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Downers Grove, IL, US

• I function as a pre-sales Principal Solutions Architect with a focus on security solutions. Everything from Cisco ISE and assorted identity solutions to Cisco XDR and other response platforms and everything that could.
• Assist in the development of the Sentinel portfolio expansion into OT security
• Responsible for OT Security workshop development
• Education of OT security products and development of sales strategies - Vertical Market Development – Manufacturing, Operational Technology
• Market research and business development into emerging technical markets
• Communicate with key vendor partners to establish new client relationships- Provided large scale security solutions and communicated security risks to client leadership

Maryland Heights, Missouri, US

Functioned as partner architect for Palo Alto NextGen Solution group within WWT. Worked closely with delivery and presales to provide migration design for clients moving to the Palo Alto solutions.During my time within the NextGen Solutions group I migrated several legacy network firewalls to Palo Alto with minimum downtime and streamlined legacy.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, US

• Security program lead for State, Local, Education (SLED) organizations. Common tasks have included risk assessment and analysis, validate compliancy for CJIS, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SSA Pub 1075, NIST CSF frameworks, and.
• Worked directly with client executive leadership through workshops, design meetings and proof of concept exercises, including spearheading cloud projects and pilot programs.
• Created extensive documentation for clients such as Low-Level Designs, Accepted Testing Procedures, As-Built Documentation, Statement of Works, and governance policies.
• Served as principal architect on several security projects ranging from identity access management, infrastructure assessment and hardening, and cloud security assessments.
• Assisted the US Corp of Engineers with an Always-On VPN deployment. Provided support with design and recommendations to RBAC and IAM best practices.
• Provided vulnerability mitigation assistance and understanding of evolving threats through use of real-world examples, preventing on going security breaches for clients

Chandler, Arizona, US

While at my time at Insight as a Network Security Specialist, I worked with several commercial clients across the world. I was asked to manage client information security systems and to perform audit tasks and remediation. These tasks would include providing reports to senior technology leadership and provide guidance when required. I was also quite often.

Scottsdale, Arizona, US

I was hired at Innovation Care Partners (Medical ACO) to be their Network and Security Administrator. One of the main duties in this role included scoping of security technologies, performing proof of concepts and purchasing. I performed these tasks to evaluate information security tools such as EDRs, XDRs, vulnerability assessment tools and perimeter.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

During my time with Apriva, a payment processor, I was responsible for many aspects of the network. I worked very closely with the Director of Information Security and his team to ensure that the network is secure. This included monthly security reviews of the network devices, yearly PCI-DSS audits, and network security roadmaps such as pilot programs to.

Troy, Michigan, US

I worked at Logicalis as a network engineer in a team designed to work with public schools across Arizona. This took me to several under funded and remote rural schools that were taking advantage of the public E-Rate fund to prepare schools for the Common Core refresh of the education systems. This position was an adventure where I would revamp school.

Phoenix, AZ, US

• Senior Network Administrator that oversaw the implementation of several different network projects.
• Assisted with virtualizing different Microsoft products such as Exchange, Lync, Forefront, Domain Controllers and backup servers.
• Trouble shot networks across Arizona to include Cisco routers, switches, ASA firewalls, PIX firewalls, wireless access points, HP Procurve switches, Sonicwalls, VLANs, and Juniper networks

• Managed wide area networks (WAN) for United States Army Conus Theatre Network Operations Security Center. Managed all continental United States Army military base WAN connections.
• Maintained CONUS WAN security stance against external threats from multiple threat vectors.
• Worked in NOC environment as a break fix technician to ensure constant uptime for all continental US Army bases.
• Worked with Cisco 6500, 7200 level 3 switches as well as Juniper firewalls.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Network Enterprise Center Help Desk Clerk February 2008 to July 2011United States Army, Ft. Huachuca, Arizona
• Maintain continuity of service for over 1,000 workstation spanning multiple networks on FT Huachuca.
• Able to solve more Remedy Trouble Tickets than predecessor and stream line process of resolving issues.
• Setup and configured over $50,000 worth of personal data assistants and smart phones for use by senior officials.
• Used remote software to access workstations and resolve issues quickly and efficiently.
• Trouble shot Cisco routers and switches as well as Juniper Firewalls.