Edward P. Kipfinger is a senior hardware architect and system administrator with over 13 years of experience building, integrating, and maintaining large, complex processing and storage systems for defense and intelligence environments. He has expert-level experience with Linux, UNIX, and scripting languages. He received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering Technology in 1999 and has held several roles supporting critical national systems and information management architectures. He currently works as an independent consultant while maintaining his US Navy Reserve commission as an Information Warfare Officer.

1. Edward P. Kipfinger
19644 E. Caspian Cir
Aurora, CO 80013
720-360-7071
kipperyom@yahoo.com
Professional
Profile
Senior Hardware Architect and lead System Administrator with over 13
years of experience in building, integrating, installing, operating and
maintaining large, complex processing and storage systems in critical
defense/IC environments. Supported globally-deployed enterprise
consisting of >20PB multi-tier storage and >300 Redhat Linux, IBM AIX
and Oracle Solaris servers. Expert-level Linux (all current 2.6+ kernel
variants), UNIX SVR4 variants and shell and Perl scripting. Substantial
experience with high-performance computing, storage and networking.
Experience with VMWare (VSphere 4.1/5.0, ESX/i) design, setup and
support. Experience designing system-level solutions for configuration
control, file integrity, system performance monitoring and general
security hardening.
 Expert level experience in administration of current distributions of
Linux including RedHat and SUSE; Advanced level experience with
UNIX System-V variants including Solaris 2.6-10 and AIX 5.3 – 61.
 Provided assessment of system requirements for sizing, selection
and purchase of all compute and storage resources to meet
customer requirements on a large scale information management
and storage program
 Experienced in configuration, tuning, deployment and
troubleshooting of clustered filesystems such as RedHat GFS,
StorNext, SGI CXFS and IBM GPFS
 Expert knowledge in the setup, deployment and SAN attached
storage arrays using IBM and Sun/StorageTek controllers to meet
demanding I/O performance requirements
 Advanced knowledge in the configuration, deployment and
troubleshooting of Sun/StorageTek tape libraries including the
installation and configuration of ACSLS storage manager
 Advanced knowledge in IP switching and routing with Cisco,
Brocade/Foundry and Nortel solutions
 Advanced experience with 4Gb/ 8Gb Fibre Channel SAN fabrics
using Cisco and Brocade Enterprise platforms
 Lead engineer responsible for definition and application of computer
system hardening measures that meet stringent IC community
network requirements for PL3+ certifications.

2. Education 1995 – 1999 Metropolitan State University of Denver Denver,CO
Bachelor of Science/Electrical Engineering Technology
(GPA 3.51)
 Intel 8x86 processors, architecture and programming (Masm)
 Motorola 68HC11 microcontroller, architecture and programming
 Programmable Logic controllers
 Ada, C, Assembly, DOS, Unix, Ladder logic and Basic programming
 Data Communications (analog and digital)
Professional
experience
2001 – 2015 TRW/Northrop Grumman Aurora, CO
Systems Architect / Infrastructure Manager / System Administrator
Lead
 Resolve design issues of large scale UNIX/LINUX/Window/VMWare virtualized
multi-petabyte data processing and storage systems.
 Lead modeling and simulation assessments of system performance and design
 Evaluate hardware, storage, network and software COTS products
 Define future program system architecture plans
 Architect responsible for addressing design issues of program interactive
subsystem
 Member of team responsible for defining and providing guidelines for next
generation data processing architecture for US Intelligence Community
 Architect and System Administrator lead responsible for study, design and
implementation of next generation interactive and information management
architecture for the US Intelligence community
2005 – 2016 United States Navy Reserve Aurora, CO
Information Warfare Officer - Rank Lieutenant/O3
 Operations officer for reserve component of Navy Information Operations
Center Colorado responsible for over 12 officer/enlisted mission analysts
 Information Dominance Warfare Corp qualified
 ISR Collection Manager, Multi-national Forces Iraq (2007-2008)
 Information Operations Officer, Regimental Combat Team 6, Helmand
Province Afghanistan (2012)

3. 1999 – 2001 TRW Aurora, CO
Test/Integration Engineer
 Developing and executing test procedures against critical national systems.
 Basic analysis of system data
 Installation/Integration and test of complex data processing systems.
 Troubleshooting system design problems
1998 – 1999 Lucent Technologies Denver, CO
Test Engineer
 Worked in R&D as a Software Tester in support of the Definity PBXproduct line.
 Tested software to ensure product quality.
 Wrote and executed ISO9000 compliant test procedures on Definity software
used by Fortune 500 and International companies.
 Utilized C to develop automated testing tools.
 Worked in a Unix environment.
 Trained in advanced Telecommunications topics.
1996 Gart Sports Denver, CO
Computer Operator
 IBM AS/400 computer operations
 Troubleshooting Telecommunications issues.
 Assisting Network Administrator
1995 Strachan Shipping Company Savannah, GA
Computer Operator
 IBM Mainframe operations
 Troubleshooting Telecommunications issues.

4. 1990 – 1994 United States Marine Corps
Meteorological Electronics Technician
 Completed Avionics Electronics training course(8 mos)
 Completed Meteorological Electronics course(4 mos)
 Acquired leadership skills essential to operating and maintaining mobile
meteorological facility.
 Areas of expertise included, Weather Radar, HF Voice and data
communications, Satellite Communications, and Meteorological sensors and
indicators.
Security
clearance
DOD/Top Secret 1992-1994
SSBI 1999 – present (currently suspended awaiting adjudication)