Data Center Operations(DCO) 7.3.6.
Sole administrator for DCIM Server backups and restoration.
Architect for multiple Data Centers using DCIM tool (DCO and DCE) for monitoring of cooling, power, rack space, humidity.
Participated in establishing a standard for data center rack elevations for the DIA Intelligence Community using 3 dimensional modeling and real-time device associations.
Trained local data center managers on using the DCIM tool.
