Security Analyst

Passionate and driven Security Professional with a proven history of securing, improving, and implementing security frameworks, controls, and tools in large scalable enterprise environments. Always ready for new challenges and constantly striving for excellence.

SKILLS

Network and System Architecture Project Management BGP EIGRP HSRP Cisco VLAN Management Remote Access Putty SecureCRT Change Management Team Leadership Risk Mitigation Process Improvement Industry and Regulatory Compliance Problem Solving Training Mentoring

Work Experience

TEK Systems, Winston Salem, NC – Contracted to Inmar Intelligence 2021-Current

Coordinate between business entities and other IT departments to ensure accurate and timely alert communications and notifications of outages.

Use EMC Networker, and IBM I to perform daily backup and preparations for over 10TB’s of a data to be sent off site, following company Storage Retention Policy.

Manage ticket queues via Zendesk to transfer, notify and track alerts, outages and other events that threaten business interactions.

USMC, Camp Pendleton, CA 2018 - 2020

Cyber Systems Chief

Lead and organized a local helpdesk to bridge the gap between users and centralized enterprise administrators.

Provisioned user, admin, and group/role accounts, and mailboxes in a 2FA environment including senior members of the Armed Forces.

Used Remedy to facilitate user needs and complete tickets in a time efficient and effective manner from user account provisioning to various hardware/software installation needs across the organization.

Maintained, and safely stored a secure document library for accounts that contained PII.

Established a Cyber Security team to configure, test, audit, patch, and report Cyber Security anomalies and compliance violations on 20+ enterprise networks, creating a positive security posture for DoD networks in diverse geographical locations.

USMC, Okinawa, JP 2015 - 2018

Cyber Security Manager/Information Systems Chief

Drafted and published various training material for organization staff to protect them from current cyber threats. Included material to identify spam, phishing, hacking, social engineering, and various others to better educate them on proper use of information systems.

Triaged, reported, quarantined, and recovered from multiple incidents that included spillages of classified material on unclassified systems and provided remediation training for affected parties.

Directed the configuration of a new enterprise network and services through a security centered approach for 5+ multi-national military exercises; exceeded the DoD’s mandated security compliance rating by 11%

Installed, configured, and operated three instances of HBSS on three separate classifications of networks

Configured DoD Compliant HIPS, Anti-Virus, and DLP HBSS Policies for DoD classified and unclassified systems alike.

Organized the System Tree in HBSS, allowing seamless management of hosts across a variety of DoD Platforms.

Planned, established, documented, staffed, and trained two local helpdesks to support an ongoing change in the organization that required flexibility, and new clients with additional hardware support needs including phones, laptops, VPN support, printers, and smart phone onboarding.

Created the first team in the geographical region that was fully capable of supporting classified PKI smart token support to users which significantly reduced classified account provisioning and support needs within the organization.

Architected the Privileged Access Management scheme for ongoing changes within the organizational structure and support path.

Assisted in the planning and execution of classified and non-classified networks on over twenty-five multi-national military exercises by drafting diagrams, accreditation packages, power, requirements, satellite, radio and data requirements to support the military forces.

Planned, directed, and configured a complex array of security suites including: Assured Compliance Assessment Solution, IBM’s Big Fix, Active Directory, McAfee Endpoint Security (HBSS), WSUS, Cisco Routing and Switching and Fortinet Firewall solutions.

USMC, Okinawa, JP 2013 - 2015

Helpdesk Supervisor/Project Manager

Lead the senior helpdesk team and processed and provisioned over 1500 new user accounts, several organizational structures, and a wide array of access management requirements for users and administrators alike.

Expertly provisioned and deprovisioned access management requirements, user and group objects, and security and distribution groups to respond to the rapid expansion and eventual collapse in direct emergency support of 3 Department of Defense Humanitarian Aid/Disaster Response operations.

Managed a PKI integrated Active Directory infrastructure for multiple separate and distinct, classified, and unclassified networks simultaneously.

Configured Fortinet firewalls on the network with policies, troubleshooting, VPNs, firewall rules, and working with DNS on the router

USMC, Afghanistan 2012-2013

Network Supervisor/Project Manager

Planned, drafted, implemented over 40 approved Network Change Requests to support the constantly evolving Marine Corps communications needs including: Distribution and Access level switch installation, Window 7 Operating System migration across the region from Window’s XP with 0% user data loss, collapsing government sites, configured HSRP for the Cisco environment to increase redundancy, and collapsing entire domains in order to facilitate a more centralized approach to access and user management within the region.

Provisioned over 1,000 user and administrator account access management requirements for network access across 3 separate enterprise domains.

Overhauled the entire network and existing VLANS, released over 5 entire class C network subnets to support the growing need on other camps in the area while updating existing documentation and streamlining support mechanisms.

Supported new installations of base tenants by supporting access switches to their site and configuring them to into the existing architecture.

Planned, executed, and delivered results for over 40 Network Change Requests during the deployment.

USMC, Camp Pendleton, CA 2008 - 2012

Cyber Security Supervisor

Lead WAN teams on over 15 exercises to connect a series of satellite, radio, and other transmission equipment to effectively communicate across the atmosphere and terrestrial links.

Was one of six members of the communication team members for the Lieutenant General in charge of Marine Central Command, and the I Marine Expeditionary Force, providing classified, unclassified, VoIP, MDM and VTC on-the-go globally.

Configured BGP and redistribution of routes to support connections to the ISP

Configured EIGRP into the Core, Distribution, and Access level switches to provide data, voice, and video services to internal users.

Education and Certifications

CompTIA Security+

CompTIA Network+

AXELOS ITIL Foundations

Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT)

Technical Skills

Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio AD and LDAP Wireshark Putty BMC Remedy IPSEC PKI MDM IBM Big Fix McAfee Endpoint Security EMC Networker Zendesk IBM I G Suite

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