Systems Administrator Palo Alto

SCOTT MORENO

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EDUCATION

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN August 2018 – May 2022 Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity

WORK EXPERIENCE

San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA), The Woodlands, TX April 2023 – Present Network and Systems Administrator

● Implemented multiple security solutions, including a managed SIEM (ELK stack), Ransomware prevention (Zerto, Veeam), and new Palo Alto VPN + Firewall architecture.

● Contributed to the migration of production servers from Microsoft HyperV to VMware and Azure cloud based services.

● Created cybersecurity education plan for quarterly training sessions for 200+ staff members

● Collaborated with OT and Business Application teams to develop a transition to Dynamics 365 and to a new Dragos platform.

TMD Corporate, Houston, TX August 2022 – January 2023 Network Administrator

● Maintained and configured network devices of multiple vendors (Cisco, Aruba, Palo Alto)

● Ensured proactive network security through ManageEngine Log360 and web application testing software such as Burp Suite, SQLmap, ZAP, and other tools

● Designed and implemented production PowerShell and Python scripts to automate temporary employee onboarding and offboarding, increasing the efficiency of each process Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), Austin, TX May 2021 – August 2021 Engineering Support Intern

● Collaborated with TPP Division to transition to new traffic demand-model application tool

(TexPACK)

● Managed data loss prevention across various databases, resulting in a 30% decrease in data loss with a concentration in Python, ArcGIS, and SQL environments University Loft, Indianapolis, IN May 2019 – August 2019 IT Intern

● Project lead on implementing ICS Network Firewall Rules following NIST SP 800-82 standards for critical industrial infrastructure to minimize risk in OT environments and standardize deployment in devices.

● Performed daily IT operations and maintenance to facilitated application uptime and support for 150+ employees

SKILLS & CERTIFICATIONS

Skills SIEMs (Splunk, ELK Stack, Log360), Incident Response, Azure, GRC, Risk Analysis, Cyber Forensics, Linux, Network and Systems Administration, Intrusion Detection, Vulnerability Analysis, Web Application Testing, Python, Bash scripting, SQL, C, C++, Java Certifications: CompTIA Security +, Network +, Azure AZ-104 RELATED EXPERIENCE

Cybersecurity Detection & Monitoring Lab March 2022 – Present

● Designed a virtualized homelab network to test vulnerabilities and practice threat detection

● Network based on Pfsense, Splunk Enterprise Security, Huntress, Kali Linux, Security Onion and an Active Directory environment to simulate a small enterprise network.

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