Firewall Engineering and Architecture - Lead Resume Hermitage, TN - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

I am seeking a position as a Firewall Engineer, with an emphasis on Check Point firewall and VPN.
I have over 20 years of enterprise firewall management with a focus on Check Point Firewall, beginning in 2001 up to and including the latest R81.x revisions.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Firewall Engineering and Architecture - Lead

Confidential (Hermitage, TN)

Responsibilities:

Escalation point for operations staff re: technical issues, troubleshooting assistance etc.
Lead initiatives on process standardization for firewall administration
Worked to migrate over 700 firewalls globally to standard Check Point R80.30 platform

Perimeter and Network Security - ECS Firewall Engineer (CONTRACTOR)

Confidential (Nashville, TN)

Responsibilities:

Security engineer on a team dedicated to supporting a global deployment project (PANS), including architecture and operational deployment
Coordinated all work on an 8 person team via a FW team resource tracker tool that I was solely responsible for; worked with project managers globally to facilitate tight production scheduling across our entire team
Configured new Check Point DMZ firewalls including security and NAT policy at over 60 global manufacturing sites segregating the internal Confidential corporate network from individual manufacturing networks, providing site support as well as LAN team coordination of work effort

Sr. Network Security Engineer

Confidential (Nashville, TN)

Responsibilities:

Security engineer on a team dedicated to supporting Confidential ’s MSSP contract.
Perform hardware support as well as incident response and rule flow engineering in a mixed Check Point and Juniper global firewall environment. Platforms include Check Point on Nokia, Crossbeam, and Linux (SPLAT), ScreenOS on NetScreen devices, as well as JunOS on SRX. Check Point is managed in a distributed Provider-1 environment, and Juniper is managed via NSM.
Lead engineer on largest ‘green dollar’ billable project for SecureWorks’ largest MSS client, coordinating work for team of 6 other engineers on large scale Check Point deployment.

Senior Firewall Analyst

Confidential (Nashville, TN)

Responsibilities:

Support for all aspects of Confidential including firewall architecture and administration, VPN support, authentication, and standards compliance.
Large project example: life cycle of all Check Point hardware (2 management servers, 28 firewall pairs) over18 months, in preparation for Q1 2011 upgrade to R71
Daily work with Check Point Firewall-1 in a distributed management environment, UTM devices, Edge devices, Cisco ASA firewall basic administration, VPN deployment and administration (site to site and client/SSL VPN, connectivity troubleshooting, and Standards compliance (HIPAA, PCI, SOX, etc,)

Sr. Consulting Engineer

Confidential (Nashville, Tennessee)

Responsibilities:

Team lead for Network Perimeter in large enterprise (over 200,000 employees), working to facilitate connectivity and application access for physicians and other healthcare professionals, while maintaining secure access for hospital guests and other non-professionals

Network Security Specialist, Level 3

Confidential (Louisville, Kentucky)

Responsibilities:

Firewall Engineer Level 3

Confidential (Raleigh)

Responsibilities:

Support for over 300 Check Point firewalls over 12 server farms in several varied environments
Responsible for all aspects of Checkpoint Firewall support, including build-out, rulebase creation, NAT configuration, ongoing support and network connectivity troubleshooting, and rulebase maintenance
Assist in networking architecture and project management
Provide technical and environment-specific to new hires