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Mclean, Va, Us

Designing and Implementation of Army Cyber Lab security solution. To include the implementation of Cyber Event tool sets, Security and Network systems Integration. Collaborating with Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, IXIA, and other in the Cyber Security space. Efforts help to ensured near real world cyber testing and training experience.Conducted detailed research and analysis of current technology trend to ensure the delivery of the most accurate and cost effective solution to support both the customer current and future technical requirements.Designing network security systems; implementing network security solutions and hardware;

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Responsible for designing network security systems; implementing network security solutions and hardware; extracting network information and identify weakness and intrusion attempts to network resources. Recently Implemented Intrusion Detections Systems, Cisco PIX/ASA and McAfee Firewalls, Nessus Network Scanner, ForeScout Network Access Control platforms into classified DOJ network environment. Also Responsible for recommending, implementing, and administering a wide variety of cross platform solutions network security management platforms, to include the Cisco Security Manager, the McAfee Vulnerability Manager, and Security Information and Event Management appliance. Worked to ensure that all implementations adhered to current governing security directives such as the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) Instruction No. 1253 -- Security Categorization and Control Selection for National Security Systems; CNSS Policy No. 22 -- Information Assurance Risk Management Policy for National Security Systems; FISMA compliances; Agency Orders and Directives and Symantec Endpoint Encryption. Duties include securing information technology infrastructures that provide reliable, measurable, consistent, responsive and secure enterprise network services. Primarily concentrating on the network design and security as well as network security device implementation, maintaining network firewalls, performance tuning intrusion detection systems. Tasked with the handling of web and network security exploits, intrusion prevention, network traffic analysis, routing protocols and routing table configuration assignment. Incorporated authentication, authorization and accounting services into all network security devices.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Responsible for configuration upgrades and day to day troubleshooting of the Department of Justice's Secret and Top Secret networks to include all routers, firewalls, and switches. The Dynamic Multi-point Virtual Private Network (DMVPN) project lead, responsible for the migration of all DOJ sites from the legacy network infrastructure to new DMVPN infrastructure, knowledge and abilities has proven critical in planning, testing and implementing a solution that allowed the DMVPN project to continue to move forward toward completion. Worked through complex problems where analysis of situations required in-depth evaluation and knowledge of all facets of network engineering. Designing, implementing, and maintaining global DMVPN network environment and the migration of all DOJ Secret and Top Secret sites from the legacy infrastructure to the new DMVPN environment. While providing Tier 3/4 support to the Operations staff in the form of troubleshooting assistance and Standard Operation Procedure documentation as required. Overall responsible for managing all firewall security contexts, firewall policy management and cleanup, as well as firewall rule and log auditing for both Secret and Top Secret networks. Selected Accomplishments:• Completed over 200 DMVPN Site Migrations and has migrated over 99% of DOJ Secret sites. Also has the ability to analyze, troubleshoot and configure medium to large networks and proven crisis management skills as shown in the ability to identify and correct several critical DMVPN implementation issues that would have adversely impacted the timely completion of the project.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Configured Network and Security Centric Devices in a Manage Hosting environment, responsible for the Configuration and troubleshooting of over 100 different customers with diverse Network configuration and Security requirements. Having the opportunity to work wide variety of network configuration and equipment ranging from Global Load-balancer(such F5 BigIP/LTM, and Cisco Content Services Switches), Firewalls (Cisco ASA, FWSM's, Checkpoint NG/NGX, Juniper Netscreen) to Intrusion detection/ Intrusion Prevention Systems (Snort, Cisco IPS, ISS Real Secure). Selected Accomplishments:Completed over 100 separate projects Responsible for the configuration and delivery of Product to the Client within the time frame specified within Clients sales agreement with over 92% customer satisfaction. Products Varied from Site to Site VPN solution to and Intrusion Prevention devices and Load Balancers to Clients Existing Network Environments.

Receive and Analyze network alerts from various sources within the NE/Enclave and determine possible causes of such alerts. Coordinate with Enclave CND staff to validate network alerts. Perform analysis of log files from a variety of sources within the NE/Enclave, to include individual host logs, network traffic logs, firewall logs, and intrusion detection system logs. Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources. Monitor external data sources (e.g. CND vendor sites, CERT/CC, SANS, Security Focus, etc.) to maintain currency of CND threat condition and determine which security issues may have an impact on the NE/Enclave. Selected Accomplishments:Assisted in the construction of signatures which can be implemented on CND network tools in response to new or observed threats within the NE/Enclave. Performed event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the NE/Enclave to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack. LABORATORY CENTER FOR INTRUSION MONITORING AND PROTECTION (cimp) CERT Team member.

Configured Network and Data architecture for several local and remote sites participating in Grecian Firebolt, a joint federal exercise incorporating the resources; MARS, and the FEMA organization. Responsible for router, firewall, switch configuration including the setting of security policies (VPN, Access list, VLAN's, routing protocols, and IP address hierarchy), network monitoring and overall Information Assurance. Entrusted with responsibility of evaluating and incorporating the latest and greatest network appliances and software into organizations current network architecture. Instrumental part network design changes/enhancements and a variety of network management functions related to the operation, performance, or availability of data communications networks, which improved system availability and performance providing extended network capability within existing systems environment. Resulting in an effective training operation inline with established exercise objectives.Selected Accomplishments:Cornerstone of multiple ground-breaking projects as System Automation team member was a major player in the planning, configuration, validation, and implementation of the organizations Voice Over IP (VOIP), HF over IP and Video Teleconferencing (VTC) projects providing Voice, Video, Data communication to remote sites through out our organization by way of a Time Division Multiplexer Promina400. Devised organization first 100%-accurate method of tracking Network Equipment as we are considered higher headquarters and have several subordinate companies that we must provides services and equipment, there was a need to keep accurate account equipment issued from and returned to our organization With the previous method there was <30% accountability for equipment issued and returned, revised the equipment accountability report improved by >62% from the initial hardware inventory tracking system .

Recruited to manage multiple roles and responsibilities, including establishment of daily protocols and procedures for Secure Network Operations Center (SNOC) team. As a team leader, direct groups of up to ten professionals in the fulfillment of project objectives for Network Management System. Manage daily operations of both unclassified and classified Secret Networks, and Uplink Control Network. Selected Accomplishments:Co-renovated Network Operations Center from ground up as senior member of original restructuring team; assisted in the development procedures for center controlling all aspects of organizations Network Administration and Network Security.Created organizations first 100%-complete Network topology map consisting of over 500 Network devices; reversed initial history of 50% failure rate for untested network to achieve <1% outage rates and restoration times of <2 hours.Identified critical configuration, network, and overall functionality flaws in Network topology and Network Management System, implementing new tools that enhanced performance, resulting in minimal network downtime and restoration of User confidence in network reliability.Improved user-accountability and problem-resolution objectives by implementing comprehensive trouble ticketing system incorporating Remedy with standard operating procedures also provided education and enforcement of user and administrator acceptable use policies for Internet and E-mail access.

Master Of Science (Ms), Cyber Security

Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications