Consulting Engineer Project I
Resume:
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
*******@*****.***
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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