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Syracuse, New York Area

Working alongside the #Best in the Industry leading Vulnerability Management & Cyber Exposure Company - Tenable. Working on Nessus plugins & alongside the most Talented Security Experts across the world. Identifying, researching, and engineering vulnerability detection plugins for Nessus across a constantly changing Cyber Exposure landscape of Infrastructure, Apps, Web, Cloud, Networking Devices, and Systems. Head-down / Hands-On-Keyboard Research Engineer working with Infrastructure, Web-Apps, DB's, 3rd-party components, software, network devices, & services across On-Premise & Cloud Infrastructure.Open-Source Leader of the SecDevOps@Cuse Cyber Range Project: https://github.com/secdevops-cuse/CyberRangeContinuous Learning Philosophy across Offensive Security, AWS Cloud Security, AWS Development / Architecture, & DevOpsMaster's Student of Cyber Security Engineering @SyracuseUniversity - C/Python, Reverse Engineering, WebApp, BufferOverflow, XSS, CSRF, FormatString, Runtime Trace/Backtrace analysis

Lead Cyber Security Program Instructor providing training of 8 broad, deep, and technical topics w/ hands-on labs to cohorts of students learning both basic & advanced cyber security concepts/skills across Research, Network/Windows/Linux/Virtualization, Network Attacks, the Cyber Attack Cycle, & Countermeasures / Defense; Cloud Security: fundamentals, virtualization, Containers, identity & access management, network virtualization, & cloud architecture; Linux Security:fundamentals, users & groups, networking & system mgmt, OS & Application hardening, Scripting,SELinux, & Privilege Escalation, iptables, firewall, & log monitoring

Syracuse

Supporting Cisco's implementation of OpenStack, the Cloud Computing virtualization software that improves Hardware Utilization, provides Software Defined Networks, and creates a private cloud. Focused w/in the *aaS Reporting space & testing/transitioning the broader D.C deployments & the implementation of a 3rd party Business Intelligence product handling the digestion, transformation, and enhancement of operational metadata of cloud infrastructure over 10+ global regions. The resources were serving customers across public, private, and corporate cost-center footprints.

Syracuse, New York

Key Accomplishments include:- Engineering, Architecting, and Developing a Business Intelligence Solution to automate detection of operational & systematic inefficiencies which resulted in a Year over Year return of $2.5M by increasing of successful system automation rates by 51% in 6 months.- Led then Mentored, the Globalization & Cross-Training Initiative across 80+ people residing in 3 Countries with 6 regionally separated offices supporting business critical technology operations. This established a global workforce providing 24x7x365 support to the enterprise across Unix, Windows, Mainframe, Mid-range, Database, as well as 3rd Party Vendors & Internal Business Apps..- Developing Automated Technology Solutions to improve both the access control posture as well as the rate of successful automation across 2+ million system and user accounts across the largest financial organization. - Created & Collaborated on multiple 3-year RoadMaps impacting various organizations. This outlined milestones of programs, the desired end-state, established a measurable return on investments.- Created automated programs which execute manual tasks associated with business processes, test driven development, metadata management, threat modeling, and performance testing.- Provided 5+ years of training & development of individuals at all levels focusing on understanding business priorities, global operations management, capacity & resiliency planning, and finally simplifying complex processes to increase efficiency and quality.

Syracuse, New York

Securities Master Database - Application Support Specialist handling requests and inquiries from Business Customers. Servicing 30+ downstream applications with sensitive financial data from various vendors.

Masters (P/T), Cyber Security Engineering

Bachelors Of Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: President of the Computer Science Association