Chad Merritt

About Chad Merritt

Over 15 years of experience in architecture, engineering, and administration of enterprise-level networks. Skilled in designing and engineering for security, capacity, usability, and upgradability for maximizing Return-on-Investment and minimizing upfront and operating costs. Expertise in managing projects within the IT and IS fields. Solid understanding and hands-on experience with Cloud, Storage Networking, High Availability, Redundancy, Load Balancing, and Virtualization. Highly skilled in system security, rapid provisioning, disaster recovery, and disaster mitigation. Proven ability at designing and managing environments for production services and applications as well as development and testing. Excellent mentor to junior personnel that is both team oriented and able to work without supervision and minimal guidance with superior customer focus- Master of Professional Studies, Enterprise Architecture Penn State University, May 2017- Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering Technology Old Dominion University, May Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP)- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (AWS CSA)- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)- DoD Secret Clearance

Experience

1. Technical Project Manager

   Chugach Government Solutions, LLC

   Jan 2024 — Present · US

Education

• Old Dominion University

  BS, EET

  1993 — 1999

• Penn State University

  Master of Professional Studies, Enterprise Architecture

  2015 — 2017

Skills

• Security
• Enterprise Architecture
• Architecture
• Computer Security
• Windows
• Software Development
• Operating Systems
• Linux
• Cisco Technologies
• Solaris
• Unix
• C
• Dod
• Systems Engineering
• Integration
• Network Security
• Perl
• Databases
• Testing
• Xml
• System Administration