Tyler Salata

Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Management of Information Systems

San Diego State University

2008 : 2012

Experience: 2023 : Present

Sigma Defense Systems LLC

Director of Cybersecurity & Infrastructure

• Leading NIST and CMMC compliance efforts for the entire organization to ensure compliance with DoD regulations.

• Overseeing corporate IT day-to-day operations, tasking, and project assignments

• Assisting on contract technical proposals writing leveraging PaaS and IaaS solutions

• Responsible for leading a team of engineers to design and deliver a PaaS solution to the Undersea Warfare Decision Support System (USW-DSS) program at NAVSEA

• Responsible for integrating the Agile Core Services 3 (ACS 3) Big Data Platform as a Service (PaaS) with the C4ISR platform, Distributed Common Ground Systems Navy Inc2 (DCGS-N Inc2).

• Install Government systems (ACS3 and DCGS-N Inc2) into AWS and VMware virtualization environments while following security best practices

• Automate the deployment and integration of Government and Commercial software utilizing Ansible

• Support and extend the development CI/CD pipeline to speed up feature development.

2018 : 2023

SOLUTE

Senior System Engineer

• Led a ten vendor, Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) study on behalf of the Office of Naval Research (ONR)

• Planned and executed testing of a government, big data application stack, Tactical Cloud Reference Implementation (TCRI)

• Coordinated vendor logistics and tracked $3 million worth of vendor inventory

• Provided direct support for Distributed Common Ground Station Navy (DCGSN) Inc2 infrastructure team by addressing Linux, Windows, network, and middleware application issues which prevented project success

• Presented high-level and in-depth information on next generation hyper convergence infrastructure computing (HCI) platforms to senior government customers

• Led a team of three engineers to successfully enable SELinux on TCRI and provided network segregation for enhanced security

• Redesigned and architected new internal lab networks which enhanced corporate network security

• Assisted in the design of a next generation Automated Digital Network System (ADNS) virtualized platform for the Navy which resulted in a 90% size weight and power (SWaP) savings

2015 : 2018

SOLUTE

System Engineer

• Architected, implemented, and maintained corporate WAN, LAN, RAVPN, and dynamic multi-site VPN

• Maintained internal development and production environments of roughly 150 virtual machines (VMs) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV 3.2), VMware (ESXI 5.5 and 6), and Hyper-V (2012 r2)

• Championed ‘go-paperless’ effort across administrative operations reducing costs and decreasing new employee onboarding time

• Implemented custom SharePoint workflows to increase efficiency and ensure administration adherence to corporate policy

• Hired, trained, and led the IT support team for the company to effectively support all company projects

• Managed the IT project backlog and executed projects which provided value and aligned with company goals/vision

2014 : 2018

Solute

Network and System Administrator

• Researched, tested, and evaluated virtualization platforms for internal development and production environments

• Created a lab facility which housed ten internal engineering and IRAD projects

• Managed internal corporate SharePoint migration of thirty subsites from server 2007 to server 2010 and 2013 cloud platforms

• Assisted in the development of a software development environment (Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Nexus, Sonar, Review Board, and GitLab) with active directory authentication for all developers

• Served as part-time Facility Security Officer (FSO) in charge of visit requests, security clearances, in/out processing in JPAS and maintained acceptable security posture for security inspections

2012 : 2014

SOLUTE

IT Analyst

Company: Sigma Defense Systems LLC

Years of Experience: 16

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