SUMMARY:

• Extensive technical expertise and industry certifications in a broad spectrum of technologies, including Information Security, network design and system administration.
• Experienced in managing both people and projects
• Strong customer service and listening skills for all levels (end - user to executive)
• Very adaptable and resourceful even under stressful conditions
• Experienced troubleshooter

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of DFA suite from Ping Identity (PingFederate, PingOne, and PingID)
• Management of VMware Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint
• Managed Cofense PhishMe service for internal phishing campaigns and security awareness.
• Maintenance and operation of Nutanix virtual environment
• Installation, maintenance, and operation of CentOS Linux virtual servers
• Installation, maintenance, and operation of Elastic Stack (including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Beats)
• Log aggregation, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with Elastic Stack and Rapid7 InsightIDR
• Assisting others with troubleshooting and training as need arises

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Sr. IT Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance, configuration, and monitoring of McAfee ePO
• Upgraded ePO from 5.3.0 to 5.3.3
• Upgraded clients from Virusscan 8.8 to ENS 10.5.3
• Configured ENS Firewall to report network blocking for high profile ports
• Deployed McAfee DLP to workstations
• Cisco Sourcefire policy maintenance, web filtering
• Cisco ASAs configuration and monitoring
• Assisting PC technicians, some end user support as needed
• Assisted with monitoring of McAfee SIEM

Confidential, Jacksonville, Florida

Network Systems Manager

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Management of FireEye IPS appliance
• Management of Catalogic DPX backups for networked servers
• Migration to Cisco Meraki MX firewall and filtering, continuing management and monitoring of Meraki firewall and switches
• Deployed and managed Microsoft Hyper-V with a Dell Equallogic SAN and iSCSI network, running approximately 30 virtual servers
• Managed VMWare ESXi server for virtual appliances
• Experience with Cisco ASA VPN and Cisco Meraki VPN
• Writing rules for inbound and outbound traffic, client VPN, site-to-site VPN, URL filtering with explicit and implicit proxies
• Implementation and management of Forcepoint Triton email security
• Design and deployment of Aerohive wireless network
• Completed site survey, developed rules to establish separate guest and employee network SSIDs
• Administration of Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory (mirrored using NetIQ Identity Manager)
• Added/removed users, configured directory replication, software deployments via Novell login scripting, etc.
• Deployment and management migration of NetWare servers to OES Linux, continuing management of OES (SuSE) Linux servers
• Configured as iPrint, DHCP, DNS, SLP, LDAP, and file servers
• Planned and completed migration of GroupWise email to Exchange Online, continuing management of Exchange online
• Bluecoat SG300 Proxy filters, URL filtering and security
• Completed McAfee ePO and Virusscan deployment to workstations
• Management of application policies, upgrades, client and server tasks
• Deployment and management of Cisco routers and switches (traditional and Meraki)
• Configuration of DNS, DHCP, WCCP, NAT, other protocols
• Management of the additions and changes to company WAN structure
• Installation and management of many various network based applications
• Managed some, coached all employees in infrastructure/desktop side of IT department
• Handling of many other varied tasks as needs arose and as assigned
• Managed Jr. Network Engineer, coached PC technicians

Confidential, Jacksonville, Florida

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of information and responses related to audits from NCUA and other audits
• Help Desk Administrator - configured, deployed, and managed new help desk software
• GroupWise email system administrator, GWAVA
• NetWare server and eDirectory administrator
• Information Security committee member
• Creation and network based deployment of PC images using ZENworks imaging
• Assistance and mentoring PC technicians on staff, providing second tier support