Engineer Manager

N.BRIAN KEYSER

Greater Philadelphia Area ********@*****.*** 610-***-****

SENIOR SYSTEMS, NETWORKING AND SECURITY ENGINEER

Multi-certified solutions oriented technology professional with experience managing enterprise implementations in multiple disciplines – Systems, Networking and Security across multiple sectors including: Automotive, Chemical, Finance, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical and ISP/Telecom industries. Proven background in secure network design; increased security profile for systems and users, system analysis and development, and full Lifecycle Project Management.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Network Design. Network Administration. Network Monitoring. Server Administration. Server Hardening.

Active Directory Implementation and Management, GPO Management, DNS and DHCP Implementation and Management, Management of Security Profile. Risk Analysis .Change Management and Implementation. Documentation. Knowledge Transfer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SUNGARD AVAILABILITY SERVICES, Wayne, PA 2013-2016

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsible for senior level response and support to the Technical Operations Center (TOC) for worldwide support in the support of 16,500+ clients in the Public and Government sectors.

Supported over 45,000+ Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 servers and 5,000 + Red Hat and SuSE Linux servers.

Performed Active Director Management for multiple clients across local, regional and global operations with single and multiple tree configurations in standard and complex forest configurations involving DNS, DHCP, and GPO operations including monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting.

Performed VMware administration for VMware 5.x and 6.x topologies. Including site recovery manager, verification and implementation of industry best practices, and needs analysis and verification of incoming customers.

Supported virtualized infrastructures in addition to VMware including Citrix, Oracle Virtualized Managed Services, and Microsoft Azure on Cisco UCS environments, Dell and HP blades, chassis and rack mounted servers.

Performed Disaster Recovery (DR) testing and drills for MS clients.

Increased remote automated administration through scripting using BATCH, PowerShell and VB Script.

Active monitoring of customer resources with Zenos IT monitoring and ticket creation\resolution through ServiceNow.

Management of Symantec Enterprise Protection (SEP) across t client base.

Performed Change Management Implementations.

TRION GROUP, King of Prussia PA 2013- 2013

Network Engineer (Consultant)

Engaged to perform security audit and mitigate security concerns prior to data center relocation.

Companywide Security Analysis of current infrastructure and site-to-site connectivity.

Infrastructure updates of Firewalls and IDS/IPS security. Extreme Switch administration, DNS and DHCP modification and administration.

Support and Modification of VPN environment.

McAfee ePO server support and problem solving.

Mentoring of Junior IT staff.

The Sage Group 2010 -2012

Course Trainer

Trainer for CompTIA courses targeted for Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Telecom Industry Union Members.

Key Results:

Instructor for multicourse, CompTIA based training focused on the requirements for Verizon’s FIOS implementation and troubleshooting division(s).

Instructor for Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) course directed at Verizon’s FIOS home implementation.

Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the CompTIA A+, Network + courses. Created course testing modules for validation of course curriculum.

100 % course completion/passing rate.

JOHNSON AND JOHNSON ITS DIVISION, Raritan NJ 2010-2012

Security Analyst/Sr. Network Engineer (Consultant)

Project Management support for three separate and distinct projects; transitioned to the Global Security Operation Team (GSO) to work on the Web Filtering, IDPS Deployment and Data Leakage Protection (DLP) Project(s)

Web Filtering, IDPS DLP and Avecto Privilege Guard (APG): This project focused on Implementation of Blue Coat Web Filtering appliances, Sourcefire IDPS Systems and DLP procedures and the implementation of Avecto Privilege Guard (APG) Windows privilege suite deployed globally at J&J locations. Initial project deployment of McAfee Enterprise Security Manager as part of the JNJ SIEM initiative. Authored the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and Work Instructions (WI) for all functions of the Sourcefire and APG deployments.

Hardware Life-cycle Management Project (HLM): This project concentrated on the replacing servers that were End of Life (EOL) both hardware and OS. Project included the conversion of physical servers to VMware servers. All servers were built and audited to strict IQ/OQ/PQ guidelines. This led to a reduction of expenditure of US $8.6M dollars of the overall project reduction of US $69M dollars. Lead both the deployment team and the decommissioning teams as the project manager in the setup of 370 Microsoft 2003 and 2008 servers and the decommission of 479 Windows 2000 servers.

Data Center Consolidation Project (DCC): As part of the continuing mergers and acquisitions of the business, remote servers were relocated to an Enterprise Data Center.

Disaster Recovery Relocation Project (MOPS): This Project focused on the relocation of non-Production servers to a secondary Enterprise Data Center.

Management and administration of the JNJ Active Directory environment across multiple trees, forests including the modification of DNS, DHCP and Group Policy Objects.

Management and implementing of McAfee ePO on the JNJ server infrastructure.

BHD Group, Bethlehem, PA 2007-2010

Sr. Network Engineer

Recruited to provide high level business assessment, technology recommendations, implementation of goods and services and various levels of consulting for multi tear level clients

Project implementation team for the integration of servers, services and accounts related to 250M acquisition of a utility.

Introduced baseline security analysis and remediation in accordance to the Common Vulnerabilities and Expenditures (CVE) database.

Redesigned and implemented manufacturing facility LAN/WAN environment including Cisco 4500 switches, Cisco ASA Firewalls and domestic and international site-to-site VPN s.

Implemented configuration management and administration of Compaq, HP, Dell and IBM rack mount and blade server environments.

Implementation of SNORT IDPS for clients.

Implementation of HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) for clients.

Implementations of McAfee ePO and Symantec Enterprise Protection (SEP)

ACS Government Solutions at Northampton County, Easton, PA 2003-2007

Sr. Network Engineer/Acting Network Operations Manager

Responsible for the re-engineering of the LAN/WAN Infrastructure, the redesign and implementation of the Novell e-directory and Microsoft ADS trees, Increased security profile and overall systems availability.

Network Engineer

Reconfigured IP environment from a flat, non-manageable full Class B (65,535 addresses) network to multiple Class C routable VLANs. Increased overall speed, reliability and manageability.

Implemented SAN environment. EVA 4000, MSA 1500 and MSA 1000 installations.

Designed and implemented the 911 EMS network for all county Police Fire and EMS services.

Designed and implemented Microsoft and Novell cluster environments.

Full implementation and management of McAfee ePO for Desktops and Novell and Microsoft servers.

Network Operations Manager

Managed a team of 4 engineers and 1 LAN administrator

Provided Project Management for all Infrastructure and LAN projects.

Created a course curriculum for Microsoft Windows 2003 MCSE track and led the class as the instructor to the help desk analysts and network engineering team.

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Information Security and Assurance (MSIAS) Western Governors University, College of Information Technology Salt Lake City, UT

Bachelor of Science, Network Design and Management (BSIT) Western Governors University, College of Information Technology, Salt Lake City, UT, Cum Laude (3.3)

Candidate Master of Science, Network Design and Management (MSNDM) Western Governors University to be awarded March 2017

CERTIFICATION & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Blue Coat: Blue Coat Certified Administrator Proxy SG

Cisco Systems: CCNA Routing and Switching, CCNA Data Center, CCNA Security, CCDA, CCNP Routing and Switching,, CCNP Security, CCDP

CompTIA: A+, Network +, Project +, Security +

CNSS: 4011 recognition, 4012 recognition.

EC COUNCIL: Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv6), Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI)

Fortinet: Fortinet Certified Systems Engineer (FCSE) #3000

GIAC: G2700 ISO 27001 Specialist #1142

HP: Accredited System Engineer (ASE), Master Accredited System Engineer (MASE)

Microsoft: Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate – 2008 (MCSA), Microsoft Certified IT Professional Enterprise (MCITPE), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 2003, Multiple Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Novell :( 6) Certified Novell Engineer (CNE), Enterprise Certified Novell Engineer (ECNE), (3) Master Certified NetWare Engineer(MCNE), Certified Netware Instructor (CNI)

Sourcefire: Sourcefire Certified Professional (SFCP)

VMware: VMware Certified Professional 5.5 Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV)

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