I've worked my way up the ladder from tech support to network design and engineering, eventually to traveling the world in various consulting and contracting roles. My past employment has seen a wide variety of technologies and vendors, from Cisco and Juniper based networks to the garden variety of military hardened hardware and software. I have personally engineered solutions ranging from provider BGP, to Army firewalls, to NATO network solutions. Specialties: IP Design, Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Unix (Solaris, BSD) administration, Linux administration, SQL administration, various platform scripting and automation, PIX and ASA firewalls, VPN technologies.

Consultant @ From 2011 to Present (4 years) Network Engineer @ From 2010 to 2011 (1 year) Network Engineer @ From 2009 to 2010 (1 year) Information Assurance Network Engineer @ Oversee network security of MND-N and MND-C locations. Responsible for Cisco ASA's, Bluecoats, and various intrusion detection devices. Assist and guide the LAN administrators accordingly on secure and best practice designs. Coordinate IDS activities, wireless auditing, and reporting with the relevant entities. Coordinate with WAN and LAN and offer assistance where necessary on migrations, changes, and other network events. From May 2008 to 2009 (1 year) Network Admin ( contractor ) @ Responsible for the maintenance, upgrading, design, and implementation of network devices and security for camp Arifjan’s public and classified data networks. Presented, led, and assisted in deployments of numerous voice and data solutions to support communications for the TACSWACAA project. • Secret Clearance position • CiscoWorks • Cisco IPS, NAM modules • Automation and management scripts and interfaces • Spearheaded projects related to security, SNMP trending, and packet analysis From April 2007 to May 2008 (1 year 2 months) Communications Node Engineer @ Member of the maintenance and installation team responsible for the network hardware and appliances on the nation's missle defense system. • Secret Clearance position • Cisco WAN and LAN networking • HP OpenView • CiscoWorks From October 2005 to March 2007 (1 year 6 months) Network & Systems Engineer @ Signed on with Alabama’s largest privately owned ISP in order to alleviate the implementation and maintenance overhead of the leased fiber backbone as well as their 12 downstream ISP's. Duties comprised of maintaining various network devices and servers, projects involving implementation of new services to core and customer networks, and establishment and testing of new ISPs. • Implemented FreeBSD postfix mail servers, Apache webservers, Bind DNS servers, and MySQL servers • Eliminated single points of failure on ISP routers with means of HSRP, GLBP, SQL replication, DNS redundancy, and MX redundancy • Migrated ISP's from old mail/dns/sql/web servers to new platforms with 0 recognized downtime • Implented existing custom SNMP monitoring infrastructure From November 2004 to October 2005 (1 year)

The University of Southern Mississippi From 2001 to 2002