Management Security

Shawn M. Gregory

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Highland Village, Tx 75077

Cell: 225-***-**** email:*****@***********.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

With approximately 20 years of enterprise IT support, management, and

leadership experience in the public sector, publicly held corporate and

privately held corporate environments. Duties include budgeting, risk

management, employee motivation/supervision, interviewing and hiring,

security analysis, systems administration, and design of enterprise

hardware/software solutions. Strategic planning related to future growth,

corporate stream lining and disaster recovery opportunities with a history

of successful administrative process changes that decreased risk, reduced

costs, and increased revenues contributing directly to bottom line.

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY

Affirmative Insurance Holdings Inc. - Dallas, TX February 2005 - Present

Director of System Services

. Responsible for building and maintaining Network Operations Center

(NOC). Responsibilities include green field build out of a distributed

NOC. This build out included selecting technologies such as Altiris

Monitoring Solution, Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor, and

Security Onion Intrusion Detection System. I was also responsible for

building the policies and procedures including SLAs for newly created

roles. I personally developed integration points between technologies

for more complete transparency and reporting capabilities. Finally I

was responsible for maintaining relationships between IT and Key

Business Divisions.

. IT Leader responsible for insourcing infrastructure services. IT

leader during a large insourcing project that involved bringing all

infrastructure services in house. Services include security, server,

voice, LAN/WAN, desktop, and helpdesk support; resulting in material

cost savings, increased efficiencies, and higher customer satisfaction

due to stream lined processes.

. Lead a team that integrated companies' technologies post merger.

Leader for integration of new acquisition. Technologies integrated

include LAN/WAN, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Security Appliances,

domain, email, VoIP phone systems, application and supporting utility

servers.

. Managed the move of multiple operating centers including.

Responsibilities included vendor management, business coordination,

planning of all technical aspects, and oversight of implementation.

. Managed and played a critical technical role in the roll out of a

multisite Linux based Intrusion Detection System. Working with lead

network engineer multiple Linux based IDS systems were deployed across

operating centers and data centers to gain visibility into an

additional layer of security. Technology has been rolled out to adhere

to the principles of Network Security Monitor (NSM) working in

conjunction with Continuous Monitoring (CM).

. Prepared for, maintained vigilance through, and recovered from

hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Ike. Part of a business team

that prepared our company for 4 major hurricanes, also lead in

technical preparedness for these hurricanes. During these hurricanes,

monitored the data center as well as the Wide Area Network and kept

the CEO and other executives up to date. Post Katrina and Rita, was

part of a 2 person team allowed into the disaster zones to scout out

damage and plan recovery. During the first weeks after these

disasters, was the primary decision maker in the chain of events that

lead to a quick and successful recovery. Finally post hurricanes,

created an environment that would allow better redirection of

resources to allow less down time in the event of another disaster

while continuing to plan for future growth toward full business

continuity.

. Designed and implemented multiple policies that helped my company

become Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) & PCI Compliant. Policies such as network

usage, change management, and ID management are just some of the

policies created to help streamline IT operations and mitigate risk.

These policies were successfully rolled out and maintained.

. Member of leadership team engaged to redesign organization. Selected

by CIO to assist with the reorganization of the IT roles and

responsibilities including evaluation of management chain and career

paths.

. Responsible for migrating WAN to maintain stability and utilize latest

technologies. Over the past 10 years I have migrated from legacy WAN

technologies to well accepted WAN technologies. For example: Point to

point -> MPLS (Approximately 220 T1s, Multiple DS3s and OC3s) -> MPLS

(Ethernet Circuits) -> Researching VPLS to fit our company's needs.

. IT Focus Group Advisor. Selected by CIO to act in an advisory capacity

for the IT Focus group.

Public Systems Associates - Baton Rouge, LA June 2001

- February 2005

Systems Administrator

. Lead major project in design, plan, purchase, and implementation of

automated security system for Louisiana State Capitol complex. Scope

includes multipoint access of full complex; fully digital camera

system, and plans for wireless monitoring of all cameras.

. Team member in roll out of wireless LAN. Using latest wireless

technology, a multi-SSID WLAN was rolled out and used in tandem with

Microsoft's ISA Server 2004. This combination allows for both public

and private access to the wireless system giving authorized users an

encrypted pipeline to the internal network, while giving public access

to only the internet.

. Team leader during upgrade of the State Capitol complex's network.

Organized a team of 10 people to upgrade all network equipment in the

capitol complex. Equipment ranged from a new backbone down to more

than 40 switches. Upgrade increased network bandwidth 10 fold and

users had 0 down time during working hours.

. Team member in successful implementation of disaster recovery with

regard to Exchange email system. Corruption in the exchange database

required us to run extensive repair utilities on the database as well

as recover a previously backed up database. Once the existing database

was repaired and the lost data was recovered we moved all data to more

robust hardware.

. Significantly reduced work load by and improved efficiency by 10%

department-wide by designing and implementing automated software

solutions. These solutions were used in a variety of ways ranging from

building wide upgrades to day to day tasks. Examples are original

extension to the "users and computers" snap-in which allows active

directory user data to be transferred to third party software, and

scripts designed to automate upgrade processes throughout building.

. Redesigned backup operations to reduce processing time spent by 30%

and cost by 60%. This change cut time spent by reorganizing the

handling and storing of both offsite and onsite storage, resulting in

decreased amount of server down time in cases of lost and corrupt

data.

. Acting liaison between company's upper management and top elected

Louisiana state officials. Realized that communication difficulties

where severely damaging relations between the two parties. Met with

state officials and after researching past meetings, isolated

communication barriers, and changed approach to discussions. Existing

conflicts were dissolved which allowed two parties to resume mutually

beneficial relations.

H & R Block - Baton Rouge, LA November 2000 -

July 2001

District level Network Administrator

. Selected by management to take lead in district wide budget

operations. After taking lead in budgeting operations, reorganized

all data and made up for a week of lost time. Budget was turned in on

time.

. Selected by regional management to add a second district to my

responsibilities. Was able to double work load, and correctly balance

over 20 separate networks.

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

Management experience

Hiring manager Security Response

Budgeting Job costing - Material/Labor

Project Management Employee Interoperability

management

Streamlining Operational Council/Train/Discipline

optimization subordinates

SOX/PCI/HIPAA/GLBA Compliance Vendor Selection/Scheduling

Security experience

White hat

Hunting

Architecture

Defense

Physical Security Administration

Wireless Security

OS/Network

Windows 3.1, 9x, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008,2012

7, 8, 8.1 Server

Linux (Ubuntu) F5 Load Balancer

Fortigate/Cisco ASA/ Juniper VMWare Director

Firewalls

Switching Cisco CAT-OS/IOS/NX-OS

VPN BGP/EIGRP/OSPF Routing

DHCP/DNS Active Directory/ Group Policy

Objects

Development/Application experience

Symantec - Altiris Exchange 5.5 - 2010

SQL Server Snort, Sguil, ELSA, Squert, Snorby

Trend Micro Neat Suite/Encryption Symantec Ghost/Antivirus

Microsoft Virtual Server/PC - Solarwinds Performance

VMWare ESX/Server/Workstation Monitor/Cirrus Configuration

Manager/Engineer Tools

Callxpress/Rightfax Macromedia suite MX

Microsoft Visual Studio .Net IVR

SQL HTML

Fortran Assembly

EDUCATION

Executive Level Masters of Business Administration - Louisiana State

University

Baton Rouge, LA - Graduation date December 2008

GPA 3.8

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science - Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Fundamentals of Supervision - Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Developing your Managerial Effectiveness - Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Interpersonal Success in the Workplace - Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Installing/Monitoring/Hunting - Security Onion Solutions

Atlanta Georgia

CERTIFICATIONS

Microsoft Early Achievement Awarded - One of the first 1000 worldwide to

receive MCSE ver. 2003

Previously Cisco Certified Network Associate - Routing and Switching

ITIL Foundation ver. 3

Achievements

Microsoft Early Achievement Awarded - One of the first 1000 worldwide to

receive MCSE ver. 2003 certification.

Mentor for high school and college students interested in a technical

future

Published in Biztech magazine November 2006 featured article "The Gathering

Storm" for efforts in and after Hurricane Katrina

Founding father of LSU chapter of Delta Sigma Phi

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