Information Technology

Awishesh Thapa

Falls Church, VA *****

703-***-**** ********@*****.***

Education

Bachelor of Science: Information Technology, Current

George Mason University - Virginia Expected May 2018

Associates of Science

Northern Virginia Community College- Virginia Spring 2014

Degree Honors: Magna Cum Laude Cumulative GPA: 3.7

SKILLS

SIEM /Monitoring Platform

AlienVault, Nagios, PRTG

and Applications

Virtualization

VMware ESXI, VSphere, VCenter & XenServer

Services

SSH, SFTP, FTP, TFTP, OSPF, EIGRP

Languages

HTML, Python & Java

Networking

TCP/IP, UDP, LAN, WAN, DNS, DHCP, NAS, HTTP/S

Operating Systems

Windows OS, Centos 4/5/6, Ubuntu 16.04/14.04, Kali,

Debian 5/6/7/8

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

•Knowledge of network protocol analyzers such as Wireshark and Netflow Traffic

Analyzer.

•Familiar with Windows, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, and Centos

•Investigate possible or actual security violations and incidents to identify issues and areas of weakness and make policy changes accordingly.

•Experience in deploying small to medium scale network monitoring tools such as Nagios and PRTG.

•Working in Data Center’s managing servers, SAN and NAS devices like Cisco routers, switches and Dell servers.

•Expert knowledge of virtualizing applications such as VMware Workstation, ESXI,

XenServer and Virtual Box.

•Automating daily redundant task by using programming language such as python and shell.

•Team player with excellent interpersonal skills, and understanding the demands of 24/7 system maintenance and criticality of prompt response.

•Utilize IPS/HIPS/Antivirus tools like Carbon Black, Symantec.

Awishesh Thapa

Falls Church, VA 22042

703-***-**** ********@*****.***

RELATED EXPERIENCE

TruShield Security Inc. Sterling, VA

Security Engineering Intern (06/2017 – 11/2017)

•Configured monitoring tools and deployed SEIM (AlienVault or OSSIM) in secured environment.

•Build VM’s with the needed toolset to facilitate remote vulnerability scans and penetrating testing (Gray box and White box).

•Filtered and fine-tuned SIEM platform per client environment to generate appropriate alarms for the SOC team to analyze and report.

•Deployed AlienVault logger to store logs for long term storage.

•Troubleshooted and resolved SEIM and network related issues escalated by SOC

•Deployed and configured HIDS agents (OSSEC & NxLog) on Windows servers such as Microsoft Windows IIS, SQL, Exchange.

•Deployed, configured and managed network and service monitoring tools to monitor field appliances using SSH and Nagios Agent.

•Worked with the team of security engineers to identify and troubleshoot security problems

•Utilized network scanning tools such as nmap and ethercap to do scans and find open ports.

•Configured NIDS on the SEIM.

•Deployed ESXI platform with various VM’s to deliver SEIM services to various government and commercial clients

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