CHRISTOPHER R. CARROLL

Clearance
Top Secret SCI – Inactive

Education 
A,S. - Computer Science, Lincoln Land College
B,S. – In Progress – Computer Science, University of Illinois
Russian Fluency - Defense Language Institute 
 
Technical Skills
 5+ years 	Desktop Support /PC Support 
 5+ years  	Unix/Systems Administration
 5+ years	Solaris
 4+ years	Intelligence Analysis 
 4+ years 	Linux 	  
 3+ years 	Unix Security 
 2+ years	Linux Security 	

Hardware:	IBM PC/Compatible, Network Management, Sun/Sparc, Xerox, PIX, ASA
Communications:	Appletalk, Cisco, Citrix, DHCP, DNS, DSL, Ethernet, FDDI, FTP,
Hubs, HTTP, IPSEC, IPX/SPX, LAN/WAN, NIS, NFS, Routers, SNMP, Switches, T1/T3,
TCP/IP, Wireless
Operating Systems:	Linux, Open source, Solaris/Sun Os, Unix, Windows
NT/95/98/2000/XP, Xenix, MAC OS
UNIX:	Bourne, C Shell, Korn Shell, cron, Scripts
Servers:	Unix Server, Windows NT
Software/Tools/Utilities:	MS Office, Outlook, Remedy, Visio, Wiki, Sharepoint,
Nagios, Mobilize

Professional Experience

10/2006 – Present			Ajilon Consulting, Inc.

(Consultant to Texas Instruments)

Systems Administrator II
•	Responsible for the administration, configuration and maintenance of all
hardware and software in TI’s External Design Collaboration space.
•	Responsibilities required a broad base of working knowledge to include but not
limited to Unix/Linux server administration, remote connectivity/display, network
administration, network security, lsf computing, network storage (SAN),
clearcase, process development, documentation and customer service.
•	Other responsibilities of interest include inventory management, training new
team members, cross-training outside functional teams, working on projects as
technical lead and being a part of the team that is re-architecting the External
Design Collaboration space.

02/2006 – 09/2006 			Abraham Lincoln Council, BSA

Information Technology Support
•	Responsible for the administration and maintenance of all servers and clients
used by the council office.
•	Roles filled include Network Administrator, Systems Administrator, and
Webmaster.
•	Technologies worked with include TCP/IP, WindowsNT 4.0, WindowsXP Home and
Professional, WindowsNT Server 4.0, Windows Media Center Edition, CAP Point of
Sale and various mixed hardware solutions that host these software solutions.

06/2003 – Present     			University of Illinois at Springfield               
Student – Computer Science Major/Systems Security and Information Assurance
•	Technologies worked with include Cisco routers, TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, network
design, C++ and Java Programming Languages, object oriented programming and
object oriented analysis, software engineering, various methods associated with
network security, risk assessment, vulnerability analysis and information
assurance.

03/ 2004 - 12/2004    	COMMUNITY CARE SYSTEMS, INC   

Information Technology Support Engineer
•	Responsible for the administration, configuration, implementation and
maintenance of all technologies used across nine interrelated corporations and
companies.
•	Roles filled include IT Director, Project Manager, levels I, II, and III help
desk support, Network Administrator, Database Administrator, Systems
Administrator, and Systems Engineer.
•	Technologies worked with include Linux, SCO Unix, Xenix, Kermit, uucp, NEXTPOS
Restaurant Point of Sale, custom built computing solutions, TCP/IP, network
design, risk assessment, vulnerability analysis, Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM,
Windows 2000 Professional and Server, Windows XP, DNS, Email Servers hosted on
Linux, Sun Cobalt Cube, Diamond Drag Engraving Table, Solustan Maxmotion 5.0
Software and Engraving Driver, and Web hosting servers.

04/2002 – 05/2003    	 NORTHROP GRUMMAN MISSION SYSTEMS
   
(Contract for the Department of Defense)

SUN Server Support Engineer/Systems Administrator II
•	Responsible for the administration, configuration, and maintenance of a unix
server cluster consisting of more than 25 sites worldwide.
•	Provide level 2/3 support of a unix environment.
•	Future planning and research.
•	Create and maintain technical documentation on administration, configuration,
installation, and maintenance of all equipment concerning unix server cluster
•	Create and maintain training plans and supporting documentation to train help
desk support personnel in level 1 and initial level 2 support of unix
environment.
•	Occasionally called upon to travel worldwide in support of customer needs
•	Hardware and Software worked with:
•	Solaris 2.5.1, Solaris 6, Solaris 8, Mac OS, Windows 2000 Professional
•	Sun Enterprise class servers, SunRay Thin Clients, Macintosh workstations,
Intel-based workstations, Sun Storage RAID Disk Arrays, Sun Storage Tape Library,
Plasmon Optical Disk Security Auditing Hardware, terminal concentrators,
switches, hubs, fiber optics, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS)
•	Solstice Disksuite, Sun High Availability Software, Legato, Sun Cluster 3.0


03/2001 – 04/2002    	INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.       

(Contract for the Department of Defense) 

Firewall Technician/Systems Analyst I
•	Responsible for the administration, configuration, maintenance, and the
security of a 60,000+ user network worldwide
•	Possesses knowledge of common intrusion techniques and countermeasures,
viruses, Trojans, worms, use of auditing and monitoring tools, TCP/IP, Firewall
rule creation, server hardening, network design, vulnerability analysis, and risk
assessment.
•	Provide network support to posts and embassies around the world
•	Platforms and Software worked with:
•	Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, Linux, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000 Professional
and Server
•	Sun Microsystems and Intel based servers and workstations
•	Raptor Firewall v. 6.0.2, v. 6.5.1, and v. 6.5.3, Axent Velociraptor Firewall
Appliance v. 1.0 and v. 1.1, Raptor Mobile
•	MAILsweeper for SMTP, Trend InterScan E-mail VirusWall v. 3.5, Sendmail
•	Safenet/IRE, Livingston RADIUS NT Service v. 2.0, and Citrix Server
•	Radware Fireproof – Load Balancing Appliance
•	SIPRNet
•	StoneSoft’s Stonebeat Full-cluster – Load Balance and clustering software, and
Stonegate Firewall.
•	Freshwater’s Sitescope, WebNot! – Web content filtering, and WebTrends –
auditing tool.

1997 – 2001    	 U.S. ARMY - MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

Signals Intelligence Analyst
•	Responsible for accurate and timely target information gathering and
reporting
•	Created and maintained a target information reference databases (data entry,
manipulation and reporting).
•	Responsible for training personnel to successfully accomplish the mission.
•	Administration of Solaris and Windows NT 4.0 environments.