SUMMARY:

• Security presales systems engineer with a career in IT management and network administration and security.
• I have extensive experience overseeing the development, implementation and management of information technology systems.
• This experience has helped me develop a range of relevant skills, including an in - depth knowledge of information technology security, confident project leadership and familiarity with a range of technological applications.
• I am looking for a technology-oriented company focused on providing security solutions.
• I have experience implementing technical consulting engagements including strategy development, solution design, security, business process assessments.

EXPERIENCE:

AWS Web Application Firewall Engineer

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Information Protection Recovery Management team member creating and testing Cloud security templates.
• Completed Proof Of Concept with 3 different cloud vendors, Akamai Kona WAF, Imperva Securesphere WAF and Amazon AWS WAF.
• Created an organizational AMI template baseline for other Cloud application projects that will in corporate the AWS Web Application Firewall, Elastic Load Balancer or API gateway services following the OWASP Top Ten project outline.
• Ensured cloud architect meets the organizations Security Compliance requirements.
• My contract requirements ’were completed, reviewed and passed to the Project team manager.

Senior Presales Security Systems Engineer

Confidential, Ann Arbor, MI

Responsibilities:

• Working with Sales team to achieve customers enterprise security objectives with barracuda security products.
• Sales Team engaged my expertise during pre-sales engagements for security solutions, POC’s and RDP’s and teaming with systems integrators as a subject matter expert.
• Traveled Onsite with Sales Rep. presenting lunch and learn events, completed site assessment and vulnerability testing for clients.
• Helped clients understand the best security practices and assisted with questions with configuring gateway interfaces, routing, vpn’s, certificates, DNS, MX rules, firewall rules, QOS and application load balancing etc... are just some examples.
• Worked with many different agencies edu., state, local and federal.

Senior System Analyst

Confidential, Jackson, MI

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring, Troubleshooting & Reporting for Network and Application performance for state wide enterprise infrastructure.
• Member of Network outage team monitoring network infrastructure performance until planned or unplanned outages and the root cause of outage is documented. IFS Team member level 2 network team troubleshooting network anomalies, working with IFS team upgrading client’s IDF, MDF rooms & Data Centers network infrastructure throughout the Confidential with Juniper EX-series switches and stack chassis, ensuring high availability from all sites.
• Ensured all sites met IT fast requirements, NERC requirements and Federal regulations requirements for the organizations requirements.
• Team member of IFS, DC operations and level 2 offshore network support. On call 24/7. Devices I troubleshot Cisco Catalyst Series.
• Cisco Meraki. Cisco stackable switches, chassis switches, Enterprise routers, small remote routers; network communication protocols (TCP/IP, DHCP, etc.), network communication hardware.

Network Systems Engineer

Confidential, Jackson, MI

Responsibilities:

• Network Engineer installing, configuring and upgrading, cisco firewalls, cisco Wi-Fi AP’s, switches and routers in retail, hospitality and manufacturing environments.
• Working with vendors on upgrade projects with clients.
• Migrated Novell file servers to windows servers.
• Diagnosed network errors to the dmarc for NOC operations.
• Completed installations and audits for windows servers, apache servers, firewalls and switches.
• On call 24/7. Vendors Cisco ASA, Catalyst Series.
• Cisco Meraki, WatchGuard firewalls.
• Supported Windows and Linux operating systems including OS deployments, software upgrades, patching, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Supported production web and application servers, including deploying, configuring and troubleshooting applications running on IIS, Apache and/or other technologies.
• Experiences with enterprise routers, small remote routers; network communication protocols (TCP/IP, DHCP, etc.), network communication hardware.

Information Systems Supervisor

Confidential, Adrian, MI

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Credit Unions Information’s Systems department and network administrator in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws, including budgets, hiring, training & reviews.
• Supported Windows and Linux operating systems including OS deployments, software upgrades, patching, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Created the disaster recovery planning committee, to ensure credit union always has a tested high availability environment and tested working disaster recovery plan.
• Created Email training with employees.
• Ensured TLC is Sarbanes-Oxley, SOX and PCI compliant.
• Planned, budgeted and architected organizations security and hardware upgrades .
• Created security policies and runbooks for the organization security ongoing security program.
• Met with Board members monthly to update the status on the organizations data compliance for their members.

Plant IT Systems Administrator

Confidential, Clinton, MI

Responsibilities:

• Administrating new internal staff with communication and network applications.
• Managed technical department accounts AP and budget.
• Maintained financial management with asset control. Applied the SIX Sigma Standards. Environment (LAN, WAN, routers, switches, cabling, etc.), server operating systems (Windows, Linux, Netware, etc.), directory services, integration, network based printing systems, and telecommunication hardware and software (PBX5, etc.); experience with network management systems including HP Open View. On call 24/7.