SUMMARY:

• I am a seasoned professional with expertise and management experience across a variety of industries and disciplines.
• Leadership, intuition, critical thinking and the ability to make complex decisions have been hallmarks of my career. Chaotic, fast moving environments are places I thrive.
• I have lead teams composed of diverse personalities, skill sets and motivations in successful and profitable projects across several industries.
• My IT and Security career includes experience in Federal government and military contracting, power generation, heavy and light manufacturing, banking and financial industries.
• Some of the highlights are listed below.
• My primary areas of interest in technology are policy, privacy, big data, reverse social engineering, ethics and gaming. I am an exceptional writer and researcher.
• Authoring of access, vulnerability management and other security policies that meet and exceed standards and industry best practices for Federal and DoD data centers
• Created innovative and thorough catalog of compliance evidence for RMF standards in support of attaining Authority to Operate (ATO).
• Design, planning and configuration of security and business continuity solutions for Confidential 500 companies, civilian and military organizations
• Process analysis design and automation resulting in significant savings in resources and time for vulnerability management and other cybersecurity activities.
• Research configuration and deployment of big data solutions for Confidential DSS Compliance for the United States Postal Service. (SPLUNK)
• Negotiation, generation and management of $5 million + service level agreements for major Department of Defense payment and personnel program.
• Managed 500+ unit electrical contract for condominiums with a bi lingual and culturally diverse team, brought in ahead of schedule and above margin estimates.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

IT Specialist

Confidential, Radford, VA

Responsibilities:

• RMF compliance research and consultation
• ACAS (Nessus), SCAP, QTip scanning and analysis
• IA Change Approver
• ASTSC Admin
• Process Design, Documentation and Improvement
• Projects:
• Process and technology development for wireless security (Fluke AirCheck)
• Process Automation for Scan Analysis
• SIPRNet RMF ATO
• Standing up RMF oriented Splunk intantiation

Service Level Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• ERP Service Level Manager, Host Level 4, Integrated Payment and Personnel Systems - Army I
• Management dedicated support team working with several Oracle Engineered Systems including Oracle ExaData and ExaLogic environment with Oracle Enterprise Management Cloud Control 12c
• Drafting, negotiating and refining SLAs with the business units, ensuring business requirements are met and agreement from all parties involved
• Patching, Access Approval, and Change management.
• Liaison with Civilian and Uniformed Stakeholders
• DIACAP to RMF transition preparation and planning.

Sr Network Monitor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Network monitoring using SolarWinds Orion suite
• Development and authoring of Data Center Access Policy Study
• SEIM Tool research
• Project Planner and Coordinator for upgrade and migration of Monitoring and Security applications /data involving multiple teams.
• Creation of detailed drawings and process documents for project implementations
• Risk Assessment and Mitigation for technology upgrades and migration
• COOP and Expansion planning.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

PCI Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Research and Development of Splunk Application for Confidential Compliance
• Development of Automated updating of Confidential linked lookups across Unix and Windows environments
• Researching, Testing and Implementing best practice solutions for moving data between Linux and Windows based instances of Splunk
• Working with distributed teams to stand up Production instance of Splunk for Confidential Compliance across the entire USPS network.

Networking and Systems Engineer

Confidential, Garner, NC

Responsibilities:

• Onboarding AuthAnvil 2 factor authentication in conjunction with MS Office 365
• Trouble shooting Confidential managed switches and Fortinet Firewalls
• Trouble shooting 802.1q tagged VLAN connectivity issues
• Authoring and editing internal documentation for Office 365 roll out.
• Data and application recovery and support for Sedona Office
• Enterprise support for HQ and five branch offices with Small Business Server domain

Threat and Vulnerability Management Engineer

Confidential, Durham, NC

Responsibilities:

• Ownership configuration and administration of suite of infosec tools including:
• ArcSight
• Nessus Security Center
• Proventia ISS
• McAfee ePO
• Cisco WCS
• CheckPoint NG Firewalls
• Management
• Analysis and remediation of security events, incidents and problems
• Security Analysis of Cisco WCS data for Wireless network
• Assembling compliance evidence for HIPAA, PCI-DSS and other relevant standards for audit purposes

NSOC Security Analyst

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Responsibilities:

• Arc Sight, Tivoli NetCool, McAfee ePO, Tenable Security Center, TSOM, Site Protector IDS
• Rogue Wi-Fi detection, penetration testing and remediation.
• Analysis of and discretionary escalation of security events following SLAs inside of ITIL framework.
• Monthly Threat Vulnerability Management reporting and remediation
• Authoring of internal documentation for operations and standards compliance

Compliance Consultant

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

Responsibilities:

• Regulatory standards compliance consulting contract work for Confidential Energy and Confidential Energy
• Lead Data Base Application Architect for project to automate ports and services analysis processes for meeting Confidential audit
• Authoring of evidentiary documentation used for regulatory compliance
• Subject matter expert for ports and services under Confidential regulation running on Windows, Linux, VMWorks, QNX, and other Embedded and Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
• Researched and produced Ports and Services Cyber Vulnerability Analysis presentation for clients and industry professionals.
• Design and configuration of VMWare to create and maintain virtualized devices for testing of querying scripts (Linux, Windows)
• Team member for onboarding, function testing and full deployment of a state of the art internal Call Center serving over 45,000 clients across the globe using highly customized ITIL aligned BMC Remedy and Avaya call center applications
• Research, authoring and editing of Knowledge Management articles covering usage of bank’s IT catalog of services in alignment with ITIL best practices.
• Business Continuity Plan team member providing testing and process upgrading when and where appropriate.
• Data Storage Management for EMEA Servers. Monitoring of local server drives and SAN. Privileged account access for discretionary movement and deletion of non-business related files.
• Configuration and Administration of 15+ VMWare virtual Windows 2003 servers for File Conversion for Office 2010.
• Administration and support of Cisco BBSM system granting access for guest Wi-Fi tokens, Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions.

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Morrisville, NC

Responsibilities:

• Successful rollout of enterprise software and services to Confidential 500 and other organizations including:

• Ruger Firearms
• General Dynamics
• United States Navy
• Joe Gibbs Racing Team

• SIEM, Data recovery and Forensic investigation of field incidents for clients
• Custom network design and administration solutions using LDAP and Windows Active Directory
• Custom Development of Access Control using Biometrics, RFID, Magnetic, Infrared and other Multifactor technologies.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning using proprietary and native resources.
• MS Access and MS SQL database configuration and management
• Development and Instruction of networking, security and Windows modules for classes
• Compliance consulting for various Industry and Government security standards.

Project Supervisor and Service Electrician

Confidential, Naples, FL

Responsibilities:

• Independent and Supervisory work in completion of custom commercial and residential projects
• Consistent A+ ratings from customer surveys
• Management of multinational, bi lingual (Spanish, Portuguese, English) teams of 25+ electricians and helpers
• Supervision and completion of residential project consisting of over 500 condominiums ahead of schedule at 30% margin
• Scheduling and Materials budgeting, sourcing and purchasing