CAREER OBJECTIVE SUMMARY

Looking for Leadership position in stimulating work environment. Experienced IT professional with about 10 years of experience. Primarily focused on Network Security and Information Assurance. Possess CCSA, JNCIA, ITIL, F5 and CSIA with objective of completing CISSP in near future. Offer unique set of skills in network security field with strong programming and teaching background. Held secret, top-secret, and DOJ clearances in the past.

Technical Skills

EXPERIENCE

Lead Network Security Engineer,

Confidential

• Lead and Shift lead at security operation center, where troubleshoot complex network connectivity issues including but not limited to authentication, VPN, proxy, load balancing, firewalls, IDS/IPS
• Quickly log and analyze TCP handshake-tcpdump several technologies all in one troubleshooting session to resolved customers' multifaceted issues
• Trained newly hired engineers to quickly adapt to SOC environment
• Created and fine tune processes to run SOC effectively and efficiently, following the industry standards of HIPPA, GLB, SOX etc.
• Address customers request and issues promptly up to and beyond their satisfaction. Created Splunk monitoring reports to give them overview of their network in one page layout

Instructor,

Confidential

• Senior Network Security Engineer Project Manager, Confidential
• Analyzed alerts from Interrogator, distributed attack sensing and warning system, and fixed affected systems
• Planned and initiated integration between HBSS, Retina and REM, and Hercules
• Deployed OVAL, Gold Disk, and XCCDF checklist to many computers to be compliant with DoD standards
• Organized vulnerability management schedule for over 4000 computers
• Created REM Retina Vulnerability management infrastructure for entire hub and spoke environment
• Senior Security Engineer, Confidential
• Troubleshot clients queries and assisted them in transition
• Lead vendor-owner meetings and executed efficient solution for the business
• Designed and executed Multi-access client server model for accounting software-QuickBooks
• Project Manager, Confidential
• Prepared students to be better citizens of tomorrow
• Awarded as instructor of the semester
• Provided career guidance as needed
• Teaching computer programming and ISS classes which configured NMap, Nessus, MBSA, Wireshark, Netwitness, hacking, encryption, and virus scan and malware scans, security , Linux
• Lead, Managed, and designed security operation center SOC for Sprint security customers. Developed process flow for SOC. Trained technicians and engineers for security event management. Researched products such as various firewalls, IDS, access control ACS and authentication tools, lead various vendor products meetings, made informative decisions regarding resources that fit with SOC. Interviewed and hired engineers for TSOM event management. Managed the SOC from initiation phase to Execution.
• Managed inactive and non-functional IDS project to live and functioning services. Translated the clients' requirements into technical terms, assigned tasks to engineers, supervised their duties, required updates from them regularly, and made progress until IDS became part of production environment.
• Performed analysis and provided resolution of network security related problems by managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting Checkpoint, Netscreen, Pix Firewalls, and IDS.
• Performed authentication services on RADIUS, SecureID, LDAP, Entrust and NetCache. Help troubleshoot and trained team members for authentication service, tools and methodologies.
• Provided customer support for hardware/software failures, security vulnerability, virus attacks, VPN configuration, user authentication and/or policy changes. Knowledgeable in the network fundamentals OSI/TCP/IP
• Proficient in handling of customer calls in professionally and courteous manner, caller authentication, ticket generation, addressing customer dissatisfaction, documenting and escalating issues according to established procedures.
• Acted as team lead for number of projects to improve network operation center process efficiency.
• Authored more then 30 Job-Aid documents detailing product utilization, troubleshooting and improvisation.

IDS Analyst, Special Project at Pentagon

• Monitored Army, Navy, Air Force and various military organizations' network traffic for malicious activities by using Snort, Argus, Bro, ISS, Intrushield, Arbor peakflow, Netforensics, and Stealthwatch intrusion detection systems.
• Performed penetration testing on live and lab environment to have solid secure infrastructure.
• Distinguished alerts from false positives and took appropriate active preventive actions to mitigate the threats
• Worked with team to set up in-house honeynet project

Project Manager,

Confidential

• Managed the modeling and simulation team for Satellite System. Defined government clients' requirements into technical specifications to graphic designer and computer programmer. Assigned deliverables to graphic designer and computer programmer. Modeled and simulated Satellite systems, military and commercial, ground and Air network in detail. Created and executed highly professional and complex 3-D GUI Application in STK to support wideband connectivity study
• Calculated and analyzed Link Budgets for various Air and Space assets and developed extensive assessment matrices, Performed IT resources risk assessment.
• Created and implemented security policy for organization and authored security policy guideline document.
• Modeled, simulated and analyzed IDS architecture process for DTRA using EXTEND
• Modeled the Space Shuttle Program, Orbital Space Plane at KSC, CERT using C in Extend and STK with intense client interactions

Software Engineer,

Confidential

• Created and Maintained C software application that performed complex SQL queries to track government contracts, cost, people and schedule
• Designed, developed and maintained highly complex 3-D GUI applications of Radar and IR technologies.
• Developed enhanced 3-D models of missiles trajectories, radar and optics using C STK simulation software
• Reviewed Critical Software Design for BEST, and analyzed Radar Communication Network Performance in OPNET
• Distributed Technology Infrastructure Summer Intern, Confidential
• Performed extensive research and developed Fault Tolerant Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP for Boston sites.
• Formed a detailed report on different vendor's Network Attached Storage products. Outlined their suitable features: cost, maintenance, installation, and support and storage capacity.
• Dzero Computing Analysts Summer Lab Assistant, Confidential
• Assisted in research on the interaction of protons and antiprotons.
• Collected, organized, and updated information on web pages utilizing HTML for Muon Reconstruction software for the Dzero detector for the upcoming collider runs and for the Advanced Analysis Methods group.
• Engaged in Neural Network research, created and analyzed graphs utilizing GD Pro visual modeling software in Unix utilizing C shell Scripting