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North Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Lead day-to-day operations and management of the Information Technology department to include desktop support, network, and systems administration. Created career-path objectives and tiers to give team members opportunities to grow or move laterally within the department, or organization. Worked with IT staff to adopt industry Information Security good practice as well as security baselines developed within the Shift4 Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. Focussed team on operational agendas such as email and domain upgrades, as well as documentation of processes following policy developed with management and Information Security department. Encouraged management to provide training to IT staff for pursuit of CISSP certification to foster security awareness within the organization; now over half of the IT staff are now certified.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Worked within the Information Security department on the creation of information security policies and processes for Shift4’s SaaS offering and align them with Payment Card Industry (PCI) statutes. Gathered the many disparate policies and streamlined them into compliance policies, HR policies, and business policies. Assessed gaps in the vulnerability and patch management programs, performed firewall reviews, as well as doing quarterly wireless rogue detection and audits. Redesigned the current SaaS data center, created the associated documentation, and then worked with the build team to construct that version of it in a new location.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Documented security controls that are in line with PCI security standards and guidelines, including updating processes currently in place, as well as implementing new policy. Updated existing network maps and diagrams and recommended additional systems and network security infrastructure. Set up vulnerability scanning systems in all data centers. Worked closely with IT to Implement Websense URL filtering system and assist with removing Microsoft ISA proxy server. Consulted on a project to source an automated patch management system. Implemented an enterprise-wide end-point security lock-down system. Consulted in creation of new networks within the data centers and corporate sides, as well as built up a VM and Lab environment for testing of Shift4 SaaS packages. Completed redesign, documentation, and build-out of new offering data center including cabinets, SAN’s, systems, power, firewalls, switches, port-maps, drawings, and the wiring of all devices.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Developed and expanded information security breadth of service, adding both heuristic- and signature-based network intrusion detection systems, centralized firewall management systems, and vulnerability scanning systems. Worked very closely with network engineers and server administrators on building secure systems baselines they could fold directly into their architecture and designs. Through vendors and staff, maintained compliance with PCI, SOX, GLBA, and HIPAA compliance programs, and brought in tools to assure those postures. Created, and updated, IT security policies to be more in touch with business processes and to bring them more in line with COBIT, British Standard 7799 and ISO 27000 series Standards for Information Technology security.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Responsible for support, design, implementation of all LAN/MAN/WAN technologies in a Cisco environment. Designed, built, and maintained Boyd Gaming’s first Ethernet-based network topology using Cisco LAN, MAN, and WAN technologies. Replaced the outdated IBM Token Ring networks at all properties with the more capable, redundant Cisco design. Built frame relay, point-to-point WAN links to sites outside of Las Vegas, with site-to-site VPN backups; and built up 1Gb Ethernet MAN links throughout the Las Vegas valley, with 10Mb wireless point-to-point links. Managed the network engineers, server administrators, and low voltage specialist teams; led them in their daily tasks and major projects throughout the enterprise. Created documentation on all networks with detail down to port maps. Redesigned the corporate data center, complete with power, HVAC, and space requirements.

Mathematics

Minor in Computer Science / Programming

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities