About Kevin

Over 27 years of technical experience in the telecommunications and government sectors. Extensive technical and security architecture background including designing, hosting, tuning and troubleshooting complex, scalable, highly secure and highly available business solutions utilizing Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Applications, Oracle 10gAS GOTS, COTS and custom J2EE applications, Oracle Portal and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) in both Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) and Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) environments. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) experience includes Oracle Advanced Queuing, Oracle SOA Suite, Vitria and Tibco. Highly skilled at configuring F5 BigIP load balancers for continuous application availability. Security expertise includes applying technical controls to the entire technology stack (hardening) as well as participating in and developing documentation for the Certification and Accreditation (C&A) of business systems including System Security Plans. Experienced at securing environments to meet or exceed the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Baselines for Oracle, Solaris and Web Servers.

Key Info

Position Desired	Contract
Willing to Relocate	No
Commuting Distance	More than 100 miles
Acceptable Travel	Up to 100% of the Time
U.S. Work Authorization	U.S. Citizen
Eligible for U.S. Security Clearance	Yes

Salary

Current Salary: $150,000 to $250,000
Desired Salary: $250,000 and Higher

Interview

Describe your ideal work environment. (11/14/2007)

Collaborative... I love sharing ideas with talented technical people and reshaping an idea from one person into a much better concept based on everyone's input.

What kind of job are you looking for? (11/14/2007)

I am looking for a contract position as described in my objectives. I am not willing to relocate but would travel assuming suitable arraignments can be made for travel expenses.

What do you want to do when you grow up? (11/14/2007)

I think this is a question one should never stop asking. I have morphed from Cobol programmer to technical manager to DBA to application server administrator to DBA manager to systems and security architect. I am very happy where I am today but hopefully I have a few more morphs left in me. What will they be... I'll figure that out when I get there.

Why did you choose this career? (11/14/2007)

I went to college with the intention of becoming a journalist but discovered technology (yes, there was technology in 1974!) and it has been my passion ever since.