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Over 10 years of experience with a diverse set of technologies in the FinTech space, in roles encompassing system architecture, administration, and analysis; networking and network security; technical writing and documentation; compliance, auditing, and incident forensics; integrating log and SIEM solutions.As a part of a small team, I work with management, clients, vendors, and team-members to coordinate or lead projects, address concerns, and resolve or assist with technical problems at all levels.Career and Technical Education is a passion of mine; I've worked with the Spokane Public School District, including as a mentor for CyberPatriot teams and an industry advisor to the CTE Computer Science committee, given talks to students at Spokane Valley Tech, created/ran multiple SkillsUSA Cyber Security competitions for Washington State, and am on the industry advisory board for SFCC's IS/CS program, which oversees their 2 and 4-year degrees.Here's a brief overview of specific technologies I work with:Networking:> Vendor-agnostic; have worked with Cisco, Juniper (Git revisioning!), SonicWall, Untangle, and Meraki. Plenty of switching experience (mainly Dell, Cisco, Juniper), Ubiquiti AP deployments.> Minimal-downtime firewall migrations (lots of vlans with specific in/egress rules).Network/Security:> GRC implementation/risk analysis> Extensive network segmentation with granular firewall policies.> SIEM/log management integration and monitoring: custom ELK stack, AlienVault, Rapid7. Won a small Logrhythm forensics competition. Setup/integrated logz.io ELK and Grafana instance, including custom regex parsing, dashboards, and alerting.> Analyzing systems for security flaws and making/executing remediation plans.> Working with/responding to auditors.> Performing/documenting incident postmortems.Sysadmin:> Linux administration, some FreeBSD.> Windows Server/AD admin.> Automation using Foreman/puppet/ansible/gitlab, a bit of CI/CD docker devops-y type stuff> VMWare (general administration).> Planned and implemented geographically distributed, high-availability SQL deployments, using automation tools DSC/Puppet> 'Reverse-engineering' legacy systems to document or update them.Programming:> Fluent in Python, PHP, PowerShell. Decent with C#, javascript. Have written production code with php/laravel and angular.Business:> Technical sales.> Writing policies/procedures.> Consulting on IT decisions.> Cost-projection reports on different solutions and their merits.> Documentation of systems, procedures.

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