Candidate ID: #28
Location: Baltimore, MD
Clearance: TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph (CI Poly 8/23/22, LS Poly 9/07/23, BI 9/29/22)

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY

  • Current/Most Recent: 5 months (Apr 2026 – Present) as System Engineer 3 on an Infrastructure Deployment Team — end-to-end deployment of multi-hypervisor Nutanix clusters (AHV & VMware) on Cisco M5/M6/M7 hardware, plus Nutanix Objects/NUS storage clusters and lifecycle management across vCenter 8.x, ESXi 8.x, AOS 7.x, and Prism Central
  • Past: 25+ years of progressive systems and virtualization engineering (Oracle, Northrop Grumman, GDIT, Trace Systems, VMware, GanTech, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Magellan Health) — the last 10+ years cleared work supporting INTEL, Air Force, and Army customers, with earlier commercial/healthcare and state transit (MTA) experience

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Enterprise Virtualization Deployment — Deployed and managed VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2, vSAN, and the Aria Suite; built greenfield mission enclaves at military installations; deployed Nutanix on NX hardware and Cisco stacks
  • Secure Infrastructure Hardening — Configured ESXi/vCenter 8 with NKP Native Key Provider and encrypted VMX, Dell PowerEdge with TPM and Secure Boot, iDRAC with restricted TLS ciphers, NIST_2024 cipher suites, and custom CA certificate deployment across hosts, vCenters, iDRACs, and iLOs
  • Compliance & Vulnerability Remediation — Performed ACAS, STIG, and SCAP scanning and remediation via GPOs with item-level targeting; managed WSUS monthly update cycles; obtained Authority to Operate (ATO) for new VMware builds
  • VDI & Disaster Recovery — Built and managed Horizon 7–8 with MULTISITE DEM, RDSH farms, Instant/Linked Clone pools, and NVIDIA GRID/DLS GPU desktops; managed DR infrastructure using VMware SRM / Live Site Recovery and replication appliances; managed thin/zero client fleets (10Zig, Dell Wyse Management Suite)
  • Certifications — Multiple VCP tracks (DCV 2023/2019/5, DTM 2024/2019, 550D), VCA (Cloud, DCV, WM), Nutanix NCP-MCI / NCA-MCI / NPP 4.5 & 5.0, CompTIA Security+ CE

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