Project Lead / Systems Engineer / Mission Specialist
Raytheon
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :10 years, 3 أشهر
Raytheon - Springfield, VA NOV 03 - JUNE 08
Project Lead / Systems Engineer / Mission Specialist
Project Lead
• Provided leadership and direction to project teams by understanding business processes, gathering requirements, identifying potential usability issues, managing scope, and ensuring that an appropriate level of application quality and security was maintained at all times.
• Assessed project feasibility, gathered business requirements, and executed project plans for various business groups.
• Researched and provided front line metrics analysis to upper level management.
• Created and reviewed mission training manuals for project relevancy and updated all security procedures.
Systems Engineer
• Responsible for the operation, maintenance and integrity/security of a distributed, networked SUN/UNIX based environment.
• Responsible for the operation, maintenance, replication and integrity/security of three major distributed intelligence databases.
• Recommended design changes and/or enhancements to systems and systems processes.
• Optimized system operation, resource utilization and performed system capacity and security analysis/planning.
• Monitored system status for changes in operational functionality and relayed such information to Manager.
Mission Specialist
• Provided front line analysis, execution, and planning for all mission tasks, activities, and functions.
• Administered heterogeneous environments comprising Red Hat Linux, SunOS, and Solaris.
• Developed and customized scripts that resulted in improved systems monitoring of all audit logs.
• Performed distributed intelligence database administration of user accounts, problem analysis, and resolution using various web-based, database querying languages, and enterprise tools.
United States Patent and Trademark Office - Alexandria, VA AUG 02 - NOV 03
Patent Examiner, GS 1224-09
• Examined state-of-the-art leading edge computing technologies such as client/server configurations, cooperative computer processing, multi-computer data transferring via shared memory, network load balancing, TCP/IP, VOIP, SONET, IPV6, QoS, MPLS, IDS, IPS and SAN.
• Reviewed patent applications for compliance with format, rules, and legal requirements.
• Evaluate adequacy of scope or functionality of the protection claimed by invention applicants.
• Researched databases consisting of over six million patents on relevant IT technologies to secure data on similar prior inventions and compare findings with the invention claim.
• Made independent determinations on patentability of the claimed invention based upon applicable US Patent and Trademark laws and agency policies.
• Developed findings, recommendations reports and briefed agency legal council, patent practitioners, and inventors.
• Provided guidance to patent practitioners, and inventors on proper submittal and processing of patent applications.
• Promoted within six months of employment due to maintaining high output of application production.
UUNET - Falls Church, VA MAY 99 - AUG 00
Network Engineer
• Earned and applied Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification.
• Installed, maintained, and upgraded networks and series racked PCs.
• Assisted in the design and testing of an Internetworking Lab used for employee training by designing and configuring UUNET'S training routers, switches, and hubs.
• Managed networks for UUNET by rebooting, configuring, installing, wiring, and troubleshooting network components such as ATM switches, hubs routers, and workstations.
• Monitored 100 rack PC's by upgrading, cloning, troubleshooting and installing necessary components in order to make all systems operational and running at maximum efficiency.
• Used UNIX servers and workstations (SGI, SPARC) for supervising routers, ATM switches, and error logs generated by the network system.
• Interacted with Novell, NT, Windows 95/98/2000 systems as well as Windows 2000 servers.
• Gained extensive experience in various network protocols like TCP/IP, IPX, and UDP.
• Planned, directed, and evaluated major information technology systems projects to ensure that current and future application user requirements were met;
• Worked with multiple local area networks (LANS) in the design of cable plant (twisted pair, fiber optic, etc.); equipment selection (servers, concentrators, repeaters, bridges, routers, and gateways); software (network operating systems, electronic mail, applications, routing protocols, network administration, etc.) and the connectivity between personal computers (workstations) and network servers.
Pacific Century Enterprise - Chantilly, VA MAY 96 - APR 99
Help Desk and Small Office IT Support Specialist
• Built Small business servers to host multiple databases.
• Maintained a LAN and made sure all servers were operational and sending and receiving network traffic.
• Provided help desk support to all remote users.
• Set up VPN tunnels from one office to another.
• BS - COMPUTER ENGINEERING - [GPA: 3.5], Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.