A. J. Wright Email & Phone Number

Knoxville, Tn, Us

Knoxville, Tn, Us

Knoxville, Tn, Us

- Install, maintain and support a highly available Linux server plant in a fast-paced enterprise environment- Support Solaris servers running mission critical Oracle 10g and Oracle 11i RAC instances- Design, deploy, support and maintain systems running: (RHEL 4,5,6 - CentOS 5,6 - Solaris 10)- Conduct needs and cost/benefit analyses

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Responsible for leading the Information Security efforts and selected active and preferred technologies for the University.– Lead development of new University-wide IT risk management process based on NIST Special Publication 800 series.– Lead development of Technical Review Board for selecting technology strategy based on technical, business, and customer feedback– Lead IT industry and legal compliance and risk management for HIPAA Security Rule, PCI Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), etc.– Acted as Security Officer under HIPAA security rule for Knoxville Campus

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Responsible for leading team of analysts performing full-spectrum (physical, network, host, etc.) security assessments of local and state-wide systems.– Worked with executive staff to create university IT Security policies and best practices.– Lead team that performed first self-assessment of Office of Information Technology– Developed software to automate, store, and correlate network vulnerability scan information– Lead development of university-wide enterprise identity management office– Developed HIPAA compliance plan for management of desktop workstations in Audiology and Speech Pathology Department

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Analyst responsible for leading day-to-day operations of the security group at the Knoxville campus. Part of team responsible for full-spectrum (physical, network, host, etc.) security assessments both local and state-wide, forensics, as well as university security policies.– Implemented ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager software for analyzing and correlating firewall, and IDS/IPS logs.– Implemented web-based interface to Nessus security scanner for use by user community, includ- ing system for supplementing scanner findings with language understandable by non-technical audiences.– Lead development of workflow for security event response – Implemented customized web applications for statistic analysis of network baselines

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Part of team responsible for administration and troubleshooting of the university’s central UNIX (So- laris, Linux, AIX, IRIX) servers, with focus on web servers and high-availability SMTP, DNS/DHCP, database, and computation clusters. Partial responsibility for forensic analysis on team-maintained systems.– Co-authored first UNIX/Linux security policy with Information Security Office.– Implemented automated Linux system installation that performs system hardening, application configuration, and firewall setup for SMTP and Oracle cluster systems.– Designed and implemented multi-tiered redundant SMTP server infrastructure with virus-scanning, spam-scoring, and distributed denial-of-service defense using a local real-time black-hole list to share data across servers and platforms.– Implemented automated Solaris system hardening scripts that meet or exceed industry and university standards.– Wrote policy briefs on enterprise storage and Linux system hardening using analysis from Typhon III, Nessus, and other tools.– Presented papers and tutorials on Sendmail configuration, Solaris system hardening, and SMTP server defense.– Member of IT Faculty Advisory board

Knoxville, Tn, Us

Part of team responsible for maintaining the college’s 400+ microcomputer lab systems as well as multi- campus and multi-protocol computer network. Sole responsibility for management of the college’s Sun and UNIX servers. Create and maintain in-shop system, script, and application software for UNIX, MS-DOS, Macintosh and VMS systems in C/C++ and appropriate script or batch languages.– Setup log centralization with NTP-synchronized time stamps. – Wrote multi-protocol packet analysis tool before TCP-Dump was available.– Wrote software to maintain ideal software state in student labs.

Mba, Business Administration

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science

Aa, Computer Science Technology

Aas, Computer Science Technology