Greg E. Watson

Career Objective

Finding a position which has room for both personal and department growth. Being able to work with new technologies and to expand my experience. Also to be part of a team which accomplishes influential projects.

Professional Experience

Security and Technology Manager

2002 - Current Department of Military and Veterans Affairs

State of Colorado

• Cyber Security SME (Subject Matter Expert) for the SAC (Senior Advisory Committee) on All Hazards for The Department of Homeland Security in Colorado
• Cyber Security Task Force Founding Member
• Interface with Federal Agencies such a Air Force, Army and Air National Guard to help provide intergration and security to critical systems
• Help develop policies and procedures for State wide and National Scope
• Performed security audits of networks and systems to ensure compliance with policies
• Research, test, recommend, and install hardware and software to meet the needs of the department both internal and external
• Created a content management system to allow for different departments to update content on websites while allowing site administrators to control style and theme of pages
• Supported department IT needs, along with joint agencies such as Army/Air National Guard, Air Force, Office of Emergency Management, and others.
• Created, monitored, and updated firewalls from host based to network level
• Integrated network servers and workstations using Open Source Software (OSS) such as LDAP,Samba,NFS and others

Senior Systems Administrator

2001 - 2002 Rand McNally, Inc.

• Maintained all development, staging, and production servers for core operations (Data-center and local development office)
• Created entire custom statistics system with database logging and lookup, custom charting and detailed reports from ground up.
• Responsible for backup of CVS - Code repository, site-wide statistics, and other mission critical software/data
• Maintained all Internet services (Mail, WWW, DNS, Chat, VPN, etc.)
• Created and setup server health check, self-repair, and security scripts
• Firewall and load balancer management for data-center and local office
• Desktop support, including networked printers and switches/hubs and cabling.
• Setup and maintained security policy and procedures which included department wide reconfiguration of procedures
• Responsible for new hardware acquisition and installation and maintained current hardware systems
• Worked with ISPs and hardware providers on different OSI levels to determine failures and implementations of services provided for improvements
• Created and monitored procedures and policies for out-sourced monitoring and provided tier 3 & 4 support.

Systems Administrator

1999 - 2001 Access Arkansas / Arkansas State University Mountain Home

• Maintain a LINUX & UNIX based systems for Distance Education and E-Mail services on central based server for Access-Arkansas and Arkansas State University Mountain Home
• Wrote custom integration system for Windows NT that allowed the university system to handle creation and removal of 5000+ accounts a year that is completely automated.
• Monitor security of servers and provide solutions to possible security holes
• Train/support all of Arkansas' two year college system administrators for custom distance education web based software.
• Entire website design - Graphics, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, custom data warehouse CGI for online searches, secured areas, statistics, and custom online server management.
• Custom programmed applications - Database conversion, converting from non-standard unspecified formatted files to standard format,
• Custom Win32 database front end with search and user displays
• Demonstrate a "walk-through" of the proposed buildings added to the campus in 3D Graphics using CAD software from a 2D picture.
• Troubleshoot and repair miscellaneous problems at the University (hardware and software)

Computer Systems Specialist

1996 - 1999 A Plus Computers, Inc. Harrison, AR

• Decision One Field Engineer - Service on all state and federal offices (DHS, DMV, SSI, DCS), corporate computer systems Dell, Compaq, Tiger Direct, Lexmark, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Packard Bell, Gateway, MWM, AT&T, 3COM, Acer, AOpen, NetPlex, MXTX, Saber & World Span / ICOT, and others
• Repair & setup of network servers Windows NT 4, & 5 (Windows 2000) and Linux
• TCP/IP and Internet (Domain setup, DNS, DHCP / PROXY, WWW IIS3- IIS5)
• MS-Exchange Server 5.5 Setup and administration with Outlook 97-2000
• Microsoft Access 97 Database programming (Both MDB and MDE formats)
• Web site design and setup, HTML/ASP and FrontPage 98-2000
• Hardware and software installation and troubleshooting / repairs to computers and peripherals (scanners, printers, etc.) and Year 2000 scanning / repairs (Y2K)

Hardware Specialist

1996 - 1997 O.U.R. Co-op Harrison, AR

• Repair of all types of x86 based machines (PC)
• Install & repair of all types of PC hardware (add-in cards, system boards, etc.)
• Physical networking Fiber, 10/100Base-T & 10Base-2
• CGI & Utilities programming using C++ on a Linux OS
• Repairs to damaged operating systems

Other Experience

• Experience with most major OS, MS-DOS, Dr. DOS, Win3.x - Win XP, WinNT/2000, WinCE, Linux (Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware), UNIX (Solaris & HPUX), OS/2
• CAD/3D Software experience, 3D Studio Max R1 - R4, True Space 1 - 3, Bryce 4, etc
• 2D Graphics - Adobe Photoshop 4 - 7.0 & Adobe Image Ready
• ADSL, T1-T3, ISDN, and other dedicated Internet connections
• Microsoft Visual C++/C# including MFC, ISAPI, DAO, ODBC, DirectX, COM/DCOM
• UNIX skills Vi, Vim, Pico, sh/bash, Python, PHP, X Windows, working with Perl and other shell scripts
• Dynamic websites using MySQL & PHP
• Protocols TCP/IP TCP/UDP (SNMP, STMP, POP, HTTP, SSL, SSH, FTP, DNS, TELNET, etc.)
• Network monitoring and security (restricted access/firewalls/etc.)
• Load Balancing, Alteon & Cisco
• Multi-platform network integration

Beta Testing

• 2003 - Many Open Source Software (OSS) Projects
• 2002 - Registered Electronic Arts tester for Earth & Beyond
• 2001 - Registered Microsoft Beta tester for Visual Studio.NET (C#)
• 2000 - Registered Blizzard Beta tester for Diablo 2

Education

• 2000 - Arkansas State University Mountain Home (CAD II)
• 1999 - Microsoft Tech Net Little Rock, AR (Win2000 & Office2000)
• 1998 - Microsoft Visual C++ 5 & 6 MFC / WinAPI
• 1997 - Windows NT Server 4 (MCPS) Microsoft Certified Product Specialist Training Course
• 1994 - 1996 North Arkansas College Harrison, AR
  Core courses with emphasis on computer programming
  Work study Computer lab administrator for college