William Railey Email & Phone Number

Zebulon, Nc, Us

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Manage a team of engineers supporting multiple high visibility and critical security services from EDR, Email Security, NAC, ATM Security, Vulnerability Scanning, and Secure Configuration tools at the second largest Credit Union in the U.S. Provided monthly Service Briefs to CISO and Senior Leadership Team for program and project awareness within Information SecurityProduced monthly reports for review with Associate EVP of Cyber Security Operations which included vulnerability metrics for monthly board of directors reporting, program KPI metrics, and completed milestones as well as goals for the upcoming monthLed team to execute the transition from legacy on-prem anti-malware control to a modern SaaS EDRplatform within 3 months of taking the role and took overall control coverage from 55% to over 97% in the environmentAccepted role expansion by taking on Vulnerability Management program in addition to existing dutiesAccepted additional role expansion to Application Security where I developed partnerships withdevelopers and cadence to design Secure SDLCCreated strategic roadmap for Endpoint Defense and Vulnerability Management program mapping into overall Information Security RoadmapCollaborated with cross-functional teams and GRC to resolve regulatory and internal findingsDeveloped Staffing Plans, Job Descriptions, Individual Development Plans, executed Performance Management as neededCompleted weekly employee One on Ones, Performance Check-ins, and Annual Reviews to track career development and overall well-being of employeesWorked to produce creativity within the team to own their area and produce their own monthly goals for control development Collaborated with cross-functional teams within Information Security and IT to produce secure solutions to critical business problems Led team to work in a more Agile methodology by establishing regular scrum meetings as well as weekly planning meetings to ensure continuous delivery on work efforts

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

-Senior Lead Cyber Security Engineer for environment spanning on-premises, cloud and various operating system platforms. Oversaw sensor deployment and maintenance to environment with no production impacts.-Lead Cyber Security Engineer for prevention policy management and advancement, API integration, configuration, and maintenance to ensure streamlined response capabilities, device hardening, and risk reduction to critical assets. Developed SIEM reporting to aid management in reviewing status of critical items for EDR.-Lead Cyber Security Engineer for merger project for Endpoint Security applications on all corporate images. As part of this project, created and executed test plans based on requirements gathered, performed functionality testing based on requirements to identify security gaps, executed performance testing to ensure improved performance while ensuring a hardened device, compiled documentation for test results which were presented to upper management.-Lead Cyber Security Engineer for merger project to expand packet capture platform to meet requirements and through that effort, created architecture diagram which was the model for approval by upper management, created more efficient platform reducing packet loss from 60% to less than 1%, created additional alerting, dashboards, and profiles to improve threat hunting capabilities.-Lead and mentor junior engineers for team enablement and skill building through team collaboration efforts, procedure creation, training exercises, and planning sessions to outline projects and tasks -Created procedures for teammates to follow for repeatable processes such as packaging requests, version updates, prevention policy tuning, and alert tuning -Lead tuning meeting with SOC analysts to review alerts, discuss tuning efforts, provide technical expertise, along with offering availability during investigations

Charlotte, Nc, Us

-Lead Security Engineer on Configuration Management project. Also created scripts to validate configuration of security applications where required on devices. Executed reporting to identify inconsistencies in configurations. -Lead endpoint security agent testing, deployments, and migration to new environment. Responsible for version control, health of agent, and troubleshooting procedure. Wrote procedure for Operations team to restore agent health based on operating system. Made significant strides in application coverage, configured File Integrity Monitoring rules and applied to critical devices to meet regulatory requirements -Lead Security Engineer on Network Packet Capture platform which previously did not have a dedicated engineer. Restored platform health, collaborated with SOC and Intel teams to build alerting use cases which were mapped to the MITRE framework. -Developed previously non-existent use cases to enhance alerting. Developed environment specific profiles and metadata to ease and aid threat hunting efforts -Security Engineer for Email Security application where operational health was maintained. Participated in upgrades, assisted SOC teams with questions and provided necessary guidance.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

-Lead operational support for enterprise antimalware on Windows and Mac endpoints, coordinated and executed environment upgrades and migrations, consistently maintained up to date definitions, configured scheduled scans to ensure all devices completed scans, closely supported SOC analysts to appropriately tune false positives, collaborated with SIEM Engineer to define alerts in a centralized platform, and produced monthly KPI reports to present environment status and health. -Successful projects include implementation of Host Firewall on Windows 10 devices to centralize Firewall management, implementation of HIPS policy on all Windows devices where no equivalent protection previously existed -Lead new infrastructure build within high security air-gapped network which ensured regulations were met, such as daily antimalware scans and reporting on failed scans, along with up-to-date definitions -Created scripting to force check-in and update of antimalware agents -Assisted tier 1 and 2 support with troubleshooting, as well as developed process documentation

Raleigh, Nc, Us

-Administration of Endpoint Security applications such as antimalware, FDE, Vulnerability Scanning, and File/Folder allow listing in Windows environment-Lead engineer for application allow listing and built the policy from scratch to full functionality on a new ATM platform -Lead engineer for vulnerability scanning application by producing reports, assisting and training engineers with reporting on their assets, and remediating vulnerabilities -Lead engineer for PCI application for ATM and debit cards Active Directory administration of Group Policy, OUs, object creation, and role assignment

Raleigh, Nc, Us

-Imaging Windows Desktops and Laptops in production, test, and development environments -Executed device replacement and data transfer for Windows 10 upgrade -Installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of end-user hardware and software

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

-Responsible for backing up and restoring data to mission critical servers for multiple worldwide companies in 27 countries -Provisioned cloud storage for new customers across a range of backup software -Responded to alarms on backup servers and performed tier 1 troubleshooting on Linux and Windows servers -Led daily status call with peers from other countries to review current requests and progress on provisioning efforts

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology And Information System Security

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