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***********@*******.*** Resume of Jonathan Gershater
Summary: A seasoned technologist with strong sales skills and a flair for marketing.
Virtualization and Cloud security: firewalls, IDS/IPS and Anti-virus.
Knowledge and strong interest of Healthcare technology and industry.
Identity Management: SAML, OAUTH, Authentication, Authorization, Provisioning
Strong knowledge VMware 5.0 and related products: vCloud, vShield, vCenter, vCLI
Working knowledge: XEN, KVM, OpenStack, Eucalyptus, Amazon Web Services.
Excel at finding efficiencies, streamlining business, global view with attention to
detail.
Achievements
Led product demonstration and due diligence that resulted in the acquisition of a
startup.
Broad spectrum of customers: SaaS companies, State, Federal Government, Universities.
Drove successful implementations of Enterprise Identity Software resulting in
references.
Publications & presentations
Blogs:
http://jgershater.ulitzer.com/
http://thehealthitblog.com/
YouTube Videos:
Protecting VMware Virtual Machines: 123456 -8&9/:;
File and System Monitoring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5HojP4jic
PCI Compliance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZImEXpEFmcQ
Publications:
Information Systems Security Association:
(https://www.issa.org/Library/Journals/2007/November/Gershater-
Trends in Identity and Access Management.pdf
Presentations
VMware User group Seattle, 2011
VMware Executive Briefing Center, 2011
Open Web Application Security OWASP - 2009 Secure Web Services.
Sun Microsystems sales conferences 2007 & 2008
JavaOne - 2001 Digital Signatures
Technical qualifications and skills
Virtualization and Cloud: VMware, XEN, KV, HyperV, AWS, vCloud, Openstack,Eucalyptus.
Firewall, IDS/IPS, Anti-virus, File Integrity Monitoring.
Identity Management, Authentication, Authorization, Federated Identity .
LDAP, Databases, PERL, Web Servers and XML.
Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Active Directory, Mac OS .
Certifications & Education:
BS, Information and Computer Science, University of California 1996
Certificate in Health Informatics, University of California, 2009, ongoing
CIPP Certified Information Privacy Professional. 2008
CSCS Certified Security and Compliance Specialist 2011
CCSK Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge 2012 pending
CompTIA Security+ 2012 pending
CompTIA Cloud Essentials 2012 pending
***********@*******.*** Resume of
Jonathan Gershater
Employment history
Cloud and Virtualization Security Trend MicroApril 2010 to PresentSubject Matter Expert and Sales Engineer
Securing VMware and Cloud environments.
Technology:
Deep experience with VMware: vShield, vCloud, VDI
Cloud: Amazon WebServices, Eucalyptus, OpenStack.
Virtualization: VMware, XEN, KVM, Hyper-V.
Sales experience
Customer interest generation presentations in person and by webex.
Product demonstrations in person and by webex.
Proofs of concept to demonstrate how Trend Micro products satisfy customer requirements
Closed significant deals: SaaS, Financial, Consumer, State & Federal Government,
Universities.
Other
Presentations at user conferences.
White papers for external and internal reference (available upon request).
YouTube videos: (see above)
Application layer routing & ESB Adara Networks April 2009 to February 2010Solutions Architect / Sales Engineer
Architected and presented solutions for Commercial healthcare companies, Content Delivery
Networks, US
Government, Department of Defense and Military Health.
Successfully executed on deliverables for SPAWAR government contract:
Reduced the time required to analyze project data, from eight hours to 15 minutes!
Configured full-scale application router using TCP/IP tunneling technology for faster
routing over
slower WAN links by using all available links (details can be provided in person.)
Took the initiative to use Wireshark network sniffer to analyze protocols and network
traffic
Designed and deployed CDN for optimized delivery of images and streaming media.
Took the initiative to write new HTML and PHP scripted demo for better showcase of
technology.
Used proprietary Dynamic DNS protocol for optimized discovery of nearest server
Integrated with Windows Media and Darwin streaming servers.
Integrated with openSource Squid caching server.
Web Services & SOA Security Layer7 TechnologiesSeptember 2008 to March 2009Solutions Architect / Sales Engineer -
Very customer focused at all levels of engagement, technical and business.
Took the initiative to conduct a webinar on Authentication and Access Control for XML.
Took the initiative to present company technology at an OWASP conference.
Succinct understanding of web services security.
Architected and presented solutions for multiple cus tomers and partners.
Worked with Sales Executive to find qualify prospects, understand problems and present
solutions
that met their needs
Demonstrated Layer 7 SecureSpan Gateway appliance: WS-POLICY and XML content.
Answer RFPs and RFIs.
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Identity Management Sun MicrosystemsJanuary 2005 to September 2008
Achievements
? Sales Contributed to the closure of many deals worth hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
? Post-sales led successful deployments of Identity solutions: Financial services,
retail & healthcare
? Voice of the customer took customer feedback to Product management for input in to
future releases.
? Successfully deployed LDAP Directories, (Sun Directory Server), and Sun Identity
Management
solutions across Financial, Retail, High-Tech and Healthcare verticals .
? Published papers and spoke at conferences.
Identity Management and LDAPArchitect ContractorOncology Therapeutic NetworkJuly 2004 to December 2004
Wind River SystemsJanuary 2004 to June 2004
Responsibilities
? Interview business units for identity management requirements.
? Write up technical specifications for identity management solution, based on business
requirements.
? Write project briefs and project plans
Achievements
? Selected corporate Sun Directory Server as the corporate LDAP Directory from criteria
gathered in
business analysis phase.
? Deployed and configured Directory Server in a secure and highly available
configuration.
? Integrated BEA WebLogic and Portal with Directory Server.
? Documented solution and educated users
Technical Consultant & Business Systems Analyst Contracto r
Kehillah High School & Intel Corp, CA June 2002 to Dec 2003Systems analyst - Configure and train users in the use of PowerSchool software. Author
reports in XML.
Sales EngineerEntrust IncJuly 1999 to April 2002
Responsibilities
? Provided technical support to account managers and product managers achieve objectives.
? Designed solutions for partners and customers and participated in sales activities.
? Wrote white papers, integration guides and sales presentations.
Achievements
? Led technical due diligence leading in the merger of Entrust Inc and enCommerce.
? Selected to speak on digital signatures, at Sun Microsystems JavaOne conference.
? Achieved certification for Entrust products with: PeopleSoft, BEA, Plumtree, IBM WebS
phere
? Designed and implemented customer integration solutions featuring:SingleSignOn, Digital
Certificate
authentication, Access control and authorization.
Technical Support Engineer Nuance CommunicationsApril to June 1999
? Assisted customers with the APIs and use of the Nuance Speech Recognition software.
? Wrote technical support bulletins that were published on the support web site.
? Managed support calls and emails from customers allow sa les managers to engage
customers
Network Systems Engineer3Com CorporationMay 1996 to April 1999
? Evaluated and installed system management software.
? Managed enterprise -wide Novell 4.X NDS and Windows NT network.
? Automated routine Netware tasks using Novell APIs reducing by 75% the man -hours
required.
? Diagnosed problems and improved server performance/response time by fifty percent.
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