Experience

Central Carolina Community College

• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Student

  • May 2016 - Present

  Completing Associates in Science before moving on to MS Certification courses. Looking forward to returning to the workforce after a successful career so far! Completing Associates in Science before moving on to MS Certification courses. Looking forward to returning to the workforce after a successful career so far!



Cornerstone Information Systems / Freudenberg Performance Materials

• Freudenberg Nonwovens - Performance Materials - Durham NC

• Team Lead / Network Technician, Administrator, Engineer

  • Aug 2014 - Apr 2016

  Network Technician/Engineer for Cornerstone Information Systems. Responsible for IT department supporting a Manufacturing Facility running 24 hours a day with over 150 employees. Monitor network health including manufacturing and industrial equipment. Responsibilities also include all end user support, project management for facility upgrades, services expansions and implementation of new technologies. Support both office and factory floor employees with access control, support, connectivity, migration and repair. Supporting multiple remote locations and users across the Americas, from New York to California, all the way to Guatemala. Working in tandem with Freudenberg's IT department in Germany's Hemisphere Administrators group for access control in both North and South America. 24/7 On Call. Industrial Control System Integration, Multiple VLAN, AD, and ISO environment. Continued growth and hybrid interaction between conventional networking copper/fiber environments and Industrial systems control environments. Assists in planning and deployment of infrastructure changes, upgrades, and maintenance. Performs network expansions for point-to-point device deployments over Fiber Optic/Copper hybrid environment. Assigned to the Freudenberg-NW/PM facility in Durham, North Carolina. Show less



Informatica Data as a Service

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Network Administrator

  • Aug 2012 - Jun 2014

  Tier 1-3 support of a rapidly expanding userbase of over 50 employees. Direct support for technical integrations with clients. Maintenance of all associated hardware and software, responsible for company's headquarters disaster recovery strategy, provides 24-hour on-call support, and physical building as well as network security. Primarily Windows/Active Directory administrator.Reporting directly to the Director of Operations at Strikeiron, Inc. Responsible for Network Security at Strikeiron HQ as well as incident response and employee education. Comfortable in Hybrid deployments, managing ticketing, responding to any type of IT related issue, be it Networking, Engineering, Customer Service, Connectivity, Vendor relationships and Hardware repair. Show less



US Army Corps of Engineers

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sergeant, 21B, Paratrooper

  • Oct 2005 - Nov 2010

  Honorably discharged from the 82nd Airborne Division, as a E5 Sergeant, SCI Cleared, Combat Engineer. Assigned to the 1/504 Parachute Infantry Regiment, and a Special Weapons Exploitation Team (SWET) Squad Leader, responsible for 24-hour response operations in Northwestern Iraq. Responded to Suicide Blast sites, Car Bombs, etc in order to collect actionable and immediate intelligence from any explosive remains systems by reverse engineering the incidents. Promoted in-country twice to the role of Team lead and squad leader, respectively. Both teams achieved huge successes in both professional growth as well as mission completion. Final position held before separating from the 82nd was as the Brigade's Reconnaissance Sergeant , responsible for overseeing bridging surveys as well as operational readiness at the BDE Command level by advising the BDE Engineer, Topography, and survivability. Show less



www.blast.com

• Junior Network Administrator

  • Jan 2003 - Oct 2005

  Junior Administrator, supported a userbase of 18, Mostly Macintosh/UNIX. Expanded Wireless Internet over a quantity of miles in the town of Pittsboro, NC. Provided 24 hour on-call support to customers as well as support and sales staff. Responsible for the process of onboarding new dial-up service customers, as well as technical support for existing customers. Responsibilities included in house as well as customer facing support and troubleshooting roles. Junior Administrator, supported a userbase of 18, Mostly Macintosh/UNIX. Expanded Wireless Internet over a quantity of miles in the town of Pittsboro, NC. Provided 24 hour on-call support to customers as well as support and sales staff. Responsible for the process of onboarding new dial-up service customers, as well as technical support for existing customers. Responsibilities included in house as well as customer facing support and troubleshooting roles.