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 Speedway’s spinoff from its former parent company.• 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. • Develop and Implement Guardium Policies for Auditing and Real Time alerting as well as forwarding data to Qradar.

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 technical guidance on environment analysis, database monitoring software installation and configuration, currency patching/upgrade/release management, and support post implementation with a 92% success rate.• 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.• Implementation of SonarG for reporting of Guardium and SecureSphere data.• Perform continuous network monitoring and response in a complex environment utilizing Guardium and Imperva tools; interpret reports and validate identified vulnerabilities and associated risks as well as provide metrics and appliance health reports. • Configured new alerts for escalation and analytics for reporting to SOC/SIEM/Management.• Maintained whitelist in Imperva and Guardium.• Successfully tested 3rd party systems into Guardium monitoring.• Designed and tested OCC and DR scenarios to establish functional recovery processes, perform successful recovery testing and document proper procedures. • Configured new alerts for escalation and analytics for reporting to SOC/SIEM/Management.• Documentation of SOPs.• Proactively worked with Application teams to address security and compliance alerts and ensure proper remediation.• Created/tracked Incident tickets for actionable alerts.

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 and correct program and scheduling updates prior to production installation.• 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