SUMMARY:

I am a results focused security professional with a pedigree in systems engineering. My extensive experience, industry knowledge, and personality, make me a valuable asset when navigating today’s complex security landscape.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PCI Compliance, SOX, Defense in depth. Web content filtering, DLP, Windows Servers 2003 - 2012, Red Hat Servers 5-6, Confluence, Keylight, AWS, Azure, VMWare, Packet sniffing and analysis, firewalls, Active Directory, Group Policy, antivirus, data forensics

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Information Security Architect

Responsibilities:

• Vetted out any purchased product/service for security concerns and designed architectures to compensate for any shortcoming.
• Provided secure architecture designs to development.
• Wrote policies, standards, and guidelines on various topics.
• Sat on the Cloud Steering Committee to hear new use cases and make sure security best practices were designed into new applications.
• Assisted in design and enhancements of automating our security exception workflows.
• Provided guidance and design recommendations when transitioning from PCI 2 to PCI 3.1.
• Conducted annual firewall reviews as required for PCI compliance.
• Worked with process owners and executives during the merger with Global Payments to ensure continuous security posture.

Information Security Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Transitioned from Vontu DLP to Websense DLP
• Monitored systems and endpoints in secure networks for storage and transmission of sensitive data.
• Administration of DLP systems.

Senior Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Windows/Red Hat Administration (Windows Server 2003 - 2012, RHEL 5-6)
• Radware AppDirector Administration for web farm load balancing.
• Supported 100+ developers throughout the development lifecycle.
• Built and maintained a multi-node OpsView monitoring solution that successfully monitored our infrastructure nationwide.
• Traveled extensively to support remote offices and meet with executives to devise long term corporate strategies.
• Met with process owners to devise and build solutions that made sense for them and made financial sense for the business.
• Became lead engineer for AWS integration leveraging EC2, SNS, SQS, Dynamo, and SES.
• Worked closely with the security team to identify vulnerabilities and ensure systems were operating in compliance with PCI, SOX, and other regulatory standards.
• Vetted vendors for various solutions including virtualization, storage, compute, monitoring and cloud.
• Conducted training with NOC and junior engineers on various systems, best practices, and security standards.
• Worked on systems integration for acquired companies to bring them into the fold while encouraging them to maintain the standards and individuality that brought them to us.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support desktop PC and Mac users worldwide.
• Saved the company tens of thousands of dollars a year by implementing a free open source Linux based imaging solution that completely replaced Ghost.
• Created a master image for each developer tuned to their exact specification. Decreased redeployment time from 8 hours to 1 hour.
• Train end-users to use hardware and software.
• Advised users of best practices and security standards
• Suggest creative and effective solutions to nagging problems.
• Helped end users deliver to customers using technology and people management skills to find solutions that were not immediately apparent.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Server provisioning and testing.
• Maintaining documentation, licenses, knowledgebase articles, and training materials.
• Support services such as IIS, AD, Exchange, MS SQL and the full Windows 2003 - 08 Suite.
• Responsible for day-to-day support for managed MS servers and web hosting plans.
• Provided support to clients in 60 countries via phone, email, and ticketing system.
• Support covered over 3000 dedicated server clients in a Tier IV Data Center.
• Assist in design, testing and implementation of new technologies such as VM’s and the Cloud.
• Lead Admin for Parallels Virtuozzo Containers based cluster.
• Worked extensively with Microsoft Hyper V team and technologies assisting with the management of a 14 node HA Cluster.