chris parsons

Participated in the Identity Access Management VMware ESXi and network infrastructure build out at the TFM Production Center (TPC) Data Center, provided engineering and technical support for the program Performed site surveys at various Airport Towers, Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC) and Terminal Radar Approach Control Facilities (TRACON) for several different FAA programs Inventory Control owner for the TFM-M contract, track inventory, updates deletions and additions in the FAA AITS inventory database, inventoried depot equipment on yearly basis with FAA personnel

Transition team member, provided engineering support to transition FAA Command Center Web base software applications and hardware from Washington, DC to Atlantic City, NJ Data Center Develop technical system startup and shutdown procedures for the Software Test and Integration Facility equipment, initiated systems setup and startup prior to user acceptance testing for the FAA programs Project Lead responsible for designing, scheduling and implementing new LAN infrastructures at the Data Center for new commercial clients. Planned with transition team to ensure implementation, schedule and project milestones are obtain according to project plan Project Lead, Payment Card Industry Data Security Audits. Executed Qualys network scans against the network IP ranges, review Qualys Scan reports, identified vulnerability. Developed plan and schedule, to re-mediate all servers and network Operating System software discrepancies within the projects timeline

Technical Project Lead Engineer, re-design corporate TCP/IP network infrastructure which included ATM MAN, Frame Relay WAN and Gigabit LAN. Coordinated implementation schedule with site personnel, submitted Change Management request for scheduling site outages and updated management on a daily basis during network infrastructure implementation Identified infrastructure implementation problems during project; fiber, network cabling and network equipment, develop a plan to address the issues to prevent impact to project schedules Led and initiated application analysis studies to identify application performance problem, consulted with end user to understand work task and develop work task procedure to identify point of slowness during test. As a result, identified performance issues with the software and configuration parameter within the software which had to be modified to improve performance

United States Marine Corps 1980 -1983 Honorable Discharge Served with the Multinational Peacekeeping Force in Beirut, Lebanon August 1982 to March 1983

Task Lead for the Aeronautical Information Management Modernization Segment 2 FAA program. Participated in different test phases of the software deployment, executing different types of test phases: Factory Acceptance Test, Integration Test, System Test and Operational Test Experience writing test procedure, reviewing system requirements, developing test procedures to ensure that requirements are testable and test procedure have trace-ability to requirements Testing of Liferay Portlet Web-based applications, testing of software functionality as it relates to system requirements, test the system architectures and identified any discrepancies with different Web browsers