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Vancouver, Washington, United States

Portland, Oregon, United States

Technology evaluation and selection for Cloud logging SIEM: Installed tested and documented results for the following SIEMs: Splunk, Elastic, SumoLogic, Devo, Exabeam, Fortinet, Google Chronicle, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, Solarwinds logging and Securonix.Solarwinds Support & Operations: Worked on daily Network Monitoring tasks for SDWAN environment. Responding to system alerts, alert tuning for managed services, SQL reporting, capacity management, bug review, feature roadmap, automation scriptinga and Solarwinds upgrades.

Portland, Oregon Area

Managed bank perimeter security via Zscaler Cloud Web Proxy, CISCO Web Security Appliance WSA, Cisco Email Security Appliance ESA. Prevented Data Loss via Symantec Data Loss Prevention DLP, Microsoft Cloud App Security(MS DLP, OWA, AIP, CASB)

Hillsboro, Oregon

Product owner for such network management tools as Entuity Eye of the Storm, CA Performance Center, Spectrum Oneclick and NFA Netflow. ElasticSearch, Splunk, and various SQL automation tools used for custom reporting and data collection. Event Management Engineering Lead, including CA rule management, audit of all trap OIDs and severity with new Intel devices, event integration with xMatters paging and alerting system, alarms sent to Impact Explorer, syslog-ng trap event processing and training Intel Network Engineers.Managed 300+ Windows and Linux Servers worldwide, directly supporting network monitoring and data collections from >15K network attached routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and miscellaneous devices such as wireless access points, network load balancers, and intrusion detection devices. Application development mostly in Perl and PHP. Wrote trap receiver to preprocess Network Traps. Wrote and maintained network alerting and paging system.Computer Programmer & Network Engineer 1999-2006 • Played key role in design, deployment, and validation of redundant DMZ network infrastructure including routers, switches, firewalls, and load-balancers. • Coordinated network ACLs, switch ports, KVM, and DNS for move of 1000 live servers to new facility. • Wrote Perl (CGI,Win32:OLE) and C code creating a toolset and websites to better resolve connectivity issues of Intel customers. • Quantitative Internet performance indicators were established and maintained. IIS and FTP logfile analysis, and active measurements were used to analyze customer traffic for specific countries. GNU-Plot and Imagemagic were used to generate charts and maps daily. Analysis of data, customer support, BSDI Unix server setup and maintenance were also performed. • Commercial packages used to solve connectivity issues include Keynote, Eye of the storm, Mercury/ActiveWatch, Lucent Vital Suites, Packet analysis.

Austin, Texas

Administered Motorola's marketing department network. 67 people with about 80 computers, including fileservers, tapebackup servers, mailserver, networked printers and fax server. Computers were Apple Macintoshes and Sun workstations. Responsibilities included equipment and user support, inventory, updates, and purchases.

Houston, Texas Area

JSC onsite support via various subcontractors.• Developed Perl applications to automatically display Shuttle telemetry data, daily downloaded images, and press releases. Responsibilities included all shuttle web content, and public inquiries.• Programmer for a NASA intranet WEB application written in UNIX Perl. The application is an engineering drawing review system containing user accounts with queues displaying drawings to review. All NASA engineering drawings are reviewed using this system.• WEB Curator for NASA Digital Images Collection. images.jsc.nasa.gov. The entire collection of images and captions was indexed using WAIS and Perl. Team member of several other web projects.

Racine, Wisconsin, United States

Administered design firm's Macintosh and PC network. 25 people with about 40 computers, including APPLESHARE / 3com fileservers, tape backup servers, mailserver, scanners, networked printers and BBS services. Responsibilities included equipment and user support, inventory, updates, and purchases.Maintained and updated Design North's Time Cost relational database. Written using Double Helix, tracks design projects, cost and time.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Installed eleven newspaper publishing systems. Trained eleven newspaper's staff in Computer System Management, Telecommunications, Typesetting / Design, Copy Flow, Routing of AP and UPI Newswire, Purges and Classified Ad taking for CText's IBM PC-based newspaper publishing system.Introduced and supported networked Macintosh-based systems. Systems were installed for the creation of newspaper display advertising for large and small news art departments. Met customer needs by installing and providing training for design software including Quark Xpress, Canvas, and a variety of scanning applications. Integrated color Macintosh computers networked to a wide assortment of PostScript devices.Prototyped Display ad tracking database for CText using Hypercard. Traced ad from conception, typesetting, client proofing, to final paste-up and billing.Demonstrated computer design and communication capabilities to prospective clients. Helped with designer computer solutions and stayed on top of the ever-changing hardware and software available for publishing.Worked on custom RELAY telecommunication software. Software created called and distributed news stories written in Washington to many different kinds of newspaper systems around the nation.Ported C software from DOS to UNIX. Edited and recompiled CText classified advertising software, originally written for a PC, to run on a Sun workstation.

Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Associate'S Degree, Accounting And Computer Science