OBJECTIVE:

I am seeking business relations in support or management of a Security Operations or as a Contributing Security Engineer dedicated to compliance, incident response and operative monitoring & maintenance.

EXPERIENCE:

I have amassed sixteen years’ worth of Technology Experience, covering support for direct action tasking for Y2K Compliance Efforts at Confidential, safeguarding of Billing Applications published through Citrix for Confidential, and successful Tier I data restorations at Disaster Recovery Sites at Confidential Global for their billing applications. Most of my experience has been developed through some of the biggest company names in Service Provisioning Technology.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, Frisco, TX

Information Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• LogRhythm SIEM Administration & Management including daily Tasking for reports or level three responses to Incident Response Tasking.
• LogRhythm Platform Management Updates for Threat Intelligence and AI Engine, and Troubleshooting of all engines from collection to processing.
• LogRhythm SIEM health checks and maintenance updates tasking - including upgrades from previous versions.
• Incident Response to Security Events involving Data Loss Prevention (Detection), FireEye and Proofpoint.
• Event analysis of indexed log sources within Splunk, and building correlation between alerts and various other log sources to build case information.
• Build and Management of SOC dashboard within Splunk for Security Analysts of SOC.

Environment: LogRhythm SIEM 7.2, Linux CENTOS, Microsoft Office Product Suite, Windows Server 2008,2012 & 2016. Tanium, RSA DLP, RSA Security Analytics, Proofpoint, and near expert utilization of Splunk 6.6.2.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Daily Business as Usual for system health checks, deployment scheduling and new signatures evaluations for deployment
• Knowledge Base Management for Security Engineering Group under the Office of Information Security
• Encryption & AV Reporting for Executive Leadership of entire Domain comprised of some approximately 45,000 endpoints.
• Resolution tasking for long standing issues (Missing Appliances, Faulted RMA’s, and Faulted Configurations)

Environment: Sourcefire 3500 Defense Center, 750 Defense Center, 3D Class Sensors (both IDS and IPS), Splunk, Sophos Encryption, McAfee Web Gateway & Proxy, Microsoft Office Product Suite, Windows Server 2008 & 2012. Fedora and Ubuntu Linux.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of IBM Guardium Console, Database and Collector Hardware with IBM Solutions Provider
• Endpoint Management of Anti-Virus protection products for some 12000 workstations and over 3000 Servers.
• Dedication to uptime requirements of Service Level Agreement through Incident Response, Documentation and environmental health.
• Incident Response Handling for escalated issues of SOC as well as immediate threats discovered through normal Business As Usual.
• Second level resource for all shift analysts working security incidents of BREG, Fujitsu Proper, ADS and Brookfield Energy
• Documentation of procedures for Incident Response, Account Playbooks, and Incident Post Mortems with Management Tasking for HR
• New Employee interviewing, Selection and on-boarding
• Major Incident Handling & resolution lead of Security Incidents including designation of other support team tasking.

Environment: EPO 4.5 and 5.1, HID for Endpoint Protection, QRadar, Splunk, LogRhythm, HP ArcSight, TripWire, FireEye, Wildfire, Microsoft Office Product Suite, Windows Server 2008 & 2012, Backbox Linux, Kali Linux, Cisco Firewall & Anyconnect.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Intel System Lead Advisor Client Support

Responsibilities:

• Responsibility of first point of contact for management of incidents and requests that could be delegated to other resources
• Daily “Business As Usual” Domain Administration covering Patching, AV Updating and auditing of both Workstations & Servers
• Reporting responsibilities to MPTF IT Executives on Environmental Health, of an environment numbering 8,000 users.

Intel System Lead Advisor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibility of first point of contact for management of incidents and requests that could be delegated to other resources
• Daily “Business As Usual” Domain Administration covering Patching, AV Updating and auditing of both Workstations & Servers
• Patching management and backup administration with Reporting responsibilities to direct managers on Environmental Health
• Incident Response in lieu of support from Secure Works (where the Security Support from Secure Works did not exist in the SLA)
• Initiated and planned deployment rollout of 285 Windows based servers for a newly acquired healthcare account - Ascension Healthcare.
• Daily “Business As Usual” Domain Administration covering Patching, AV Updating and auditing of Servers
• Patching management and backup administration with reporting responsibilities to direct managers on Environmental Health
• VMWare & Hyper-V server builds & management for production and non-production
• Conduct felony and misdemeanor criminal investigations leading to arrests & Provide enhanced D.W.I. enforcement as a D.R.E.
• Backup enforcement to the all police enforcement departments of Rockwall & surrounding counties
• Provided leadership directives and to Troopers under review or in probationary periods as well as Technology

Environment: WatchGuard Video Security Systems, Panasonic Toughbook’s, NCIC/TCIC Database Queries, Microsoft Office Products, MS Visio, Crash Investigation Reporting NHTSA.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Associate / Enterprise Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consulting Services for Confidential in support of deployments, Growth & maintenance of Citrix products per business continuity
• Consulting for Confidential in support of infrastructure for Citrix Deployments, Growth & maintenance per business continuity
• Steady State Support for Confidential of Citrix Servers, Published Applications, SQL Servers, and general business as usual for customer

Environment: Windows Server 2003/2008, VMWare VSphere, VMWare, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 and 4.5, Citrix presentation server 3.5 - 4.5, ICA Client Tooling & Deployment, Citrix Web Interface, Citrix Licensing Server, SQL DB Admin for Citrix Dbase and BMC Remedy

Confidential, Richardson/Dallas, TX

Senior Analyst / Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Created first production Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 farm for Tier I billing applications and Tier II support applications
• Supported up to 18,000 concurrent connections to published applications using Citrix 1.8, XPE and CPS4 on a TIER I billing account
• Planned for mass deployment of 200 production servers and brought them to full production status - before golden images became a standard

Environment: Windows Terminal Server 4.0 - 2008, Citrix Metaframe 3.0 - Presentation Server 4.5, SQL Server, Shavlik, Altiris Deployment, ICA Client Tooling & Deployment, SQL DB Admin for Citrix Servers, Citrix Web Interface and Windows Server 2000 - Windows Server 2008

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Senior Network/Server Administrator / Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed employees and collaborated all IS/IT affairs for the Dallas location
• Integrated disaster recovery solutions and planning. Successfully headed up and completed server administration goals for Y2K compliance
• Supervised two resources for work at location

Environment: Windows NT 3.51 - Windows 2000, Exchange Server 5.5, Network Switch Configuration (3COM), Windows File & Printer Sharing, TCP/IP, RAID Array and Active Directory for Domains with Windows 2000, Windows Desktop NT 4.0, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Network/Server Support Technician

Responsibilities:

• Administered NT domain and Exchange services for 250 employees over 200 remote sites
• Initiated planning for Y2K compliance
• Managed professional audio systems for street sport events
• Performed electronic component calibration and maintenance on Gas Turbine Propulsion systems
• Designated Supply Manager for Deployments of Detachment 4 of ACU 4.
• Supervised work parties for both planned maintenance and tiger team parties as a Petty Officer