SUMMARY

• Seeking opportunities to leverage over a fifteen years of proven professional experience of increasing responsibility, positions of trust, and character as exemplified by many accolades and a favorable NAC security clearance obtained while working with the 460TH Space Wing
• Consult, engineer, manage & secure LAN/WAN technologies while working with Network Engineering, Administration, Security & Information Assurance, with progressive organizations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Compliance: PCI DSS, HIPAA/ HITECH Act, ISO27001, Safe Harbor, SOX, OWASP, GLBA
• Incident Response, Cybercrime Investigation, Forensic Analysis, Log Analysis and Correlation
• Vulnerability Assessment & Auditing
• Scanning, testing, hacking, interpreting, reporting & advising on security controls for systems
• Firewall/IDS installation and configuration
• Platform as a service
• Interviewing & Interrogation
• File/Disk Encryption
• Configure internetworking protocols through the Cisco IOS
• Design, configure, secure & maintain a multi network infrastructure environment through Microsoft, Active Directory technology
• Unix & Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, DENVER, CO

Senior Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage, maintain, and grow corporate and customer - facing information security practice.
• Conduct vulnerability audits and penetration testing against internal and hosted systems.
• Handle security escalations from Network Operations and vendors.
• Conduct forensic investigations as needed.
• Design and implement physical and logical access controls and security products.
• Develop frameworks, policies and procedures for physical and logical security.

Confidential, DENVER, CO

Network Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained rapidly changing internal & international platform as a service enterprise environment while still providing solutions that preserve compliance, access and security.
• Evaluated risks & threats while adopting adaptive security policies, processes, & technologies.
• Conducted security monitoring via IDS, File Integrity monitor, logs, forensic analysis, incident response, & cyber-crime investigations
• Researched IT security issues & solutions & presenting ideas in a business-friendly &/or user-friendly language
• Created information security documentation & implemented best practices e.g. those based on NIST guidelines.
• Key member on the Team that spearheaded PCI DSS v2.0 Level 1 certification 3 years in a row, and certification as ISO27001 compliant, compliance with HIPAA/HITECH Act and Safe Harbor data security requirements, & initiatives towards becoming certified as SOX compliant.

Confidential, CASTLEROCK, CO

Consulting Security Engineer & Technical Instructor

Responsibilities:

• Network & systems security engineering design & implementation
• Delivered class room instruction and hosted Web Ex training sessions for IT courses

Confidential, DENVER, CO

Network Engineer, Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• International consulting, to Partner Bank sites IT Staff on networking & security issues
• Incident response, investigation, breach & malware remediation
• Configured, maintained LAN/WAN, VPN’s on Cisco routers, switches & firewalls
• Managed and troubleshot Microsoft AD on Windows 2003 Domains
• Managed local NOC, troubleshot international VSAT satellite network for overseas sites
• Researched, tested & Implemented technology solutions
• Created documentation & training materials, & implemented best practices

Confidential, DENVER, CO

Experienced Security, Network

Responsibilities:

• Consulted IT staff & Small Business Owners on systems, network, data backup solutions, design, implementation & administration. Including but not limited to LAN Routing solutions, Windows 2003 infrastructures, with a myriad of clients.
• Consulted IT staff with small businesses and large enterprise level environments on damage control during malware attacks, network security, malware isolation & eradication, damage control, disaster recovery, network security hardening, password recovery, & data recovery.
• Maintained highly available yet secure infrastructures with stringent network security; protecting confidential information with minimal downtime
• Troubleshooting on network, system, OS & application issues
• Consulted on and supported locally hosted email solutions and related issues.
• Consulted relative to compliance with PCI DSS, ISO27001, HIPAA/HITECH Act, Safe Harbor, GLBA and related data security requirements.

Confidential, ENGLEWOOD, CO

Systems Administrator & Technical Instructor

Responsibilities:

• Systems Administrator & Technical Instructor
• Managed multi-office, 100 user network also delivered class room instruction on Microsoft Technology for Enterprise Edition 2003 MCSE certification Active Directory Domains/sub-Domains, Enterprise Edition Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Widows XP Pro, & 2000.
• Designed, Configured, maintained Cisco & Microsoft Network Environment with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Domain Controllers with XP Pro operating system hosts with Cisco routing solutions, with Cisco & switches.

Confidential, DENVER, CO support Rep & LAN Specialist/Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Supported Networks layer 2 & Routing across ATM & Frame relay clouds; Troubleshooting ADSL, IDSL, SDSL &Configure, troubleshoot & support various layer 2 & 3 devices various makes/models
• Consult Customers on LAN network troubleshooting i.e. connectivity issues, design & security. Cancelled unnecessary dispatches, saving the customer downtime & money. Assured Covad met SLA's & minimized costs also acted as LAN specialist & Subject Matter Expert for my department.
• Troubleshooting T1 circuits, with SLA’s, Layer 1 tools such as Loop backs, Layer 2 trouble shooting via DSLAM’s & Test OAM pings, radius authentication verification, Test Conseg, Switch stats,, BPX Switch command line, Layer 3 trouble shooting through Command prompt.
• Configure & troubleshoot Cisco, Edgmark, Netopia, Samsung, Innoband, Paradyne, routers. Samsung & Nokia, DSLAM's. Cisco & Redback WAN switches to comply with company policy for, QOS, voice and data design & quality assurance.

Confidential, DENVER, COLORADO

Network Engineer/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design, installation, and maintenance of Windows Server 2003 enterprise infrastructure
• Designed and Implemented Cisco based LAN routing solutions
• Active directory, group policy, and security design & incident response.
• End user training, server & desktop support.