Drew Roman

Current

Owner, Principal Consultant at Decisive IT, Inc.

Past

Manager, Corporate Infrastructure at Universities Space Research Association
Principal Technical Consultant at Deltek
Field Engineer at MicroAge Technologies

Cryptologic Linguist (Mandarin Chiniese) at USAF

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Education

CCAF
Defense Language Institute

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Drew Roman’s Summary

15+ years of well-rounded IT experience and bent on making the world a better place a few bytes at a time...

Drew Roman’s Specialties:

- IT Management Strategy
- Disaster Recovery Planning/Business Continuity
- IT Process Improvement and Automation
- Virtualization Technologies such as VMWare
- Oracle and MS SQL Server Database Admin
- Deltek and Cognos Technical Consulting
- LAN/WAN TCP/IP Networking
- Wireless Networking
- MS Windows Server System Admin
- Citrix/MS Terminal Server
- Linux/UNIX System Admin
- Email and Collaboration Systems
- Web Content Management
- Open Source Deployment
- x86 and SPARC Servers

Drew Roman’s Experience

Owner, Principal Consultant

Decisive IT, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Manager, Corporate Infrastructure

Universities Space Research Association

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

August 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 6 months)
Principal Technical Consultant

Deltek

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1998 — August 2006 (7 years 11 months)

Provided project management, design, deployment, maintenance and lifecycle management relevant to IT infrastructure supporting Deltek applications for customers worldwide

· Wide range of experience deploying client-server, n-tier applications, network/server hardware and other COTS applications

· Actively involved in business development activities, developing new service offerings and conducting research of new products

· Assisted in the management and training of Junior and Senior Technical Consultants

· Routinely presented at Deltek International User Conferences and Regional User Group meetings, primary topics include Security, Disaster Recovery Planning and Application Deployment Strategies

· Relevant technologies including, but not limited to, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Server, Linux, Sun Solaris, Citrix/Terminal Server, HP/Dell x86 servers, Sun SPARC servers, TCP/IP, LDAP, IIS, Apache, BEA Weblogic, VMWare ESX/GSX Server, Microsoft Virtual Server
Field Engineer

MicroAge Technologies

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1997 — September 1998 (1 year 4 months)

· Deployed and maintained a wide range of Servers, Networks and PC’s for a variety of different clients

· Designed and maintained company web site

· Relevant technologies included Compaq Proliant Servers, HP x86 servers, Windows NT 3.51-Windows 2000 Server, Novell Netware 3.X-4.X, SCO OpenServer 5.X, IPX and TCP/IP networking, IIS and Apache web servers, Linux and various COTS package
Cryptologic Linguist (Mandarin Chiniese)

USAF

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USAF; Military industry)

September 1990 — May 1997 (6 years 9 months)

· Primary duties included intelligence collection, analysis and reporting

· Secondary duties included support of proprietary computer systems, Sun Solaris (SPARC) servers/workstations, TCP/IP networks, web servers and specialized applications in support of intelligence activities in South Korea and at the National Security Agency

· Held Top Secret/SCI clearance with SBI and CI Polygraph (currently inactive)

· Also acquired basic Korean language proficiency during ~4 years stationed in South Korea

· Units: 6903rd ESG, 22nd IS, 303rd IS