EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Network Security Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Functioned in a team lead role for all of Information Security
• Performed internal and external penetration testing with extensive vulnerability assessment scans.
• Responsible for review of all remediation efforts across several IT teams.
• Designed secure environments that adhere to PCI, SOX and HIPPA standards
• Responsible for the following areas: Firewalls, IPS/IDS, VPN concentrators and Wireless.
• Worked closely with Network Engineering team on future designs and severity ne outage troubleshooting assistance.
• Provided mentoring and cross training assistance to junior and mid - level engineers

Sr. Penetration Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed an extensive remote network penetration test for two new Confidential datacenters.
• Delivered a report including recommended network and systems changes to better secure the environment.

Sr. Network Security Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided Tier 3 Support to Confidential clients.
• Support included routing and switching, load balancing and firewall support.
• Processed changes requested by the clients or part of routine maintenance
• Responsible for supporting the following technologies.
• Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco Firewall Service Modules (FWSM), Cisco CSS+SSLM, Cisco ASA and PIX.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Sr. Network Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Functioned in a team lead role for all of Information Security with a focus on Network Security.
• Lead engineer responsible for all areas of network security including IPS systems, Firewalls, VPNs,
• Designed secure environments that adhere to PCI, SOX and HIPPA standards
• Responsible for the following areas: Firewalls, IPS/IDS, VPN concentrators and Wireless. Worked closely with Network Engineering team on future designs and severity one outage troubleshooting assistance.
• Supported and maintained a Cisco VoIP (UCM) system. Move, Adds and Changes as well as any troubleshooting.

Confidential, Lawrenceville, GA

Advisory Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed internal and external penetration testing with extensive vulnerability assessment scans.
• Responsible for review of all remediation efforts across several IT teams.
• Designed secure environments that adhere to PCI, SOX and HIPPA standards
• Responsible for the following areas: Firewalls, IPS/IDS, VPN concentrators and Wireless.
• Worked closely with Network Engineering team on future designs and severity one outage troubleshooting assistance.
• Provided mentoring and cross training assistance to junior and mid-level engineers
• Supported and maintained a Cisco VoIP (UCM) system. Move, Adds and Changes as well as any troubleshooting.

Confidential, Suwanee, GA

Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Functioned in a senior role to provide turnkey technical designs for data networks and Information Security Systems.
• Architected a small to medium business (SMB) hosted web and application infrastructure.
• Design requirements were to design a fully redundant, secure, virtualized and supportable infrastructure.
• SMB Design utilized the following technologies and hardware. MPLS VRF to virutalize the environments.
• Routing and Switches was provided by Cisco 7609's and Cisco Catalyst 6509’s.
• IGP routing was handled with OSPF while also BGP was heavily utilized.
• Cisco ASA, FWSM and other security devices including IPS/IDS were utilized.

Confidential, Sandy Springs, GA

Senior Security Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Engaged various clients under the role as a Senior Security Architect with a strong router and switching background.
• Performed a network discovery in each data center in which using this data an internal Security Audit was performed.
• Results of this work were presented to client management along with recommendations.
• Engaged clients security operation department to assist in performance tuning thirty plus firewall security devices.
• Configuration changes and rule base optimization was performed.
• Reviewed and scrutinized all proposed changes to firewall rules, IDS/IPS platforms as well as various other security devices.
• Authority was given to approve or deny changes that were in the best interest of the business.

Confidential

Network and Security Design and Support

Responsibilities:

• Designed new IP backbone using OSPF with Cisco and Extreme network switches
• Performed security Assessment and penetration testing for CyberTrust valued customers.
• This included auditing over fifty pix firewalls, thirty Check Point NG clusters and numerous IDS platforms.
• The auditing of the PIX and Check Point firewalls included but not limited to underlying OS security, standardizing the configuration and auditing the rule base for security holes.
• Performed an architectural review of the Bellsouth Layer for Server and Global Load Balancing network design.
• Recommended configuration, hardware and design philosophy changes.
• Designed and Implemented a Cisco Optical network topology utilizing DWDM with Cisco ONS 1554s.
• This was a mission critical design as Ceridian’s bandwidth usage, business continuity plans and disaster recovery depended upon this successful implementation.

Confidential, Dunwoody, GA

Senior Network Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical leadership and mentoring on various critical projects.
• Performed an extensive network audit of existing design and provide a detailed improvement plan.
• Architected a new firewall solution based on Crossbeam and Check Point technologies.
• Project detailed moving from a single point of failure non-supported Raptor Firewall configuration to a fully redundant Crossbeam and Check Point NG Cluster.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Redesign, Upgrade and Standardized LAN and WAN.
• Provided technological expertise in network design, LAN/WAN deployment, upgrades and integration.
• Performed an extensive network audit of the Confidential network that mainly used older network technologies and hardware platforms.
• Architected a new network design using industry recognized best practices and updated hardware platforms.