Security Management

George Ennis Larkin Jr.

Fayetteville, GA *****

********@***.*** 678-***-****

IT Architect - Security / Project Manager

Expert Architect in design, development, and delivery of security solutions

Extremely valuable and beneficial in achieving 100% security compliance. Expertise and creativity in Security Engineering, Project Management, and UNIX. Adept at fostering teamwork, supplying technical knowledge and experience in security to lead and provide aggressive solutions to maintain security compliance. Self-motivated team leader with excellent communication and written skills.

Create IT security policies and best practices to advocate strong organizational security compliance principles. Provide subject matter expertise in identifying, analyzing, and remediating security vulnerabilities, resolving security threats, and performing risk mitigation. Interject technical leadership, teamwork, innovation, organization, training, and expertise experience in security to lead and provide aggressive security compliance solutions.

Core Competencies/Areas of Expertise

Service Delivery

Life Cycle Management

Security Management

Harding and Remediation

System Administration

System and Production Support

Performance & Capacity Management

Patch Management

Project Management

Design & Development

System Analytic (Metrics)

UNIX Security Engineering

Incident & Problem Management

Application Support

Security Audit Expertise

Development Support

UNIX Technical Security Training & Mentoring

– Budget Management

Technical Skills

Languages: C Language and SHELL Programming

Platforms: AIX, HP-UX, LINUX, and Solaris

Databases: Informix

Tools: Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM), Compliance Issue Risk APAR Tracking System (CIRATS), Tivoli Endpoint Manager (TEM), Remedy, MAXIMO, Lotus Notes, Project Office, Server Resource Management (SRM), and Services Enable Automation (SEA).

Professional Experience

IBM GTS SYSTEM SERVICES, Atlanta, GA 11/2013 – 05/2016

I/T Architect, System Management Consulting, State of Georgia account

Roles: Unix Team Lead, UNIX Security focal, Project Manager

Demonstrated comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, network, application, and system engineering on the State of Georgia account as UNIX team lead by setting organization’s mission, strategies, and best practices to achieve service level agreements.

Provided high degree of technical team leadership through completion of complex State of Georgia security projects well ahead of schedule.

Led deployment of over 3K vendor-introduced AIX, LINUX, Solaris vendor security advisories to 600+ servers yearly as UNIX security focal which reduced possibility of server intrusion, threats, and security breaches to the State of Georgia server environment.

Achieved remediation of over 1.2M violations on 600+ servers during health check remediation projects which met 100% security compliance yearly.

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IBM GTS SYSTEM SERVICES (Continued)

Developed UNIX Platform Technical Specification for Information Security Control requirements used as security health checking polices to identify non-compliance security settings through automation.

Developed patch management standards and guidelines which caught attention of State of Georgia client and achieved deployment of security advisories to 600+ UNIX servers for 100% security compliance in less than 1 year while reducing contractual time required for patch management to 9 months, an improvement of 25%.

Negotiated and executed yearly contractual security requirements and best practices with Georgia Technology Authority, leading to cost savings of several million dollars when no defects were identified and no fines charged during yearly IRS audit.

Demonstrated aggressive security project management skills in leadership, deployment, and completion of yearly projects up to 3 months in advanced.

Received numerous accolades from State of Georgia customer agencies stating how patch management and health check remediation projects were well organized and executed without impact to client applications or causing any system outages.

Developed, tracked, and provided monthly progress reports for patch management and health check remediation to client to confirm that contractual obligations were met or exceeded.

IBM GLOBAL SERVICES, Managed Operations, Atlanta, GA 06/2009 – 11/2013

I/T Architect, System Management Consulting, Delta Airlines account

Roles: UNIX Technical Leader and UNIX Security Focal

Provided overall project plan, budget, structure, schedule, and staffing requirements to support Delta Airlines environment for UNIX Delivery organization, including client negotiating, vendor management, risk management, problem diagnosis and solution which led to exceeding all organization objectives.

Received numerous THANKS awards from colleagues’ in project management organization praising hard work for providing technical skills and recommendations in completing several projects under budget which saved over 1500 man hours ($90K) yearly.

Introduced team sharing methods to system administrators that involved cross-platform buddy training which allowed a 30% reduction in the UNIX Support team staff from 25 to 16 while supporting the Delta Airlines UNIX environment.

Mentored numerous technical employees and guided through standard documentation for on-boarding into to UNIX support environment to jumpstart productivity and increase impact to work environment within weeks of arrival instead of several months.

Analyzed and evaluated server scan tool vulnerability reports as UNIX Security Focal for patch management and health check remediation, ensuring 100% security compliance.

Identified security issues and risks, and developed risk mitigation plans critical for meeting security compliance.

Developed procedures and automation to review daily security logs on UNIX servers for any suspicious activity and alerted support staff to investigate and report incident.

Introduced security compliance requirements, guidelines, and training to UNIX support organization for security incident monitoring, health check remediation, audit readiness and to maintain 100% security compliance.

Conducted numerous IBM and Delta Airlines internal security audits (KCO, SAS70, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, and PWC) which led to 100% security compliance and successful corporate audit.

Senior I/T Architect, AT&T account 06/1999 – 06/2009

Roles: UNIX Team Lead, UNIX System Administrator, and UNIX Security Focal

Served as UNIX Technical Leader and subject matter expert for division (over 600 technical employees) in supporting production support and software development environment organizations, requiring 24/7 support availability to resolve any hardware / software technical and procedural issues.

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IBM GLOBAL SERVICES (Continued)

Consulted with all technical staff and project managers of division to guide through software development standards and production support processes / procedures, improving system availability metrics, meeting service level agreements, and achieving on-time delivery.

Developed business case for redesign, purchase, and development of hardware, operating system, network, and application required to support critical application for circuit management.

Architected and redesigned HP hardware platform, operating system, network, and web interfacing software for AT&T circuit test / configuration product, increasing client base from 100 to 200 and a revenue increase of 50%.

Achieved Y2K software conversion by analyzing, re-coding, and testing over 1M lines of code and making necessary changes to become Y2K certified and compliant.

Attended trade shows in many major cities, demonstrating AT&T product to potential customers and earning over $1M in revenue.

Led UNIX support organization in development of best-in-class standards and procedures, achieving organizational goals and objectives as a unified infrastructure.

Performed system administration function (OS / HW monitoring / resolution, hardware replacement, OS patching, scheduled server reboots, NetBackup, password admin, etc.) on 572 HP platform servers, exceeding SLAs.

Performed Capacity Management and Planning function using IBM Server Resource Management tool, meeting server performance service level agreement objectives.

Served as Security Focal Point in meeting 100% corporate audit security compliance and maintaining audit readiness for the AT&T account.

Developed GSD331 security requirements and appendices for AT&T account, achieving 100% compliance.

Defined alarm monitoring operating system resource thresholds for server alerting to support organizations instrumental in exceeding service level agreements for AT&T account.

Additional Experience

AT&T INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS, Alpharetta, GA and Lincroft, NJ

Principal / Senior Member of Technical Staff; Roles: UNIX Technical Lead

Education / Professional Development

Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Howard University, Washington, DC

Bachelor of Art (BA), Mathematics, Minor in Computer Science, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC

HIPAA Compliance Program – 7/23/15; HIPAA Overview – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act for Suppliers with Assessment – 1/27/16

Incident Management Process and tool training – 10/22/13; Information Security Information 9FTI) – 7/23/15; Federal Tax Information (FTI) – 7/13/15

Security Awareness Training – 12/17/15; Global Issue Management Process; Health Check Process – 2010; Patch Management Process – 2010; Audit readiness – 2011

Risk Management – 2011; Work Force Diversity – 2011

AIX 6 Basic – 2013; AIX System Administration II – Problem Determination – 2013

LINUX System Administration – Implementation - 2013

Awards

IBM Thanks Awards; BCS Service Delivery Systems Teamwork Award

Outstanding Contributions to the AT&T AIM product for Best-In-Class Accomplishments

Best-In-Class Achievement Awards for AT&T DSTS and AIM Applications

Innovation and Process Improvement Award

System Engineering and Management Quality Award (Honorable Mention)

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