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Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee

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Knoxville, Tennessee

Provided management and direction in a Virtual Chief Information Security Officer role for multiple enterprise clients.As a certified AlienVault instructor, I taught security classes and provided global consulting services to organizations such as Nasdaq, Ministry of Defence, TCS, and more.Performed IT Infrastructure Analysis and Design Assessments, to determine weaknesses and identify security deficiencies.Configured and deployed a wide range of security products; providing project management during solution deployment.Conducted Risk Assessments, following the NIST SP 800-30 guidelines, for organizations in healthcare, financial, manufacturing, and retail industries.Developed and evaluated enterprise wide policy and procedure libraries.

Knoxville, Tennessee

​Provided project management and oversaw all IT infrastructure for the Managed Security Service department.Performed security analytics and vulnerability assessments for dozens of organizations. Detected threats as they occurred and provided forensic details of the incidents.Managed information security, network and server infrastructure, phone systems, disaster recovery, IT policies and procedures, and user technology education for internal corporate environment.

Knoxville, Tennessee

​Worked as part of an IT team, providing systems administration for a wide range of IT environments.Received escalated incidents from Tier 1 Systems Administrators. Once the incident was resolved, I would provide training to the Tier 1 Systems Administrator. Performed a large scale permissions audit after several security vulnerabilities within file shares were discovered. Worked with client to define and deploy a least-privilege based permission structure.Lead a team of highly trained technicians to identify and resolve intermittent Citrix failures. Implemented the solution while maintaining active communication with the primary contact and distributed the workload across the team to minimize downtime.

Knoxville, Tennessee

Managed information security, network and server infrastructure, phone systems, disaster recovery, IT policies and procedures, and user technology education.Designed and implemented complete IT infrastructure redesign. Consisting of all firewalls, switches, servers, and workstations.Oversaw IT intern program; providing career guidance and training.