Michael Way Email & Phone Number

West Des Moines, Ia, Us

Ankeny, Iowa, Us

Responsible for security and the execution of new projects, support of overall security architecture, research and guidance on emerging/new/established technology solutions, and highly technical risk gap documentation as a result of research and or incident.Responsible for a security support and operations that resides outside the typical business support structure. The support/operation team needs to be able to make critical security decisions as it relates to business issued support tickets that may have cause impact.

Ankeny, Iowa, Us

I am a penetration tester (GPEN, GWAPT, GCFA) with security experience working with Fortune 500 companies and numerous state and federal government agencies from all across North America. I have extensive experience with network and application penetration testing, social engineering, vulnerability assessments, physical security testing, IT Audits, business continuity/disaster recovery planning, and security architecture. I'm currently a senior member of the Managed Security Services division at Integrity, which includes managed SIEM, incident response, vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing services.

President of a successful, national security consulting group that specializes in project management, information assurance, business intelligence and specialized professional services.Performed numerous third party site reviews and post audit reviews for web based hosting environments.Completed several incident responses and forensic investigations engagements concerning malware and ransomeware.

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Senior member of the company wide initiative to improve operational readiness by applying structure through process enhancement within disaster recovery and business continuity.Demonstrated the ability to develop several IT Service Management programs to improve operational readiness across diverse lines of business while lowering the annual run costs within the organization.Served as an expert in the evaluation of environmental and equipment configuration for critical corporate resources and recommended disaster avoidance and reduction strategies and measures. Developed and implemented the most complex procedures and programs for the continuity of system processes in a disaster situation. Provided advanced technical guidance to systems and business recovery support staff with the implementation of response and alternate operating strategies during a disaster.

Proven ability to manage the company's infrastructure environment for an online application service provider spanning three separate data centers, with clients' worldwide.Handled site selection and layout, design criteria, initial planning and cost estimates.Developed highly successful processes and procedures to improve effective by 23% of the execution of operational and project based activities. Responsible for landing and the delivery of a secure corporate venture bringing in 5.6 million dollars the first year and over 1 million dollars in annual contract renewal.Managed diverse IT teams located across North America and Europe for functional responsibilities to include server support, network support, security, disaster recovery, and procurement.Successfully negotiated real estate, lease equipment and consultant contracts.Responsible for hosting and securing the Federal Government’s Electronic Human Resources Initiative (EHRI) program. A e-Gov initiative.

Contracted project manager position of the Business Systems Infrastructure Management department's corporate initiative. Manage an extended help desk responsible for the support level agreements for the migrated desktops and the remediation of user supported business applications.From concept to implementation, effectively planning the project throughout the development life-cycle process.Management of the project included project planning, staffing plans, resource management, issue tracking, risk management, quality strategy planning, and transition planning and budget/cost analysis. Duties also included executive presentations for corporate directions on migration strategy, coordinating and issuing status reports and document review.

New York, New York, Us

Coordinating corporate technical service for the Project Management Office of a Fortune 500 company. Capable of managing multiple projects of varying degrees of complexity, simultaneously.Developed standards for Intel servers, LAN, and WAN projects including complete disaster recovery implementations while maintaining an elevated level of data security.Administered security environments for corporate home office and remote branches during corporate transition.Team leader for technical advising and infrastructure implementations for several new business integrations contributing to a total cost of ownership savings of over $500,000 on a single project.

Provided architectural consulting services throughout the country for a variety of clients.Designed migration plan to a uniformed mixed platform to meet client's immediate needs.Improved network server environment and NDS by 30-50% by streamlining administration procedures within a secure design.Managed change management project and significantly improved internal procedures.Created desktop rollout solutions within clients' current technical requirements using ZENworks.Developed course curriculum for Windows 2000 and Exchange 5.5 groupware for in-house training project.

West Des Moines, Ia, Us

Systems administration on multiple platforms including Novell's NetWare 3.12 through Intranetware, Microsoft NT 4.0, and Solaris 2.x.Initiated, planned, executed, and managed the closeout of a multi-state re-architecture project utilizing internal and external resources.Senior UNIX systems administrator for corporate Sun and HP/UX servers.Served as the backup Sybase Database Administrator.Technical project leader for network services on corporate wide SmartStream accounting project.Chief member for research, development, implementation and support on multiple state WAN upgrades utilizing Cisco routers.Skilled in numerous protocols including TCP/IP, IPX/SPX and AppleTalk.