Justin Kessler Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

* Operate, maintain and administer 20+ firewalls, including execution of firewall policy changes and upgrades * Interface with clients remotely and traveling onsite during new firewall and networking device deployments * Work alongside clients to understand requirements, set expectations, build capital expenditure requests, gather resources, and deliver solutions to meet and surpass business needs * Monitor enterprise infrastructure daily for potential compromise, intrusion, deficiency, significant event, or threat to the security of enterprise infrastructure encompassing 8,000+ end devices* Configured multiple site-to-site VPN connections as well as remote user SSL VPN configurations* Evaluate and troubleshoot technical problems as they arise within the security infrastructure* Create, document, and deploy network architecture with a focus on information security and compliance * Responsible for presenting departmental production changes to twice-weekly Change Control Review Board * Perform and document web application scanning and interface with developers to resolve code vulnerabilities

* Assistant project manager for 18 million dollar enterprise technology refresh – Assisted with project scope and resourcing planning– Interfaced with consulting company to perform onsite assessment, and drive capital expenditure request– Arranged meetings with company presidents to perform business impact analysis of current and future systems– Orchestrated meetings with product vendors and management to meet requirements * Technical lead for enterprise data center assessment and inventory documentation* Project manager for hardware and software migration of onsite data center to co-location * Developed multiple business proposals for customers’ current and future infrastructure upgrades* Engaged in the procurement process for enterprise servers, storage and networking upgrades* Audited assets of remote companies within the enterprise to create financial charge back model* Decommissioned legacy hardware and provided detailed documentation to management* Technical resource for staging and deploying new servers and storage environments* Responded to incoming service request tickets prioritized by issue severity and client urgency

* Interfaced with customers and sales representatives to help develop requirements and build a statement of work* Interpreted written business requirements and technical specification documents * Performed coding tasks in response to written technical specifications using JavaScript, jQuery, XML, CSS and HTML* Appointed member of programming “SWAT Team” that was instrumental in implementing a new business-to-business e-commerce site * Investigated, analyzed, documented and fixed reported code defects

Leadership Development Program fostering a holistic approach to technology and business through experience in multiple high impact roles across various departments