OBJECTIVE:

• To obtain a senior management position as an IT Security Professional.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Security Engineer (Contractor)

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and/or project leadership function for assigned engineering analysis and computing projects.
• Security lead for the Acquisitions and Integrations of all acquired and JV business by Confidential
• Work within the framework of established GAP analysis for different business unit’s compliance with ISO 27001 Security Policy Standards.
• Present security designs, architectures, IT Risk, and solutions to Confidential Security Architect and Security Review board as needed.
• Attend Application Architecture Reviews as a security technical resource consulting as needed.
• Evaluated, tested, designed and audited security of applications and risk levels, architecture and infrastructure of all businesses i.e. Confidential Energy, Aviation, Nuclear, Oil & Gas and Transportation businesses against recommended security practices.
• Aligned industry specific compliance and framework requirements with the appropriate business. (U.S. export control, SCADA, CIP, ISO 27001, NIST, PCI, SOX, FISMA)
• Mobile infrastructure and application security of Energy, Aviation Nuclear, Oil & Gas and Transportation businesses.
• Evaluate and audit new and existing applications and infrastructure project requirements against standard security practices, industry specific compliance requirements (ISO 27001, NIST, PCI, SOX) and Confidential policy (examples: use of encryption, password access,)
• Security Advisory board member and security awareness trainer.
• Document results to be used in tollgate reviews using existing project management tools.
• Draft and present security plans, designs, architectures, and solutions to Confidential Security Architect and Security Review board as needed.
• Attend Application Architecture Reviews as a security technical resource as needed.
• Work with the application or infrastructure project leader to ensure a successful design, development, test and release for security features of assigned project.
• Work with support and Operations project teams to troubleshoot security related production issues (Level 3) with production software applications when necessary
• Perform security reviews of existing environments using standard tools (e.g. ISS scanners, nmap, open source tools, etc.) to identify security vulnerabilities in these environments.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Network Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Network lead for all security related issues ranging from outside “phishing”, DNS Denial of Service attacks, viruses and computer usage compliance.
• Successfully implemented and completed ongoing multiple IT projects ranging from $20K to $100K, provide the technical knowledge and vision to support the company’s business objectives, and evaluate and recommend hardware/software for business processes.
• Deployed and administered WatchGuard Firewall in multiple locations to for dynamic packet filtering to examine and filter packets based on information in header and content.
• Project Manager for the upgrade of multiple remote offices of 3mb DSL connection to 10mb T1 connections and coordinated with all outside vendors to provide and implement VoIP technology.
• Project Manager for the testing, implementation and successful install of WiFi 802.11 (Wireless Technology) in the firm’s largest remote offices.
• Maintaining of the firms application load balance of 10 Windows 2003 servers to enhance reliability and scalability for clients making requests internally and externally.
• Assisted in transforming the firms into an IP based company in which every phone, computer, printer and copier had an IP address attached to it, giving the IT department access to any system remotely using a web - base interface and streamlining workflow.
• Maintaining the health and integrity of all servers and workstation within the organization. Monitoring the log files for any intrusion attempts and remedying any that are found.
• Installed and Maintained Windows 2003 Active Directory

Confidential, Marietta, Georgia

IT LAN Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identified client needs, managed network systems, and provided overall technical leadership in the upgrade of the internal LAN to replace out-dated patch panels, cables and switches and documented the company’s infrastructure.
• Administration of Checkpoint Firewall to stay in compliance with company’s access control list.
• Project Manager for all internal connectivity and network issues and regularly performed backups on all NT and Windows 2000 servers.
• Reduced network downtime by 25 % and giving an overall system uptime to include maintenance and scheduled outages of 95%.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

IT Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Successfully administered all online Internet Banking Servers for Millions of dollars in online wire transactions in a 24/7 Network Operating Center (NOC).
• Deployed SMS 2.0 to for hardware and software inventory and the remote deployment of packages to client/user desktop computers.
• The administration of the company’s Exchange e-mail server that also support BlackBerry devices.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Direct system administration of all Windows NT system and exchange server that included the creation of new e-mail accounts for internal and webmail users
• Deployed and administered MS Site Server and regularly ran reports on the company’s website to record and document the most popular pages, total visits and new clients and presented a weekly report to the CEO of the company.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for complete office relocation project that required planning and coordination with multiple vendors.
• Coordinated with outside vendors for data and phone drop location, T1 install, PBX install including workstations and server to include the reconnection of all client workstations and server systems upon completion at the new facility.
• Performed regular backups of offsite and local server also used Compaq Insight Manager (CIM) to monitor hardware integrity.