Daniel Till has over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity, IT project management, and systems administration. He has a B.S. in Cybersecurity and Information Systems Management. Till currently works as an Enterprise Project Lead for Raytheon, where he facilitates hardware/software installations and leads technical meetings. Previously, he spent over a decade as an Operations and Sustainment Manager and Section Lead, managing teams that provided support to agencies like NGA and NIMA. He has extensive experience maintaining servers, workstations, and communications networks. Till holds security clearances and various IT certifications.
1. Daniel J. TillDaniel J. Till
13534 Penn Shop Rd. Mt. Airy, Maryland 21771 Phone: 301-798-8428 daniel.till@comcast.net
Security Clearance
TS/SCI – Active
CI Poly – Active
Education
2014 B.S., Cybersecurity, UMUC
1995 B.S., Information Systems Management, UMUC
Certificates
2013 - UMUC Information Assurance (IA) 2009 - Earned Value Management
2012 - CompTIA Network+ 2007 - Raytheon Certified IPT Lead
2011 - ITIL v3 Foundation 2003 - Raytheon Six Sigma Specialist
2010 - CompTIA Security+
Achievements
• NGA Meritorious Unit Citation from the director of NGA for
extraordinary effort and exceptionally significant
accomplishments in the planning, engineering, and
implementation of the metadata cleanup fixes on the GIDI Gold
database
• NGA Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of the SCEN to
NGANet Phase II network merger
• Raytheon Achievement Award for contributions to the GIDI
program and deployments
• Raytheon Achievement Award for the restoration of a critical
NIMA communications link between Bethesda and St. Louis
• NIMA Yellow Jersey Award in recognition of the successful
resolution of an internal critical communications link in Bethesda
Experience
2014-Present Enterprise Project Lead
Raytheon Systems Company
2. • Facilitate installation/removal of hardware and software on a
government contract
• Lead and support Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) relevant
to proposed configuration changes
2009 -2014 Sustainment Engineer
Raytheon Systems Company
• Provided lifecycle support to the National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency’s (NGA) integrated database Operations and
Sustainment (O&S) activity
• Worked with contract organizations, government personnel, and
configuration management (CM) to obtain the required support
results, either dictated by Service Level Agreements (SLAs) or
system requirements
• Supported the applicable guidance boards and provide briefings
as needed in support of system technical issues/problems
• Worked with other contractors to assist in technical
modifications, transitions and upgrades
• Supported applicable Integrated Product Team (IPT) initiatives
• Led or supported Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) relevant
to technical engineering initiatives
2002-2009 Operations and Sustainment Manager
Raytheon Systems Company
• Supervised the daily operations of NGA’s O&S activity on the
Geospatial Intelligence Database Integration (GIDI) and
Homeland Security (HLS) contract
• Maintained Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms)
documentation for system security certifications and
accreditation
• Supported Information Technology Disaster Recovery (ITDR),
Continuity of Operations (COOP), Business Continuity Planning
(BCP), Program Management Reviews (PMRs), Discrepancy
Reports (DRs), Help Desk (HD), and applicable reviews
• Oversaw a team of 30 personnel comprised of System
Administrators (Windows & Unix), Database Administrators
(Oracle) and Application Engineers (ESRI, Intergraph & FME)
• Led the original O&S start-up of the GIDI contract in Bethesda,
St. Louis, the Washington Navy Yard and Langley and through
3. six major software spiral deliveries, upgrades and
enhancements
• Led the successful recap effort of 74 GIDI workstations in
Bethesda in concert with the recap effort in St. Louis while
maintaining support to all Windows and UNIX servers
2000-2002 Section Lead
Raytheon Systems Company
• Led the day-to-day operations of the Data Services branch of
the National Imagery and Mapping Agency’s (NIMA) MSMS
contract in Bethesda
• Oversaw the multi-disciplined engineers involved in maintaining
the equipment running UNIX, MVS & VAX VMS operating
systems
• Led the same team of engineers in the decommissioning and
dismantling of said equipment at its end-of-life
1999-2000 System Administrator
Raytheon Systems Company
• Provided system administration for U.S. Government agency’s
Windows, NT/Solaris based system running ESRI software in a
developmental environment
1996-1999 Computer Staff Engineer
Raytheon Systems Company
• Provided network support for U.S. Government agency’s FIDDI
ring and inter-site communications utilizing TCP/IP
• Configured and maintained the Cisco routers on the network
• Maintained servers and workstations on Solaris, AIX, CLIX, VAX
VMS and IBM MVS platforms
1990-1995 Satellite Communications Network Controller
U.S. Army Space Command
• Provided communications payload control over DOD satellites
and maintained database integrity for operational and static
databases
4. 1986-1990 Satellite Communications Equipment Operator/Repairer
U.S. Army Information Systems Command
• Operated and maintained diverse satellite communications
ground stations, modems, multiplexers, power amplifiers, low
noise amplifiers
Available for Full-Time Assignments