Nicolas Cruz Velez

Dedicated System administrator and Electronic warfare Technician onboard the USS Asheville SSN 758 for five years and 3 deployments. Rose in status from operator to divisional leader and managed multiple onboard repairs and upgrades to outstanding success. Managed, maintained, and personally implemented improvements to an Unclas LAN, Secret LAN, and a Top Secret LAN. Have adapted to multiple difficult situations provided by high stress enviroments from mainting onboard systems in high stress enviroments during deployments and successfully managed subordinates during such enviroments. During my time onboard i was awarded 5 naval achievment medals (NAM)

• CompTIA A+ 2024 CompTIA [www.certmetrics.com/comptia/candidate/ce...](https://www.certmetrics.com/comptia/candidate/cert_summary.aspx)
• CompTIA Security+February 2018 Center for Information Dominance Learning Site Groton \\Expired
• Network, Exchange, Server 2018 Center for Information Dominance Learning Site Groton \\Expired

1st Naval Achievement Medal (NAM)November 2020 T.W. Bullock, CDR, USN Commanding Officer USS Asheville SSN 758
Migrated 13 Virtual Servers , rebuilt 5 exchange servers, and restored server raids to an optimal condition. Was responsible for tracking and implementation of over 30 TYCOM advisory messages. As divisional Repair parts petty officer i ordered and replaced 4 uninterruptiblepower supplies.

5th Naval Achievement Medal (NAM)January 2023 T. T. Dixon CDR. Commanding officer USS Asheville SSN 758
As work center supervisor for the largest work center onboard the warship I guided 4 other sailors through more than 650 hours of maintenance as well as completing a local area network (LAN) upgrade ahead of schedule. Additionally i was a driving force in the timely completion of several testing procedures critical to the early completion and implementation of the LAN for which i was personally recognized by the off hull installation team for my contributions.