It Specialist (Infosec)
CurrentInformation Security Specialist in the CyberSecurity Program Office. Integrated, managed and supported all Cybersecurity tools, systems, and appliances for the CDC's CyberSecurity Office. Hardware and software vendors such as Gigamon, Netwitness, ExtraHop, FireEye, ZScaler, Palo Alto GlobalProtect, Tenable, Crowdstrike, HCL BigFix, Nozomi, Splunk, and Prisma Cloud. Operated on-prem VMware environments, COLO, and AWS GovCloud/Azure Cloud for Government.Heavy day-to-day usage in Windows AD infrastructure but also strong in various UNIX-based OS distros (RHEL, CentOS, Oracle, Ubuntu, and BSD). Extremely knowledgeable in VMware and Hyper-V.Strong familiarity working with FEDRAMP, M21-31, Zero Trust, NIST 800 publications, ISO 27001/27002, and FISMA.Held technical steward, security steward, and property custodian roles.Expert in vulnerability remediation and mitigation, server administration and support, and data center operations. Very capable as a team lead having filled in several times for a total of approximately two years.