SUMMARY:

• Ambitious Assistant Director of Cyber Security who creates strategic alliances with organizational leaders to effectively align and support key business initiatives. Has a proven track record while successfully implementing various security technology solutions that resolve business problems while working within the budgetary constraints. All technology decisions take into account the latest trends and that the overall technology solutions all align with the global needs and requirements across the entire infrastructure. Builds and retains high performance teams by hiring, developing, and directing motivated skilled professionals.
• Initiated a security evaluation process to protect the Board of Pensions from external threats. The evaluation process included depth in defense while evaluation all threats that can be traversed inside and outside of the network. Was able to enhance the security maturity level from adhoc to defined and eliminated the ransomware threat and remained clean for 2 years while still incorporating additional controls and policies in the effort to be managed and measureable across all areas.
• Headed up the IT Cyber Security team in response to a possible intrusion and breach of website and redirection of pensions checks to fraudulent bank card accounts. Was successfully able to identify the nature of the breach and identify the perpetrators who misrepresented themselves. Data and logs were shared with the FBI and a third party forensics team to further document the events and to allow prosecution of individuals. The intrusion was caught quickly and mitigating steps were performed immediately to minimize the impact of the event.
• Realigned the Network Systems and Operations groups by merging the two groups and creating a more dynamic and versatile group by hiring higher level individuals while producing a more productive team. Successfully made the team more resilient and more flexible with the ability to adapt to the daily and emerging IT needs and trends which can change rapidly.
• Spearheaded the migration and management of the Presbyterian Historical Society’s IT Infrastructure into a virtual Cloud environment that is embedded with are architecture while providing IAAS and proactively taken control on their critical Infrastructure components. This project was sponsored by our President and was motivated by several security incidents in which data had been compromised or lost.
• Developed a statement of understanding between the businesses and this relationship continues to grow and expand as the goal to secure the environment and utilize any available resources to minimize the overall cost and effectiveness of the IT departments and business processes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Philadelphia, PA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Strong working knowledge of operations practices, risk management processes, principles, architectural requirements and threats and vulnerabilities in the context of Cybersecurity as well as incident response handling methodologies as they apply
• Strong knowledge of regulations, policies and ethics as they relate to Cybersecurity
• Expert in their field; keeps technical skills current, participates in multiple forums
• Multi-skilled across the full range of team functions
• Strong understanding of Agile, with the ability to work under at least one of the common frameworks
• Knowledge of what constitutes a network attack and the relationship to both threats and vulnerabilities along with the ability to identify systemic security issues
• Provides in-depth analysis of vulnerabilities, threats, designs, procedures and architectural design with focus on recommendations for enhancements or remediation with skill in using network analysis tools
• Cyber Security Maturity Assessment continuous improvement
• Cisco Firewall and Fire Power
• Internal and External audit and logging control
• Annual Access Review renovation project.
• BCP/DR services
• Multifactor and Identity Management deployment with Okta.
• IAAS outsourced evaluation project
• Use case policy review
• Cisco Firepower threat defense deployment and monitoring for endpoints
• Network Interconnectivity
• Penetration testing and web performance testing
• Alertlogic Monitoring and alerting

Confidential - Philadelphia, PA

Managers/Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Presently direct and manage the overall Infrastructure, Data Centers, Connectivity, Security planning, integration and support of a multifaceted Health services and Pensions plan for it 70,000 members.
• Strengthened company's business by leading and guiding the implementation of High Availability with all the core tier 1 business applications.
• Stay current with all security and incident management processes and constantly evaluate and proactively strengthen its depth in defense while protecting the Boards sensitive data .
• Strategically aligned the Board’s Security systems with Cloud monitoring Services while installing and configuring Cisco Security best practices to inspect all data at the application layer to proactively battle the latest challenges and threats that constantly attack our systems.
• Analyzed key metrics to measure DR site feasibility and usefulness and the drive to continue with focus on High availability and site failover to cold or active standby systems to ensure uptime and commitments to the business are met.
• Identified product problems and strengths and collected data on the customer experience within the CRM system.
• Delivered detailed feature roadmaps that included action items and project targets for a 3 year period.
• Leveraged in-depth understanding of end-to-end customer experience to identify pain points and latent customer needs within a thin client environment.

Director of Network Systems

Confidential - Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Directed and led the BGP failover between sites and the redesigned Internet and inter-site connectivity.
• Led a cross-functional team of Engineers and Administrators to develop procedures and fix incompatibilities within VMware and how they impact the Board DR procedures.
• Hired and trained 2 Senior Network Administrators.
• Managed a 3 person Network Team while also coordinating efforts of the Help Desk team for all ongoing projects and the daily support of the business.

Lead Network Engineer

Confidential - Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Manage 2 Senior Network Administrators
• Set up the new ASA firewall implementation with redundant failover design along with the Network Intrusion Protection.
• Set up performance and monitoring throughout the LAN with Network Generals' Sniffer along with IBM Direct
• Created a new VPN strategy with the implementation of Cisco VPN client and Microsoft RADIUS IAS and ins
• Websense URL filtering and phishing, malicious code and anti-spyware software to secure the network.
• Manage the core infrastructure with the use of Cisco Works for IOS upgrades and Signature updates.
• Manage Windows 2003 Active directory environment and design, group policy and security enforcement for about 170 servers and 350 nodes.
• Manage Windows 2000/2003 Exchange mail server and surf control mail filter software.
• Segmented the network into VLAN's to enhance the network proficiency and to support the backup LAN.
• Create baselines via Sniffer and monitor network traffic while troubleshooting application packets and decoding the frames throughout the network.
• Implemented Web Strategy initiatives with the use of Bea Aqualogic in a highly available Web Infrastructure design between two locations. Manage and design internet traffic with the use of Cisco ASA and Microsoft ISA firewall.
• Manage and design all network infrastructure traffic while incorporating Kerberos digital authentication between servers with the use of Microsoft Server.
• Created Backup VPN technology utilizing ISA 2006 with active directory authentication techniques to enable a failsafe remote environment with alert notification with SNMP traps and Web keep alive alerts.

Senior Network Administrator /Project Manager

Confidential - Delran, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Windows 2000 domain, which was inclusive of 23 locations.
• Managed all servers and network infrastructure in the Northeast.
• Member of the WAN team for the company and had experience with Frame relay circuits Cisco Routers, Switches 515, Firewalls, VPN, Checkpoint Firewall and familiar with RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and spanning tree.
• Performed a Windows 2000 Migration and managed Windows 2000 Active directory environment and design, group policy and security enforcement for about 100 servers and 1300 nodes.
• Designed the Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure and implemented an Active Directory environment with a HUB and spoke design that came in under budget.
• Performed a domain restructure and consolidation and remained in mixed mode with the use Domain Migration Administrator from NetIQ.
• Incorporated the use of NetIQ application manager to manage the network.
• Conducted weekly meetings educating a technical staff consisting of 8 WAN/LAN Engineers/administrators in preparation for administering the domain at their respective locations.
• Monitored all Active Directory connections and replication traffic on the WAN.
• Managed Microsoft Exchange segregated mail systems and prepared mail conversions between Lotus Notes and Exchange.
• Implemented Group policy and incorporated patch management system with the use of a SUS server.
• Created a web based help desk for the company for the assembly plants via FrontPage and published to Internet Information Server.
• Experienced with IIS 4.0 and IIS 5.0 and SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Showcase Report Writer and JDEdwards.

Technical Manager

Confidential - Delran, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Was in charge of hiring and Electronic Technicians and various other personnel.
• Managed a staff of up to 25 people, varying on the business at the time.
• Maintained the servers on the network with remote administration from the New Jersey office to the main facility in Missouri.
• Handled all of the hardware and software applications throughout the building.
• Performed weekly maintenance to the head end equipment and stay on top of patches to the proprietary software.
• Provided tech support to the entire building.
• Handled all network and server administration for the both sites.
• Experienced with Windows NT Workstation 4.0, NT Server 4.0, DNS, WINS, DHCP, Microsoft Exchange and office suite.
• Experience with Cisco routers and switches, HP Hubs and Switches.

Technician /Technical Supervisor

Confidential - Barrington, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining a Cable Converter Repair shop and all equipment associated with the Zenith Re
• Facility for the United States.
• Very proficient in RF and digital repair and creating scripts in DOS 6.22.
• Handled interviews and managed a staff ranging anywhere from 8 to 15 people depending on business at the time.