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Anthony D Hammonds  

Web Portal/Identity & Access Engineer

Multi-talented IT professional with over 16 years of IT Experience with a Bachelors of Information Systems and is currently working on his Masters. Eleven years of experience in the creation and deployment of web portals, access control, and other information assets for diverse companies and organizations both public and private. Ten years’ experience helping companies design, deploy, and manage Identity Solutions and RBAC to control access to systems from both internal and external users.

Expertise Highlights

Professional Experience

Started with the project as a Sr. Siteminder Engineer providing support on configuration, capability, and new project initiatives utilizing that platform. Have provided support in all areas of IT initiatives within the project not including, coding, portal design and improvements, web systems initiatives including XML Gateways, Access Control, RBAC, User Repository improvements, and some products coming in the door taking advantage of Web 2.0 architecture.

Key Results:

§  Was a member of a core team to come up with a brand new Portal Design for the IRS’s external and internal web sites built on real portal solutions. Spent over a year assisting with the design, architecting, and documenting the new portals that would allow the US Government to position itself for today’s web systems and technologies down the road.

§  Have assisted several internal applications with code analysis to identify security issues, performance problems, and minimized risk to the US Government.

§  Documented design changes to the portal that have improved both internal and external Portal Uptime substantially. (90% uptime to 99.99% uptime within 1 year)

§  Member of core team that led a key upgrade to the IRS’s Web Infrastructure by upgrading to Windows 2003, on newer hardware, and putting them onto a web platform that was platform neutral.

§  Led several training sessions training SA’s how to support Linux Based DNS servers that were migrated from Solaris OS.

§  Member of Core team that assisted with migration of the IRS labs to a highly redundant Virtualized Environment built around technologies from VMWare and Solaris Containers and LDOMs.

Siteminder/Active Directory Engineer

Provided engineering, design, and support for the organizations Siteminder Infrastructure which was built around Active Directory for both Internal and External Users.

Key Results:

§  Redesigned and upgraded companies Siteminder Infrastructure to new version (Siteminder 4.x to 6.x) and deployed into a highly redundant and sustainable solution.

§  Improved Siteminder Policy Server uptime which had to be rebooted nightly to deal with a poorly designed solution. Policy Server uptime went from only every 24 hours before restart to being done only when patches were rolled out that impacted the servers or quarterly whichever came first.

§  Architected, designed, and implemented Federation Capabilities within Siteminder Product Suite to allow Aetna to strategically place itself for doing B2B Federation.

Sr. Firewall Security Consultant

Reviewed clients firewall and network infrastructure looking for improvements in design and identifying potential weak points.

Key Results:

§  Implemented upgraded firewall platform built on Nokia and Checkpoint Firewall Technologies.

§  Configured system so all firewall administration, monitoring, and performance gathering could be done from a few management systems within the enterprise.

§  Sealed several security holes that were exposed during an ethical hack performed by a security company. Even improved upon their recommendation and used advanced features of firewalls to add additional security protection over and above what was identified by outside firm.

Sr. Network/Systems Engineer

Provided support to company on Siteminder Access Control System with RSA Integration that allowed companies to do large financial transactions to overseas countries.

Key Results:

§  Led initiative to implement Siteminder with RSA SecurID so companies could feel confident the system was well secured for their financial transactins.

§  Redesigned checkpoint firewall architecture to highly redundant system that provided improved uptime to home office, colocation facility, and VPN access to remote offices in Japan and London.

§  Led team to upgrade File/Print/Email server to a Windows 2000 Cluster Server solution that had 2 TB of storage attached in a highly redundant and fully backed up system.

Sr. Network/Systems Engineer

Provided support to several companies in the web, financial, and corporate world as a for hire solution consultant. Performed work at several client sites in a lead consultant role with several consultant reporting to me for mentoring and task assignment.

Key Results:

§  Led several teams in supporting web systems and network engineering at clients such as Mamamedia, OnMoney, and NBC(GE).

§  Received positives comments from several clients on my ability to multitask and deal with a large workloads and lead people in getting tasks done.

§  Was brought in on several occasions as a presales engineer to help sales win clients and contracts by demonstrating in house knowledge of technologies and systems the clients were looking for.

Education

Masters of Science in Information Systems (MSIS), Expected Completion 01/2011

Bachelors of Science in Information Systems (BSIS), 2006

Associates of Applied Science in Electronics Engineering Technology (AASEET), 1994

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