Senior Security Analyst Resume
Vienna, VA
SUMMARY:
- Proven Technical & Management Expertise in a Career Spanning 20 Years with Technically sophisticated and business - savvy professional with a pioneering career reflecting strong leadership qualifications coupled with information technology and consulting expertise.
- Consistently successful in achieving cost reduction, improving operational efficiency and enhancing customer satisfaction.
- Superior record of planning and implementing advanced technology and business solutions to meet a diversity of needs for simultaneous large-scale, mission-critical projects on time and under budget.
- Energetic and creative with a special talent for troubleshooting, resolving complicated technical problems and settling escalated customer issues.
- Results-focused with a team-based management style and excellent interpersonal/communication skills.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Senior Security Analyst
Confidential, Vienna, VA
Responsibilities:
- Provide monitoring, analysis, and incident response services to FRTIB.
- Utilize Palo Alto FirewallCheckpoint Firewall, EPO, Malwarebytes, McAfee NSM, Tenable Security Center, BigFix, Cisco IronPort, Trustwave WAF, FireEye NX, FireEye EX and Splunk to identify signs of malicious suspicious activity.
- Resolved email events with Splunk, FireEye EX, and Cisco IronPort
- Performed threat hunting with Splunk, FireEye NX, Splunk Enterprise Security, Trustwave Web Application Firewall, Checkpoint and Palo Alto Firewalls
- Served as project lead for signature tuning for McAfee IPS, Checkpoint Firewall IPS, and Splunk Enterprise Security
Senior Security Analyst
Confidential, Herndon, VA
Responsibilities:
- Provide monitoring, analysis, and incident response services to CMS Marketplace.
- Utilizing Trend Micro Deep Security 9.0/9.5, McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), RSA NetWitness/Security Analytics, Akamai Luna Portal, Imperva Web Application Firewall, and Windows DNS logs to identify signs of malicious and suspicious activity.
Senior Security Analyst
Confidential, Herndon, VA
Responsibilities:
- Provide 24/7/365 monitoring, analysis, and incident response services to a variety of Federal and commercial clientele.
- Utilizing ArcSight, McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), RSA NetWitness/Security Analytics, Snort, Bro, and Enterprise Security Log Analyzer (ELSA) to identify signs of malicious and suspicious activity.
- Investigate events of interest using commercial and open source security tools, a custom analytics platform, and open source intelligence to determine existence and extent of customer compromise and/or abuse.
- Develop comprehensive incident reports and work with client points of contact to isolate, eradicate, and recover from incidents.
Security Analyst / Security Operations Center
Confidential, Alexandria, Virginia
Responsibilities:
- Government Customer: Executive Office of the President, Security Operations Center (EOP SOC)
- Served as Shift Analyst for Government Customer’s Security Operations Center. Oversaw the operations of network security infrastructure according to customer Service Level Agreements.
- Provided monitoring and 1st response action to security events and system alerts in Nagios, OSSEC, and Netwitness.
- Performed malware analysis using FireEye.
- Performed routine maintenance on Firewalls, Proxy Servers, Spam Filters, and Network based Intrusion Detection Systems.
- Performed analysis on potentially malicious files.
Shift Engineer
Confidential, Reston, Virginia
Responsibilities:
- Serve as Shift Engineer of the Confidential Transportation Security Administration’s Security Operations Center.
- Oversee the operations of network security infrastructure of 465 locations.
- Provide monitoring and 1st response action to security events and system alerts in ArcSight SIEM, Site Protector, and HP OpenView.
- Perform routine maintenance on Firewalls, Host based Intrusion Detection Systems, and Network based Intrusion Detection Systems.
- Perform account creation and troubleshooting of VPN accounts.
Night Duty Manager
Confidential, Reston, Virginia
Responsibilities:
- Serve as Night Duty Manager of the Confidential Transportation Security Administration’s Command and Control Center.
- Oversee the operations management of over 2500 Core infrastructure components in over 465 locations. Provide guidance through industry best practices, effective project management, and innovative strategic planning, to the Server Management Center, Networks Command Center, Security Operations Center, Application Management Support Services, and the Single Point of Contact Helpdesk.
- Plan, schedule, and execute successful Enterprise server patches, service packs, router IOS upgrades, and Oracle database patches and upgrades.
- Run day-to-day network operations including return to service efforts after system outages, enterprise security virus remediation, intrusion attempts, e-mail and blackberry account migrations, file server permissions, and file restore and recovery.
- Generate internal and external customer facing reports based on Service Level Agreements for bench marking, performance measurement, capacity planning, and senior leadership decisional awareness.
Systems Management Center Engineer / VPN Helpdesk
Confidential, Landover, Maryland
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the Section Head of the Transportation Security Administration’s Virtual Private Network (VPN) Helpdesk and Essential Team Member of the Systems Management Center Helpdesk.
- Apply innovative problem-solving skills and continual process improvement techniques to streamline the VPN Helpdesk support services.
- Train new-hire employees on department policies and applications, coordinate software installations, administer VPN accounts, resolve front line customer technical issues and escalate to third-tier support.
- Provided high level briefings to TSA senior leadership;
- Authored step by step document for training incoming team members.
Senior Network Engineer & Subject Matter Expert LAN/WAN
Confidential, McLean, Virginia
Responsibilities:
- Spearheaded wide area network evaluation and redesign for Aether Systems. Managed resources and completed project under budget and ahead of schedule.
- Instrumental in leading Digex Diveo’s deployment of a wide area network in Peru’s emerging telecommunications market; managed day-to-day operations and all aspects of the project lifecycle. Challenged by antiquated equipment and limited resources, identified network equipment problems, proposed and delivered complete solutions to customer.
- System implementation proved crucial to the company’s growth and critical to Peru’s forward-looking technology strategies.
- Served as subject matter expert for LAN/WAN engineering.
Facility Management and Engineering Director
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Led facility management division.
- Designed and implemented improved processes for facility engineering and information technology projects.
- Planned short and long term budgets.
- Participated on tiger teams and task forces to upgrade telecommunications and computer systems.
- Initiated agency-wide long-range technology plans.
- Negotiated construction contracts and represented the Confidential on issue and conflict resolution.
- Directed a team of 7 professionals, developed training programs, and facilitated conflict resolution and diversity guidance.
- Mentored and monitored personnel performance objectives and progress. Managed contractor labor.