Senior Linux System Administrator

• Jan 2023 - Present

System Administrator/Information Assurance Officer

• Oct 2013 - Jan 2023

Barnett Engineering & Signaling Laboratories LLC •Perform IA actions for a Spaceforce priority one weapon system to maintain cybersecurity standards •Produce reports and assess the system for STIG and IAVMs using the SCAP SCC tool and Tenable ACAS •Create and maintain plan of actions and milestones (POA&M) to stay information assurance compliant •Gather and produce artifacts from three different organizations/sites for eMASS and ATO re-accreditation •Manually install weekly software patches on multiple OSs for system hardening of a Spaceforce weapon system •Perform a function test of signal monitoring and geolocation system capabilities after every maintenance •Conduct basic and intermediate network troubleshooting to maintain a twenty-four hour Spaceforce operation •Maintain system accounts for both administrators and users for a Spaceforce weapon system •Provide daily contract hour and afterhours helpdesk technical support for government and Spaceforce customers •Maintain extensive and detailed maintenance logs used in government and Spaceforce customer briefings •Create and manage server images for 35 physical and virtual servers to maintain continuity of operations using Symantec, Acronis and Clonezilla •Maintain all forwarding and indexing software components of Splunk enterprise •Maintain HBSS communications to an Airforce ePO server •Perform system diagnostics on 35 physical and virtual servers, and assess event logs for system issues •Maintain and update a Spaceforce product webpage that is widely viewed throughout the DoD community •Perform server maintenance on 35 virtual, Windows, and Linux Redhat 7 servers for hardware and software components of a Spaceforce weapon system •Helped migrate an Airforce weapon system to a Spaceforce weapon system •Helped relocate and setup the Spaceforce weapon system from Annapolis to Fort Detrick, Maryland Show less

COMINT Mission Development

• Sep 2009 - Sep 2012

Remote Operating FacilityNSA/CSSCertified Signals Development Center (SDC) analyst, satisfying customer interests through collection and geolocation of emerging or relatively unknown technologies. Gained a working knowledge of satellite geometry and positioning need to work successfully in an Overhead environment. Processed the signals I collected. Successfully transitioned to the SIGINT Development (SIGDEV) Division's Discovery Center to work projects designed to exploit or further exploit specific targets. Was instrumental in the collection and geolocation of an extremely hard to find target. This effort included manually sifting through hundreds of hours of collection. This led to me becoming the Mission Support Driver for all related technologies. I managed and analyzed most collect for these technologies and then I would provide the customers with intelligence they requested. As an MSD I was also responsible for developing new missions in search of unknown or undeveloped related technologies. I am currently working a group of targets; providing the collection operators with a well developed CONOP and keeping a close relationship with the customers. The customers have reported this is best data they have received since the targets were first discovered. Show less

Signals Analyst / Technical Trainer

• Sep 2007 - Sep 2009

Technical Exploitation CenterNSA/CSS Ft. Meade, MDServed as a team lead for the Technical Exploitation Center's (TEC) new mission. Helped raise the mission from the ground up by creating a template on how information was to be reported and how the mission was to be completed. Analyzed current and unknown technologies; provided cryptanalytic exploitation services to NSA and affiliates. Provided the Office of Target Pursuit with unidentified signals analysis access and target development. Provided operational testing and evaluation support to Quick Reaction Teams and continuous support to field stations, mobile collection platforms, and special operation missions. Trained all new incoming personnel on Intermediate signals analysis, preparing them for work at the TEC. Operated complex hardware and software demodulation equipment to ensure integrity of signals parameters. Utilized a $3.8 million dollar computer and communications system to detect, demodulate, capture and analyze communication signals in digital and analog format Target specialist. Daily use of spectrum analyzers, numerous modulators/demodulators, and oscilloscopes, UNIX, Windows 98/00/NT/XP, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Works, Red Hat, HTML, LINUX and other IC related software. Show less