SAMUEL CHUNG
Senior IT Engineer
Leesburg
Summary
Mr. Chung has been supporting and managing complex IT projects from design and development to production for the U.S. Army infrastructure for over 30 years. Mr. Chung’s strength is in defining requirements and infusing new technologies to gain project efficiencies and cost savings. Completed 35 hours PMP training, Mr. Chung has the work experience and training to successfully meet planning and scheduling objectives on critical IT programs as detailed below. Subject Matter Expert and trusted advisor skilled in research, analysis and examination of US Army technology and standard operating procedures. Interface and collaborate with clients and internal team members, providing consultative enhancement recommendations based on industry research. Improve existing processes, procedures, technical enhancements, resource requirements and stakeholder engagement procedures to align with strategic goals.
Overview
37
37
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Subject Matter Expert and Quality Assurance Engineer
Army Project Management Support PAC-VoIP and Yongsan Relocation Project (YRP) Increment4 projects, GENM-O Pacific and Korea
01.2019 - Current
- As a SME, provided Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) inspection and programmatic documents
- Provided insight into Risk Management working group for proper identification and assessment of project and program risks and issues
- Responsible for planning, managing, and administering program management
- Coordinated and prepared System Engineer program documents, memorandums, System Engineer program briefings, and other technical briefings
- Supported program reviews and evaluating technical plans
- Provided Logistics Support behalf of P2E Pacific Logistics and TELOS (Prime).
- Reviewed System Design Plan, Engineering Installation Plan, and related documentation.
Senior Systems Engineer
Army G1, Civilian Information Systems Division (CISD)
01.2006 - 01.2019
- Managed over 40 contractors in support of the CHRA infrastructure contract for the Army
- Managed the HR Staffing Suite and Portal Application Development team, the HQ ACPERS team, the Data Management Group and Technical Writing Team
- Led a team to prepare a Resumix application migration from the Hoffman Building at Alexandria, VA to the Army Civilian Data Center (ACDC) at Rock Island, IL
- Led a team to execute the challenging task of obtaining Cyber Security Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) packages for all of the Army HR production applications
- Managed a Cyber Security team to provide the DIACAP packages
- Reorganized and led the Unix team providing additional training and transitioning the team’s skill from HPUX to LINUX to maximize server availability to manage the Army HR infrastructure.
Senior Architecture Engineer
Army G1, Civilian Information Systems Division (CISD)
01.2005 - 01.2006
- Engineered High Availability (HA) architecture for the Army Civilian Personnel Systems at 3 data centers: Army Civilian Data Center at Rock Island, IL, the Hoffman Building at Alexandria, VA, and Army Benefit and Cost Center (ABCC) at Fort Riley, KS
- HA architecture utilizes IBM blade servers, IBM 4800 SAN storages, Polyserve, Net App FAS940c, Veritas Netbackup Enterprise 6.1, and Cisco MDS 9506 fiber channel switch to accomplish 99.99% availability
- Re-architected Resumix (COT software for the staffing tool by Monster.com) systems utilizing HP8620 (16 processors Itanium processors), HP blade servers, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Microsoft Windows 2003 servers, and Net App F840
- Engineered COOP solution for the ABCC Interactive Voice Respond Systems (IVRS) and MS SQL databases utilizing Net App Snapmirror technology
- Met the technical challenge due to the Army security policy against passing non-encrypted data via NIPRNET
- This was accomplished by configuring VPN connection from ABCC to ACDC and using Snapmirror TCP port 10566.
Senior Systems Engineer
Project Office Civilian Personnel Regionalization (PO-CPR) – Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS)
01.1996 - 01.2005
- Managed Network Engineers, Oracle Database Administrators, Unix/Linux Systems Administrators, MS Systems Engineers and Cable Installers to support U.S
- Army HR systems and infrastructure
- Engineered local and wide area networks, powers, spaces, cablings, backup generators, servers, and workstations for all data center infrastructures
- Pioneered Citrix Winframe/MetaFrame solutions for personnel systems
- Redesigned Defense Civilian Personnel Data System (DCPDS) communication method using Citrix to provide efficient delivery of client application to users
- Designed, engineered, tested, installed and deployed MS NT/2000/2003 servers to service worldwide operation of the Army Civilian Data Center (ACDC), Army Civilian Personnel Operations Centers (CPOC) and Civilian Personnel Advisory Centers (CPAC)
- Engineered and implemented Network Appliance’s (Netapp) Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution for the DCPDS which is an Oracle 9i database.
Systems Engineer
US Army Information Systems Engineering Command – Fort Belvoir Engineering Command
01.1991 - 01.1996
- Engineered the network infrastructure for worldwide Army Civilian Personnel Offices (CPO), Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Non Appropriate Fund (NAF)
- Led an engineering team and installation team to survey, design and deploy the Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) for the 110 Army Civilian Personnel Office
- Configured and installed a Windows-NT LAN operating system with the Pentium base computers, Cisco routers, and CableTron and Synoptics Hubs
- Developed an Army Civilian Personnel Information System Design Plans (ISDP) and Engineering Installation Plans (EIPs) to obtain approval for procuring equipment from the Department of the Army.
Computer Engineer
US Army Information Systems Engineering Command – Sustaining Base Automation
01.1987 - 01.1991
- Engineered the transition of the World Wide Civilian Personnel Office’s Wide Area Network connections (point to point and TYMNET) to Defense Data Network (DDN) infrastructure, which is now known as a Non-classified Internet Protocol Routing Network (NIPRNET).
Education
BA Electrical Engineering - Specializing in Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 06.1982 - 12.1986
Skills
Ability to Introduce Program Efficiencies:undefined
Clearance
Top Secret
Timeline
Senior Subject Matter Expert and Quality Assurance Engineer
Army Project Management Support PAC-VoIP and Yongsan Relocation Project (YRP) Increment4 projects, GENM-O Pacific and Korea
01.2019 - Current
Senior Systems Engineer
Army G1, Civilian Information Systems Division (CISD)
01.2006 - 01.2019
Senior Architecture Engineer
Army G1, Civilian Information Systems Division (CISD)
01.2005 - 01.2006
Senior Systems Engineer
Project Office Civilian Personnel Regionalization (PO-CPR) – Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS)
01.1996 - 01.2005
Systems Engineer
US Army Information Systems Engineering Command – Fort Belvoir Engineering Command
01.1991 - 01.1996
Computer Engineer
US Army Information Systems Engineering Command – Sustaining Base Automation
01.1987 - 01.1991
BA Electrical Engineering - Specializing in Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
06.1982 - 12.1986
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