Robert Forringer Email & Phone Number

Belton, TX, US

Texas, United States

Temple, Texas

• Supervise a team of 10, which oversees the planning, implementation, and maintenance of security applications infrastructure, which services 64,000 assets and 48,000 employees on a 19 million Opex budget.
• Directly responsible for maintaining and operational use of Email Protection and user awareness, URL filtering and Endpoint Security, RedSeal, Absolute, OpenDNS, Sourcefire, Stealthwatch, and Palo Alto.
• Completed a Splunk Implementation to handle 1.5 terabyte of daily log ingest. Migration of the Splunk from On-site hardware to Azure virtual infrastructure with no loss of data. Upgraded from 1.5 terabyte to 5 terabyte.
• Managed the implementation of Proofpoint protecting the enterprise from email threats, to include URL re-write and Auto Threat pull. Complete monthly simulated phishing attacks and initiate additional training on.
• Spearheaded a revamp of Endpoint Security through a company merger and purchases. Transitioning from Sophos, Symantec, and Kaspersky to McAfee. Currently, planning transition form McAfee to Crowd strike EDR.

Orlando, Florida

• Participated as a team member to monitor and analyze over 500,000 Dragon and SourceFire IDS events daily for the Department of Homeland Security components: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Transportation Security.
• Contributed to exceeding expectations by processing and remediation an average of 150 monthly incidents which include: Classified spills, malware infections, and loss assets.
• Participate daily in development and maintenance of global information security policy with Government Representatives.

Orlando, Florida

• Maintained and supported an Internet access network for over 60,000 resort rooms for Disney.
• Functioned as a member of network team, handling over 10,000 trouble calls per month.
• Consistently achieved over 90% first call resolution.

• Created software for automatically processed over 100,000 messages a month.
• Trained new personnel on desktop procedures and applications.
• Acted as the Automated Data Processing officer on board the USS Guam and directly responsible for the security of all computers onboard.
• Held Top Secret Clearance.