Robert Sparks
IT Specialist OCIO CEC at USDA
West Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Sparks is an IT specialist with 23 years of hands-on experience in systems operations, network engineering, and cyber systems across military, federal, and commercial environments. Currently supporting USDA’s OCIO Client Experience Center, he combines infrastructure support, security operations, and customer-facing IT services to keep mission-critical systems running. His background in the U.S. Air Force and roles at Booz Allen and NexGen reflect deep expertise in vulnerability management, accreditation, migration of medical networks, and firewall/troubleshooting coordination. VMware certification, strong Microsoft Office skills, and near-complete MIS bachelor’s studies complement practical skills in server and network administration. An active back-end contributor to an open-source SIP/ICE/TURN C++ project, he has tackled protocol implementation and DNS integration—showing a capacity to debug low-level string and presence-server issues. Based in West Des Moines, he pairs disciplined, process-driven methods from military logistics with pragmatic technical problem solving.
23 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree, Munitions Systems/Ordinance Technology, 4.0, Associate's Degree, Munitions Systems/Ordinance Technology, 4.0 at Community College of the Air ForcePursuing Bachelor's Degree, Management Information Systems, General, 3.85, Pursuing Bachelor's Degree, Management Information Systems, General, 3.85 at Upper Iowa University
English
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
sips10
sipjs10
cprogramming-language10
sipp10
network-protocol10
sip10
dns8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
resiprocate/resiprocate
Apr 2003 - Feb 2015
C++ implementation of SIP, ICE, TURN and related protocols.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1019 commits in 12 years
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the implementation of the SIP, ICE, TURN, and related protocols, focusing on the back-end functionality of a presence server. Their work involved debugging string handling issues, refactoring code, and implementing presence server functionality, including the handling of subscriptions and notifications. Furthermore, they added support for DNS lookups and updated code to reflect the changes to the PRPL API.
cppfreeswitchsipiceprotocols
ietf-tools/tools-transition-plan
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 18 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
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