Travis Cooper Email & Phone Number

• Primary Subject Matter Expert for all Splunk environments at Centene• Responsible for designing and documenting all Splunk environments• Tasked with reducing Splunk license costs while enabling more data to be sent to Splunk by using Cribl Stream to reduce the unused data being sent to Splunk Cloud• Work with Vendors on new products and solutions to new use cases• Work with internal customers on their current use cases and assisting in determining a solution

Greater St. Louis Area

Served as Subject Matter Expert of Secure Web Gateways while maintaining, implementing, and designing new Blue Coat ProxySG, Content Analysis, and Malware Analysis server.Served as the design lead and lead engineer on the project to replace a major enterprise deployment of Blue Coat with Zscaler.Designed a fully contained VMRay malware lab deployment that would be built either on-premise or in AWS to replace Blue Coat Malware Analysis sandboxes. Additionally supported the design after the decision was made to use VMRay SaaS instead of self-hosted.Served in many roles supporting the design, implementation, and administration of a large scale self-hosted multi-site Splunk environment, setup and maintenance on as many as 120 Linux based Splunk servers.Assisted with the design and implementation of a major migration from self-hosted Splunk to Splunk Cloud. The project includes 50+ new self-hosted servers to support the new cloud based implementation of Splunk.Implemented several SRE techniques including automating many tasks with Ansible Tower, implementation and design of all of the team repositories in GitLab, development and implementation of Service Level Objectives, and process mapping of all team processes to identify toil.Assisted with the design and lead the implementation on the rollout of Splunk Phantom.

Saint Louis, Missouri

Supported, maintained, designed, and deployed security tools across many security domains.Worked closely with vendors to plan system upgrades and enhancements and identify and correct bugs.Stood up new security appliances to support expansion and new data centers.Assisted in standing up new integrations with a large scale Splunk deployment, including building custom apps, dashboards, reports, etc.

Bridgeton, Mo

Support and maintain the firewalls for majority of the AT&T network.Work alongside engineering on new projects to ensure that the needs of operations are met.Support and maintain 100+ Linux servers providing security functions to part of AT&T's internal cloud.Support several virtual firewalls (vSRX, vF5) that are part of the AT&T Software Defined Network initiative, Domain 2.0, that are part of the large scale deployment of Virtual Network Functions on AT&T's OpenStack cloud.

Information Technology - Information Security

Implement a system to gather an inventory of the location of all sensitive data stored on campus computers and other devices.

Incident ResponseID ManagementVulnerability AssessmentsPolicy adviserDesign custom web crawler to identify PCI-DSS sites

Greater St. Louis Area

Worked on client sites to provide internal and external audit functionParticipated in both IT and non IT auditsRisk Assessments for a clientWorked with management on various reports, documentation, and client proposals

Began restructuring of training program to include computer based training Managed the internal knowledgebaseServed as subject matter expert for all areas of knowledge in the departmentSupervised as many as 70 employeesWorked with other departments to help streamline efficiency

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity And Information Assurance

Bachelor'S Of Science, Information Systems And Applied Technologies

Activities and Societies: Security Dawgs

Aas, Network Administration

Activities and Societies: Club IT, Midwest Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition