William L. Weir II

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Professional Summary:

Cloud design, engineering, and management for AWS and Azure cloud services.

Disaster Recovery (DRaaS) design, engineering, and testing procedures via cloud services.

Project management strategies for hybrid cloud migrations and deployments.

Cloud capacity planning and redundancy projects.

Cloud features and potentially new services reviews for DLT/ELT presentation.

Cloud Security Posture & Remote Access POC testing with Palo Alto Prisma Cloud/Access.

Develop and implement security standards using firewall analyzers (AlgoSec, Palo Alto).

Yearly and ongoing Compliance and audits (PCI) using firewall analyzers & ticketing records.

Worldwide enterprise firewall deployment, infrastructure security, and policy adherence.

Develop and migrate to current technologies for Home Workers and Remote Agents.

Architect remote access and network use policies for internal and external customers.

Implement network change policies & incident handling to maintain maximum network uptime.

Experienced with European, Canadian, and Japanese vendors, protocols, and business customs.

Cross team collaborations, presentations, and managerial reporting for key decisions.

Strong documentation and communication skills for all levels. Skills:

AWS/AzureCloud services Juniper Nimsoft HP

Palo Alto Security/Cloud Nortel EMC IBM

CheckPoint Steelhead RSA NetScout

Cisco Bluecoat Dell Microsoft

AlgoSec

Accomplishments:

AWS/Azure/Palo Alto cloud services and technologies.

Design, migration, and management of Palo Alto NGFWs (52XX,32XX, 410, cloud EC2 versions).

Deployment and management of CheckPoint Firewalls.

Deployment and management of Cisco Catalyst and IOS Switches (3500, 4500, 6000, 6509).

Configuration and management of Cisco routers (2600, 3600, 7200).

Management and configuration of Cisco ASA55xx.

Configuration and deployment of Cisco Wireless Access Points & Wireless Control Systems (WCS, WLC).

Configuration and management of Juniper SSG firewalls and SSL VPN (5, 140, 4500).

Deployment & management of WAN, T1, DS1, DS3, Frame Relay, DSL, and ISDN circuits.

Configuration and management of SolarWinds, Nimsoft UMP Monitoring and Dashboard configuration.

Knowledgeable in TCP/IP, routing, DHCP, DNS, IAM, Active Directory, EIGRP, MPLS, Wi-Fi.

Network cabling, topology, design redundancy, and fail over circuits for hot and warm sites.

Experienced with packet sniffing applications NetScout and Wireshark for protocol analysing. 1

Educations:

Information Technologies from Phoenix Community Colleges in 2002.

Cisco Network Course from Global Knowledge.

Certifications:

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification #J8PYP0829ER1QTSL

ITIL V3 certification

Certified Information Systems Security Professional training

Certified Cloud Security Professional training

Trainings:

Palo Alto PCNSA training

CheckPoint firewall training

Juniper Networks Operating Systems

Front Range ITSM

PCI (Payment Card Industry) Compliance & Data Security training

Certified Ethical Hacking (Course Audit 2020)

Cisco Unified Wireless Networking

Cisco Secure Firewall Advanced

Professional Experiences:

CSAA-IG Glendale, AZ Mar 2012 – Jun 2023

Security Engineer

Enterprise data center migrations to AWS cloud (East and West Coast) regions

Design, build, and management of cloud-based Disaster Recovery sites

Enterprise cloud security with Palo Alto NGFW services using IDS/IPS/DLP/Layer 7 technologies.

Palo Alto Prisma Cloud/Access POC testing for cloud-native security & remote access testing.

Proof of concept testing and migration of specific applications to Azure Cloud Services.

Implement & manage all firewall policies changes & incident handling to maximum network uptime.

All aspects of Payment Card Industry (PCI) security audits, review, artifact-gathering, and mitigation for yearly compliance certification

Network security design and management for data centers, corporate offices, and branch law sites using Palo Alto, CheckPoint, and Cisco security devices.

Architect remote access and network use policies for Home Workers and Remote Agents. Best Western International, Phoenix, Dublin, Milan, Toronto Dec 2000 – Jan 2012 IT Systems Analyst

Enterprise LAN/WAN network design and support for worldwide offices and hotels.

Enterprise firewall, switch, and router configuration, management, and deployments.

Worldwide network device upgrade to Cisco routers, switches, and Wi-fi access points.

Firewall (Cisco and Juniper) and Syslog analysis to troubleshoot access and hacking alerts.

Network device monitoring and documentation for offices worldwide.

Capacity planning, new project support and product implementation for brand expansion. 2

Remote site deployment, support, and maintenance for Europe, Canada, S. America, and Japan.

Network Voice Team support and VoIP rollout.

On-call Level III support.

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