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Barcelona, Ct, Es

Barcelona, Ct, Es

• Developed and conducted training sessions to educate employees on procedures based on workforce availability.• Oversaw infosec related priorities, trying to ensure successful delivery within budget constraints.• Monitored and evaluated the effectiveness of suggested IT security programs, recommending enhancements to keep pace with evolving threats and technologies (e.g. ChatGPT/AI/Copilot/Perplexity).• Helped to ensure resiliency again malware and threats both internal and external.

Richardson, Texas, Us

Managed the new detection logic intake processEngaged with senior leaders to help them understand the risk of sensitive data lossConducted testing and reviews of DLP detection logic in place and document resultsContributed to the DLP strategy across all RealPage infrastructureCommunicated, implemented, enforced and monitored security controls to protect the organization's data and technology assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure or destructionProvided training, informational, and educational materials to impacted employeesEnsured that security plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with overall information security standardsIdentified security risks and exposures, determined the causes of standard security violations and implemented changes to halt future incidents and improve security.Monitored and analyzed system access logs to ensure ability to provide audit trails and incident investigation

Richardson, Texas, Us

Orlando, Florida, Us

Engineer in charge of the technical migration to a 10-node Isilon array encompassing over 20k connections worldwide, guaranteeing zero downtime for 100+ business-critical applicationsHelped architect a multi-node DLP security scanning systems to monitor EMC Isilon arraysResponsible for PCI & SOX compliance for the Storage and Backup teamDesigned two Brocade 8510 solutions for a multi-million project spanning four years and two datacentersLed a team migrating over 20k users from a legacy VNXe array to multi-geo data centers while maintaining all file and application permissions and availabilitySME that worked with vendors to evaluate public cloud technologies like Rubrik, Commvault, and Pure

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Developed a technical services team to support a Windows and Linux infrastructureCoordinated the successful review of SIEM solutions such as ArcSight and SplunkConfigured/Setup Azure Cloud to work with Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS) Responsible for the ongoing daily operations of over 175+ Windows and Linux environmentsActive Directory maintenance including ADManager Plus to automate user management

Indianapolis, In, Us

Developed a monitoring solution for 24/7 server availability in multiple VMware/vCenter environmentsPoint person and technical expert for a data center migration to Dell FX2 infrastructure running VMwareDirected engineering team that implemented and tested a HA/DR solution for several data centers utilizing EMC Data Domain, Recover Point, Cloudboost and AWS S3 bucketsWrote multiple scripts using perl, PowerShell and python to deploy desktop and server applications

Houston, Texas, Us

• System Engineer responsible for providing technical support for the VMware vSphere 4.x environment, including ongoing troubleshooting of a DRS/HA ESXi cluster.• Responsible for proper execution of ITIL processes as they pertained to issues and/or problems in the environment. • 24/7 on-call rotation for support of over 300+ servers in an Active Directory environment.• Ongoing support for patching and security hardening for Windows 2003/2008 R2 Servers• Various high level troubleshooting of applications as they related to business critical operations and/or functionality.

Associate, Computer Information Systems

Associate'S Degree, Computer Science

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