Lead Security Engineer
Current•Instrumental in the decommissioning of 4 data centers, 2 acquired companies and a SCADA facility to make sure the equipment at these sites was shipped back to our support facilities safely and securely. I personally visited all these sites and worked with other corporate teams to assure the equipment decommissioning did not affect production.•Instrumental in the first active security audit of a plant. I worked closely with personnel from the plant to gain their trust and friendship and built the synopsis for review at an executive level with SOX and FERC compliance considered.•Instrumental in the move of the IT-OT interconnect to a datacenter. This involved countless hours after corporate daily activities. Instrumental in the onboarding of the 2 acquisitions.•Instrumental in the build out of a new corporate facility to include the new audio-visual (AV) equipment and the firewall policies necessary for accurate and secure communications. I played an active role in the build out of 4 major sites and a vital role in the implementation of policy for the new AV equipment at 3 major sites.• Designed, implemented, monitored and supported Logrhythm Syslog SIEMs, Armis, and other data collectors. I built the documentation for the security team for awareness and training on our network topology and this summary was also used at director level for edification purposes. I contributed to the development of the wireless network security standard. •Instrumental in the transition of a third party firewall contract back to in house management of day to day activities. I supervised the upgrades and inventories of all Palo and Cisco firewalls to include the Cisco replacement of all 5516-X firewalls and routers affected by the Clocking issue.• Instrumental in working with outside vendors to set up the Cisco SmartNet contract on all Cisco products and a monitoring contract with third party vendors.
