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Chicago, Il, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Lead the DevSecOps team.Built a successful compliance program, achieved SOC2 certification.Established our Security Operations Center and actively building the program out.Implemented vulnerability management at scale, aggregate multiple security tools (SAST/DAST/package) together with custom code, de-duplicate thousands of issues weekly, issue dozens of tickets weekly, allow for responsible exceptions at scale, and have pertinent metrics and dashboards.Write and edit policies, standards, guidelines to initiate and guide security programs.Architected Zero Trust vision and walked the process from proof-of-concept to production implementation.Automated security tooling and configuration using terraform, python, golang.Greatly improved visibility and security monitoring capability of the organization.Brought cloud security compliance to 100% for multiple frameworks.Increased visibility into k8s environment, actively working on scalable security improvement plansHired additional security engineers to fill vital needs for the team.Implemented EDR transition from Sophos to Crowdstrike.Mento members of the team to improve themselves and facilitate necessary security programs like automating access certification and review.

Chicago, Il, Us

Lead the Cloud Security team at Tempus. Set and maintain security policies and standards for DevOps and Dev teams to comply with; develop and deploy Compliance as Code (OPA/Rego) to evaluate infrastructure(AWS/GCP) at scale. Integrate multiple security tools together(Golang/Python) to provide a increasingly more comprehensive view of the Tempus cloud estate and ensure that best security practices are being followed. Advise colleagues on understanding cyber risk and how it impacts their area of responsibility. Shift security left through the development of proactive security controls. Mentor and advise other engineers on scripting, risk analysis, and prioritization.

Established an Information Security program across the business in the EU regionGDPR subject matter expert implementing a compliance programPublic Cloud Security Expert. Advise delivery teams on current best security practices to secure their AWS/GCP accounts, and deliver a hardened product to production.Implement well-established security practices and newer cloud-focused security practices into delivery practices.Advise 30+ projects on current security techniques to enable continuous compliance, reduce false sense of security from existing toolset, improve awareness of vulnerabilities and riskWrite and update policies to improve the Information Security Landscape of both the organization and clientsCollaborate globally with teams on all continents to leverage newly developed work product and improve upon itTransitioning organization from ISO 27001 to NIST-800

Specializing in the Ops side of DevOps practices. I enable developers to do what they do best: write code. I worry about Ops best practices with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery(or Deployment if that's your thing), maintain high service availability, secure environments, ensure data recovery, and business continuity.I architect production, development, UAT, and staging environments from the physical layer through the application layer using tools like Ansible, SpaceWalk, Nagios, Python, Go/Jenkins, Gitlab, HAProxy, Apache, Nginx, Redis, RabbitMQ, Logstash, Kibana, Elastic Search, Nimble, Compellent, DRAC, VMware, OpenStack, AWS(EC2/VPC), etc.Actively researching and implementing methods for automated testing of Infrastructure as Code using AWS, Ansible and Git to deploy a fully functioning, rebuilt-from-scratch production environment every 24 hours. Investigating Docker, Go.cd, and AWS to create on demand automation pipeline testing agents. Learning how to adapt traditional Enterprise architecture to cloud deployment.

Chicago, Il, Us

Built and maintain eBGP/iBGP environmentRealized higher server efficiency through virtualization of 100 bare metal servers to 20 ESX and OpenVZ hypervisors - saved 8000kWh+/yearReduced operational expenses by moving from datacenter and completely built a new datacenter in-house. Designed and implemented network architecture and server specs. Monitor security requirements through IDS and firewallsBuilt, operated, maintain a RHEL/CentOS 4.x,5.x,6.x environment serving MySQL, MongoDB, Apache, nginx, RabbitMQ, and other various applicationsMonitor assets with Nagios Core 3.0, Cacti, Statsd+GraphiteConfiguration management via Puppet, Ansible

Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Us

Provided excellent customer care in high operations tempo environment through rapid ticket response and resolution and translation of technical situations to laymen language.Consulted customers on datacenter best practices in physical IT infrastructure deployment which reduces downtime through simple yet not obvious means.Deployed hundreds of servers in various OS flavors including Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora), Debian Based (Debian, Ubuntu), various versions of Windows and FreeBSD.Maintained and upgraded server and storage hardware.Worked with remote hands at worldwide facilitiesSpliced 100s of singlemode and multimode fiber through field polishing and fusion splicerManaged power for customers based on requirement and advised on necessary equipment (110v, 208v, 2 phase, 3 phase, 20A, 30A)

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Support all IT functions of the Salt Lake Tribune by maintaining web servers, database servers, network connections, security, phones, and end user workstationsMaintained Cisco 6509s and 3750 networkOperated Cache DB systemAdministered 100+ Mac environment with Open Directory and Mac OSX Server 10.5

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Designed, built, maintained, optimized network routers, switches, and security devices.Maintained 1,000+ , 10,000+ , 400+ user networks

Bs, Information Systems

Aas, Electronic Systems Technology

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