SUMMARY:

• Experienced cyber security professional with about 15 years of experience looking for a leadership position.
• Professional expertise in personnel management, comprehensive design planning and implementation of strategic security programs that provide operation excellence.
• Primarily focused on Network Security and Information Assurance.
• Possess CCSA, JNCIA, ITIL v3, F5, CSIA and CISSP. Offer unique set of skills in network security field with strong programming and teaching background.
• Held secret, top - secret in past, and DOJ, social security, and TNET clearances in present.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Firewall/Load Balancer: Checkpoint, Netscreen, Pix, Raptor, ASA, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Juniper SRX, F5

Confidential: Snort, Cisco, Bro, Intrushield, Confidential, Arbor peakflow Confidential, Pip, Stealthwatch, Enterasys Dragon HIDS NIDS, Net forensics, Argus, Sourcefire, Tipping point, Mcafee, Palo-Alto

Security Assessment Tools: Wireshark, Tivoli Security Operations Manager ( Confidential ) SIEM/SIM- NeuSecure, Nmap, Splunk, fping, Metasploit, Nessus, Retina & REM, Intellitactics,HBSS, Interrogator, Security policy creation and compliance, Configuration management

Authentication and VPN: Bluecoat Proxy, Confidential, SecureID, LDAP, PKI, VPN-IKE, AH, ESP configuration and maintenance, encryption algorithms- DES, 3DES. AES, RSA, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, NetCache

Network: F5, LAN/WAN: Ethernet, Token Ring and Star Topologies, Confidential /IP, FTP, OSPF, ARP, RIP, RAS, DNS, DHCP

Software/Operating Systems: Oracle, Delphi, MS Access, Microsoft Office Tools, AutoCAD FAST Track, MS Visio Unix, Linux, and Windows

Programming Languages: C, C++, COBOL, Assembler, SQL, Job Control Language (JCL), Pascal, Shell Scripting

Modeling and Simulation Tools: Advanced System Survivability Integrated Simulation Kit (ASSIST), Satellite Tool Kit (STK) with advanced training, Extend, OPNET, Battle space Environment & Signature Toolkit (BEST)

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Security Engineer

Confidential, Durham

Responsibilities:

• Being Tier 3 engineer, monitor and analyze Confidential alerts from layer 4 to layer 7 in depth from medium to large government and corporate customer sensors for real intrusions fine tune signature database constantly to minimize false positive and false negatives maintain Confidential devices and SIEM platforms health, upgrade them, and support internal architecture
• Real-time analyzing critical Confidential attacks and mitigating them
• Build new relationships with customers while continue to maintain highly customized and professional relationship with existing customers-deliver efficient solution to keep customers happy
• Write customized scripts to enhance capability of existing platform to meet our environment needs
• Weekly briefing to customers and upper management regarding the status quo of the security
• Analyze and collaborate all monitoring efforts across all shifts and fine tune them to protect our infrastructure ISO/IEC 27001
• Technically trained new engineers and making them better future security engineers- building teams and managing secure IT operations within complex working environment
• Streamlined departmental operations on a continual basis to improve business processes and reduce redundant personnel, lowering overhead costs significantly.

Lead Network Security Engineer

Confidential, Cary

Responsibilities:

• Lead and Shift lead Confidential security operation center, where troubleshoot complex network connectivity issues including but not limited to authentication, VPN, proxy, load balancing, firewalls, Confidential /IPS
• Quickly log and analyze Confidential handshake-tcpdump several technologies all in one troubleshooting session to resolved customers’ multifaceted issues
• Trained newly hired engineers to quickly adapt to Confidential environment
• Created and fine tune processes to run Confidential effectively and efficiently, following the industry standards of HIPPA, GLB, SOX etc.
• Address customers request and issues promptly up to and beyond their satisfaction. Created Splunk monitoring reports to give them overview of their network in one page layout

Instructor

Confidential, Durham

Responsibilities:

• Teaching computer programming and Confidential classes which configured NMap, Nessus, MBSA, Wireshark, Netwitness, hacking, encryption, and virus scan and malware scans, security +, Linux
• Provided career guidance as needed

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and executed Multi-access client server model for accounting software-QuickBooks
• Lead vendor-owner meetings and executed efficient solution for the business
• Troubleshot clients queries and assisted them in transition

Senior Security Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created REM & Retina Vulnerability management infrastructure for entire hub and spoke environment
• Organized vulnerability management schedule for over 4000 computers
• Deployed OVAL, Gold Disk, and Confidential checklist to many computers to be compliant with Confidential standards
• Planned and initiated integration between HBSS, Retina and REM, and Hercules
• Analyzed alerts from Interrogator, distributed attack sensing and warning system, and fixed affected systems

Senior Network Security Engineer & Project Manager

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Lead, Managed, and designed security operation center ( Confidential ) for Confidential security customers.
• Developed process flow for Confidential .
• Trained technicians and engineers for security event management. Researched products such as various firewalls, Confidential, access control ( Confidential ) and authentication tools, lead various vendor products meetings, made informative decisions regarding resources that fit with Confidential .
• Interviewed and hired engineers for Confidential event management. Managed the Confidential from initiation phase to Execution.
• Managed inactive and non-functional Confidential project to live and functioning services. Translated the clients’ requirements into technical terms, assigned tasks to engineers, supervised their duties, required updates from them regularly, and made progress until Confidential became part of production environment.
• Performed analysis and provided resolution of network security related problems by managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting Checkpoint, Netscreen, Pix Firewalls, and Confidential .
• Performed authentication services on Confidential, SecureID, LDAP, Entrust and NetCache. Help troubleshoot and trained team members for authentication service, tools and methodologies.
• Provided customer support for hardware/software failures, security vulnerability, virus attacks, VPN configuration, user authentication and/or policy changes. Knowledgeable in the network fundamentals (OSI/ Confidential /IP)
• Proficient in handling of customer calls in professionally and courteous manner, caller authentication, ticket generation, addressing customer dissatisfaction, documenting and escalating issues according to established procedures.
• Acted as team lead for number of projects to improve network operation center process efficiency.
• Authored more then 30 Job-Aid documents detailing product utilization, troubleshooting and improvisation.
• Performed penetration testing on live and lab environment to have solid secure infrastructure.
• Distinguished alerts from false positives and took appropriate active preventive actions to mitigate the threats
• Worked with team to set up in-house honeynet project

Project Manager

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed the modeling and simulation team for Satellite System. Defined government clients’ requirements into technical specifications to graphic designer and computer programmer. Assigned deliverables to graphic designer and computer programmer. Modeled and simulated Satellite systems, military and commercial, ground and Air network in detail. Created and executed highly professional and complex 3-D GUI Application in STK to support wideband connectivity study
• Calculated and analyzed Link Budgets for various Air and Space assets and developed extensive assessment matrices, Performed IT resources risk assessment.
• Created and implemented security policy for organization and authored security policy guideline document.
• Modeled, simulated and analyzed Confidential architecture process for DTRA using EXTEND
• Modeled the Space Shuttle Program, Orbital Space Plane Confidential KSC, CERT using C++ in Extend and STK with intense client interactions

Software Engineer

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Created and Maintained C++ software application that performed complex SQL queries to track government contracts, cost, people and schedule
• Designed, developed and maintained highly complex 3-D GUI applications of Radar and IR technologies.
• Developed enhanced 3-D models of missiles trajectories, radar and optics using C++ STK simulation software
• Reviewed Critical Software Design for BEST, and analyzed Radar Communication Network Performance in OPNET

Distributed Technology Infrastructure Summer Intern

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Performed extensive research and developed Fault Tolerant Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for Boston sites.
• Formed a detailed report on different vendor’s Network Attached Storage products. Outlined their suitable features: cost, maintenance, installation, and support and storage capacity.

Dzero Computing & Analysts Summer Lab Assistant

Confidential, Batavia, IL

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in research on the interaction of protons and antiprotons.
• Collected, organized, and updated information on web pages utilizing HTML for Muon Reconstruction software for the Dzero detector for the upcoming collider runs and for the Advanced Analysis Methods group.
• Engaged in Neural Network research, created and analyzed graphs utilizing Confidential Pro visual modeling software in Unix utilizing C shell Scripting