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Beaver Falls, Pa, Us

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Duties • Management of CheckPoint firewalls including rulebase changes, troubleshooting, site to site and remote access VPNs for a large global client• Network troubleshooting for a large global network including routing and failover issues involving BGP, MPLS, and VTI VPNs • Management of RSA Security Console (Radius) for VPN users including account creation and troubleshooting for a large user base of over 2000 usersKey Accomplishments• Successfully documented the differences between encryption domains on the client’s firewalls which greatly aided in troubleshooting VPN problems• Identified and documented all ClusterXL issues on the client’s firewalls

Beaver Falls, Pa

Duties • Management of CheckPoint firewalls including rulebase changes, troubleshooting, and VPN users• Management of RSA Security Console (Radius) for VPN users including account creation and troubleshootingKey Accomplishments• Successfully documented the differences between encryption domains on the client’s firewalls which greatly aided in troubleshooting VPN problems• Identified and documented all ClusterXL issues on the client’s firewalls

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Duties • Management of PNC’s certificate expiration process using Venafi Trust Protection; responsible for identifying expiring certificates and following up to make sure the certificates are renewed in a timely manner• Research for various PKI related technologiesKey Accomplishments• Reworked PNC’s certificate expiration process greatly improving the efficiency. Previously many certificates were expiring without PNC’s knowledge which led to outages.• Worked with the firewall team to expand Venafi’s visibility to the PNC network. This along with reworking the expiration process led to a near perfect record of renewing certificates before they expired Specialized Training• EC-Council – Certified Encryption Specialist• Windows PKI Administration

Aliquippa, Pa

Checkpoint Firewall AdministrationAV AdministrationSPAM Filter Administration

Greater Pittsburgh Area

DutiesRSA Certificate Manager AdministrationSymantec PKI Administration

Moon Township, Pa

Duties• Information Security liaison advising FedEx Ground on information security related issues including firewall rule changes, remote access issues, security policy, and vendor connectivity• Lead Security administrator for Peoplesoft applications for FedEx Ground• Security provisioning for Windows AD, Unix, and System I users• Lead Security advisor for FedEx Ground’s Strategic Architecture Team• Project manager for FedEx Ground’s Security Automation efforts.• Work on various other FedEx Corporation Enterprise security projects including Flat-file encryption and Unix/Linux directory services integrationKey Accomplishments• Assumed responsibility for PeopleSoft Security Administration with no training and successfully became lead for PeopleSoft Security• Spearheaded efforts for PeopleSoft dynamic role creation converting manual roles to dynamic roles eliminating need for manual provisioning• Led effort to automate user access for FedEx Ground’s Transportation Management System eliminating over 90% of manual provisioning through the use of dynamic roles• Championed FedEx Ground’s need for SFTP before Enterprise Architecture Design Team and became technical project lead for FedEx Corporation’s Enterprise SFTP investigation• Led as project manager FedEx’s Enterprise IT Security investigation for SOA and Web Services

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Duties• Checkpoint Firewall (NGX / NG AI running HA) administration of 7 firewalls including Internet and Intranet firewalls running on SecurePlatform and Nokia including security event monitoring, rulebase changes for Intranet firewalls, and upgrades; also administered Checkpoint management servers running Windows• Checkpoint VPN firewall and user administration for 100 users • Juniper IDP (Intrusion Prevention) administration including security event monitoring and rulebase changes• Internet, Intranet, inter-company TCP/IP network troubleshooting for connectivity problems to web sites, etc. on various protocols• Nessus host vulnerability scanning tool administration: scanning servers for vulnerabilities and working with Sys Admins to harden servers• System Security Auditing of Windows and Solaris servers using Symantec ESM • Novell and Windows AD user administrationKey Accomplishments• Architected new IP address scheme for FHLB network• Designed and implemented IP port assignment scheme for FHLB network for private IP ports• Saved company $20000 a year by performing a thorough review of Checkpoint firewall licenses• Assumed responsibility for all new firewall installations (previously was done by outside consultant)• Led Security Review for HP Openview implementation• Led Security Review for networked Copiers• Represented IT Security department on Enterprise IT Architecture Committee• Led project for rewrite of FHLB Enterprise Information Security Policies/Procedures

Duties• Checkpoint Firewall administration of 4 firewalls including Internet firewalls and vendor firewalls running on Solaris and Nokia platforms for 10000+ users including security event monitoring, rulebase changes, and upgrades; also administered Checkpoint management servers• Checkpoint VPN Firewall and user administration of 300+ users • Cisco ACNS proxy server administration for 10000+ users• Nessus host vulnerability scanning tool administration and security vulnerability remediation support on various Unix and Windows platforms including AIX, HPUX, RedHat, Solaris• Management of corporate autoproxy server on Solaris for 10000+ users• Security risk assessment for vendor connections• Internet, Intranet, inter-company TCP/IP network troubleshooting for connectivity problems to web sites, etc. on various protocols• Gauntlet application proxy firewall administration for 4 firewalls for 10000+ users including security event monitoring and rulebase changes• Gauntlet VPN administration for 300+ users• ISS System Scanner Host vulnerability assessment tool administration and security vulnerability remediation support on various Unix and Windows platforms including AIX, HPUX, RedHat, Solaris• Squid Proxy Server Administration for 10000+ usersKey Accomplishments• Led FedEx Corp Enterprise project for investigation of Host Intrusion Prevention• Designed and implemented FedEx Ground's first automatic proxy configuration server• Successfully migrated all Gauntlet firewalls to Checkpoint firewalls

Duties• Management of Checkpoint firewall on Windows platform for 500+ users including security event monitoring, rulebase changes, and upgrades; also administered Checkpoint management servers running Windows• Management of Cisco Pix firewall for 500+ users including security event monitoring and rulebase changes• Internet and Intranet TCP/IP network troubleshooting for connectivity problems to web sites, etc. on various protocols• Citrix end user support including client configuration• Hardware and software troubleshooting for various Windows desktop applications on a Novell NetworkKey Accomplishments• Led project for installation of New Internet Service Provider and made recommendation for new ISP• Led conversion from Cisco firewalls to Checkpoint firewall; installed and configured new Checkpoint firewall

Duties• Management of Axent (Raptor) firewall on Windows platform for 5000+ users including security event monitoring and rulebase changes• Management of Eagle Mobile VPN firewall and user administration for 50+ users• Management of various webservers including SSL administration and Verisign digital certificate authentication• HTML webpage programming for corporate websites• Enterprise PC support for 5000+ users including hardware, software, and application troubleshootingKey Accomplishments• Implemented Baker’s first remote end user VPN solution• Created Baker’s first corporate webpage including creating all HTML and page design• Created Energy Logistics (Baker affiliate) first corporate webpage including creating all HTML and page design• Within one year after being hired as an intern transformed my position first to a PC technician then to a firewall administrator and webmaster for corporation

Bs, Professional Communications/Information Systems

Associate'S Degree, Computer And Information Systems