John Slyh Email & Phone Number

United States

Columbus, Ohio Area

As an IT Consultant at Tek Systems, I have supported the Network Security Operations and Engineering team of a Fortune 100 company. My daily tasks while on working with the Network Security Operations team included scripting configuration changes for cisco ASA and Palo Alto firewalls, reviewing requests, and adhering to strict security protocols and procedures. I also created and modified configuration changes for F5 LTM’s and GTM’s as well as McAfee Sidewinder for application proxy requests. My work output represented nearly 10% of all requests submitted to my team of twenty one engineers.· Collaborated on F5 training documentation· Provide/remove access between security zones throughout all of production and test networks· Linux(python) scripts and tools to prepare, verify, and troubleshoot network configuration changes· Script Cisco ASA/Palo Alto firewall, LTM, GTM, and app/gateway configurations· Engage in customer requests to provision, implement, verify, and troubleshoot firewall, LTM, GTM, app-gateway configurations· Provide research results against existing firewall policies· Confirm new requests met the necessary security standards before implementation· Engage customers to provide documentation to justify requestsMy most recent role with the Infrastructure Security Engineering team was to clean up extraneous firewall rules. The main objectives for this effort were to eliminate redundant policies, reduce firewall element counts, and simplify the request and implementation processes. I also adopted a leadership role as I have trained all new contractors added to the growing effort.· Obtain, analyze, and organize firewall configuration data· Engineer network flow and processing over all enterprise firewalls· Script Cisco ASA/Palo Alto firewall configuration changes· Provision clean up work for redundant firewall policies· Train all new team members as they are added to our growing project· Network Summarization

Columbus, Ohio Area

As Systems Administrator at Urban Computing LLC I provided a vast array of IT solutions for clients, ranging from simply replacing computer hardware to server and network overhauls.