Chief Architect Resume
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Berryville, VA
SUMMARY
- Led design sessions, customer requirements meetings, and taken projects for their design sessions that lead to teh high - level and low-level documentation required for projects.
- Teh deployment sizes that me work wif span up to 500,000 endpoints. Done teh planning, messaging, training, overall corporate culture and user experience changes, and much of teh layer 8 items that go into having a success items that go into having a successful ISE deployment.
- Deployed teh Cisco ISE solution since version 1.0 and having been working wif several customers all teh way up through version 2.3. Wif dis level of exposure, me extensive familiarity wif teh intricate complexities of wired deployments and has defined processes that reduce teh time it takes to migration from monitor-mode to low-impact.
- A key to success in past engagements is having vast experience in operationalizing teh solution and what that means to folks like level one and level two support and initial helpdesk.
- Has tailored training material specific to help teh staff to enable large entities operationalize teh solution for up to 500,000 endpoints and three geographic locations across teh globe.
- Most recently has been engaged in several ACS to ISE conversions for both radius based and TACACS based authentication(s).
- me has performed a significant number of these conversions over teh last 7 years of doing Cisco ISE.
- While 802.1X and Cisco ISE make up a large percentage of accomplishments also has been focusing on platforms as well such as VMWare, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, FireEye, and All of teh Cisco Security Portfolio; Firepower, FTD, ESA, WSA, Umbrella, ACS
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- VMWare
- Palo Alto
- Checkpoint
- FireEye
- All of teh Cisco Security Portfolio
- Firepower
- FTD
- ESA
- WSA
- Umbrella
- ACS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Chief Architect
Confidential, Berryville, VA
Responsibilities:
- Provide Advisory Guidance in Security Related Business Areas
- Building talent network for services oriented sections of teh business
- Complete Design, Procurement, and Architecture of Enterprise Class Virtualization, Cloud, Data Center, Networking, Security, and Storage.
- Help Strengthen Vendor and Customer Relationships through successful service/project delivery and expansion of services
- Maintain and share expertise (internally and wif customers) on security challenges and application of preventative and protective security technologies and services.
- Work wif both internal and customer engineers to provide Subject Matter Export (SME) knowledge transfer on products, technologies and solutions.
- Define and collect technical requirements from customer and design, implement and configure solutions to work wifin teh capabilities of teh product(s) for those requirements. Review teh configuration decisions that are available to customer and provide expertise and guidance on best practices.
- Provide onsite and remote technical guidance to new and existing customers as required to ensure a successful deployment
- Perform project management functions for customer engagements, including, but not limited to, project scheduling, project tracking and status/completion reporting
- Build and maintain customer relationships and partnerships
- Work efficiently wif customer support team to solve customer issues
- Assist wif teh administration and maintenance of Internal network and security solutions
- Create and maintain technical documentation for solutions, systems and configuration
- Help maintain virtual training environment and assist as needed wif class creation, development, and delivery
- Pre-Sales Systems Engineering functions - Scoping calls and documents
- Assist Sales Team in meeting or exceeding sales goals
- Practice Lead for Cisco ISE Services - Develop, build and grow ISE service delivery practice
- Large Scale Deployment of Cisco ISE for Wired, Wireless, Guest, Posture, and BYOD
- Operationalizing ISE Solutions, Help Desk Training, ISE Training, Documentation for Troubleshooting Purposes
- Design, Deployment, and Operationalizing teh solution for very large deployments (500K Endpoints)
- ISE 1.0 - 2.3 Experience Including Upgrades, Patching, and Disaster Recovery
- ACS to ISE Migrations
- ISE Troubleshooting
- Experience in several industries including banking, health care, DoD, private sector, retail
- Design, Deploy and Troubleshoot complex Cisco Wireless Solutions
- 5500 Series
- 2500 Series
- 3850 Embedded Controllers
- 8500 Series
- AP Groups
- RF Maps
- SSID Consolidation Projects
- Design, Deploy, and Troubleshoot LAN/WAN, BGP, EIGRP, MPLS, OSPF
- Large Scale Redundant OSPF equal cost routing for SIP Trunking
- Large Scale Network Topology Design and Review of Existing Design
- Significant Cisco Ironport ESA/WSA Design, Configuration, Troubleshooting
- 20+ Deployments
- Health Care, Banking, DoD, Private Sector
- SMA
- ESA
- WSA
- Clustering
- Backup
- Failure
- Subject Matter Expert in Cisco ASA and Palo Alto Firewalls
- 8.2 to 8.3 Conversions
- FirePOWER for ASA
- FTD
- Clustering
- Migrations from other vendors Palo Alto, Checkpoint, others
- Both to and From ASA
- Panorama
- PAN-OS 4.x-8.x Experience
- WildFire
- PAN-OS Upgrade/Downgrade
Senior Security Engineer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Enterprise Ethical Hacking, Vulnerability Mitigation, Vulnerability Assessment and FISMA.
- Global Incident Response for Security Events that required on-site support. Performing Forensic analysis on infected, comprised, or other system(s) in teh field. 24/7 On-Call Incident Response
- Red Team Ethical Hacking
Sr. Security Engineer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- IDS/IPS Configuration, Maintenance, Auditing.
- Vulnerability Assessments and Ethical Hacking.
- OWASP Based Web Application Security Testing.
- Red Team Ethical Hacking
Information Systems Operator/Analyst
Confidential, Manassas, VA
Responsibilities:
- Install, maintain problems wif various Operating Systems including Windows9x/NT/2000/XP, Solaris, BeOS5, and Win2000 Advanced Server.
- Knowledge in utilizing network architectures, packet switching fundamentals, network concepts, server and client connectivity, managing strategies. Troubleshooting and repair, hardware and software requirements, standards and interoperability.
- Network optimization, routing, management protocols, and network security.
- Install, and configure network hardware/software; Novell, Windows NT/2000/Server, UNIX, and ATM Systems.
- Manage and Maintain user environments while maintaining system environment. Quickly troubleshoot and correct problems relating to Network Operating Systems.
- Perform configuration of CISCO Routers. Defense Messaging System: management and monitoring of teh network, administration of teh directory database and teh Directory Information Tree.