John Podolanko, Cissp Email & Phone Number

Arlington, TX, US

New York City, NY, US

Plano, TX, US

Plano, TX, US

Plano, TX, US

Boston, MA, US

95877 Bezons, FR

95877 Bezons, FR

• Accomplishments:
• Directly impacted my organization's ability to introduce new technology and service offerings oftheir managed SOC to clients including Siemplify, Elastic, Proofpoint, and Carbon Black
• Designed and deployed an Enterprise Log Management solution in a customer environmentwith 24,000+ devices in 5 months
• Served as a trusted advisor to a client’s executive team and security leadership as theywere undergoing a disaster recovery effort after a ransomware breach in March 2021
• Received 2 Gold Accolade Awards in 2021 - one for assisting the CTO with a Proofpointproposal for a client up-sell and for spearheading the recovery of a failed CarbonBlack deployment project and the other for my.

Overland Park, Kansas, US

• FireMon has been at the forefront of the security management category, delivering firewallbehavior testing, workflow integration, traffic flow analysis and rule recertification.Accomplishments:
• Analyzed legacy processes and obtained stakeholder support to evolve, expand, andrebrand the Solutions Architect role within my first year
• Developed new documentation practices and templates resulting in improved efficiencyfor direct and supported teams
• Quickly became a product expert in FireMon as well as several other firewall vendorsto include Palo Alto, FortiNet, Cisco, and Juniper
• Served as a trusted advisor and managed expectations for more than a dozen clientswhile advocating for both the client and FireMon
• Directly impacted up-sell opportunities for dozens of new and existing clients

Overland Park, Kansas, US

Dallas, Texas, US

• Tenet Healthcare is the 3rd largest healthcare organization in the United States with 68 semiautonomoushospitals, nearly 500 outpatient sites and a few joint ventures in its network of over 100,000.
• Oversaw and managed teams responsible day-to-day endpoint and network security operations and the SOC in a very complex and fluid environment as Tenet started their push into the cloud
• Provided oversight and managed project execution as the key stakeholder for 15 concurrent security projects aimed at improving enterprise security posture
• Determined requirements and oversaw the project to successfully implement Network Access Control in the Tenet environment
• Proposed, received approval and negotiated process for integrating code signing practice into hospital DevOps by leveraging the existing PKI infrastructure
• Active decision maker on PCI and DLP steering committees

Arlington, TX, US

• While working on his Masters/PhD, John filled several roles within the CSE dept at UTA.Systems Engineer Accomplishments:
• Determined requirements and designed the CyberSec Lab from the ground up for livemalware/ransomware analysis
• Provisioned and configured all hardware and software to meet research needs and successfullyprotected the university network from any malware outbreak
• Oversaw, patched and maintained all servers, clients and network hardware

Arlington, TX, US

• Adjunct Faculty/GTA Accomplishments:
• Received highly positive feedback from students for classes taught – Information Security1 and Practical Malware Analysis
• Entirely redesigned and modernized the student labs for Information Security 1 includinga cybersecurity CTF competition
• Wrote the curriculum, lectures and assignments for Practical Malware Analysis
• Awarded Outstanding GTA of the Year in 2017–2018

Little Rock, AR, US

• Windstream is service provider that offers wireless communications using advancedbackhaul solutions to meet network performance standards and requirements.Responsibilities:
• Channeled communications between several teams and Project Managers
• Increased efficiency and timeliness of tower hand-offs.
• Reporting on multiple projects covering hundreds of cell towers
• Provided technical troubleshooting advice for issues that arose during RFC-2544testing and tower turn-ups

Monroe, LA, US

• Qwest was a customer-focused telecommunications provider that offered data networkingsolutions and communications platforms to small, medium and enterprise businesses alike.Accomplishments:
• Built strong, professional relationships with customers and partners by providing thehighest level of customer service
• Helped key, major, and global customers improve network functionality and scalabilityby designing and providing optimal, cost-efficient network solutions
• Assessed customer requirements, probed for further information, and developed Billsof Materials and Statements of Work which allowed for accurate labor quoting
• Conducted live equipment demonstrations of the latest Cisco voice, security andwireless products for customers and partners

Dallas, TX, US

• AT&T is a global telecommunications leader that connects people and businesses to theworld using the latest in mobile and Internet technologies.Accomplishments:
• Team leader for Gold Standard Project which consolidated network configurations onover 4,000 Cisco devices from 3 merging companies into on global standard
• Conducted Change Request Management for 2 major data centers by performinghardware and software maintenance on various Cisco and Nortel devices

Bellevue, WA, US

• T-Mobile is a service provider that redefines the way consumers and businesses buy wirelessservices through leading product and service innovation.Accomplishments:
• Took an integral role in the T-Mobile Backbone Project (”T-Bone”) which converted theentire core of the service provider network from multi-area OSPF to MPLS over BGPand created COS VRFs for hundreds of remote sites
• Designed new and upgraded existing network topologies and created Bills of Materialsbased on Project Manager requirements
• Documented Statements of Work that included power/environmental requirements,configuration scripts, and step-by-step instructions for onsite technicians

Washington, DC, US

As a United States Marine I served my country in several different global locations, both in the United States and locations overseas such as Asia and the Middle East, as an Air Control Electronics Operator. I operated in a Tactical Air Operations Module and held several different billets from an entry-level Surveillance Operator, to a mid-level Data Link.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science - Information Security

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science Engineering

Cisco/Juniper

Associate'S Degree, Arts (Business Administration)