Responsible for Corporate Cybersecurity. Design and Implement of Cybersecurity solutions and policies. Plan, justify and manage IT and Cybersecurity budget. Manage Incident Response. Guide and develop staff through training and coaching. Train Employees on Security Policy, User Awareness, and Cybersecurity Best Practices. Implementation of Identity Management and MFA for Enterprise Applications and Systems.-SIEM Management-Vulnerability Management-Identity and Access Management including MFA/SSO-EndPoint Management including EDR, XDR, Containment-Network Security including Firewall Management, DNS filtering, Web Filtering-Incident Response Management-Intrusion Prevention-Risk and Compliance Management

Manage IT staff and systems while performing a sundry of hands-on technical functions. Collaborate with business units to implement IT systems and secure operations. Perform coaching, One-to-Ones, budget reviews and justifications, plan new projects, and eliminate redundant systems.

Teaching:Cisco Academy CCNA CoursesAdvanced Network SecurityComputer ForensicsLinux AdministrationMicrosoft Network Infrastructure Design and Administration

Instructor for Introduction to Networking, Physical Networking, IP Networking, Client Server I and II (covering Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008), Web and Email Services (IIS and Exchange 2007), and Introduction to Information Security classes.

• Utilized ITSM/ITIL processes and procedures maintaining corporate LAN/WAN, servers, telephony, storage area network and appliances, physical infrastructure, and backup/archive environment.• Maintained and troubleshot Cisco network equipment.• HP/EMC/DataDomain SAN’s; Brocade switches; Symantec/Veritas NetBackup; Tape Libraries; SAN/NAS, and optical jukeboxes.• Responsible for network and systems security review and remediation including Nessus, Internal auditing for ISO9001 and ISO20252, server patching and firmware updates, data center management.• Managed Nortel Meridian PBX and CallPilot; Polycom; ClearOne; Konftel; Cisco VoIP.• Experienced in Spanning Tree, VLAN’s, VLAN trunking, port trunking, EtherChannels, 10 Gig Ethernet, ACL’s, SNMP, SMTP, FTP/sFTP, DHCP, DNS, AD, HP iLO, IBM OOB Mgmt, HBA firmware, and software.

Infrastructure Manager/Data Center Manager 2003 - 2004Network Infrastructure Engineer 2001 - 2003 / LAN/WAN Engineer 1999 - 2001Managed Infrastructure for multiple military bases.(Long term assignments at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC, and at the Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort, SC and travel across various East coast military installations)

Troubleshoot customer sites across South Carolina and Georgia ranging from Token Ring, Ethernet, FDDI, ATM and hybrid networks including Windows and Novell server systems.

PC Technician, Network Administrator, and Network Engineer Tasks.The most important thing I learned in the United States Marine Corps was “I can do anything.”