Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Cybersecurity Professional with 20+ years of IT experience spanning infrastructure, networking, systems administration, and security engineering. Known for strong critical thinking, resourcefulness, and the ability to solve complex problems and deliver innovative, cost‑effective solutions that drive business value
- Implemented and Manage Varonis. - Implemented CrowdStrike EDR, NG-SIEM, Identity and Cloud - Led Migration and Management of CyberArk to PaaS Cloud Solution. - Manage on-premise and PTaaS Solutions and provide testing and reporting metrics to all levels of management monthly. - Primarily leads in Active Directory Red Team Assessments monthly, sends deliverables to management, as well as providing mitigation strategies. -Management and Implementation of Microsoft Azure InTune, DLP, Microsoft Gateway, Defender ATP, and CASB. -Deployment from full McAfee stack Migration to Microsoft Entra, Purvue, Sentinel -Responsible for Deployments, Implementations, and Management of CyberArk Privileged Access Management PAS. -Migration from Trellix and SkyHigh Proxy to Implementation and Management of NetSkope SASE for Web Gateway Protection, DLP, CASB company wide. -Implementation of DLP Digital Guardian Data Classification Management for HIPAA, PII, PHI, PCI, GDPR, NIST. -Conduct Red Team validation and Blue Team remediation of annual and quarterly security assessments to meet compliance. -Management of McAfee ePO and McAfee Cloud Gateway. -Management and Administration of LogRhythm SIEM. -Checkpoint, BIG-IP F5, and Palo Alto Management, Imperva, GigaVUE of IPS policies. -Vulnerability Management using Digital Defense, Tenable Nessus, FireEye, Ivanti, Beyond Security. -Recommend and Implement security policies company wide. -Assess and Advise IT security standards and practices for network, infrastructure, and holistic approach. -Penetration Testing and Remediation of Enterprise Corporate Network. -Organically Developed Red and Blue team practices. -Investigatory Searches using Safend, Solarwinds, Citrix ADC NetScaler. -Contributed to Develop and Mature Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Plans, Incident Response, and Business Impact Assessments. -Threat Intelligence and Detection, as well as Cyber Risk Analysis for emerging and advanced persistent threats.
●Regularly conduct Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Scanning, Physical Security Assessments, and Remediation. ●Administration of GCP and AWS. ●Responsible for technical legal and litigation investigations, including collections and analysis. ●Monitor Network with SIEM and IDS/IPS Solutions including Cynet, ARMIS, Darktrace, Alienvault, Packetsled, LogRhythm, Event Sentry, Graylog, Scrutinizer. ●Responsible for configuration and auditing of Cisco and Meraki Network Devices (Switches, Routers, Access Points, ASA's) and Maintained Firepower, StealthWatch, ThreatGrid, and AMP for DISA-STIG Compliance. ●Implemented SIEM's/Behavioral Intelligence Systems such as LogRhythm, Splunk, Darktrace, Alienvault. ●Migrated Veeam/EMC, VNXe Hosted Virtual Machines to Nimble Storage Array for all flash hot storage for VM Datastores. ●Managed Software Licensing Audits and License Compliance. ●Created and Structured Company Disaster Recovery Plan, with Risk Assessment and Threat Management Analysis on all Infrastructure. Managed and maintain all Information Security for compliance and auditing, company security awareness program, as well as day to day security and access permissions on all systems. ●Performed Help Desk, Desktop Support, and Windows Server/Network Administration, Cyber Security roles across multiple sites nationwide. ●Built, migrated, and maintained Domain Controllers (FSMO Role and Replication Management), Print Servers, DNS/DHCP/SQL Clusters. ●Implemented Asset Management and Inventory system for the company. Responsible for all Technology Asset Acquisition and Inventory. ●Managed All Active Directory and Group Policy. ●Implemented SOX/PCI Compliance policy proposals, for Best Practices in coordination with Human Resources, to establish security policies and audit reviews for technology and access related assets used by employees.
●Performed Tier-1 Support in Help Desk and Desktop Support role. Supported users in Windows, Mac OS, and HP Thin Client Terminal Environments troubleshooting a wide variety of issues including Citrix, HP/Canon Printers, Microsoft Great Plains, Adobe Creative Suite, and Office Applications. ●Managed Active Directory Group access for users, and remotely administrated permissions through PSTools and Powershell in line with SOX-PCI Compliance. ●Responsible for implementing backup solutions to remote users, as well as maintaining nightly server backups on HP Storage Works Tape Libraries, through DPM. ●Responsible for Software Auditing and Compliance Tracking for Licensed Applications. ●Wrote Standardized Help Desk Procedures Manual and Training Manuals. ●Responsible for Implementing and Maintaining Fast Storage Fiber MetaSAN solution for business-critical departments. ●Built, Configured, and Maintained Hyper-V server for Dev/Test environments. ●Managed remote software update pushes to all production client machines. ●Other projects included managing a large-scale Windows 7 migration for all client machines on the domain, print server setup and configuration for secondary building, and implementing SOX compliant solution for secure off-site data backup of remote users’ local data.
●Responsible for compiling and distributing morning reports to executives daily. ●End-User support for in-office and remote issues including VPN Troubleshooting, Print Server configuration, Active Directory (AD), Outlook, and Citrix issue support, as well as coordinating third party repair schedules for Ricoh Printers and Railroad Signal / Radio Communications hardware. ●In charge of reporting and delegating Mainframe and Linux Server batch job error troubleshooting and resolution, critical to daily production environments. ●In charge of monitoring corporate servers and network overnight to prevent and minimize production outages. ●Configured and activated Blackberry and iPhone devices for end users in the field.