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Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

• Managed account life cycle of user and service accounts across multiple products.
• Wrote an automation suite to handle account creation and deactivation.
• Created lifecycle process for third party access which resulted in an 80% reduction in time between request and provisioning.
• Oversaw the onboarding of new devices to SOC monitoring solution, including the development of escalation scenarios and log tuning.
• Performed level 3 management of security tickets from identification to resolution.
• Developed a minimum logging standard for use on Windows Servers to identify and forward useful events and reducing event “noise” by 65%.

Melbourne, Australia

• Managed security review and remediation across an on-premises and cloud environment spanning multiple products.
• Led PCI initiative, including documentation and remediations leading to a 75% in vulnerabilities over 90 days old.
• Assessed security posture of AWS instances, Security Groups and ACLs across more than 30 accounts.
• Performed device and policy management of 15 distributed Palo Alto devices, performing upgrades, rule pruning and report automation.
• Oversaw testing and and piloting of AWS workspaces as a replacement of a Citrix XenDesktop installation.
• Managed triage of phishing attacks and misuse of the MYOB brand.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Oversaw web, application, and network security, ensured alignment with business requirements, and designed security solutions on a team of eight for a retail organization with over 1.5K locations.Architecture Design
• Assessed security for the creation of a major e-commerce platform processing up to $22M in annual sales, and integrated Akamai Kona firewall and Site Defender security.
• Proposed and executed the consolidation of three environments which reduced the hardware footprint by 2/3rds and improved maintenance speed by 75%.
• Managed a $185K refresh of McAfee IPS which increased deployment speed by 50%, reduced attacks by 40%, and enabled active blocking.
• Led a $150K project to select, test, implement, and integrate an SIEM solution for event monitoring, which improved data retrieval and reporting by 75%.
• Oversaw a $210K update to firewall hardware and deployed a central management platform, which reduced resource usage and deployment time by 75%, and increased coverage by 35%.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Managed the testing, deployment, and administration of a content filtering solutions across seven countries, determined blocked content, and reduced the time for implementing changes by 40%.
• Implemented a database firewall which enabled the monitoring of vulnerabilities and inappropriate access, conducted a preliminary testing of 45 applications and 10K POS systems, and selected a security solution.
• Led a project to integrate McAfee Endpoint encryption into over 400 devices, which reduces the average encryption time from 10 hours to two and improved security posture.
• Directed a firewall change management program which included the implementation and auditing of changes.
• Maintained compliance with PCI-DSS and SOX requirements, facilitated third-party audits, managed Tripwire file integrity monitoring, compiled system data, and led remediation of identified issues.
• Received a promotion from Stores Analyst in May 2010.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.) It, Telecommunications, Information Technology

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Business