SUMMARY

• Network Security Manager. As the Network Security Officer (NSO), I directly manage several groups of Information Technology (IT) professionals to maintain, upgrade, and validate the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of various networks.
• A high ranking officer who recently visited our facilities commented “Wow That’s some serious savings. Good job ” when it was revealed we saved $5 million by implementing industry best practices in network design and security.
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system development pioneer. As a Software Engineer, I was proud to be a member of the ERP design and development team chosen to pilot the ERP system which will become the enterprise solution to manage resources across the Confidential
• By consolidating various existing, redundant systems, the new ERP suite is estimated to save at least $1 million annually in overhead cost.
• Information Security Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) principal.
• As the Information System Security Engineer (ISSE), I applied my engineering background with security best practices recommended by SANS and (ISC)2 to develop SOPs that have been adopted by various organizations across the country.
• Skills: Highly proficient in solving problems and implementing solutions under tight time and resource constraints. Hands - on technical leader capable of managing teammates as well as work alongside them. Exceptionally strong written and verbal communication skills. Strong ability to focus on tasks at hand, yet always remain friendly and personable.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Information Security Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide information security guidance to business units in all matters related to information and cyber-security and ensure that compliance with existing policies and standards are enforced
• Technology: firewall (Netscreen, ASA), IDS/IPS, VPN (Cisco), proxies, analytics, AAA (ADFS, Kerberos)
• Research and test new technologies to mitigate against new and emerging security threats
• Technology: AWS, Cylance
• Develop procedures and tools to remediate existing security gaps as well as continuously enhancing the security posture of the organization
• Technology: ISO27001, DSS/PCI, NIST

Principal Network Security Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of senior network security engineers to support various network security infrastructure devices in maintaining a high SLA requirement
• Technology: firewall (Netscreen, Checkpoint), load balancers (F5), IDS/IPS (SourceFire,Tipping Point), VPN (Juniper), analytics (Splunk), AAA (ACS, ADFS, LDAP, Kerberos), ISO 27001
• Develop procedures and tools to simplify and automate redundant tasks, reducing errors and implementation time by at least 50%

Senior Network Security Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop procedures and tools to simplify and automate redundant tasks, reducing errors and implementation time by at least 50%
• Manage and mentor a team of junior (Tier 2) support engineers in the Security Operations Center (SOC) in supporting various customers' network security infrastructure devices
• Technology: firewall (PIX/ASA, Netscreen/SRX, Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Fortinet), proxies (Bluecoat, McAfee), load balancers (F5, CSS/ACE, Redline, Aventail), IDS/IPS (Cisco, Snort), AV gateway (McAfee, Norton), VPN (Juniper, Firepass), analytics (Splunk), Cloudera
• Escalation engineer for all operational issues not resolvable by Tier 2 support engineers

Network Security Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of technicians to install and configure network and security devices, including switches, routers, firewalls, proxies, load balancers, close-circuit television (CCTV), cameras, cabling infrastructures, etc.
• Architect network and security boundary designs and produce Bill of Materials (BOM) to customers in response to Request for Proposals (RFP).
• Provide Request for Quotes (RFQ) based on customer requirements to stand up new network infrastructures or upgrade existing ones.

Network Security Officer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Actively advised management on the best enterprise solution based on differing customer requirements through the cost-benefits evaluation of existing commercial products.
• Manage a team of Information Technology (IT) professionals to redesign and upgrade various networks that resulted in a $2 million savings.
• Technology: Cisco and Juniper routers, Cisco and Foundry switches, F5 BigIP load balancers and Firepass VPN gateway, Checkpoint and McAfee Sidewinder firewall
• Manage a team of Information System (IS) professionals to consolidate and virtualize servers and applications that netted $3 million in cost reduction.
• Technology: Microsoft Windows, Redhat Linux Enterprise, Sun Solaris, VMWare ESX Server, Microsoft IIS, Sharepoint, and SQL server, Citrix server, Oracle database
• Manage a team of Information Assurance (IA) professionals to develop and validate security solutions to prevent, detect, and protect Secret and Top Secret information.
• Technology: Snort and Netscout Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Symantec Antivirus gateway, Bluecoat proxy gateway, eEye Retina and Foundstone network scanner, McAfee Host-based Intrusion Protection System (HIPS), Microsoft Windows System Update Server (WSUS), Patchlink and Shavlik patch management system, Tripwire Enterprise, Guardian Edge encryption system
• Manage a team of cable installation technicians to design and install cables and network, voice, and video equipment using structured cabling methodologies as specified by BICSI to minimize costs and improve interoperability.
• Technology: AutoCAD, Microsoft Visio, Excel, Access, and Powerpoint
• Pioneer the development of the Confidential Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) suit through the application of various programming languages and technologies, which has been estimated to reduce overhead costs of $1 million annually.
• Technology: C++, Java, .NET, VBScripts, Perl, Python, SAP, XML, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/D)

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Best of breed development of system management software that include Tivoli Framework and Netview through the application of various programming languages and technologies.
• Technology: C++, Java, DB2 and MS SQL database, XML, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/D)
• Develop test cases and maintain version control using manual and automated tools to perform functional, integration, system, and regression testing of applications to ensuresecure, stable, and high performance.
• Technology: CVS, ANT, Bugzilla, Rational Clearcase, Rose, and Eclipse