SUMMARY

• Network operations lead with years of management experience leading IT organizations in support of business strategies and objectives.
• Results oriented, client focused, process driven, cost - conscious technology manager with proven success in the creation and management of effective teams.
• Significant experience managing change and realizing efficiency as a result of mergers and downsizing.
• Extensive exposure and comfort interacting with all management levels within an organization and with managing distributed teams.
• Proponent of standards-based computing and process-driven IT, with a comprehensive background in managing multiple complex projects, establishing priorities, and leveraging technology to meet both tactical and strategic business needs.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large-scale projects with strong leadership, decision making, planning, and communications skills.
• Proven experience in negotiating and managing large-scale vendor agreements.

• Top Secret/SCI Clearance
• CISSP
• AWS Certified
• LAN/WAN Strategies
• NIST Standards
• Risk Management
• Network Security
• IT Project Management
• DISA STIGs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cyber Security Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead Information Technology (IT) Audits and Security Assessments for clients in various industries including Financial Services, Service Industry, Public Sector, Healthcare and Manufacturing including Automotive touching on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments
• Apply knowledge of current IA policies, to include structures, roles major organizations, to identify and correct shortcomings in the structure
• Participate in technical meetings, Change Control Boards, and Engineering Review Boards meetings to address issues related to computer security and vulnerabilities
• Develop, improve, and maintain reporting metrics and mechanisms used to make decisions and measure NIST, SOC, ISO, PCI, CSA, and FedRAMP quality, efficiency, and responsiveness
• Managing a team and/or workstream on an engagement(s), staying educated on current trends and assisting in the development of knowledge capital
• Manage PCI program ensuring compliance to include control and document review, conducting readiness assessments/moc-ROC’s, and gap remediation.
• Managing and/or contributing to project planning, engagement administration, budget management, and successful completion of engagement workstream(s)
• Author SOC 2 controls based on the unique requirements of the organization
• Experience in branching, merging, and maintaining upstream charts using Git and GitLab

Cyber Security Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conduct certification testing and reporting in accordance with the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and NIST ; identifies deficiencies, provides recommendations for solutions, and then a POA&M
• Conduct cyber maturity risk assessments in banking industry, ensuring that security posture is enhanced and in compliance with multiple DoD regulations
• Develop and implement strategic enterprise IT security and IT risk management program ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information
• Author high-level technical documentation and visuals for entities with a focus on a wholistic approach to cloud security
• Provide oversight for the development of large-scale network or virtualized infrastructures across all phases of the systems design life cycle, including requirements specification, design, testing, and operational acceptance

Cloud & Network Operations Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop and document IT policies and procedures for use throughout the Confidential ’s IT organization, including change management, disaster recovery, and baseline build parameters
• Responsible for oversight of all ongoing activities related to the development, implementation, and maintenance of cloud environments to include its security to safeguard data.
• Develop and manage information technology budget ensuring proper fund allocation for fiscal year
• Researched, recommended, presented and approved new technologies to promote consistent evolution of the organization's enterprise networking and server base infrastructures
• Manage the allocation of projects amongst the available engineers as best to align the engineer with a project they are best suited for
• Expertise in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting custom solutions to accommodate necessary network infrastructure and security requirements

Sr. Network Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed, operated, and implemented multiple high-availability collocation environments globally for both telephony and data ranging from small to large campus environments
• Lowered IT operating costs and increased overall efficiencies by use of optimized design, operation, and procedural methodology across all HP companies
• Developed technology strategies that allowed different companies to solve technology gaps by leveraging new and pre-existing technologies
• Produce and implement network topology design(s) by use of Visio; aimed at ensuring that new telecommunication network(s) meet the needs of the subscriber and operator.
• Align security initiatives with enterprise programs and business objectives, ensuring information assets and technologies are protected
• Project manager, management of IT projects; coordinating voice, data, security and wireless implementations toward project's in excess of $3 million dollars each
• Translate a network's technological requirements into solutions that benefit the business entity
• Design wireless heat maps; responsible for deploying greenfield wireless environments ensuring wireless connectivity for critical end users

Lead Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• SIPRNET lead, responsible for the configuration of all taclanes, cryptographic key management, network infrastructure, and the proper following of security standards
• Telecommunication responsibilities include the management and control of $90M Information Technology (IT) networks (JWICS, SIPRNet, & NIPRNet) equipment and software, servicing approx. 12K end-users
• Administer STIG's (Security Technical Implementation Guide) and implement security solutions to mitigate vulnerabilities in compliance with DISA standard operation procedures.
• Author and provide essential and effective training to a multitude of personnel encompassing COMSEC accounts, Device Configuration and Implementation Guidelines for Enterprise networks.
• Utilize extensive experience with a multitude of network protocols, industry/government best practices, and security requirements to manage, configure, maintain and troubleshoot a diverse enterprise LAN/WAN consisting of over 680 routers, switches, DSL modems, VPN concentrators, and network management servers.
• Strong technical background with great experience installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Ethernet, IP, OSPF, BGP, SNMP, SSH, STP, 802.1Q Trunks, VLANs, VoIP, AAA authentication, TACACS+, VTP, Access Lists, Ether Channel, DHCP, Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs), Routed Ports, WAN Technologies, Long Haul P2P, and IPSec tunnels
• Configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot Cisco IOS/NX-OS based enterprise routers and switches to include Cisco 2811, 2960, 3560, 3750, 3825, 4500, 6500.