SUMMARY

• Confidential Yates, a Senior Lead Engineer, is a distinguished Information Technology (IT) engineer with more TEMPthan 15 years of extensive experience in various areas encompassing Cyber Security, Information System Security Engineering, Information Technology, Information Assurance, and Computer Network Operations.
• He TEMPhas led, developed, and implemented cost - TEMPeffective Federal technology solutions that enhance mission-critical operations and reduce risk. Confidential uses a hands-on leadership style to oversee operational and technical activities while ensuring IT strategic alignment, value delivery, risk management, resource management, and performance measurement standards are met.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Information Systems(20 Years)
• Information System Security Engineer (11 Years)
• Technical Advisory & IT Decision Support(10 Years)
• IT Strategic Alignment, IT Infrastructure Design & Implementation(8 Years)
• Planning, & Implementation(8 years)
• Technology Architecture & Integration(6 years)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, VA

Senior Engineer/Lead Senior Technician

Responsibilities:

• Support for the Open System Architect project
• Brief the ATO process and how to improve it over 100s of sites
• Creation of a current and future of Open Software Library for TSA.
• Support the PTT team as the CISSP SME and Security Lead. Install and configure Splunk, and Nessus.
• Configure Splunk to accept data feeds from 2 Syslog servers, Nessus, Cylance, Windows 2016 and 10 logs, and other data.
• Configure Nessus Security Center with Nessus Manager to scan using onsite agents.
• Lead a team of 6 to configure other security tools and documentation for the PTT Security team.
• Configure a Network to follow NIST, FedRAMP, and FIPS controls
• Supporting a large federal cyber technology contract requiring significant work with the client to facilitate broad stakeholder engagement ensuring adoption and full support of the new program.
• Writing governance support documentation to support integration of technologies into new or existing processes and policies. Conducting recurring stakeholder engagement working groups to discuss challenges and opportunities related to adoption, internal politics, and other practical considerations of governance and communications strategies.
• Have developed draft communication plans, use cases, checklists and more to halp the customer proactively address need areas.
• Supported the United States’ Naval Observatory to implement CAC autantication on Red Hat servers using Centrify.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Team Lead/Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of 9 people for the US Mint Soc
• Main contractor for the Information Security Division on the Change Review Board and Executive Review Board
• Help deploy a Data Loss Protection server, Symantec DLP 14.6
• Deploy DLP agents on over 1500 clients
• Help upgrade IronPort mail servers from 370 to 390 along with managing them with approximately 5000 emails a day.
• Upgrade 6 McAfee Web Upgrades across the United States
• Be the lead for managing Tenable Security Center
• Deploy a STIG Oracle 7 box with a SimpleSAML server and MediaWiki
• Help with analyst of emails and Incidents
• Help Windows Admin set up group policies to mitigate NIST Controls
• Integrate Linux boxes with Windows Active Directory
• Work with Information Systems to audit the environment using NIST and FIPS Controls.
• Use Burp Suite to check for any vulnerabilities on the US Mint Web Site
• Help create Splunk dashboards and integrating data feeds.
• Help with Palo Alto Firewalls to protect the boundary
• Work with Frost Bank in San Antonio to halp Deploy their Symantec DLP servers.
• Help Consultants to install Symantec Control Compliance Suite for Texas government
• Work with Symantec Encryption to make sure sensitive information can be only access by individuals

Confidential, MD

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create framework with the McAfee Web Gateway to handle both Forward and Reverse Proxy with either ICAP integration or through a load balancer.
• Develop and execute a McAfee DLP Mail solution to integrate with IronpPort Mail Proxies with a F5 solution.
• Create a lab environment to do Security Proof of concepts, to include DNS and IP routing.
• Architected a complete McAfee Network Data Loss Solution.
• Create rules for the DLP solution.
• Integrating McAfee DLP and McAfee ePO.
• Manage McAfee Web Gateway for approx. 4000 user infrastructures.
• Integrate logging from McAfee Web Gateways and DLP devices into Splunk
• Provided exceptional technical performance by bringing about the successful completion of several Information Assurance (IA) and Computer Network Operations (CNO) projects and test and evaluation events
• Efficiently performed numerous duties related to IA Lab installation, integration, and operation of IT related systems
• Organized project management documentation for assigned projects, unit / user test plans and schedules; and training plans for the IA Branch
• Directed information system security engineering of information systems and networks to include the discovering of information protection needs, defining system security requirements, designing system security architecture, developing detailed security design, implementing system security, and assessing information protection TEMPeffectiveness.
• Functioned as CSRS-Corp Information Assurance lead technical advisor to DISA JITC
• Create Active Directories to be use for testing purposes.

Confidential Chantilly, VA

Security Engineer,

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with the technical implementation of the DoD IA Range. The DoD IA Range provides an operational representation of today’s DoD Global Information Grid (GIG) IA architecture within a Network Operations (NetOps) construct.
• Assisted with the technical implementation of HBSS during the Quick Reaction Test sponsored by DoD CIO.
• Set up 100 user network including Windows Server 2003, Exchange 2003, Windows DNS, Windows DHCP with multiple IP ranges.
• Created a Virtual Web with 100 sites using Bind, PowerDNS, and Apache on both a Ubuntu server and Redhat servers.
• Used VSphere to create virtual machines.
• Set up ESX servers to host the virtual machines.
• Create Active Directory to be used in demo environments
• Assigned to Marine Corps Recruiting Command. Managed more TEMPthan 5,000 users in Active Directory.
• Utilized Blackberry Enterprise Service; managed more TEMPthan 600 blackberry devices.
• Scheduled and maintained MCU 200 Bridge and several desktop and standalone end units.
• Served as tech rep to troubleshoot and resolve end user problems. Created and managed user email accounts.
• Utilize OCONUS and FDCC work on Vista platform to create image for 3,000 remote tablets.

Confidential, VA

Conferencing TECHNICIAN

Responsibilities:

• Served in positions of increasing responsibility with this employer beginning as a Tier I Support Technician.
• Initially utilized Remedy to manage and control tickets; performed troubleshooting and resolved problems; assisted System Administrators with polices and procedures.
• Currently set up conference rooms to handle a variety of types of meetings. Rearrange one main conference room to eight different sub rooms.
• Use integrated speaker, sound and video system; display and incorporate computers and other systems as needed.
• Work on a Polycom Bridge; set up Video Teleconferences from around the world.
• Served as a Visa Specialist with the U Department of State. Interact with foreign consuls for State Department travel.
• Performed troubleshooting and provided documentation/support on several programs.
• Created a database in MS Access for Port Security Assessment contract. Utilized Adobe Premiere to create slide shows for conferences including 2003 Anti-Terrorism Conference.
• Managed 16 computers in peer-to-peer network.
• Assisted in converting case narratives into HTML format. Served as systems administrator for Gulf War Hospital Inpatient Records Information Capture and Diagnosis project. Conducted Internet research on TEMPeffects of biological and chemical agents on humans.
• Provided production support for Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for personnel and Readiness in support of Gulf War Illness investigation, Medical Readiness and Military Deployments projects.