Education:
Associates Satellite Communication
Associates Applied Science in Satellite Communications from Mitchell Technical Institute (MTI) May 7 1999
Work Experience:
Configuration Management Analyst
Configuration Management Analyst with various Contractors at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resource Observation Sciences (EROS) Center.
1999 to 2015
- Facilitated the Software Development Lifecycle processes for the joint NASA and USGS EROS Data Center’s (LDCM / Landsat 8 Satellite Mission) ground station software components; from early development, through verification testing, during spacecraft launch, and transition to operational mission.
- Define, charter, and administer the Configuration Control Boards (CCBs) that approve all configuration changes for LSDS hardware, software, and documentation items.
- Provide administrator functions for the following software applications serving a user install base of over 200+ users
Work Experience:
Technology Systems Administrator
United States District Court, Northern District of Iowa
2016 to 2017
Provided Administrative support for servers, workstations, mobile devices, audio and video teleconferencing services.
Patching and security maintenance for Redhat Linux
Patching and security maintenance for IBM Informix Databases
Patching and security for Apache web servers for hosted sites
Patching and security maintenance for End user devices Windows 7, 10, desktops, laptops, Surface tables, iPads, iPhones, and Virtual Desktop Environments
Administrative functions for daily Active Directory and Lotus Domino infrastructure
Weekly and incremental backups with Symantec Netback Suite for disaster recovery
Working collaboratively to move select US District Court systems and COTS and GOTS software applications into the DOJ Administrative Office Cloud Hosted environment
Work Experience:
Unix and Linux System Administrator
Unix and Linux System Administrator - Contractor at the USGS Center
2017 to Current
Provide support for over 200 desktop, workstation and server infrastructure for the Data Management Integration Division. Monitor and maintain Operating System (OS) stability, patching for security vulnerabilities, network server, file server and web server operations.
- Patching and security maintenance for Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle Solaris
- Managing ESXi hosts and VMware infrastructure for development and production environment guest OS
- Managing Apache and Nginx configuration, security and web sites
- Managing file and network server operations
- Maintaining LDAP infrastructure for Authentication, Access and Authorization (AAA) to Linux and Solaris server infrastructure
- Managing Physical and Logical disk volumes to support file and network server operations
Work Experience:
Linux System Administrator
Linux System Administrator Contractors at the USGS EROS Center.
2015 to 2016
As a Linux System Administrator I provided support for over 150 desktop, workstation and server infrastructure for the Long Term Archive mission at the USGS EROS Data Center. Monitor and maintain Operating System (OS) stability, patching for security vulnerabilities, network server, file server and web server operations for the program.