Ryan Jones Email & Phone Number

Colleyville, Texas, US

• Perform regular vulnerability scanning and remediation to reduce risk and secure client servers using a combination of Nessus scanner, Windows update service, Group Policy, and Chocolatey
• Manage SentinelOne to investigate incidents, block and remove malware, reduce brute force attempts, and verify user behavior. Along with this, work with the scalyr agent to increase logging and visibility.
• Perform regular audits within Active Directory and Office 365 environments to verify activity and behavior.
• Write scripts to keep uptime for servers and services as well as manage Office 365 security by way of the powershell interface.
• Led several full site deployments to apply SentinelOne agents to all machines in our client’s company network.

Dallas, TX, US

• Built an automated GitHub script which filtered through repositories scanning for potential vulnerabilities left by expired or outdated links
• Worked on implementation of the IR ticketing system which helped collate related issues and automated common analysis and remediation tasks to reduce incident responder fatigue
• Tested different Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) platforms (e.g., SecureX and Tines) focused on information referencing capabilities
• Collaborated with various security teams to automate tasks related to phishing triage, network analysis, intrusion attempt classification, and log analysis
• Simulated a phishing campaign to raise cybersecurity awareness and ensure all employees were trained to handle malicious spam, links, and other spoofed emails

Bryan, TX, US

• Managed physical servers with ESXi, as well as oversaw and managed a server migration
• Managed transitioning team from ESXi hypervisor to Citrix and worked to transition scripts and automation for creation and distribution of credentials for class labs
• Developed and supported multiple class labs with up to 500 concurrent cybersecurity students, and handled system security accounting for expanded permissions
• Led a team of up to eight people and managed assigning tasks, communication, scheduling, and tracking of projects within the group

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Helped with the education of sales interns on technical knowledge to assist in landing multiple sales transactions
• Adapted an existing project from a team in England for inventory management and checkout systems to present to potential customers in the US
• Worked with a team to handle the process of project initiation to being ready for sale

Bryan, TX, US

• Managed and improved access to Virtualized networks from outside network locations
• Developed and managed AWS CloudFormation templates and networks to teach students while managing the sub-user policy to give them firsthand AWS EC2 experience
• Handled distribution of personal credentials for students within the courses
• Delivered support to students with regard to the various technical issues they experienced

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Programmed a humanoid robot to create a voice-guided system for assisting large groups of incoming clients with building directions and organization contacts
• Created documentation and programming libraries which were used to support production and further development internally
• Gave a presentation over the development of the humanoid robot at the end of the internship to a large internal team which included higher level management