ERIK WITKOP

Career Objective

Hard-working professional with 22+ years of experience and a proven knowledge of IT/IS and advanced technology. Aiming to leverage my skills to successfully fill the Systems engineer role at your company.

Contact

adpw1x@r.postjobfree.com

603-***-****

14 Haywood Rd Londonderry, NH, 03053

Education

UMUC

Baltimore, MD

Master of Science (M.S.) Cyber Security (Jun 2020)

MANHATTAN COLLEGE

Riverdale, NY

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Business (May 1998)

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Additional Skills

Python

Perl

PHP

Ansible

Terraform

AWS cloud practitioner

Google GCP cloud

Azure cloud

CI/CD

Licenses and Certifications

CCIE#18808 (security and wireless)

CISSP

PCNSE

GIAC GPEN

Google GCP cloud engineer

Patent US8639839B1

AWS cloud practitioner

Professional Experience

Sep 2021 - Present

DOD CLOUD SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Palo Alto Networks, Reston, Virginia (VA)

Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements, to promote the sale of Palo Alto Networks cyber security products for the DOD. Assist customers with AWS, GCP, Azure security and container security. Designing secure VPC's for public cloud.

Apr 2019 - Sep 2021

MAJORS SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Palo Alto Networks, Reston, Virginia (VA)

Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements, to promote the sale of company products, and to provide sales support.

Develop, present, or respond to proposals for specific customer requirements, including request for proposal responses and industry-specific solutions.

May 2017 - Apr 2019

SECURITY SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Cisco, Londonderry, NH

Building and maintaining a secure IaaS for DISA and the DOD. This enclave will host collaboration services for the DOD and will connect through NIPRnet. Designed and installed Stealthwatch, Firepower, AMP, ISE, RSA, ThreatGrid and Splunk. Obtained an ATO (Authority to Operate) with auditor Kratos to ensure we are FedRAMP compliant. I am responsible for vuln scanning and pen testing the environment. Advanced services in security for USPS within Cisco, work with state and local education and federal customers to help secure their environments. Covering pre and post sales from BoM generation and presentation, to design and implementation of my own designs. Selling and designing next-gen datacenters to support 120Gbps of throughput to the internet and designing SDN networks for large Universities. Lead captain responsible for five engineer's productivity and technical growth. Secured an ATO and allowed on NPIRNET.

Feb 2016 - May 2017

SECURITY SALES CONSULTANT

Cisco, Londonderry, NH

Presales engineer selling and supporting all Cisco security products. My job responsibilities included working as a SME in all things security. I am responsible for presenting live demos of any security product the customer is interested in seeing. I would often present 5 times a day via WebEx to potential customers.

Jan 2015 - Feb 2016

ADVANCED SERVICES ENGINEER

Cisco, Londonderry, NH

Working as a wireless NCE at Cisco, I am responsible for wireless site surveys, implementation and break/fix resolution of enterprise and networks and stadiums. One project I worked on was a video over wifi issue for a large pharmaceutical company in NYC. I performed a wireless survey and spotted the issues in the RF bed for multiple offices and wrote detailed reports to my findings. Another project was a wireless issue in a hospital in Boston where Epic badges were not roaming correctly.

Feb 2011 - Jan 2015

QA ENGINEER

Cisco, Boxboro, MA

Test lead for QA team on Identity Services Engine security product. ISE is a Network Admission Control product that controls who,what, where, when and how end users can enter the network. I was responsible for 5 QA engineers who are responsible for software testing ISE's profiling, MDM, and guest functionality.

Jan 2009 - Feb 2011

NETWORK AND SECURITY SALES ENGINEER

Corporate Technology, Burlington, MA

Pre-sales and post-sales engineer responsible for designing secure networks with many vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, F5, Riverbed and more.

Feb 2008 - Dec 2008

SR CONSULTING ENGINEER

Presidio, Woburn, MA

Post Sales implementation and design of Cisco security products. I personally installed a large number of ASA firewalls for customers in and around the New England area. I personally migrated a number of Barracuda and Sonicwall firewalls over to Cisco ASA firewalls and performed UAT (user acceptance testing) after the cutover was complete.

Jul 2006 - Feb 2008

QA ENGINEER

Cisco, Boxboro, MA

Software support and QA of the ACS product in the NMTG group.

Aug 1998 - Jul 2006

POST SALES ENGINEER

Sprint, Woburn, MA

Supporting customers with T1's, Frame relay and X.25. I was responsible for support and possibly recommending more bandwidth.

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

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