SUMMARY:

• Confidential has primarily been a subject matter expert and project manager in information technology including information security and compliance, network design and implementation, and project management.
• Experience includes LAN/WAN security, network architecture, and implementation, maintenance/ troubleshooting, with an emphasis in information security program management - ensuring timely staff, financial and deliverable quality.
• With over thirty years in information technology, he is a well-rounded IT/IS professional who has performed a wide variety of leadership roles including network design, implementation, and troubleshooting of large enterprise networks to project management, manager of information technology professionals, and information security compliance auditing and consulting.
• He is an information technology security professional who believes in keeping current with the latest technology and certifications as well as keeping current on the latest project management skills and techniques.
• Other professional skills include a strong background in technical writing including creating sales proposals; invoicing and resource allocation, tracking and reporting; requirements definition; system security plans; network documentation; vendor and OEM management and presenting at security seminars.
• Confidential has applied this knowledge and skills effectively to ensure programs are managed well technically, administratively/financially and are appropriately staffed.
• Currently have over 18 years of program/project management experience and have managed and co-managed many small, medium and large size IT projects.
• Over 20 years of Information Technology experience including network design, implementation and operations
• Over 18 years of supervisory management and project management experience
• Over 13 years of Information Security Subject Matter
• Expertise including Information Assurance, Certification and Accreditation, and penetration/vulnerability testing and assessment

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Information Security Architect and Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Performed Confidential assessment of 4 data centers used to facilitate Medicare and Medicaid requests
• Create a detailed mitigation strategy for mitigating any risk that were present in the environment
• Worked with the client to implement a Change Control Board to review changes to the information system
• Scanned the client’s information system using Retina, Nessus and PGD and reported back on findings
• Gathered and organized information system documentation to give the client a clearer understanding of their network environment and devices
• Currently working with the client to institute a revised Confidential compliance and security plan for compliance checks and vulnerabilities
• Delivered products on time and within budget.

Senior Information Security Architect and Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead daily technical meetings and provided project management guidance to junior engineers and subcontractor
• Assisted with research for converting physical file-servers to virtual file-servers using VMware server.
• Phase 2 includes moving to an enterprise data center with a backup data center for disaster recovery.
• Performed a current site analysis of each of the four data centers to be moved
• Created documentation of existing sites to be virtualized
• Attended formal VMware training and for assisting in the physical to virtual architecture
• Managed project according to contract, provided billing information and performed quality assurance oversight for all staff efforts and deliverables.

Senior Information Assurance/ Security Architect and Technical Lead/Advisor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced directly with customer to ensure project efforts were on target and being accomplished according to customer expectations and budget.
• Provide guidance in hardening network devices including CISCO WAN devices, IDS, IPS and firewalls, LINUX, UNIX, and Windows file-servers, and applications (Oracle, SQL) to meet Confidential compliance
• Guiding Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) with developing policies and procedures for attaining Confidential Certification according to NIST SP800-53 guidelines
• Provide guidance to customer’s Information Technology subject matter experts to enable them to pass a Confidential certification audit
• Perform security audit scanning and penetration scanning using Nessus v3.2, Confidential Production Gold Disk, Retina and App-Detective information security assessment tools

Senior Information Security Engineer, Consultant and Team Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Engineering team lead on all projects managing a team of between 3 and 8 engineers.
• Ensured staff was appropriately qualified and performed according to contract requirements.
• Submitted deliverables on schedule and took corrective actions (staffing, quality, financial) as needed.
• Created and was responsible maintaining/updating many core DoD documents including SSAA, Security Test Plan and Accreditation Report
• Perform penetration testing using the Internet Security Systems suite of tools including System Scanner, Internet Scanner, and Database Scanner in addition to Confidential scanning tool as well as eEye Digital Security’s Retina Network scanner and Application Detective by Confidential
• Provide guidance and training to engineers learning the DITSCAP process
• Perform system scanning using Confidential PGD Gold

LAN Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed 15 senior level network engineers that were responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of all Confidential & Netware file servers for the Confidential local government.
• I was responsible for project management (including staffing, quality assurance and financial management) and architecture of all Confidential and Netware fileserver deployment projects along with other critical network infrastructure projects.
• I was also responsible for providing information technology consulting services to all 42 city departments.
• Developed architectural design for migrating 120 Netware 4.2, 5.1 file servers to Confidential Windows 2000 using Active Directory Project managed large projects including file server rollouts and high profile Confidential projects.
• Designed and rolled out high profile Win2k and Netware cluster solutions for the Confidential Manage vendor relationships, network documentation, SLA’s and software licensing agreements for the Confidential .

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Manager-Wide Area Networks

Responsibilities:

• Primary duty was to manage and support all wide area links and LAN/WAN security in and out of our network.
• Other duties included: WAN/LAN support, Wide Area design, vendor and OEM management.
• Through proper project management, saved the company money (in excess of 100K) by developing and conducting an operations training program and standard operating procedures manual (for the operations department) so we could manage operations 24/7 internally thereby eliminating the need of our outsourced operations monitoring vendor.
• Projects include converting the Windows 2000 multi-domain environment to Confidential ’s Active Directory.
• Worked with Sniffer software to monitor traffic flow and analyze network performance.
• Monitored bandwidth utilization and streaming traffic performance using MRTG and other internal monitoring tools.
• Was responsible for training engineers to keep them current with the latest technologies with networking and audio-video streaming technologies