James Smith Email & Phone Number

Fredericksburg, VA, US

United States

• Led a team of engineers and operations professionals responsible for the administration, automation, and operation of complex labtechnologies used by students and instructors worldwide.
• Migrated the team of 4 from a operations focused team to a security first engineering focused team. Resulting in faster tooldevelopment time minimizing the time to resolution for student impacting incidents.
• Develop and document software development policies in confluence for our Jr. Engineers to ensure that insecure practices are caughtduring development which allows for a faster more in-depth code reviews.
• Revamped our CICD pipeline to ensure that developers are following best practices for coding and security for our Python Applicationallowing for automatic deployment, eliminating system down times due to errors caused.
• Lead sprint planning and technical design and development of tools provided to other internal support organization to allow forquicker response times to student tickets.
• Provide code review and technical guidance to our Jr. Engineers.

• Work to support legacy and green field projects for multiple teams.
• Assisted with the design of a new Kubernetes based platform that allowed developers to deploy code in a more secure and effectiveway.
• Write Helm charts to deploy the management layer of the K8s based system allowing for automated deployments of the platform.
• Took ownership of a student facing legacy web application system enabling security code scanning in GitHub and remedying securityissues found by the scans.
• Provided pull request reviews for projects in multiple coding languages including, Python, Go, JavaScript/Typescript, PHP.
• Created technical documentation for legacy systems including logic diagrams, and infrastructure diagrams allowing a plan to be put inplace to upgrade and patch vulnerabilities without outages.Lead efforts of optimizing.

• Installed, configured, and supported local area network (LAN) in hotels to support ongoing Student Training
• Troubleshoot a variety of layer 2, and layer 3 issues weekly in unknown environment with limited access to venue network configurations
• Monitored and configured traffic shaping in live environments to support a high quality network during Student Training
• Managed and maintained a fleet of over 300 networking devices including weekly configuration, and security updates
• Created and maintained documentation on proper processes and policies utilized during network deployments and network support
• Resolved network connectivity issues with remote network environments from various places around the world with limited information and remote access to networking equipment

Spotsylvania, VA

• Patrolled designated areas in patrol vehicle and on foot to identify security and safety issues
• Managed debriefings for criminal subjects to acquire data relevant to investigations
• Oversaw criminal cases, coordinated investigations and prepared evidence and investigators for court cases
• Collected crime scene evidence, examined physical evidence and investigated secondary locations to build detailed cases based on sound evidence handling practices
• Identified witnesses and collected statements to gather information and pursue remedies for violations of legal standards
• Followed constitutional standards to properly obtain and execute warrants for arrests and searches

Fredericksburg, VA

As a finish carpenter, I was required to install new trim, fix incorrectly installed trim, and finish multiple other aspects of the home building processes. All aspects had to be done to perfection and be finished in a timly manor.

Master Of Science In Information Security Engineering

Working on a Master of Science in Information Security Engineering degree with a specialization in cloud security.

B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology

High School

Relevant Courses: • Information Technology (CompTIA A+ Cert) • CCNA Discovery • Business Administration