• IT lead for space systems analysis & test group. Sets and executes strategic vision for group’s IT needs. Responsible for all purchases, licenses, budgeting, vendor relationships, security posture, and communications to staff and senior leadership. Liaison to IT manager at the division level to report status and advocate for group. Oversees two other system administrators and mentors and supervises interns and co-ops.

• Primary custodian and administrator for group’s high side network and closed area. Responsible for training users on both physical and cyber security aspects of environment. Installs, maintains, and upgrades all systems within security boundary. Meets with security biweekly to remediate any issues. Leads effort to pass yearly security audits.

• Sole system administrator for telescope observatory field site. Executed multi-year project to upgrade legacy telescope control and sensing systems. Traveled multiple times to field site in the Marshall Islands to support telescope and computer refurbishment.

• Served as lead system administrator for medium-sized, high visibility program. Took over while project was mid-life and remediated architectural deficits. Executed purchases of equipment, configured, and deployed according to strict security standards. Stood up and integrated Linux environment into existing infrastructure. Deployed several applications and services including Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket, and Exchange and integrated into domain. Introduced automation tools into every aspect of environment to improve system integrity, manageability, and availability. Worked closely with information security and assurance team to ensure environment remained compliant with government sponsor requirements. Led effort from system administration side to successfully pass multiple on-site government inspections. Won multiple awards for this effort.

Self-managed with daily operational duties and long-term projects. Managed the technical infrastructure for several closed areas and provided lifecycle support for all systems. Responsible for securing, auditing, and remediating vulnerabilities in closed areas. Acted as the point of contact for staff within the labs regarding technical issues.

Selected projects:

• Researched cloud alternatives for government computing work. Designed, deployed, and managed hundreds of nodes in the AWS environment for benchmarking purposes with Ansible.

• Deployed a high-availability distributed cluster for image processing. Built servers from parts and configured with cluster technologies such as GlusterFS. Earned an award for this project.

• Wrote a PowerShell-based utility for analyzing Windows event logs which is used extensively throughout the campus. Developed a Python-based utility for simplified creation of discs containing patches and antivirus definitions.

Worked in a small IT team to service about 200 desktop and laptop computers, 150 Android tablets, and 20 servers, both physical and virtual. Performed regular help desk work such as responding to e-mailed tickets and phone calls. Assisted both local and remote users via LogMeIn remote access. Performed maintenance and upgrades on Windows servers in a VMWare infrastructure.

Took charge of many security aspects including antivirus infrastructure, spam filtering, firewall configuration and monitoring, and malware remediation. Initiated and executed several projects including implementing a custom database solution for devices, building standardized desktop imaging infrastructure, and standardizing and clustering ESXi hosts.