Mike Heister, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Herndon, Virginia, United States

Management of a multi-year, multi-million dollar program installing and maintaining data circuits throughout Africa.

Online ~ Part-Time

Course Instructor for Graduate students in Computer Science teaching CS690 - Network Security.

Muscatine, Iowa

Manage multiple IT Infrastructure and Security projects for the enterprise. Re-design of the Enterprise Global network to enable flexibility, scalability, security, and availability improvements and promote access to strategic public and private cloud resources. Implementation of Single Sign-On capability, as well as multi-factor authentication service..

Eldridge, IA

• Designed and managed information systems security policy, implementation, and management for a globally distributed MPLS infrastructure. Tele-work managing telecommunications engineering projects, design, and.
• Developed, implemented, and managed security policy for the enterprise, ensuring that security is an integral part of all business operations.
• Managed and configured Cisco ASA Firewalls, engineered SSL and IPSEC VPNs, High-Availability Implementations
• Developed engineering testing protocols to address proof of concept requirements for internal corporate and customer projects. Provided training and professional development to the Network Operations Center staff.

Herndon, VA

• Tele-work managing telecommunications engineering projects design and implementation. Senior Engineer and mentor for four person engineering team. Provided Tier III/IV network and satellite communication.
• Designed, and configured a fully redundant service provider gateway in New York that provides high availability Point of Presence services for INMARSAT Broadband Global Access Network (BGAN) portable satellite.
• Installed and configured Network Operations Center infrastructure terrestrial circuits in the Chicago co-location data center. Equipment included Cisco Routers, Cisco ASA Firewalls, and switches, Dell Servers, and IP.
• Analyzed and identified more than 200 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network implementation errors and worked with the sub-contractor and the customer to resolve each issue while minimizing customer down time and.
• Designed and implemented high availability failover at critical network points using Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) triggered by IP Service Level Agreement (SLA) operations to ensure transparent transition and.
• Designed and implemented Multi-peer Site-to-Site IPSEC VPN tunnels for secure communications and device management and performance monitoring.

Rock Island, IL

• Program Manager for multiple, multi-million dollar IT programs. Managed a highly specialized 10-employee team, 27 deployable communications packages stationed on five continents and an $8 million annual budget.
• Managed the Joint Technical Data Integration project from kickoff through requirements development, solution design, testing, implementation, and fielding. Also functioned as the lead engineer and integrator for all.
• Provided Tier III/IV network and satellite communication troubleshooting for the enterprise. Configured and troubleshot Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, voice and Video Teleconference devices. Coordinated network.
• Designed and built three deployable satellite communications systems suites to provide Unclassified, and classified network resources, unsecure and secure voice, and video teleconferencing to the Army’s rapid-response.

Germany

Automation and Telecommunications Technician, and Communications and Electronics Officer. Battalion and Task Force Signal Officer responsible for all aspects of garrison and tactical communications for more than 300 people and 16 Apache attack helicopters. Performed a variety of military operational, supervisory and training duties. Deployed to Kosovo in.

Master'S Degree, Computer Information Systems - Security, 3.74

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Science And Computer Systems

Activities and Societies: Army R.O.T.C.Minor in Military Science Minor in Economics