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I started real estate on the side because it provided my family with resources to get through some hardships and it is a means to build long term wealth for retirement.I have developed expertise in managing parts of property acquisitions and dispositions,My company buy, sell, and rent properties all over North Carolina.We also implement the following:• Manage and organize property acquisitions including financials and legal documentation.• Communicate and collaborate with homeowners, realtors, title firms, closing attorneys, and end-buyers.• Problem-solving and critical thinking required when helping clients, such as in foreclosures and probate.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

At Verizon, I identified security risk factors existed by participating inbusiness and IT efforts, while properly assessing compensating measures dueto failure to comply with main control criteria. Additionally, I contributedto company growth by participating in weekly meetings with management and atleast six security team peers to present project updates and risk overviews.• Assisted business and IT teams in adhering to NIST CSF duties by ensuringto follow corporate rules and procedures.• Supervised mapping initiatives based on industry standards, such as NIST800-53, NIST 800-171, NIST CMMC, FedRAMP, FISMA, and others.• Improved team performance by offering risk reduction suggestions, securityrequirements, and direction to IT and business teams, while establishing andmanaging mapping projects by using Unified Compliance Framework.• Created effective workflow process by offering direction and assistance onreducing risk in network systems utilized by multiple Verizon businessunits.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

While serving as a Shift Lead - Senior Cybersecurity Analyst, I led and mentored a three-person team successfully, while managing security services, defending and maintaining the security posture of Federal Government and SLED clients against malicious cyber-attacks.• Investigated alerts from IDS/IPS, Proxy and Firewalls and recommended remediation actions to account owners. • Responded to customer requests for investigation and additional information.• Led the incident response activities as needed.• Protected computer networks from cyber-attacks by implementing web/URL/content filters, NAT policies, and ACLs on FortiGate, Palo Alto and Cisco ASA, FTD, and FMC devices.• Managed SIEM tool by creating or modifying existing rules and alerts as part of tuning team.• Implemented firewall rules (i.e., ASA w/Firepower, FTD, and FortiGate) and performed SIEM tool tuning via change requests.• Performed resolutions to security related incidents and change requests within SLAs.• Engaged internal/external stakeholders to resolve advanced attack vectors, such as DDoS attacks and phishing campaigns.• Utilized signature and anomaly-based detection by correlating and analyzing logs to discover possible security breaches.• Created after action reports to upper management for security breaches and network outages. • Provided excellent customer care to over 80 Federal clients via ticketing system, email and weekly customer calls to enhance incident management process, resulting in client satisfaction and retention.• Developed, evaluated, and amended existing documentation and processes, such as standard operating procedures (SOPs), runbooks, playbooks and other documents as needed.• Filtered out 40% of false positives and improved productivity by $350k in Q1 of 2021.• Monitored and managed the health of routers, switches, and firewalls within Verizon’s data centers.

San Jose, Ca, Us

During my tenure at Cisco Systems, I leveraged knowledge in informationsecurity, helping in security of client data by reporting suspicious orharmful activities, leading to excellent department performance. Moreover, Iserved as mentor for junior analysts and college students as well as createdtraining documentation and presentations for SOC personnel.• Researched and performed network-based and host-based threat hunts utilizing internal threat intelligence feeds.• Investigated IDS/IPS security events for intrusion, malware, server-side exploit, and lateral movement events.• Performed analysis and correlation of event logs and data including firewall, proxy, Windows, Cisco Firepower IDP/IPS, AV (Cisco Secure Endpoints, McAfee and Symantec), NetFlow, syslog, DNS, and additional log types forwarded by customer.• Conducted full packet capture analysis to supplement log analysis using Wireshark.• Governed malware analysis using Cisco Secure Malware Analysis and Hybrid Analysis.• Utilized Cisco and open-source tools such as Cisco Secure Endpoint (EDR), Firepower, Umbrella/OpenDNS, Secure Malware Analysis (Threat Grid), Kibana/Elasticsearch, Bro/Zeek, Silk, Hybrid Analysis and VirusTotal for event analysis.• Monitored and managed the health of routers, switches, and firewalls within Cisco’s data centers.

San Jose, Ca, Us

This role supported much of the same responsibilities and devices as the Advanced Services Lab Engineer role below with a handful of notable exceptions which are mentioned here. • Responsible for monitoring the CALO case queue for requests to support TAC engineers. • Prioritized case work according to CAPs and P1-P4 cases. • Worked closely with TAC engineers to case closure and assisted team members with case work in order to meet service level agreement (SLA).• Set up, configured and managed lab environments with all of the devices mentioned in the previous role.• Maintained Sourcefire team lab equipment consisting of Firepower devices such as the FMC, FTD, and ASA.• Updated software, troubleshooted connection issues and installed new devices as needed.

San Jose, Ca, Us

This role was responsible for managing, monitoring, and dispatching case requests while supporting Customer Support Engineers.• Managed ticket queue for lab setups ranging from CAP, P1, P2, P3, and P4 priority.• Trained new co-ops for daily lab operations and procedures.• Setup lab environments for various teams - Data Center, Service Provider, and Enterprise.• Managed TAC team lab network consisting of Firepower devices such as the FMC, FTD, and ASA.• Worked with traffic generators such as IXIA, Spirent, and Pageant routers.• Configured Cisco UCS Blade Servers and Fabric Interconnects.• Configured Nexus devices and FEX switches including 2k, 3k, 5k, 6k, 7k, and 9k series.• Configured single, dual, and multi-homed lab networks.• Installed and configured various VoIP phone models.• Installed and configured CommServers and backbone switches. • Installed and configured over 40% of PDU’S in the AS lab infrastructure.• Installed ESXi with vSphere on bare metal servers.• Configured routers such as GSR 12K, CSR 1K, ASR 1K, ASR 9001, ASR 9006. • Configured ISR G2 routers such as 1900, 2900, 3900, 4451X. • Configured multilayer switches such as 4500, 6500, and 7600.• Installed and updated software on all devices listed above.• Reported infrastructure related outages related to HVAC.

Miesbach, Bayern, De

Responsible for assisting Tier 1 and Tier 2 with Help Desk Support tasks and deploying desktop and laptop computers per new hire among other tasks.• Imaged computers in inventory for distribution to new hires.• Upgraded and installed Microsoft Office 2013 on staff computers.• Installed additional engineering software such as SolidWorks and CATIA.• Upgraded computer hardware components such as RAM and HDD as needed.• Troubleshooted, fixed or swapped out bad peripheral devices.• Configured network printers and troubleshooted and fixed issues.• Audited workstations, laptops, Cisco IP phones, and network copiers.

Nc, Us

Assisted in installing, configuring, imaging, diagnosing, and maintaining computers at the community college. • Upgraded 100% of the campus with Cisco Aironet 1200 series access points which was the first ever install of a campus-wide Wi-Fi access system.• Converted over 60% of lab computers from Wi-Fi to Ethernet as a workaround to resolve wireless adapter signal strength connectivity issues. • Led small team of students to install 40% of distribution racks with patch panels and preconfigured Cisco switches in wiring closets.• Upgraded 30% of campus wiring closets from legacy CAT3 ethernet cable with CAT5e. • Configured network printers throughout the campus such as Hewlett Packard and Ricoh.• Wiped and cloned HDD using Symantec Ghost cloning software.• Cannibalized unusable equipment and prepared equipment for annual computer sale.

Washington, Dc, Us

Bachelor Degree In Industrial Technology, Information And Computer Technology

Associates Degree In Electronics, Computer And Electronics Engineering

Associate Degree In Networking Technology, Information And Computer Technology