SUMMARY:

Purposeful, results - driven Information Technology Professional with many years of experience in the industry. Have lead and developed many IT related initiatives and technologies which include analysis, review, and implementation of tools and products in support of business requirements and security initiatives. Progressive experience in supervisory and managerial positions with excellent leadership skills and the ability to interact with many levels of personnel, including management, union, and salaried. In addition to my technical abilities, I possess excellent communication skills and work well as a team leader or member.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Eagan, MN

IT Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Driving the SIEM (Security Information and Event Management system) upgrade, replaced Confidential Appliances with Confidential Qradar SIEM with side by side implementation. Port over all log sources (more than 4000 in total), identify missing sources, create new rules, test rules and fail-over HA/DR (High Availability/Disaster Recovery) for successful product implementation and advanced logging and monitoring for our Incident Response Team.
• Lead Engineer on the DLP (Data Leakage Protection) Project, wrote requirements, selected vendor and Implemented Enterprise DLP Solution and rule tuning. This implementation served as an enforcer of data security policies and helped us understand how data was leaving the organization. Writing custom scripts using regular expression, we could quarantine emails that contained sensitive content and stop them from leaving the organization saving thousands of dollars to the organization on violations and ultimately fostering an environment where we could educate our employees.
• Responsible for oversight of regulatory adherence; work with internal and external auditors on a consistent basis to identify security gaps in our environment. Engaged businesses where and when needed to produce requested data and prioritized importance and necessity of remediation.
• To educate our internal users and reduce risk to our organization; served as technical lead engineer for Confidential Environment for reporting enterprise phishing emails. Worked with security training personnel to develop criteria to educate our users and create specialized training in our new hire process for employees specifically working with sensitive data.
• Technical Lead to ensure proper compliance; setup Tripwire Enterprise Environment to conduct vulnerability and remediation scans.
• Create custom policies for Confidential and Open VMS environments for successful policy scoring and determination.
• Worked with all business units to ensure proper reporting and scoring of devices and wrote custom dashboards for upper management. This closed a PCI gap in our environment that was previously determined in an audit finding.
• For PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and DAR (data at rest) scanning; Installed Varonis Infrastructure to protect cardholder data where it is processed, stored and transmitted. Setup monitoring all of our file servers for sensitive data; created custom reporting for GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance) Team for remediation and data matrix for management so sensitive data was accurately reported. This was done for successful implementation of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama Implementation.
• Maintain existing security environments to include IDS/IPS. Confidential NX and HX, Tufin, Cyberark (password vault), ITIM and ITAM (Identity and Access Management). This was necessary to ensure the health and uptime of these tools from a reporting and health perspective.
• Responsible for the configuration, research, administration, and technical analysis of policies and procedures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information stored, processed and transmitted in multi-computing environments.
• For proper ticketing and automation; worked with our monitoring team for Netcool and Service Now Integration for our tools.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all Microsoft Active Directory Domain functions. Participated in large scale domain migration to include site topology, trust relationships, OU Structure, including Wins, DNS, DHCP, User and Group creation, Group Policies and permissions.
• Implementation and build out of Microsoft Solomon (multiple versions) environments and primary support for more than 25 third party plug - ins and applications for our financial departments.
• Maintain and Build VMware ESX, ESXi, and View environments.
• Build out of DR/HA tiering and standards for all tier 1-3 applications and hardware.
• Provide support for all Windows versions and administer Confidential Director, Net Cool, TSM, and IIS
• Citrix Xenapp support for ScriptMed, Case Trakker, Assurance, and Vmware View environments.
• Proficient at creating and maintaining documentation for a target audience ranging from entry level end users to skilled information systems personnel.
• Provide third level support to Service Desk, EOC (Emergency Operations Center), and Field Operations support teams.
• Leader in vendor management, standards determination, and change management using ITIL Standards.

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Manager/System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained departmental budgets. Hire and fire all staff including annual performance reviews and disciplinary measures.
• Provide continuous improvement and customer service and customer satisfaction metrics.
• Extensive experience with upgrading and maintaining Netapp NAS filers with Data Ontap.
• Responsible for all hardware and software functions on several hundred servers and virtual instances located at Lawson Corporate and Regional Offices in multiple countries.
• Responsibilities include multiple Domains to include Research and Development, Training ( Confidential University) and the Corpnet Domains.
• Responsible for over 2 Terabytes of Data to include Backups, Restores, Retention and Disaster Recovery.
• SMS Adminstrator-Microsofts Systems Management Server
• Patchlink Administrator-Deploy updates, patches and Service Packs to all Workstations and Servers.
• Successfully served two terms in the United States Army to include Active and Reserve Duty.
• Served as the T.A.S.O. (Terminal Area Security Officer) while stationed at Ft. Carson, CO. Accountable for more than 80 PC workstations and laptop computers for the battalion. Responsibilities included installation and removal of anti-viral software and computer viruses.
• Secret security clearance to access and process confidential information, restricted mail etc.