Consultant/Sr. Security Systems Advisor Resume Houston, TX - Hire IT People

OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a position as a senior cybersecurity professional, cyber security lead, or cybersecurity manager with a creative, technology - driven organization in an environment that encourages innovative thinking, recognition and provides the opportunity to utilize both technical skills and the drive to mentor others.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Consultant/Sr. Security Systems Advisor

Responsibilities:

Responsible for providing guidance on strategic placement of security controls focusing on unique needs, business requirements, and industry best practices clients on people, processes, and technologies within the scope of their MSS & outside that scope
Tuning security solutions, both through the MSS along with client appliances and applications to reduce false positives, include true negatives, and add correlation attributes.
Providing expert level guidance on the threat landscape, threat actors, and vulnerabilities/exposures
Providing expert level guidance on reducing attack surface and enhancing detection capabilities to promote visibility.

Confidential

Consultant/Sr. Platform Engineer

Responsibilities:

Acted as subject matter expert and team lead providing, documentation and strategic planning for deployment and maintenance of existing appliances and security applications within Confidential ’ environment.
Responsible for maintenance of security applications and appliances such as McAfee ePO (and associated endpoint protection products), WebSense, Lancope StealthWatch (netflow) and FireEye products.
Responsible for providing threat assessments for current vulnerabilities associated with security platforms within the environment.
Maintenance of a platform register containing all of the existing appliances static information such as IP addresses, network information, geographical location etc.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Security Architect

Responsibilities:

Responsible for deployment and maintenance of security applications such as Bit9, RSA SecurID, Rapid7 Nexpose, and Splunk
Providing vulnerability scanning and assessment services
Organized and performed simulated phishing campaigns
Responsible for creating application documentation for client use.
Performed digital and physical reconnaissance in preparation for penetration testing for multiple clients.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

Responsible for day-to-day risk assessment and provisioning of firewall access requests, troubleshooting firewall access problems for end users and systems administrators using Checkpoint firewall system.
Responsible for maintaining and monitoring the corporations McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator environment along with many applications which were integrated with ePO such as VirusScan Enterprise, DLP, Endpoint Encryption, HIPS and SiteAdvisor.
Responsible for upkeep and maintenance of the Tripwire monitoring system to remain within PCI and FDIC regulatory compliance.

Confidential, Kingsville, TX

Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

Responsible for network security monitoring, administration of Cisco ASA/Juniper/Fortinet firewalls and analyzing logs from university security appliances such as IBM Proventia IDS/IPS.
Conducting risk assessments and vulnerability scans on university desktops, servers, and network systems to ensure compliance with Texas Administrative Code 202.
Working closely with the Senior Systems Administrator to ensure that user accounts were correctly provisioned and centralized servers were properly configured to ensure maximum operating system and application security.

Confidential, Corpus Christi, TX

Responsibilities:

Responsible for network monitoring, website traffic trending, analyzing logs from intrusion detection/prevention system (IDS/IPS).
Remediation of identified threats and intrusions.