Years of experience in deploying and maintaining an enterprise-level IBM Qradar on-premesis deployment for the United States government as well as cloud-based QRoC. Very familiar with rule creation and tuning and working with the SOC. Enthusiastic about architecting custom platform integrations between security tools using Python, databases and REST API. Regularly work with system and platform administrators to architect methods of log ingestion and parsing. Extensive use of Python, bash, VB and other scripting tools for creating custom syslog delivery solutions, including Azure and AWS logs. Very familiar with configuration and implementation of on-prem software installs, upgrades, of collectors, processors and data gateways. Very familiar with Windows log forwarding agents such as WinCollect (both server and agent), Syslog-Ng, RSylog and custom Python log forwarding scripting.I also enjoy teaching and sharing my skillset as well as team collaboration.Hobbies include creating electronic projects with microcontrollers such as the ESP32, ESP8266, FPGAs and Arduino families. I've been writing, recording and performing music my entire life. I also enjoy playing tournament Texas Hold'em. I'm an avid animal lover.
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