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Decatur, IL, US

Davidson, North Carolina, US

• Identify security gaps across cloud and on-prem environments, identify solutions, and provide risk-based recommendations to leadership
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams and people of all levels of IT experience; build lasting relationships across the organization to drive adoption of security principles
• Provide security designs, patterns, and standards across a multi-cloud environment (Azure, GCP, AWS, OCI)
• Work along-side cloud engineering to provide security guidance and recommendations to ensure environments meet security requirements
• Conduct security architecture assessments for implementations spanning all security domains; identify potential issues and work with teams to mitigate risk
• Designed and implemented Azure AD Conditional Access and Identity Protection policies to provide protections for a user-base of 50,000; eliminated the usage of legacy authentication in the environment

Davidson, North Carolina, US

• Identify Office 365 configurations that result in security risks and mitigate
• Perform Active Directory security reviews to identify possible vulnerabilities and coverage gaps
• Create security audits, report findings and recommendations to executives
• Collaborate with other teams to see where security can provide added value
• Configure and maintain email security including solution. Tasks include creating custom email rules, managing information protection policies, email encryption, DKIM/SPF/DMARC validation, and troubleshooting issues
• Implemented email security automation platform to remediate unwanted emails from mailboxes

Edwardsville, IL, US

• Identify Group Policy misconfigurations that result in security vulnerabilities and work with appropriate teams to remediate the findings
• Perform Active Directory security reviews to identify possible vulnerabilities and coverage gaps
• Create reports showing areas of improvement and present to appropriate IT members
• Create Group Policies to harden Microsoft Office products which resulted in preventing several security incidents related to Macro enabled email attachments
• Configure and maintain ProofPoint email security including solution. Tasks include creating custom email rules, managing information protection policies, email encryption, DKIM/SPF/DMARC validation, and troubleshooting.
• Block nearly all malicious emails with a combination of custom rules and ProofPoint TAP/TRAP

Chesterfield, MO, US

• Formerly Netelligent
• Migrated On-Premise Exchange to Office 365 and rolled out other Office 365 features
• Setup Microsoft Windows NPS Radius with Azure MFA to provide Multi-Factor auth for RADIUS authenticated services such as VMware View
• Built a VMware View environment to provide virtual desktops for remote workers
• Work with security director to remediate assets identified as vulnerable by Qualys scans
• Coordinate security patching of servers, workstations and business applications

Bridgeton, Missouri, US

• Manage a 4-5 person IT team, allocating resources to ongoing projects and enforcing deadlines
• Identify areas of improvement within the infrastructure group; also keep an eye out for areas where IT solutions may benefit other business units
• Detected, stopped and remediated a ransomware attack within 4 hours
• Tracked source of malware back to compromised website
• Implemented mitigations to correct gap in security coverage
• Replaced entire wireless infrastructure from individually managed APs to a centrally managed solution

Bridgeton, Missouri, US

• Installation, configuration and management of Windows Server 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2
• End to end management of the enterprise vSphere environment consisting of 200+ Virtual Machines, and 19 hosts
• Implemented several SharePoint environments including 2010 and 2013
• Configured OS deployments via SCCM to greatly reduce manual effort and speed up OS installs
• Configured and maintained Dell Equallogic SANs at HQ and branch offices used for virtualization
• Installed and maintained several Sonicwall firewalls. Managed rules, NAT, IDS, Site-to-Site VPNs

Saint Louis, MO, US

• Managed DNS, DHCP and Group Policy services for Windows servers
• Implemented and configured SCCM as the Windows patching solution for 300+ servers (maintained Dev/Production patch cycles)
• Assisted with Blackboard Transact Platform and PCI compliance for credit card services
• Configured card access hardware and policies for campus buildings

• Managed 650+ workstations, 40 servers and 2500+ users
• Implemented tighter security permissions on file shares to prevent student access to sensitive data
• Removed local administrator permissions from faculty, staff and students
• Created imaging process to allow for quick remediation of compromised machines
• Used GPO to redirect local file storage to file servers
• Managed Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy and IIS services

Belleville, Illinois, US

• Remediated infected customer computers
• Provided pointers for avoiding repeated compromises
• Modified system settings to help prevent future malware infections
• Created HOSTS file to black-hole many of the known bad domains
• Changed permissions on HOSTS file to prevent modification

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity And Information Assurance

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems

Computer Science

Associate Of Science - As, Network Design And Administration