Experience

Bloomfield Homes

• United States
• Real Estate
• 100 - 200 Employee

• IT Director

  • Aug 2014 - Present

  Support daily business operations. Identify and capitalize on potential automation efficiency gains while ensuring reliability and security. Manage infrastructure in a cost effective manner. Lead IT Department to achieve strategic business goals and an idealized business/IT alignment. Support daily business operations. Identify and capitalize on potential automation efficiency gains while ensuring reliability and security. Manage infrastructure in a cost effective manner. Lead IT Department to achieve strategic business goals and an idealized business/IT alignment.



Advotech, LLC

• Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Owner

  • Jan 2005 - Aug 2014

  Advotech provides reasonably priced, superior quality onsite and remote services to businesses including IT repair operations and training on computers, servers, printers, and miscellanious network equipment. We design and deploy networked systems as well as remote monitoring solutions. IT service and monitoring contracts are available. Advotech deploys customized security and system control solutions based on industry standards. As an example, a local DFW builder uses an Advotech designed and supported virtual private network to control policy and security settings on systems located at 20 remote sites over limited bandwidth solutions. Other clients use our Small Business Server or Linux workgroup server solutions to consolidate backups, handle email, and provide telecommuting capabilities. Show less



US Navy

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Network Security Officer

  • May 1999 - Mar 2005

  Responsible for configuration control, design, deployment, maintenance, and emergency response for all aspects of a network consisting of 12 servers approximately 600 nodes in 8 buildings and three regional areas with about 1300 users. Led a team of 3 fulltime IT personnel and 12 collateral duty team members in multiple deployment, maintenance and response events.Some major projects that I led and supported during my tenure in Point Mugu, CA included a secure MS Exchange email server, a secure database connected MS IIS server, multiple regional network topology designs and deployments, firewall rule management, Veritas 7-9 backup server solution, MS NT through 2003 domain design, upgrades, and maintenance. All of these projects included the exceptional extra security measures the US Navy and the National Security Agency recommends along with industry standards and my own same day patch test and release program. This quality of work standard was unheard of. Show less

• RSTARS/TM Manager/Instructor/Master Training Specialist

  • Mar 1995 - Apr 1999

  National level training management position. Responsible for technical solution design, deployment and support at 121 Naval Reserve training sites. Configuration control manager for national training database.I enjoyed this work immensely with national level responsibilities and commitments and resources to apply to problems in the field. While there, I designed and deployed a standard computer based training lab to our major sites and implemented a training software disbursal process that used a web based database system to identify, catalogue, order, ship and track all DOD available computer based training software for on demand inclusion in our distributed training libraries. I wrote and delivered several training curriculae for the training program and the RSTARS/TM database. Show less

• Terminal Security Officer/Instructor for maintaining ECM/ECCM airborne simulators

  • Jan 1993 - Feb 1995

  Provide primary support and administration over $300,000 in IT assets including LAN and special systems along with 5 deployed office network segments. Liasion between users, more advanced technical support levels and external organizations in IT matters. Develop and maintain related training materials.While this was my first "official" IT job for the US Navy, it was a step down in complexity and criticality from my previous assignments programming and maintaining aircraft computer systems and computer controlled test systems. Many of these systems involved completely new programmable systems that were recently developed from electromagnetic surveillance to simulate enemy systems. Show less

• RADCOM Operator/Maintainer

  • May 1989 - Dec 1992

  Managed operation and maintenance of computer controlled aircraft electronic test and repair systems. Specifically increased test system availability rates from 50% to 99% while eliminating nearly 50% of related maintenance item backlog within units directly under my supervision.

• Aviation Fire Control Technician

  • Feb 1986 - Apr 1989

  Maintained airborne weapons release, control, navigation, RADAR, tactical display and associated equipment for a light attack squadron.