- Led a team of 8 engineers - mix of Network Engineers, Firewall Engineers and Automation Engineers.- Led the charge to retire remaining Legacy Cisco PIX Firewalls.- Performed testing of migrations from Cisco ASA to Palo Alto Firewalls. - Mentored new hires and get them up to speed.- Identify opportunities of repetitive processes that can be automated.- Assign tasks, tickets and projects based on an engineer’s workload.- Complete team performance metrics on a weekly basis.- Perform CIP-005 assessment on a quarterly basis.

- Led the team to 1,000+ days with 100% uptime for network and firewalls- Helped the team accomplish more completed firewall rules year over year with zero production issues. - Represented the team for the CIP Audit specifically for the CIP-005 and CIP-009 requirements and passed with 0 findings.- Designed digital Kanban board for the team to better keep track of all firewall changes.- Assigned lead for decision making, approving access requests and distributing assignments. - Designated approver for all firewall changes for the team.- Mentored new hires and ran through several changes with them to bring them up to speed as quickly as possible. - Completed CIP Mitigation to ensure every firewall rule entering or leaving the ESP is justified with proper vendor documentation. - Responsible for CIP Remediation of Account Management for 319 devices consisting of Firewalls, switches, routers, IDS, FMC, Cisco Prime, NetScout, Tufin, among others.- Created procedures for backing up and restoring Cisco switches, firewalls and routers to be used as a yearly exercise moving forward as part of CIP-009 requirement.

- Provided support as the lead engineer for all the Cisco ASA and PIX firewalls.- One of the lead engineers in the implementation of the Network Resiliency (NR) project responsible for migrating rules of legacy firewalls to an entire new network while supporting the Legacy environment.- Improved the process of creation of the firewall rules for projects. Went from 500 rules completed as a team in 2016 to 4500+ rules completed with zero issues in 2017.- Largest firewall change completed required adding 600+ rules across both Legacy and NR networks to add additional Domain Controllers.- Installed AMP on IPS sensors across the NR environment.- Implemented short daily meetings to ensure team is on track with daily tasks and provided assistance or resources wherever necessary- Assisted with the Qradar upgrade in terms of switching, routing, and firewall rules- Served as the lead engineer in the “CIP-ification” of Network assets for the NR project- Created numerous Procedures, Change tickets, Network diagrams, and firewall inventory spreadsheets to organize the team- Created templates for customers to request firewall rule changes in a uniform way- Streamlined process of creating ICD change tickets and cut down time by 50%

- Responsible for all AIX, Linux platforms company-wide (1,400+ systems)- Provide 24x7 support on a weekly rotation- Maintained documentation of all UNIX systems for inventory and support purposes - Provided access control via scripts for UNIX systems- Created procedures and automation scripts for UNIX systems- Setup 40 Red Hat standalone servers, 50 RH VMs and 130 AIX LPARs- Produced numerous presentations for Executives and peers- Setup NMON on all of our Red Hat systems- Modified all HMCs to use LDAP authentication instead of local accounts- Perform CVAs, Ports & Services documentation for all Linux, AIX and HMCs

- Completed Firewall training- Completed Cyber Security INL course- Completed SANS SEC 504 Hacker Techniques, Exploits & Incident Handling course- Implement entire networks (Switches, Routers and Firewalls with RSA authentication)- Completed project to upgrade RSA/ACS servers while having no impact to customers. Went from one primary RSA/ACS server and one standby RSA/ACS server to four RSA servers (one primary and three secondary) and four ACS servers (one primary and three secondary as well).- Created UNIX scripts to monitor new RSA/ACS servers and send pages when down.- Perform firewall rule changes on a weekly basis (Cisco ASA firewalls and PIX)- Familiar with CIP, NERC, FERC, SERC requirements, policies and procedures including TFEs, CVAs, Annual Ports & Services and Audit support- Documented numerous technical procedures, Change Requests and Network diagrams- Network troubleshooting- Provide customer support via telephones and in person. (Bi-weekly on-call rotation)- Handling of purchasing network equipment, creating Purchase Orders and all the paperwork involved in ensuring everything is paid for in a timely matter

Support Areva systems (EMS, HSG80s) with Access Control, System fail over, DB and Software loadsSupport 235 Windows assets (XP, 7, 2000, 2003, 2008, DC, DNS, AD, Group Policy, Access Control, and Patch Management)Support Unix systems - AIX (39 Servers), TRU64 (always met 99.98% uptime), and LinuxSupport CItrix Farm (15 Servers)Support VMware farm (ESX 3.5) consisting of 300+ VMs within 6 farms Built new VMware farm ( ESXi 4.1)Designed and implemented new Backup scheme with replication between 8 NAS serverResponsible for TFEs ( Technical Feasibility Exceptions were created to maintain CIP standards), CVAs (Cyber Vulnerability Assessments were performed to ensure devices are not compromised and have only necessary ports open), Annual Ports & Services and Audit support (performed on a quarterly basis to ensure compliance with for government regulations)Familiar with CIP, NERC, FERC, SERC requirements, policies and proceduresRebuilt ChangeGear server from scratch without losing vital dataDocumented numerous technical procedures and Change RequestsProvide customer support via telephones and in personProvide 24x7 on-call support on a weekly rotation

Scan, validate and verify applications containing confidential information. Use ISIS (Windows Mainframe System) to lookup student’s status.Provide customer service via telephones and in person.Determine program stability and report any flaws.Provide system maintenance to ensure optimal performance.