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Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Develop and implement cybersecurity programs for Abbott's roster of networked medical products that include periodic, ongoing identification, detection and monitoring of product vulnerabilities. Provide technical design assistance to product teams to ensure adequate cybersecurity controls are in place. Provide guidance and expertise to product teams to mitigate existing vulnerabilities with new and legacy product lines.

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Provide network security design and implementation expertise as a member of the Abbott Border Network Services group (BNS) , which involves securing critical business applications required by various Abbott divisions. Design firewall, intrusion prevention, remote access, and authentication and proxy architectures. Act as Project Manager on key projects as needed. Manage capital requisition expenditures for project equipment acquisition and resource allocation tasks.

Deliver Cisco, Novell, Windows and telecommunications administration courses. Focus on delivering training on topics such as routing protocols, MS Active Directory, and network security. Developing labs and lesson plans to meet course requirements and increase student participation and understanding of the course materials. Writing outlines and developing new course material to meet objectives outside the scope of the course text.

Delivered IT security design, installation and maintenance support for various Forsythe customers. Collected customer requirements to build adequate security policies, reviewed and optimized firewall rule bases. Installed firewalls and IDS appliances. Documented installation and maintenance procedures for the customer's security team. Provided CheckPoint/Nokia firewall training. Provided lead support of corporation benchmark lab data center to new facility. Designed data center cabling design and equipment placement. Managed new equipment and access to lab for engineer access. Provided support for benchmark/testing opportunities for customers needing lab services.

Working as a System Engineer for the central region of the U.S. Designed pre- and post-sales network solutions for potential ASC customers. Installed and configured ASC ATM switching products for customer demos and trials as well as production networks. Provided customized training for customers deploying ASC products. Provide ongoing post-sales technical assistance to ASC customers. Completed interoperability testing with Cisco Systems router, switch and wireless (Aironet) products and designed, installed and maintained customer network involving said equipment on customer sites. Worked with TAC and customers to ensure NMS platform (Windows NT 4.0) backup and security was implemented in disaster recovery procedures and documentation. Verified MS Active Directory administration over ASC product line. Documented procedures for testing interoperability of ASC products in NT/Novell/UNIX environments.

Hired as the principal project engineer for Ameritech Advanced Data Services project, directed the design, installation and maintenance of a 250+ node Frame Relay/ATM network for Ameritech Advanced Data Services, utilizing the BSTDX-9000, CBX 500 and GX 550 products. Completed interoperability testing and troubleshooting of customer connections with Cisco Router products used at the customer premise. Designed, installed and maintained the Reporting and Data Collection packages for the network to help Ameritech better visualize their network usage. Worked with Ameritech's end customers to install, maintain and troubleshoot internetworking issues in NT4.0/Novell Network environments. Acted as Sybase DBA for NMS and Bulk stats/Customer Reporting servers. Created documentation and implemented disaster recovery procedure for Ameritech WAN, using full and incremental backup crons created on Solaris 2.6 platforms. Designed and implemented proper security in both Ameritech and customer remote sites in UNIX, NT and Novell NetWare environments. After 3 years of Network Engineering, I left the field group to pursue a position with Ascend/Lucent Global Training Services, where I have delivered both Frame Relay and ATM courses to internal/external customers. Helped develop courseware for both Frame Relay and ATM curriculum.

Provided internetwork design support to Anixter customers. Supported and installed Bay Networks hubs/routers, 3Com hubs/routers, Ascend Remote Access products, Cisco Router products and XYLAN ATM products. LAN Protocols supported include but are not limited to IP, IPX, and Appletalk in Token Ring, Ethernet, or FDDI topologies. WAN protocols supported include SMDS, PPP, and Frame Relay. Helped customers with design issues/problems (current and future) determine possible product/design solutions.

Designed and Installed Token Ring/FDDI LANs/WAN for the State of Wisconsin Bureau of Health and Social Services. Configured 4000, 4500 and 7000 Cisco Routers. Installed and maintained a 300+ node Novell 4.X and Microsoft NT 3.51 network. Created disaster recovery documentation and implemented those procedures. Installed and maintained HP-UX UNIX and Oracle RDBMS on the HP9000 platform. Installed and performed DBA duties on the Oracle 7 database. Installed and performed DBA duties on Informix database holding Medicaid prescription data.

Ms, Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Computer Science