Julian Clark

Experience

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  US Army

  Jan 2006 - Apr 2009

  Cavlary Scout

  While stationed with the 3rd Infantry Division, 4th Brigade, 6-8 Cavalry Regiment, deployed to Iraq from October 2008 to December 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom 07-09. • In Iraq conducted area reconnaissance, room clearing operations, and participated in detainee detection and apprehension.• Patrolled area of responsibilities extensively while providing security to coalition forces to include Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police. • Conducted security operations for Air Medical Evacuations of casualties from improvised explosive devices, mortar fire, and vehicle roll-over incidents. Show less

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  SAIC

  Mar 2011 - Sept 2011

  Helpdesk Technician

  As a certified CompTIA A+, Network+, & Security+ technician, duties included providing first-level desktop support to end users while working in a call center environment. • Resolved general hardware and software issues with customers having little or no computer experience. • Assisted remote users in the use of supported applications, network systems, business software and operating systems. • Used and maintained documentation for Processes and Procedures, while effectively communicating results in the form of completed work orders. Show less

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  Lockheed Martin

  Sept 2011 - Nov 2013

  Systems Administrator

  While with Lockheed attached to NASA and worked in Mission Control at Johnson Space Center as part of the TeleScience Center (TSC) and Life Science Data Archive (LSDA) team. • Responsible for 200 servers and workstations and 250 users• Primarily responsible for mitigating downtime systems, as these systems were utilized by scientists around the world to track Astronaut medical vitals aboard the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station• Utilized Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) and self-running customized scripts to patch and upgrade systems. o This combination saved the department $5000/yr on license fees over third-party patching applications• Rebuilt the department’s Windows 2003 Domain Controller as a 2008 R2 servero This project was completed with zero downtime• Rewrote the entire Group Policy (GPO) to better comply with NIST issued Federal IT security benchmarking standards as required by NASA• Created a myriad of scripts in VBS and PowerShell• Managed NASA Securities Policies:• FIPS100, FISMA, NIST 800-53, and DHS 4300 and corresponding DOD standards and guidelines• For publicly traded companies; familiar with Corporate IT auditing for yearly financial audits, maintaining audit paperwork/files to ensure quick and accurate completion Show less

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  McKenzie Compressed Air Solutions

  Nov 2013 - Nov 2014

  Systems Administrator

  Worked with McKenzie for 6 months, the company then sold to Quincy Compressor. At McKenzie managed the IT department for 85 employees across five offices.• Cut costs by $22,000/yr in the first four months. o Cancelled managed phone support in lieu of in-house wiring. o Cancelled managed backup in lieu of setting up a tape drive the company owned but never used. o Cancelled managed antivirus and firewall service and opted to host these programs internally.• A major project involved rewiring the corporate office with new network cables: o Upgraded the warehouse cabling from CAT3/CAT5 to CAT6.• Managed ten servers, including hosting in-house: Active Directory, MS Exchange, Sage 100 ERP, and a File-Share sever. Show less

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  Sharps Medical Waste Services

  Nov 2014 - May 2017

  Systems Administrator

  Managed $1 million worth of IT equipment for 125 employees across seven offices. Began at Sharps when the company had 65 employees and three offices.• Setup four offices with IT equipment• Setup the IT infrastructure of a 55,000 sqft warehouse in upstate Pennsylvania. The project involved wiring for IP cameras, wifi, 10 desk computers, IP phones, and creating a server room with one rack• Worked on a project to upgrade the company’s MPLS network to AVPN• Installed Cisco Meraki switches: o This allows tracking of overall network use and allows identification heavy users• Installed UniFi Wi-Fi adapters: o UniFi allows visual tracking of Wi-Fi usage as well as heat maps to show strong/weak signals in the office• Managed the Avaya phone system network• Created network diagrams for offices and racks• Created spreadsheets to track IT equipment, in turn used by Finance during yearly audits Show less

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  GeoControl Systems

  May 2017 - now

  Called back to work IT support at Johnson Space Center, working in the same department and for the same manager as the Lockheed Martin position. After NASA renewed the contract 3 IT departments were consolidated into one. System Administrators act as floating IT support and provide the following services: • Manage 240 servers and 300 workstations (many customers have NASA provided workstations, these number in the thousands)• Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019• Support physical servers in the data center, virtual servers running on VMware 6.7, and virtual servers in AWS• Backup administrator running 15 Commvault backup servers managing 1.5 petabytes of data• Running Powershell scripts for scripts generating uptime reports, restarting servers and services, migrating data from client workstations to file shares, importing data into client applications Show less

  • Flight Controller (in training)

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Sr. Systems Administrator

    May 2017 - Jan 2023