Michael G. Email & Phone Number

United States

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Wearer of many security hats: Windows, Linux, container/virtualization, full stack, compliance, and more • Manage company Hacker1 bug bounty program for flagship products• Security leader helping build successful cross departmental initiatives across many domains• Design and implement security strategies to protect core infrastructure from cyber attacks• Align business to regulatory and audit needs (PCI-DSS, SOC 2 Type 2) by designing and incorporating security controls into existing information systems to meet requirements• Automate the trivial and free up engineering cycles to work on fundamental business problems and reduce toil• Maintain PCI compliance for global business operations (PCI-ISA Certified)• Conduct purple team exercises to determine weak points in the environment and modify strategy and policy based on findings• Mitigate risk, reduce attack surface, and align our security objectives with company goals and strategies

Us

I mentor collegiate cybersecurity students trying to break into the industry by teaching them the skills they need to succeed in their desired role. I also help them study and pass cybersecurity certifications such as Security+, CySA+, and CISSP as well as conduct resume reviews and mock interviews.I also teach classes on niche cybersecurity subjects to professionals in the industry.

• Assist in managing operations team of 20 members during any given season and instruct upwards of 400 students per season. Primary responsibilities include developing the infrastructure and network of the competition for the WRCCDC as well as lead my team towards these goals• Design and implement the key systems and flesh out vulnerabilities for red teams to take advantage of to simulate a real life cyber security attack on a functioning business• Engineered a flexible virtual infrastructure made extensible with Ansible and Terraform

• Responsible for developing and executing defensible security architecture plan including defense in depth strategies utilizing logging, WAF/proxies, IPS/IDS, tight ingress/egress controls, principle of least privilege, and privileged access workstations• Managed multiple projects including Office 365/Azure AD migration and Hybrid Exchange, secure wireless deployment, Federated ADFS, network backhaul rearchitect, and complete datacenter refresh• Developed custom Windows logging solutions for real time monitoring/alerting of Windows endpoints using ELK/OpenDistro and Sysmon with high quality configurations• Engineered the virtualization of infrastructure including traditional VMware technologies (vCenter, NSX, vSAN) and geographically separated multi‑site deployments• Maintain and audit for various CJIS/DOD requirements ensuring regulatory compliance

Pomona, Ca, Us

•Assist with the planning, creation, and implementation of a new data center under the National Cyber Security grant for Cal Poly Pomona•Primary role was to design and create software to automate future Computer Information System classes for the university•Secondary projects includes assisting with engineering the next generation networking infrastructure for the university using software defined networking (SDN) utilizing Juniper networking equipment and Chef DevOps software

Us

•Maintained 1,500+ computers City wide for 1,300+ employees across various local and remote sites•Managed VMWare administration (Multi-Site and 100+ hosts) and large Deep Freeze deployments (400+)•Maintained large Windows desktop environments with WMF/WMI and SCCM•Championed standardization for deployments with heavy emphasis on Powershell scripting•Managed several large projects for various departments throughout the City including the budgeting and planning of 1.8 million dollar annual PC replacement program•Worked interim as department supervisor during transitory periods and retirements

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Information Systems

Sec530 Defensible Security Architecture

Abusing And Protecting Kubernetes, Linux And Containers.