John K. Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, MO, US

Monroe, Louisiana, US

Technical lead on corporate firewall security team responsible for engineering, design, and 3rd level support for operations team.

Monroe, Louisiana, US

• Technical Lead and manager of a team of Security Engineers responsible daily support, monitoring, design, and architecture of managed hosting security environment.
• Partner with network and application design teams on emerging technologies for most secure design while not overly burdening security requirements.
• Collaborated with auditors to ensure we maintain PCI-DSS and SOX audit compliance as required by some customers.
• Provide guidance and technical leadership to support all daily aspects of CheckPoint firewalls segmenting internal production management LAN and customer environments.
• Mentor junior members of team to offer guidance, career coaching, and advice to help strengthen and develop their skills.

Monroe, Louisiana, US

• Technical lead responsible for design, engineering, and architecture for the managed hosting security area while coordinating with network architects.
• Lead Security Engineer on effort to redesign international multi-site (75+) connectivity from point to point links to MPLS cloud to reduce customer impacts of outages on management LAN.
• Participated in the hiring process of junior members on the team by evaluating their past experience in relation to the position requirements.
• Maintained CheckPoint VSX firewalls and Multidomain Manager / Provider-1 for private cloud hosting environment. Determined appropriate software code levels for CheckPoint firewalls, partnered with the vendor to.
• Owned and maintained the virtual Cisco ASA firewalls separating corporate and customer networks while mentoring junior members of the team on the configuration and support.
• Performed troubleshooting for application and network issues throughout all 7 layers of the network stack utilizing various tools including tcpdump, wireshark, fw monitor, etc.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Technical Lead on emerging Threat and Vulnerability Management team.
• Researched and implemented new technologies and policies to ensure firm security.
• Developed and implemented a processes for vulnerability scanning in addition to partnering with application owners for mitigation of vulnerabilities.
• Provided direction and technical leadership of a 7-person team primarily responsible for daily support and design for Firewalls, Intrusion Protection System for 12,000+ remote locations. Team also responsible for Layer.
• Managed, designed and implemented a $1.5M effort to implement new perimeter hardware for 8 environments. The effort also included developing requirements, partnering with management to obtain approval, and implementing.
• Appointed Technical Lead responsible for the successful conversion of 12,000 remote locations from MLPS to public IPSEC VPN connectivity. The effort included researching solutions, identifying requirements.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Member of 6 administrator team responsible for 45 Sun Solaris servers ensuring availability of corporate website, application and database servers, as well as back end connections to AS/400’s. Other team functions.
• Participated in project to evaluate hardware and software to replace green mono-color terminals at branches with graphical terminals.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Member of 30 administrator team responsible for 350 AIX RS/6000 and Sun Solaris servers located in United States Primary team function was prime support for Brewery Systems.
• Managed firewall and VPN infrastructure.
• Performed regular system maintenance, backups, disaster recovery planning, automating tasks via custom shell scripts, and host-based security.

Washington, DC, US

• Member of 6 administrator team responsible for 150 Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX, and Microsoft Windows based systems supporting project that was collecting real-time earth environmental data from 2 satellites in orbit and.
• Administration Team was fully faceted in all aspects of system duties; specifying new hardware, installing systems, upgrades, patching, filesystem backups, maintaining physical network in offsite location, as well as.

Reston, VA, US

• Responsible for design and deployment of Seagate Backup Exec for Novell in DOI environment.
• Assisted primary administrators in migration Banyan Vines to Novell 4.1 conversions.
• General student operator responsible for system maintenance, duplication of cd's, tape changes, etc.