Summary of Qualifications:

Over Five Years of professional experience on Core background in IT auditing, project management and security. Strong hands on auditing and control design, development and testing experience. Technical knowledge with the Cisco Networking Academy and ISO27001 trainings .Excellent C - level communicator with the ability to interface with all levels .Detail oriented with great project management and teamwork skills. Adept at rapidly learning and applying new technologies and solutions .Expert at consulting with clients and recommending the industry best practices.

Professional Experience:

IT Auditor-Project Manager SAS70 CPA

• Conducts information systems, network, and data center audits of the client and its subsidiaries adhering to IT governance, the management of IT controls, and the application of industry best practices, and regulatory compliance standards, ISO 27002 (formerly known as ISO 17799), ISO 27001, SSAE 16.
• Develops reviews and evaluates the adequacy of effectiveness of the IT security controls in all IT infrastructural areas to include:
• Human resources, Physical, Environmental security - Logical access-Computer/Network Operations-Software & Application Development-Change
• Management-Data Backup and Storage Management-Disaster Recovery Planning and Application Specific controls
• Reviews and evaluates client network environments, infrastructure protection processes, including policies, guidelines, tools, methods, and technologies.
• Establishes audit objectives and assist in the development of the audit program, including time estimates, statement of work and steps necessary to collect data and document findings
• Inspects client purchased and internally developed systems to ensure compliance with established information security standards and policies.
• Participates in the development and implementation of the File Maker Pro Audit system.

IT Network /Security Analyst-Temp - City of St Petersburg 01

Participated in the design and implementation of security projects including policy design and vulnerability testing.

Performed daily network analysis, troubleshooting including code upgrades for cisco and Enterasys equipment

Participated in the design of the network and deployment ofCisco, Enterasys, HP-ProCurve Dell, Baracuda and Foundry routers switches and firewalls.

Assisted in the VMware ESX servers’ deployment and VDI migration.

Created new wireless map for the city and redesigned the network.

Accomplished the deployment and configuration of IP Surveillance system.

• IT Systems Engineer/CIP Project Coordinator

Confidentialc. Tampa, FL 06

• Managed Information security projects to assist in Lenel security systems implementation. My role involved coordinating tasks with both the Risk & Compliance department and Plant managers to comply with NERC FERC CIP critical infrastructure protection requirements.
• Improved technical documentation and assisted in Network Systems Audit preparation.
• Installed and configured network equipment including Avocent KVM-Cisco-Enterasys Switches, Firewalls and fiber modems.
• Developed the Windows7 operating system migration project. My role included testing current software applications, gathering end-users requirements to customize images before delivery and establishing contact with vendors to purchase or renew software licenses.
• Managed Windows server 2003 Active directory, Novell Zen works, and Console One.
• Accomplished end users training on complexity issues relating to software applications and operating systems.
• Provided Technical support and supported the data migration project to Suse Linux servers: including data volumes, Novell GroupWise and webmail systems.

Associate IT Systems Engineer Confidential. Tampa, FL 01

• Developed the Enterprise Efficiency Research project associated with document management utilization and process improvement to replace paper-based support requests with web based applications to reduce cost.
• Identified, researched and resolved technical support issues related to windows server 03, Windows XP-7, Suse Linux and supported the Microsoft office 07 upgrade.
• Participated in the analysis, design and implementation of Zen Works desktop imaging project. My efforts involved developing Windows XP images with current company software and network settings.
• Designed the intranet website in HTML-CSS-ASP.NET

Technical Expertise and Knowledge

• Auditing Standards &Frameworks: SAS 70/SSAE 16 SOC 1,2,3-ISO 2

  FISMA-HIPPA-SOX-COBIT-NIST

• Networking: Cisco IOS-VLAN-IPSEC VPN-OSPF- Frame Relay-BGP-RIP EIGRIP-DNS-TFTP-DHCP-SSL-DMZ-ATM-ACL-MPLS-EoMPLS-
• Hardware: HP Pro Curve-Extreme Summit - CISCO Catalyst Switches-Routers-XSR-PIX-ASA- Aironet -AVAYA-ARUBA Access points—Ubiquiti Antennas Ecessa Powerlink 100-IBM Lenovo-DELL-Fluke-Lynksis-Intellinet-SonicWall-Foundry-IQeye
• Systems: Novell-Windows 7/Vista/XP- Suse Linux-Ubuntu-Windows Server

  03/08-IIS03-IBM BladeCenter-Vsphere-ESX-VDI-Citrix-Google Apps

• Software: Aruba-WhatsupGold-Qcheck-Extreme Net epicenter-GNS3-OPENVPN-WireShark-Free Ping-NetMotion-VPN HotspotShield-Tftpd32-Radius-Server-Angry IP-Cisco Voice Manager-CainEnable-FreeNATS

  Websense-Iboss-Baracuda-McAfee8.7 & SaaS-BackTrack-Metasploit-Nessus-Windows Defender-Pest Patrol-K9Web-Bart PE-Lavasoft-Malware Bytes-Kaspersky- Sysinternals

  Vmware Workstation 7.1-Vsphere-View-Zenworks 11 -Console One- GroupWise 7.5 Excel-Visio-word-Exchange-Outlook-PPT-Gwava

• Databases: MySQL-MSSQL08-Access 03-07-Oracle10g-Synergen-FMP-SharePoint.
• Programming: HTML-CSS-PHP-SQL-JAVA-ASP.NET