VLADIMIR SHIKHMAN

**** ******* **., ********, ** 11235 646-***-**** ac3asx@r.postjobfree.com CCNA, CCDA, CCNA Voice

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vladimir-shikhman/13/788/889/

Objective

IT Security Analyst, Cybersecurity, IT Infrastructure Auditor, GRC, Internal IT Controls and Compliance, PCI Compliance, IT Auditor. UNIX/Linux/Windows Sys Admin, IT Security Architect with experience in cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, etc) and orchestration, hoping to maintain and engineer a Secure and Reliable IS Environment.

Experience

IT Security Analyst, IT Auditor, Consultant – MTA Headquarters 03/2016 – Present

NYC, NY

Provide directions and hands-on instructions to obtain IT Compliance. Verify IT Security, Management Control and IT Controls Compliance using various tools, such as LT Auditor+ by Blue Lance, Control Compliance Suite by Symantec, Power Shell, bash, GRC by Oracle

Verify Audit Results from the other Auditors; Validate Collected Evidences

Maintain/Support (back-end) of the main Business Apps based on IBM AIX-5.x, RedHat-5.x and Oracle. Compile Run Books

Implement and manage auditing and security policies and procedures

Infrastructure Support, User Support; AD support, GPO Management, W10, Office’365

IT Admin, Consultant - Innovative Software Creators, Inc 01/2014 – 03/2016

Brooklyn, NY

Configure, secure, and administer Linux and Windows systems on Amazon AWS, Digital Ocean, Azure and Rackspace cloud platforms for SMB clients (printdiecut, great.digital, …)

Properly size and build Linux (Red Hat, CentOS, Debian) EC2 instances for web workloads

Install and configure LAMP environment, WORDPRESS setup and maintenance

Use Puppet to configure and maintain database, webserver, and file server roles for on-demand provisioned images

Use Amazon CloudWatch on AWS to monitor and troubleshoot box infrastructure, along with standard UNIX monitoring tools (ps, iostat, du, sar, tcpdump, …)

Create web and database log analytics using Splunk

Configure OpenVPN tunneling between cloud infrastructure and locally hosted infrastructure

Windows/Linux System Administration at the client’s site. Infrastructure, Networking

IT Specialist North America Chesapeake Pharmaceutical Packaging

02/17/1997 – 12/31/2013

Hicksville, NY

Configure and install Unix/Linux/Windows/Macs servers; System/Security/Application Administration. Systems and Network Monitoring. Security Audits

Software Development and Testing

Configure and install Cisco R&S, WLC, AP, FW and appliances. Infrastructure Support LAN/MAN/WAN and monitoring (NTP server, SNMP poller, Nagios monitoring and alerting)

IT Security, Internal Controls, IT Compliance; SOX Compliance. Perform and document SOX testing of IT General Controls in the areas of Security, Change Management, Application and Data Access, and Monitoring Controls

Manage application patches, data backup, security changes and network configurations across a heterogeneous environment of 16 RHEL and 24 Windows servers (Puppet)

Develop tools and Python/shell/PowerShell scripts to monitor reliability and functionality of the environment, tasks automation

Configured and managed Asterisk PBX phone system, as well as Cisco Call Manager

Collaborate with the global team to resolve IT support cases

Serve as sole database administrator for IBM Informix DB storing mission-critical ERP data

Conduct annual IT Compliance Audits across North American Sites

Develop and maintain accurate systems and network documentation (internal Wiki pages and Visio diagrams)

Accomplishments

Designed and setup a new HQ to be relocated from Hicksville, NY to Raleigh, NC 2013

Designed Wiring of Network Infrastructure for Shop Floor Data Collection across NA

2012

Planned and supervised Fiber and CAT5e Ethernet cabling for 70,000 sqft combined production floor to 24 PLCs that support industrial printing press equipment

Configured vendor equipment (PLCs, PCs) using vendor-supplied documentation and built monitoring system for infrastructure using Nagios (via SNMP polling)

Consolidated legacy physical Windows 2003 server environment to VMWare virtualized Windows 2008 R2 environment, reducing physical server count from 28 to 10

Move P2V and V2V using VMWare Converter

As per Customer’s Request installed trial Version of the Websphere and use MQ

Directed Front Office and Shop Floor IT relocation from Brooklyn, NY to Lake Success, LI in 2002 and from Lake Success, NY to Hicksville, NY in 2008

2008

Designed regional datacenter infrastructure and laid out data cabinets and points of distribution throughout front office and shop floor equipment

Orchestrated IT turnover from one location to another with no interruption in business operations

Migrated Avaya Merlin PBX to Definity, then to the open source Asterisk system at NY, and moved from Definity to Cisco CME at multiple locations and saved $60,000 in implementation costs

Researched and implemented WAN link using bonded T1 as a primary connection with Verizon FIOS as backup

Upgraded ERP System from IBM AIX-3.x to 4.x, then to the 5.x, then migrated from AIX to RHEL-4.x, then to 5.x; Move to the VMWare-4.1, then upgraded to VMWare-5.x

Achieved Complete Sarbanes Oxley Regulatory IT Compliance in Six Months

2007

Worked with auditors from Ernst & Young (E&Y), PwC and Deloitte to ensure SOX compliance

oCreated procedures for ensuring segregation of duties in IT processes and change control systems

oCreated procedures for ensuring segregation of duties in IT processes and change control systems

oAutomated backup systems and ensured that ensured that logs were collected and retained according to SOX requirements

oDocumented backup and disaster recovery procedures

oCreated password policies and database change auditing systems

Manage all IT equipment purchasing across All North American Sites 2013

Negotiate with IT vendors for office desktop hardware and printing supply contracts

Migrated and consolidated heterogeneous networking infrastructure to Cisco hardware with a support contract to lower operational burden

Education

Kiev Polytech Institute

1974-1980 Masters in Electrical Engineering (EE)

Technical Skills

Install/Configure and Maintain Wintel, UNIX (AIX-5.x), Linux (RHEL/CentOS), HP-UX

Strong understanding of various TCP/IP Protocols and Services

Implement and manage auditing and security policies and procedures

ITIL, CISM and CISA Knowledge; Process Improvement(s). SOPs, GRC Audit Software/Tools, CISA Certification working toward

Risks and Mitigations; Security Policy Development; SOC 2, SOX, IT Compliance

Recommend continuous improvements & streamlined processes

Coordinate discussions to resolve concerns & assess risk

Support test conclusions with clear, appropriately referenced work paper documentation

Identify key risks (actual and emerging) within IT processes and controls

Support enterprise IT projects to optimize control structure and reduce risk

Task Automation using Python, Bash, and Power Shell. Informix 4GL Programing

Linux Systems Installation/Upgrade/Update using Puppet Labs, Chef, Ansible

Data Center (NOC) Design/Management/Migration/Consolidation and Relocation

Applications/DB Design/Management/Migration/Consolidation and Relocation

System/Network/Security Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Solarwinds, Splunk, CloudWatch

Desktop and Server Support Windows’/7/8/10, 2003/2008/2012/2016. MAC’s Support

Exchange Server Administration, MS Office Support, File/Print Network System Support

VPNs. Multi Point Dynamic VPN. HA Proxy

Develop and maintain Backup and DR procedures. Test Restore. DRP/BCP

Active Directory Management; Auditing, Security Event Analysis; GPO Management

Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Database Administration (Informix/DB2, MySQL, Postgres, Sybase). SQL Queries

Design and Support/Maintenance of the Traditional and VoIP Phone Systems

Front/Back Office Network Design, Cisco L2/L3 Switches Management, Routers, Firewalls, ASAs.Juniper Support. Traffic Engineering

Infrastructure Capacity Monitoring and Planning platform

Advanced problem solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively with other

VMWare Support via vSphere Client; VMware Converter: P2V, V2V. Citrix Support

Experience in SAN/NAS/DAS storage environments

Multisite Help Desk, User Support and Troubleshooting. Screen Sharing

Operations Cost Control

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