Curriculum Vitae

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
TEK Systems (Staff Augmentation to Exelon) | 03/2025 – 05/2026

Adaptive Systems Engineering: Pivoted from initial KVM infrastructure provisioning to drive critical enterprise security and compliance initiatives, consistently demonstrating operational value across shifting organizational priorities.
Security & NERC CIP Compliance: Architected a custom vulnerability reporting system designed to evaluate and mitigate command execution risks. Served as the secondary Point of Contact (POC) for corporate IT Compliance, ensuring adherence to critical NERC CIP regulatory standards.
Automation & Optimization: Engineered configuration management and deployment automation utilizing Ansible. Directed technical discussions to refine operational goals, specifically targeting alert fatigue by systematically eliminating unnecessary system alerts and tuning monitoring thresholds.
Cross-Functional Deployment: Partnered directly with the Maywood Lab facility to architect, provision, and deploy the organization's core development VMware and Linux environment.

Production Operations Engineer (IC5)
Meta, Inc. | 09/2022 – 03/2025

Infrastructure Reliability: Monitored and maintained the health of highly critical data center infrastructure, encompassing power, cooling, network equipment, and advanced GPU administration.
Process Automation: Engineered and executed Bash automation scripts to streamline administrative tasks, Validation Acceptance Testing, and hardware troubleshooting protocols.
Operational Leadership: Participated in 24/7 on-call rotations for global data center support while actively mentoring junior engineering staff and driving cross-functional efficiency initiatives.

Systems Administration Manager
SPRIOUS | 06/2021 – 09/2021

Team Leadership: Supervised and directed a highly skilled team of six system administrators, establishing standardized best practices and an initial enterprise security program.
Global Infrastructure: Directed the mission-critical re-engineering and implementation of production infrastructure across co-location and remote global workspaces, integrating Puppet, Active Directory, and Nagios/Zabbix monitoring.
Systems Maintenance: Maintained all OS and Puppet infrastructure, automatic time synchronization environments, VOIP-based products, and workstations running on a Windows domain with GPOs.

Independent Technical Consultant
W.S. Lockwood Consulting (D/B/A) | 03/1999 – 09/2022

Client Deployments: Executed specialized technical projects encompassing network engineering, systems administration, and hardware configuration for confidential client environments (subject to NDA).

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
MARKET NEWS INC | 10/2016 – 11/2019

Systems Re-engineering: Engineered and executed complete implementations of production infrastructure across KVM, AWS, and Azure, significantly optimizing performance metrics and workflow capabilities.
Enterprise Support: Maintained all OS and Puppet infrastructure, Windows domains with GPOs, time synchronization environments, and VOIP systems for global operations.

Senior Linux Systems Engineer
PRODUCEPRO SOFTWARE | 05/2015 – 10/2016

Environment Oversight: Held full accountability for a hosted client network environment spanning AWS, KVM, CentOS 6/7, RHEL 6/7, and Windows 2003/7 architectures.
Systems Automation: Automated repetitive administrative and deployment tasks utilizing advanced Bash scripting to improve client infrastructure deployment times, alongside maintaining mail servers, DNS, and DHCP.

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
ZETHCON CORPORATION | 10/2014 – 04/2015

Virtualization Administration: Administered production networks utilizing VMware vSphere (5.1/5.5), KVM, and Hyper-V across CentOS 6/7, RHEL 6/7, and Windows 2003/2008/2012 server environments.
Security Auditing: Deployed and executed internal security vulnerability scans utilizing OpenVAS 7.x to harden infrastructure before major OS upgrades.

Senior Linux Systems Administrator
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS | 03/2012 – 08/2014

Compliance Leadership: Acted as the primary program manager for security scans and served as the lead PCI Audit engineer, successfully guiding the organization through its first three PCI-DSS 2.0/3.0 compliance audits.
E-Commerce Engineering: Engineered and administered high-traffic E-Commerce network environments utilizing VMware vSphere (5.1/5.5), Ubuntu (4.x-14.x), Debian (2.0-7.5), and FreeBSD (4.x-10.x).

System Administrator & IT Compliance Analyst
ENOVA FINANCIAL | 12/2005 – 03/2012

Large-Scale Operations: Managed the continuous production operation of over 1,000 virtualized XEN servers on Debian 6.x/7.x, utilizing Bash scripting for rigorous task automation across two offices and three data centers.
Audit Management: Coordinated 60 cross-functional professionals to ensure enterprise-wide adherence to PCI-DSS, SOX, Safe Harbor, and GLBA compliance standards, successfully securing passage for the company's first four audits.

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