Michael O. Email & Phone Number

College Station, TX, US

College Station, Texas, United States

College Station, Texas, United States

• Assist technical experts in developing follow-up documentation, executive summaries, and reports
• Assist in developing and conducting cybersecurity exercises
• Assist in conducting cybersecurity assessments/audits, and penetration tests and generating associated documentation
• Assist in cybersecurity plans reviews and generating associated documentation
• Present findings and documentation to customers and answer questions from both technical and non-technical audiences
• Provide subject matter expertise for the development of course curriculum when applicable

Houston, Texas Area

• Provide incident response protocol and audit information security systems to maintain safety and compliance with all regulations for a private travel management company.
• Responsible for compliance with GDPR, PCI-DSS, and SOC2.
• Implemented a GRC tool and security controls to manage multiple audits and fill any vulnerability gaps within company systems.
• Preformed SOC2 Gap Assessment, developed administrative and technical controls to meet requirements.

Huntsville, Texas

• Configured and monitored incoming mail through McAfee Email Gateway Appliance. Road mapped the upgrade and virtualization of application into VMWare environment.
• Headed the project for Palo Alto PA-3020 firewalls to be installed and configured in our infrastructure, replacing Fortigate 310Bs. Implemented SSL decryption in line with PA3020 for deeper analysis into traffic.
• Created VPN connections and security policies with Fortigate 310B. Monitored VPNs and traffic for security events.
• Built a Solarwinds environment that allowed analysis from network to user endpoint awareness. UDT to track user devices moving throughout the network including wireless devices.
• Used SecurityOnion extensively to review data from MS domain controllers to review anomalies via OSSEC. Reviewed security events with snorby and squert.
• Created a process to secure webapps via wildcard cert on internal and external domain.

Huntsville, Texas

• Created migration plans for moving Exchange 2007 environment to virtual without downtime. In final stages of migrating from 2007 to 2013.
• Implemented best practices with Nimble CS-220-X8 including connection of MS VSS connections via iSCSI to guest OS’s. Development of DR solution for Nimble architecture offsite.
• Responsible for backup schedules via EMC Networker and Datadomain. Verification of backups monthly including restores bi-monthly to verify data.

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

• Responsible for project management for installation of software, and hardware.
• Complete installation and implementation of the VitalCAST, QuickCOM software, and hardware.
• End-user training and support for VitalCAST,QuickCOM software.
• Provided support to end users experiencing communication problems, including troubleshooting and diagnostic methods to verify the problem.
• Duties include software support, software testing, hardware testing, project management, physical installation of hardware and software, software training, and working with customers for software advancements.