Kurt K Email & Phone Number

Framingham, MA, US

IBM Guardium, Tripwire, and to a lesser degree Qualys admin.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• CBTS supporting Speedway, Enon OH 07/2020 - presentInformation Security, IBM Guardium AdminGuardium SME working with multiple teams to design, configure and install database monitoring processes in order to support.
• Collaborate with internal partners (PMs, Network, Architect, VM team) to evaluate, plan, configure, and implementation of database security monitoring tools in multi-level secure domains.
• Partner with 3rd party support and IBM to design and build out a full featured database monitoring solution.
• Install releases, upgrades, and currency patching of Guardium (CM, Aggregators/Collectors) on database servers.
• Perform final configuration updates to Windows database servers. Validate connections and traffic throughput.
• Provided technical support for complex database activity monitoring environments to ensure maximum performance, availability and upgrades.

Westlake, Texas, US

• Implemented IBM’s Guardium and Imperva’s SecureSphere database security controls and event management tools to mitigate risk and satisfy security requirements to support the firm’s strategic direction. Provided.
• Collaborated with internal business to evaluate, plan, configure and implementation of database security tools in multiple domains enterprise wide.
• Installed releases, upgrades, and currency patching of Guardium (CM, Aggregators/Collectors); and SecureSphere (Agents, GW, MX, SOM) on database servers.
• Validated connections and traffic throughput post updates to Windows and Linux servers.
• Provided technical support for complex DAM environments to ensure maximum performance, availability and upgrades.
• Developed and Implemented security policies for Auditing and Real Time alerting.

Westlake, Texas, US

• Managed a team of onshore and offshore associates who built and executed over 4M jobs a year in multiple test environments, as well as, led 4-6 major special projects per year which allowed Application teams to test.
• Mainframe and Distributed batch subject matter expert (SME) utilizing CA-ESP for all batch builds in scheduler, batch cycles and special projects coming into the team in 16 separate environments simultaneously.
• Successfully tested and migrated company acquisitions from test environments to production.
• Technical lead and mentor to junior associates while delegating project tasks
• Maintained our team site presence as the Sharepoint technical SME, client help pages and internal SOP libraries.
• Communicated at all levels of management for project status and escalation resulting in 100% client satisfaction and management expectations.

Westlake, Texas, US

• Executed over 15M production mission critical batch jobs with a focus on meeting SLAs, timely abend resolution, problem escalation, and disaster preparedness.
• Primary and senior control point for shift running mainframe and distributed batch in both Production and Hot back up environments.
• Designed and Tested OCC and DR scenarios to establish functional recovery processes, perform successful recovery testing and documented procedures.
• Manage and execute Change Management tickets during maintenance windows
• Lead contact when management is not present.

Brookfield, Wisc., US

• Technical support and maintenance for job scheduler (CA7)
• Responsible for online and batch processing for Y2K test environment
• Monitor and analyze job activity. Abend resolution, job turnaround
• Track abends, implementations, releases, problem and change via Infoman
• Provide leadership, guidance, and training for subordinates

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Re-engineering systems
• Technical support and job scheduling (Zeke/Zebe)
• Production abend resolution
• Stats and Reporting
• Customer interface and user support