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Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

* Performed security assessments and threat modeling on all features or changes to AWS Secrets Manager and an internal credential distribution system.* Decreased time to complete security reviews and approvals by 59% year over year for all feature launches by developing processes and earning trust with internal and external stakeholders.* Performed incident response for emerging security events. Decreased incident investigation and closure time by 80% year over year.* Improved security posture of services by developing DDoS protection measures, host hardening, and designing monitoring mechanisms for security policy violations, protecting hundreds of millions of service requests per day.• Designed classes and performed public talks at Amazon Web Service summits in North America with 60+ customers in attendance. Maintained high audience engagement scores.

Greater Chicago Area

Lemont, Illinois

* Ensuring cloud systems and applications that are used by our operational and scientific staff are secure.* Ensuring on premise IT systems meet NIST 800-53 control requirements* Performing internal and external vulnerability assessments* Developing strategy and vision for new security practices* Communicating across a wide set of teams (development, infrastructure, and business owners) to ensure security best practices are followed* Managing relationships with Department of Energy counterparts and executive leadership across the laboratory* Performing security reviews and recommendations across a wide portfolio of applications, IAAS deployments, and network / systems infrastructure technologies* Participate in RFP's for products that may have security implications on the organization

Argonne, Il

Working as part of the Site Data Systems team for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility (www.arm.gov), I help build and maintain computer and network systems for weather instrument sites across the globe. My specialties lie within building secure, geographically remote, highly available systems for weather data collected at measurement facilities and ensuring security compliance with US Department of Energy cyber security regulations.

Appointed by the Village of Oak Park board and mayor as the chairman of the Oak Park Civic Information Systems Commission, I help advise the Village on strategic IT related goals and issues. The commission advises the village in technical related matters such as municipal fiber, enterprise wide IT strategy, cyber security issues and new procurements.

Chicago, Il

Working in the Information Services division, I am responsible for helping to run servers, the virtualization environment, and backend storage that supports all colleges, students, faculty, and staff at the university. My specialties in this role include administering DePaul's Linux environment, and creating custom solutions through scripting within IS.

Argonne, Il

Helping to secure the network and computer infrastructure at Argonne. Help with day-to-day operations and incident response, and implementation of new security technologies.

Platteville, Wi

Responsible for the maintenance and implementation of technology on the campus wide network edge, border, and wireless infrastructure.

Milwaukee, Wi

Systems administrator for the Center for Urban Initiatives and Research at UWM. Managed multiple windows and Linux based servers.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science