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Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Research and document latest trends, major vulnerabilities, and threat actors that have potential affecting our customers. Work on issuing threat bulletins to educate customers and mitigate/resolve the threats within their environments, as well as build detection logic to monitor for compromises in networks where our sensors/agents are deployed.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Product & service demonstrations showcasing our ability to detect and report network threats to a prospective client and answering their questions in how they can implement our product and integrate into their existing infrastructure. Manage client on-boarding (post-trial) assisting with additional sensor/honeypot installations within the network.Daily forensics done on incidents seen at client networks monitoring for breaches, malware, suspicious activity, and other threats with data gathered from a hardware sensor.Large scale data analysis used for tuning event signatures and alerts to eliminate known false-positives & "white-noise".Preparing monthly or on demand security reports for clients based on vulnerability scans, external, and internal information gathering as well as providing suggestions and remediations for security issues.Provide training and coaching to SOC analysts and new-hires.Strategize with management for rollout of new services ensuring that all use cases and requirements are met from a technical and operational standpoint.Provide remote incident handling and forensics for companies who have experienced a breach.

San Bruno, Ca, Us

The program management experience I have is both technical as well as non-technical ranging from test network deployments to software licensing reduction efforts. 'Noogler' Tech Program Manager - During my time with the “Noogler” team I was responsible for coordinating weekly new hire onboarding tasks. Weekly tasks consisted of provisioning new accounts, allocating hardware, troubleshooting account access, giving the IT presentation(s) to classes of 50-200 people, and answering general IT questions.802.1x Deployment - Worked in conjunction with various networking and telecommunication teams in order to deploy 802.1x port authentication to multiple buildings in Google Dublin and YouTube.Software Licensing Reduction - Interfacing directly with VP and Director level employees to reduce unnecessary software spending within their department. Reduced number of licensed software installs in favor of an in-house solution, and provided training to users on using the new tool(s).Test Network Deployment - Coordinated amongst networking, security and infrastructure teams in order to deploy a global wireless testing network for Google engineers to easily test mobile devices.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

This is a small team of Windows host-based security ‘ninjas’ that go through daily on-call rotations for any inquiries or incidents in relation to our endpoint threat detection solution. This role has involved software and publisher based certificate revocation and auditing, whitelisting internal application builds in preparation for fleet-wide deployment, acting as an escalation point for support staff, and working closely with internal security operations teams. As a team co-lead part of my responsibilities are making sure escalations are handled in an acceptable timeframe as well as training new team members.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

The main role of an ITR is providing 'front line' in-person and ticket-based support in a very teamwork heavy environment for a large user base, troubleshooting & solving a large variety of issues. Identifying and filing bug reports to the correct internal teams and then work with them to solve product or system issues. Act as a liaison between technical and non-technical groups to enhance Google's infrastructure and internal services at all three bay area locations.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

I was put in charge as a co-leader for all Google SF main distribution frame operations. During this time I audited all devices and networking equipment, removed unused devices, added new equipment, as well as updated and created corporate documentation and configurations for the MDF/IDFs. I have also helped coordinate planned power outages for entire buildings, communicating this to affected teams, and then working in conjunction with them to failover devices or to properly power down servers and other equipment.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

During my time with the perimeters team I was responsible for modification and creation of ACLs (Cisco / Juniper) for new lab / test network requests. I interfaced directly with the teams or individuals requesting the lab and worked with them to discern their access needs to build an adequate solution. In addition to lab creation I audited existing ACLs on lab networks making sure there was no extraneous access allowed. Another responsibility was firewall (SRX) administration and policy creation for DMZ / internal systems access requests from external partners.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

As part of my IT Helpdesk role I traveled to the European headquarters in order to help out the local engineers with user support, network changes, device deployment, and AV maintenance needs. While I was there I trained new member of the "ninja" security team I work on, as well as helping out with new hire orientation and account activation.

Started a small company with the idea to "Build custom gaming rigs and powerful servers for LESS than the other guys!" We ended up working for a few individuals and one company soon after launching our site and a small advertising campaign. I helped build the site and acted as a point of contact for our customers to answer inquiries / fulfill requests.

Boston, Ma, Us

While working at Liberty Mutual I created presentations educating users on security practices and risks. It was my job to take technical matters and turn them into real english that regular users could learn from and improve their security mindset.I have also participated in presentations to stakeholders about current security posture and how to develop current infrastructure. This included talking directly with key decision makers with regards to budgeting for security matters.

Rochester, Ny, Us

My role at Paychex involved the bridging of security and people. I worked directly with the persons affected by the incident or a representative for the company affected by the breach to find a resolution. It was my responsibility to find out what information was disclosed and put a report together. I also provided a daily security newsletters that included vulnerabilities to systems we were using (rated by the potential risk to the company), an analysis of breaches that occurred at similar companies and where we could improve to prevent that, and the occasional general interest story to help promote a security conscious mindset.In addition to the reposting and analysis, I put together a test deployment of Snort / Snorby to do security event reporting for eventual corp deployment.

Worked under the senior systems admin on the day to day upkeep of a small company’s IT Infrastructure. My every day responsibilities included configuring Cisco networking equipment, provisioning user/group accounts via AD for new hires/users, and running new software/patch deployments in a test environment. I also worked on a project to deploy SSO authentication in order to consolidate the various credentials for email (Lotus Notes), login (AD), and other internal web applications.

A small landscaping company started by me my brother and my dad. It started off small but eventually we had a small base of clients (20 - 25) some equipment and an old pickup truck. In 2004 me and my brother ran the company and brought on 2-3 other people to help with the workload. It was my responsibility to manage the employees and our clients information / history.