Armon Carter Cissp, Gstrt Email & Phone Number

Haslet, Tx, Us

Remote

Operates as an independent contractor who performs cybersecurity advisory services to public and private entities. Completed over 500 hours of advisory services for Price Waterhouse Coopers. • Awarded 15.8k for the completion of cybersecurity configuration hardening and vulnerability management accelerator initiative for an oil provider. Provided the client with 25 new configuration hardening standards, revamped configuration hardening policy and standard, and 2021 -2022 Strategic roadmap for initiative optimization. • Awarded over 25K for the completion of NIST CSF capabilities maturity assessment for an insurance provider. Conducted over 50 control interviews, reviewed over 120 client-provided documents, and provided the client with maturity scores in each NIST Category along with client strengths, areas of improvement, and recommendations for each NIST category.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

As the Cyber Security Engineer – Cyber Incident & Response Engineering for American Airlines, Armon Carter propels cross-functional engineering on multiple platforms – Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), and Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP). Onboard various applications into Security Event and Incident Manager platform (Securonix, Qraadar). Design, implement, and maintain the TIP. Manage shared services delivery. Serve as the squad leader for the American Airlines Threat Intelligence program. Engage with security leadership to understand road-mapping needs and determine sequencing and global resource needs.► Boost the Threat Data Management Strategy for the TIP platform (ThreatConnect) to automate initial Threat Hunts► Optimize enterprise deployment for Wincollect agent to automate Log source onboarding saving time and money by removing MSPs (Middleware service providers) from this responsibility ► Mobilize as the lead cyber security engineer for the cross-functional Purple team of (Red) security and testing engineers and (Blue) to ensure detective and preventative controls operate as expected on targeted systems

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

As the Cyber Security Engineer – GRC & Vulnerability Management for American Airlines, Armon Carter performed consulting services to the IT organization and ensured adherence to security policy and regulatory requirements such as PCI, PII, HIPAA, and SOX. Accomplished security risk assessments for IT projects, including the review of architecture designs and providing detailed guidance on risk mitigation. Designed and implemented a security configuration program to build, publish, and maintain infrastructure hardening standards and technologies throughout the enterprise.► Applied Tanium’s compliance module to develop and implement an enterprise configuration assessment program facilitating the capability to run compliance scans at scale and receive immediate visibility into system configuration security posture► Devised and launched an automated Tanium Data extraction strategy for executive-level reporting resulting in a preferable weekly decrease rate of compliance findings ► Served as the subject matter expert on all Enterprise Information Security events, saving time by assisting teams to address potential policy and standard violations during the design phase, not the post-implementation phase

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

As the Cyber Security Engineer – Policy, Standards, Strategy & Architecture for American Airlines, Armon Carter launched threat analysis on external breaches applicable to AA. Researched and developed enterprise solutions to address needs throughout the information security organization. Influenced Information Security teams to leverage newer technologies and methodologies to address recurring issues. ► Performed threat analysis on external breaches applicable to American Airlines Environment painting a picture into risk if a similar situation was to occur in the enterprise► Established an Asset Threat Framework for Business-Critical Applications later serving as a basis for application teams to conduct during the discovery stage of project delivery► Communicated, assessed, and remediated privacy impact assessment findings for application teams resulting in a GDPR compliant organization

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

As an Associate Engineer – Infrastructure & Identity Management for American Airlines, Armon Carter collaborated with Information Security Architects to implement DevOps best practices to Identity and Access Management (IAM) applications. Designed and implemented continuous integration and delivery solution Access Management single sign-on solution. Influenced adoption of agile and DevOps methodologies across identity and access management teams.► Partnered with Identity Management Architect to integrate DevOps principals into the extract transform and load (ETL) enterprise tool Talend Architecture to save time by removing manual extraction of data from downstream systems► Integrated Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) into the enterprise monitoring services Dynatrace / New Relic to deliver supporting engineering team visibility into the performance of identity and access management (IAM) systems ► Implemented continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) solution for IAM systems saving time to provide the developers with the capability to perform blue-green deployments

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

As an Associate Engineer – Infrastructure & Unified Communications for American Airlines, Armon Carter built and tested unified communications applications for both on-premises and cloud-based environments. Supported telephony (voice) infrastructure environment by assisting with proof-of-technology deployments. Analyzed new unified communications (UC) and collaboration technologies, including Microsoft, Cisco, and Avaya applications.► Built network bandwidth matrix of AA critical infrastructure for UC solution rollout (Cisco, Webex, and Jaber) granting leadership visibility into possible bandwidth constraints each solution would have in the current infrastructure ► Executed and tested session initiation protocol (SIP) connectivity Open Source solution (SIPp) to perform Sonux PBS Volume stress and eliminate a third-party vendor to save $400K► Developed a UC disaster recovery solution resulting in built-in business continuity of a newly deployed solution

Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States

As an Information Technology Intern for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Armon Carter worked on the ERDC wiki page and the Adaptive Hydraulics (AdH) Modeling project.► Sustained memory storage and upkeep of the servers for the Industrial Technology Lab► Performed troubleshooting and data collection for computers in the Industrial Technology Lab ► Located and described raster and vector data for the Google Earth client and worked on designing a website to connect mobile android

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of the Jackson State Football team

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering