Objective

Certifications and Training

Awards

Federal Computer Week Rising Star Award Winner 2006

Experience

Manager, UNIX National Applications & USPS.com

• Led the effort to decrease SUN hardware maintenance by $2 million per year by way of a major technology refresh.
• Led the effort to consolidate Oracle databases into a shared SUN / Oracle RAC highly available and standardized cluster.
• Led the effort to create the first shared WebSphere hosting platform and cost chargeback model.
• Led the effort to build a project management office, standardize UNIX server requirement gathering and sizing, and application hosting process.
• Converted UNIX support from contractor to employee positions, saving $1.9 million per year.
• Manage 40 full time employees and contractors which include 4 management staff, and 1,200 SUN Solaris servers, 50 IBM AIS servers and 50 RedHat Linux servers between 2 data centers.
• Directed the effort to create the first disaster recovery environment at a remote site, by way of identifying critical applications, gathering requirements, sizing hardware, procuring hardware, and overseeing the data replication and server installation.
• Manage the SUN hardware contract and offered product listing.
• Manage the workload and direction of UNIX engineering.

Manager, Windows National Applications & USPS.com

• Successfully managed the migration of all International Business Unit systems to the Eagan Data Center.
• Successfully managed the roll out of a hardware platform (UNIX, Mainframe, and Windows) which facilitated the migration of 36 HR applications into SAP software.
• Successfully built a secure corporate travel platform on Windows Servers.
• Created and implemented the first web-based centralized patch management system.
• Managed 15 contractors and 450 Windows NT, 2000, and 2003 servers between 2 data centers.

Windows Team Lead / Contractor / Northrop Grumman

• Architected and built Windows USPS.com environments and engineered secure server build, which facilitated the migration of USPS.com in-house and saving $7 million per year.
• Created secure infrastructure services for DMZ environments.
• Created first USPS Windows Server hardening script.
• Implemented first intrusion detection system for Windows.
• Served as the technical team lead for 15 systems administrators.
• Established processes, procedures, server build standards, and infrastructure standards.

System and Network Administrator

• Managed servers and networks for 15 businesses.
• Consolidated and standardized security product usage / configuration.
• Managed backup and recovery environments.
• Managed antivirus and firewall environments.
• Worked with commercial software vendors in providing tier 3 application support.

General  / IT Manager

• Managed all facets of this 1500 member fitness facility, including: Information Technology, accounting, payroll, HR, and marketing.
• Successfully migrated accounting systems and data when business was sold to Decathlon Athletic Club.
• Managed the backup, disaster recovery planning, and disaster recovery testing of the corporate accounting system.

Education

• 1987-1992         Tarkio College      Tarkio, MO      B.A., Recreation
• 2006-Present     University of Phoenix Online        Internet
• Pursuing MBA / Technology Management degree, 12 credits completed with 3.41 GPA

Interests

Own and operate a Linux based web hosting side business, which runs on open source software for content management.

• www.CyberNoggin.com
• www.Plan-Tastic.com
• www.ClarindaIowa-as-Baseball.org
• www.WeLoveWebkinz.com
• www.WindsorOnline.org

Technical Experience and Proficiency

• SUN / Iplanet Web Server
  
• SUN / Iplanet Directory Server (LDAP)
  
• Linux (Debian, Red Hat)
  
• Apache / MySQL
  
• Drupal
  
• Windows Server (NT, 2000, 2003)
  
• Active Directory
  
• DNS, WINS, DHCP, LDAP, Proxy
  
• Postfix, MS Exchange
  
• MicroStrategy Business Intelligence
  
• Spamassassin
  
• Comodo / Verisign SSL Certificates and MPKI
  

• Cisco switches, routers and load balancers
  
• Intrusion detection / prevention systems
  
• Veritas and Computer Associates backup software
  
• Netscaler load balancers
  
• SUN Solaris 9 and 10
  
• Business Objects
  
• ISS Intrusion Detection / Prevention
  
• Symantec antivirus, IPS, IDS
  
• Microsoft PKI
  

• EMC SAN and replication
  
• BMC Remedy problem and change management software
  
• IBM AIX
  
• IBM WebSphere (standard, commerce and portal)