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Bob Jones
21865 Crescent Park Square, Apt.101, Ashburn, VA 20148
Phone: 571-274-1157 E-Mail: [email protected]
Objectives
My personal goal includes working full or part-time while utilizing my skill sets, education, and
certifications within an engineering role. I feel my best strengths come from my experience in holding
various positions within the field of information technology.
Education
Nova Southeastern University – Ph.D., Information Security/Assurance (Attending since 2015)
Strayer University – Master of Science, Information Systems – Network Management (2013)
Experience
BAE Systems – Senior Operating Systems Engineer
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February 2017 - Present
Senior Operating Systems Engineer for Windows 10, Windows 2012 R2 Standard/Datacenter,
Windows 2016.
Harris Corporation – Systems Engineer IV
July 2013 – February 2017
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Participate in requirements and design reviews; work assign change requests impacting the
enterprise
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Lead cyber security threat exercises to support cyber defense in improving awareness of threats
and corrective actions
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Engineer images to support Windows 2008 R2 / Windows 2012 R2 Standard, Core, Datacenter
Core, Windows 7, Windows 10 while using Microsoft’s Deployment Toolkit 2012/CCTK 2.21, DISM,
ImageX, and Windows Systems Image Manager; Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM),
Slip-stream Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) updates into MDT deployed images;
Support engineering team efforts with Office 2013/365, Symantec Ghost Solutions 3.1, Microsoft
App-V 5.0, Solarwinds Patch Manager, VMWare vSphere, Remote Desktop Services (Connection
broker, gateway, session host, web access, etc.); Assist team members with engineering efforts
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Lead engineer responsible for an Exchange 2003 to 2010 upgrade (second hop to 2013/2016 by
2017). Components include Edge nodes, CAS/HUB transports, Network Load Balancing CAS
Arrays, MBX/Database Availability Group (stretched VLAN /multi-member), OWA and other
functionality; leveraging various types of storage per server role (SSD, SAS, and SATA for slower
disk backups), Apply CIS Benchmark security best practices and other hardening through scripts,
ScanMail 11.x, Windows Server Update Services, and Symantec EndPoint Protection into a
delivered solution.
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Responsible for enterprise wide group policies impacting labs, current projects, and deployment
through Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM).
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Engineer deployment solutions using Wyse Z90 thin clients and Windows 7 Embedded Standard
Edition using Ghost Solutions Suite 3.1
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Lead engineer responsible for upgrading Office Communicator to Microsoft Lync 2010 using NLB
on the front-end and SQL 2008 on the back-end (multiple pools over multiple sites). Second
upgrade to Lync 2013/Skype for Business and SQL 2012 planned for 2016.
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Assist operations with help requests elevated to engineering (Remedy 7.6)
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Assists Program Manager with technical input to review boards and answer technical questions
impacting projects within the enterprise.
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Provide training to operational groups as part of implementing solutions. During transitions,
operational documentation is handed-off.
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Mitigate Nessus vulnerability and compliance findings through ensuring required Microsoft security
patches are applied; applying policy changes through Group Policies, or by applying specific fixes
through PowerShell scripts.
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Create and maintain qualitative documentation to include engineering design documents, privilege
user guides, transition and implementation plans.
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Lead engineer to create Server 2012 Core, Datacenter, and Standard baseline; complete with CIS
1.x Benchmarks, MS15-MS16 updates and other hardening per requirements. Lead engineer to
Exchange 2016 and Skype for Business.
General Dynamics – Systems Engineer
October 2009 – July 2013
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Collaborate with various departments within the intelligence community to create engineering
products
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Develop custom code using Visual Studio .NET/Scripting to support projects
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Resolve issues escalated from Tier III domain administrators
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Experience with vulnerability assessment testing, reporting, and mitigation procedures
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Responsible in moving High Available systems from site-to-site with engineering upgrades to
Microsoft Windows 2003/2008, Microsoft SQL 2005/2008 R2/2012,IIS 6/7, Enterprise Vault 7.5,
8.0.5, 9.0.4, Web Sites maintenance, Configuration of virtual directories, application pools, System
failovers between sites with minimal administration, Veritas Clustering v4/5 / Microsoft Clustering.
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Experience with VMWare vSphere
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EMC2 SAN capacity management to include monitoring usage, trending, and reporting with EMC2
Unisphere Storage Management 1.2.1
Harris Corporation – High Availability Team Lead
July 2006 – October 2009
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Managed IIS 5.0/6.0/7.0 Web / SharePoint servers under Windows 2000, 2003, and 2008
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Assisted in the management of NetBackup backup and restores throughout the enterprise
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Managed Exchange servers
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Configured Perl 5.x under Windows 2003
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Configured and upgraded Windows 2000/2003 servers
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Configured and upgraded SQL 7/2000/2005 servers
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Managed and updated SQL scripts under Oracle 8I and 9I / Unix Tru64; SQL Plus
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Tier III ticketing portal using Remedy
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Migration of hundreds of web sites from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003
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Configured DNS, Virtual Directories, Index Catalogs, Application Pools, Active Directory
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Created scripts using VBScript to clean up FTP files and folders; WMI interface
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Worked with user community in resolving enterprise related issues
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Supervised a group of domain administrators responsible for Oracle, SQL, IIS, and Exchange
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Veritas Clustering 4.3 (Exchange, SQL, and IIS); VVR
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Oracle Enterprise Management, Software Pursuits SureSync File Replication
Command Decision Systems and Solutions – Software Development November 2003 – May 2006
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Participated in technical software design reviews with peers
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Planned and development of software modules to customer specifications
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Ensured adherence to performance, schedule, and cost requirements
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Interacted with other professionals to generate plans, schedules, briefings, and reports
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Followed the SDLC process
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Worked with Microsoft Visual Source Safe; Visual Studio .NET (VB.NET and C# .NET)
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Worked with Infragistics tool kit and other third-party tools
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Worked with IBM Rational ClearQuest, ClearCase and other Rational products
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Web application deployment; application performance tuning
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Created application prototypes and implemented section 508
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Ensured components followed business processes, logical, intuitive, and met all requirements
General Dynamics – Systems Administration
November 2000 – September 2003
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Key member of IT technical staff
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Responsible for migrating desktop migrations from Windows 98 to Windows 2000
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Responsible for internal network connectivity and configuration of Windows NT Server
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Responsible for troubleshooting system and network issues with Fore Switches, Cisco 2600
routers, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and OC3
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Responsible for Exchange 5.5/2000, DNS, WAUA, VitalSuite, Visionael, IMCI, and BMC Patrol
Web applications development using Visual Studio .NET, ASP, HTML, VBScript, JavaScript, and
SQL2000
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Fairfax County Government – Systems Analyst II
July 1993 – March 2000
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Responsible for internal networks consisting of Novell 3.12/5.x and Windows NT 4.0 Server,
Windows 95 Desktop, Cabletron racks/switches
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Network administration
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Support day-to-day operations and technical support on hardware and software issues
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Lotus Domino administrator (configuration, certificates, etc.)
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Responsible for developing a Y2K compliant payroll system using Visual Basic and SQL
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Responsible for the maintenance of existing PCs, LAN and mainframe based systems (TSO, ISPF,
RACF, PROFS, CICS, JCL, etc.), systems developed using CA Clipper, Borland C)
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Responsible for moving internal network from site-to-site
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Agency security coordinator and RACF administrator and supervisor to the programmer analyst
position
Military
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U.S. Army, NATO 80th ASG – 74D / 74F, Honorably Discharged; Awarded the Army Commendation
Medal
Certifications / Training
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Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
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Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
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Microsoft Certified Applications Developer .NET (MCAD)
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EMC2 Block Storage Deployment and SAN Management
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Amazon AWS EC2, Amazon Machine Images, AWS Management Console, Security Groups, Key
Pairs, Elastic Load Balancing, Availability Zones, Lambda, S3, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC,
CloudFront, CloudWatch, Identity and Access Management, and Key Management Service.
Security Clearance
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TS/SCI with CI poly, TS Granted: 28 JUN 2013, BI Granted: 19 MAR 2012
Beta Tester
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Symantec products
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Veritas products
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Professional Memberships
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – http://ieee.org
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – http://acm.org
Skills
Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 R2, and 2012 server (Standard, Core, Datacenter Core);
Exchange 2003-2016, Lync 2010, Network Load Balance, PowerShell, Active Directory, Group Policy
Objects, AGPM, Certificates, RedHat Fedora Core, Forefront Unified Access / Threat Management
Gateway, Tenable Nessus 6.5.2, Gold Disk, CVE CERT, Retina, RedHat 4/5,, PAM/NSS, Linux Active
Directory integration, Symantec Ghost Solutions 3.1, Microsoft Office 2010-2016/365, IBM DOORS,
Microsoft Exchange, Apple Mac Leopard 10.5/Mountain Lion 10.8/10.10.5/Yosemite/El Capitan
(10.11.5)/Sierra 10.12.3; Cloud computing, Enterprise Vault, Microsoft SQL server 2000, 2005, 2008
R2, 2012, Internet Explorer 11, Safari 9.x, Mozilla Firefox, Veritas NetBackup 6.5.4, SyncSort,
CataLogic DPX, Veritas/Microsoft Clustering, Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, Borland JBuilder
Developer/X Foundation, Microsoft C, Borland C, Erwin Data Modeler 8.x, Sun Virtual Box, VMWare
vSphere 4.1/5.5, Hyper-V, Endpoint, Microsoft SCM, WireShark, EditCap, Weka, uBlock, ProXpn,
BetterNet, TCP, SMTP, NNTP, BMC Patrol, Visionael, HP OpenView, IMCI, EMC2 VNX, Cisco routers,
switches, HP/Dell/Wyse Thin-Clients, MDT 2012, CCTK 2.2.1, Dell R710, R910 2U, 4U servers and
other hardware /software.