Gregory Bristow

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20+ years’ experience in Information Security. Experienced implementing multiple security technologies and products providing network and application security, perimeter security. Designed number of security solutions for enterprise for multiple clients. This experience has helped me develop a wide range of relevant skills, including an in-depth knowledge of information technology security, confident project leadership and familiarity with a range of technological applications.

EXPERIENCE:

Mar. 2023 - Present

Cyber Security Engineer, The Planet Group - Remote

Coordinated with teams to effectively respond to and resolve information security incidents, minimizing downtime and reducing average incident response time by 25%. Analyzed log reports looking for anomalies in the network infrastructure traffic.

Collaborated with Rapid 7 audit team to ensure best security practices.

Developed and published information security policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines based on knowledge of best practices and compliance to achieve SOC2 status.

Conduct security research and keep abreast of latest security issues.

Fortinet, Cloudflare for perimeter security.

Jan.2022 – Dec. 2022

Firewall - Team Lead, Infosys Limited – LAM research - Remote

Project 1 Role: Remote Team Lead, Consulting for Security Projects at Lam Research.

Monitored network traffic for security incidents and events with Solar Winds. Escalation point contact in P1, P2 and P3 alert activities, changes etc. for Infrastructure Security. Created detailed incident response reports.

Designed and implemented a Palo Alto Global Protect VPN project with MFA, migrating from Invanti vpn subscription. Coordinate and execute IT security related projects for the client.

Audited and detailed compliance findings with CIS Benchmark hardening requirements for Palo Alto V.9.

Palo Alto Panorama environment focused on web applications security, working with operations teams to complete changes to ensure firewalls secured web applications and APIs by filtering, monitoring and blocking malicious web traffic and application-layer attacks, such as DDoS, SQL injection, cookie manipulation, cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site forgery and file inclusion.

Identifying vulnerable code using OWASP top 10 guidelines and AlgoSec security reports to mitigate vulnerabilities.

Planned a Global Assessment to upgrade all firewalls for planned upgrade in next year’s budget. (181 Firewalls)

Composed playbook for Disaster Recovery with team for cloud failover stimulation testing. SME on Palo Alto Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Vulnerability Management. Utilized CyberArk for Identity and access control for ldap groups.

Dec.2020 – Dec. 2021

Team Lead, Infosys Limited – Spirit AeroSystems – Remote

Project 2 Role: Technology Lead – Project mgmt. Spirit AeroSystems/Project Atlantic.

Team lead on project with Spirit teams in the design, deployment and technical requirement for project Palo Alto and Cisco hardware upgrades. Assessed network with teams to troubleshoot any network connectivity issues.

Procured the identified security appliances/devices and software subscription. Ensure onsite vendors complete installation to mgmt. port. Serve as liaison between Manufacturing site team members and IT Global Security.

Project included hardware - Palo Alto firewall, Perimeter Security-PA-3260, PA-850, PA-820 and Cisco Firepower, Core Security - Cisco 4110, Cisco 2130, Cisco 2130, and Cisco ISE – 3655, 3615 at Morocco and Belfast sites.

Nov. 2019 – Sept. 2020 Covid shut down.

Mid-West Regional Technician - Planet Bingo – Lansing, Mi.

Performed systems administration activities including data management, performance testing, upgrades and advance troubleshooting for Planet Bingo networks and servers at clients’ sites with bi-weekly visits.

Upgraded sites to Windows 2016 Hyper-V and Meraki firewalls and AP’s for secured mobile application gaming connections.

Regional Engineer traveling to client sites in Canada, Michigan. Provide clients and account representatives with technical product advice and demonstration support.

Apr. 2018 – Dec. 2018

AWS Web Application Firewall Engineer - Ally Financial – IPRM Team – Detroit, MI.

Conducted proof-of-concept with 3 cloud services, Akamai Kona WAF, Imperva Securesphere WAF and Amazon AWS WAF incorporating OWASP Top Ten guidelines.

Assisted IPRM - Information Protection Recovery Management Team creating and documenting security processes and protocols requirements for organizations web application servers to communicate with business partners.

Developed an organizational AMI template for AWS Cloud services. Utilizing AWS WAF, ELB and API gateway services, and CloudFormation services. Defined WAF firewall rules and threshold events per organizational requirements that integrated with Splunk reporting services.

Designed AWS cloud architect public and private vpc’s to meet the organizations Security Compliance Policies. Contract completed.

Jun. 2014 – Feb. 2018

SE Regional Presales Systems Engineer - Barracuda Networks Inc. – Ann Arbor, MI.

Designed security solutions for enterprise organizations in my region. The Sales Team engaged my expertise during pre-sales engagements for sales calls, POC’s and RDP’s.

Technical lead with sales teams presenting lunch and learn events with technical aspects for client meetings.

Traveled onsite assisting clients with installations when required, otherwise remote installations were conducted. Assisted clients setting up gateway interfaces, routing, vpn’s, certificates, email rules, firewall rules, QOS and application load balancing, etc.

Collaborated with teams to drive the business, Met or exceeded monthly and quarterly quotas regularly.

Jan. 2012 – Jun. 2014

Senior System Analyst - HCL America Ltd. – Jackson, MI.

System Protocol Analyst monitoring client’s enterprise network and application performance through protocol analysis & capacity mgmt. utilizing NetScout monitoring tools. Creating weekly and monthly reports for management.

Working with IFS team upgrading client’s IDF, MDF rooms & Data Centers throughout the State of Michigan with Juniper EX-series switches and stacks, ensuring high availability from all locations.

Member of Network outage team monitoring network performance until planned or unplanned outages are resolved. Member of the level 2 offshore HCL network team troubleshooting network anomalies.

Audited all sites to ensure IT fast requirements, NERC requirements, and Federal regulations requirements for an energy company met. Provided 24/7/365 systems support as necessary for the diverse needs of the organization.

Received a recognition award from my Business Partner for my participation in Disaster Recovery assessment.

Dec. 2004 – Jan. 2012

Network Systems Engineer - Digital Exposure – Jackson, MI.

Field Engineer installing, configuring and upgrading Cisco ASA firewalls, Cisco Wifi AP’s, switches and routers in retail, hospitality and manufacturing environments.

Windows server upgrades and troubleshooting for HP vendor.

Facilitated consulting services for key customers for a third-party IT service provider.

2001 - 2004

Information Systems Supervisor - TLC Community Credit Union – Adrian, MI.

Managed Credit Unions Information’s Systems department in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.

Member of the disaster recovery planning committee to ensure credit union maintained a high availability environment and working disaster recovery plan. Ensured TLC is Sarbanes-Oxley, SOX and PCI compliant.

Budgeted organizations security and hardware upgrades for all locations. Met with Board members monthly to ensure the organizations is data compliant for their members.

TLC received the highest audit security assessment scores with 3 different auditors after my changes to the Technology environment and policies. Federal auditors, Insurance auditors and 3rd party auditors.

1999 – 2001

Plant IT Systems Administrator - Pilkington (Libbey Owens Ford) – Clinton, MI. (Plant Closed)

Site administrator for Clinton Modular Plant networking infrastructure and technical equipment, completing daily activities and backups, user administration and projects. Ensured network communication with Automotive tiers 24/7.

Managed technical department accounts AP, maintained financial management with asset control. Reporting to Plant Manager. Applied SIX Sigma Standards.

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EDUCATION:

Currently working on PCSNE,

Purdue University - Applied Cybersecurity Essentials (A.C.E.)

Cybersecurity Foundation - Core 110

Ethical Hacking – Core 140

Akamai Web Performance Foundations Certification.

Akamai Training.

Barracuda Certified Engineer - Security Systems Engineer- Barracuda University – San Jose, CA.

Barracuda Web Application Firewall - Certified Engineer

Barracuda Next Generation Firewall - Certified Engineer

Barracuda Load Balancer ADC - Certified Engineer

Barracuda Link Balancer - Certified Engineer

Barracuda Web\URL Firewall - Certified Engineer

Barracuda Email\Spam Firewall - Certified Engineer

Information Security - Baker College - Jackson, MI.

Computer Networking Technology Computer Information Security

Unix/Linux, Wireless, Bash programing.

Member of the School’s Cyber Security Team

Juniper - Detroit, Mi. - JNCIS Certified Associate

Certified - Introduction to the Junos Operating system

Certified - Junos Enterprise Switching

Certified - Junos Routing Essentials

Information Systems - Baker College GPA 4.0 - JACKSON, MI.

Computer Technology

SANS Network Auditing - Orlando, FL

Network Auditing training utilizing auditing tools to secure a networking environment. (Wireshark, Snort, Nmap, etc.)

SANS Security Essentials & SANS Gold Series – San Diego, CA. (10 Day Security Boot Camp)

Training in security essentials, social engineering, and networks scans. Utilizing tools to observe protocol environments. Scanning environment for exploits.

CONTROL DATA INSTITUTE - SOUTHFIELD, MI.

Certificate in Computer Technology - 2 yr. Degree

Microsoft Certifications - MCSE + CERTIFICATIONS

Rockhurst University - How to excel at managing and supervising people.

Skills:

People skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with various clients with the ability to explain and elaborate on technical details.

Strong ability to quickly understand and triage networking issues, working alone or with other teams to resolve client issues in a live environment.

Team Leader with responsibility for day-to-day operations, mentoring of other team members, peer review of project work, and problem resolution.

Strong interpersonal, collaboration, customer service and decision-making skills, with ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating accountability.

Excellent oral and written communications with solid organizational, time management and project management skills.

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