David W B. Email & Phone Number

United States

Columbus, Georgia, United States

• Developed and maintained multi-tenant AWS infrastructure of Splunk Enterprise• Developed new use cases and detection rules for use within Splunk Enterprise Security• Support of new cloud initiatives for Information Security and Audit remediation projects• Utilized Agile processes and Infrastructure as Code to deploy new application enhancements within Splunk Enterprise running in AWS• Leveraged Terraform to deploy infrastructure within AWS as part of a continuous improvement lifecycle • Collaborated with other engineering teams and analysts to develop actionable business intelligence, troubleshoot performance issues and combat threats• Provided technical expertise and guidance for complex solutions integrating Splunk within Global Payments worldwide footprint.

Columbus, Georgia Area

• Five years of Splunk experience in large scale enterprise Splunk deployment. • Principle architect and team lead of Splunk Enterprise deployment for Anthem.• Succeeded bringing Anthem from 10GB/day ingest to almost 10TB/day in 5 years.• Provided operational insight to the IT organization through 250 unique datasets.• Developed data onboarding processes and life cycle procedures for all new datasets. • Wrote custom scripts to assist with various tasks such as information gathering, configuration management, patch management and host maintenance.• Provided technical expertise and guidance for complex solutions integrating Splunk within the enterprise.• Architected and deployed a large scale, load balanced syslog infrastructure for network based inputs.• Collaborated with other engineering teams and analysts to develop actionable business intelligence, troubleshoot performance issues and combat threats.• Developed intuitive dashboards for end users to self-service common account issues. This lead to a reduction in service calls to the helpdesk.• Reduced storage costs by implementing better data retention life cycles and policies. • Conducted knowledge sharing sessions to key personnel and business groups to further foster Splunk Enterprise adoption. • Collaborated with platform teams on automated processes of installing Splunk Universal Forwarders in a complex, heterogeneous enterprise environment.• Supported Splunk forwarders and services in cloud based environments such as AWS and Azure.Administrative knowledge of large scale Linux/Unix deployments.

Columbus, Georgia, United States

• Provided end-to-end support of F5 network applications, enterprise DNS and DHCP operations.• Participated in on-call rotations and provided support for enterprise outages and operational issues.• Developed processes for monitoring and management of over 3200 load balanced applications across multiple geographical data centers.• Defined global traffic management policies to provide fault tolerance and disaster recovery for network services.• Created workflow processes for new load balanced applications within the environment.• Defined quarterly maintenance schedules for upgrades and vulnerability remediation.• Architected new enterprise DNS, DHCP and Load Balancing environments in collaboration with other enterprise teams.• Defined processes for requesting DNS and DHCP modifications and record management.• Facilitated quick identification and remediation for outages from all layers of the application stack.

Columbus, Georgia Area

• Deployed and maintained enterprise wide IDS/IPS and NIDS/HIDS based solution.• Developed complex rule sets with ArcSight for incident investigations and tracking.• Participated in on-call rotations for investigation of network anomalies and malicious activity.• Maintenance of the enterprise ArcSight SIEM solution. This includes platform maintenance and troubleshooting.• Managed enterprise Antivirus policies for infrastructure workstations and servers. • Firewall engineer supporting modifications and connectivity troubleshooting.• Utilized complex security infrastructures to provide insight to threats and real-time attacks within the environment.• Collaborated with a MSSP and other IT teams to provide detailed incident analysis and remediation. • Active in enterprise audit coordination and remediation efforts.

Macon, Georgia Area

• Developed off the shelf intrusion detections systems based on open source technologies for use in banking and financial institutions.• Provided continuous monitoring of these systems on a 24/7 schedule through automated alert notifications.• Developed business centric information security policies to protect against network based threats.• Created incident notification processes and record management.• Provided external and internal security vulnerability assessments for customer accounts.• Managed dedicated network circuits and email services for approximately 360 users.