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Rogers, AR, US

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Leading the charge to standardize security for on-premise and multiple cloud environments. Integrating systems to ensure streamlined processes and procedures were meeting security standards. Served as a data custodian.
• Splunk architect and data custodian for AWS and on-premise environment maintaining over 40 TB of data secured through RBAC
• Identify technical policy compliance by conducting vulnerability scans and using the results to make recommendations for mitigating risks within multiple environments.
• Ensuring operational best practices by working closely with the deployment/releasing teams to ensure PCI compliance was being upheld
• Collaborate with developers, testers, security, and all operation teams to enforce security standards while creating a sense of awareness and responsibility

• Serving as lead security expert while also implementing security into Azure migration for multiple regions. Transition security appliances seamlessly to virtual environment while also maintaining visibility within all.
• Lead security project coordinator assigned to design and implement Azure cloud migration collapsing two data centers in the process without losing visibility.
• Developed process to migrate all PKI resources into singular environment with zero downtime.
• Identify technical policy compliance by conducting vulnerability scans and using the results to make recommendations for mitigating risks within multiple environments.
• Mentor team members in malware analysis and forensic investigations to recover lost files and how to properly document process in all investigations

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Responsible for identifying, purchasing and implementing the appropriate security tool set to assess the company's infrastructure and applications environment. Responsible for implementation and administration of the.
• Determine security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements; conducting system security and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments by studying architecture/platforms while identifying.
• Verify security control compliance by developing, implementing and maintaining test scripts.
• Maintain security by monitoring and ensuring compliance to standards, policies, and procedures;
• Upgrade security systems by monitoring security environment and identifying security gaps while evaluating implementation enhancements

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Develop business plans, processes, and procedures to maintain standards for analysis of system vulnerabilities. Member of 13-person team with oversight of thousands of servers and desktops in enterprise architecture..
• Reduced labor costs by cutting time for configuration of software builds from hours to minutes and freed up team members’ time for other tasks with creation of standard configuration that expedited and streamlined.
• Improved transparency of shared information, such as audits and security logs, by centralizing log servers.
• Enhanced visibility of threat logging and spot vulnerability with implementation of Security Onion, software that reads through points of egress for network traffic to find patterns.
• Automated file analysis via implementation of Cuckoo SandBox enterprise wide.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Created security keys and certificates for big-box online retail sites to ensure their compliance with PCI regulations. Once completed, maintained sites within enterprise environment.
• Streamlined development of security keys and eliminated duplicates by initiating centralized location to oversee compliance.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Tested development projects to ensure compliance with security and operations standards before they moved on to production state.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Intelligence Analyst, NCOIC: Special Operations Division, Charleston AFB: Apr 2008 to Jul 2011Lead Database Analyst: Joint Intelligence Operations Center, Kabul: Sep 2008 to Mar 2009Intelligence Analyst: 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston AFB: 2006 to Apr 2008

Master'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General, 3.9

Master'S Degree, Cybersecurity, 4.0

Bachelor'S Degree, Network Security, 3.95

Bachelor'S Degree, Network Engineering, 3.95

Activities and Societies: DC480Communicate network infrastructure design with diagrams and documentation that includes identified hardware.