SWITHIN SIMONS

**** ****** *** ** **** Valley, CA 93063 H: 312-***-**** adxan9@r.postjobfree.com

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/SECURITY SPECIALIST SYSTEMS ENGINEER/ANALYST Information Security Specialist professional specializing in Access Control (Authentication / Authorization) Services - Systems, Networks, and Applications. Over fifteen years of experience in the Information Technology related fields, including analysis, design, implementation, deployment of Information Technology solutions and support, Information Security solutions, Consulting, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) solutions, IT Security and Privacy - Information Technology Security Management Platforms (IDS/IPS/WAF), HIPAA, SOX, and PCI-DSS. ISO/IEC. HIEs/HIT, EHRs, and Meaningful Use. Assisted organizations with proper regulation compliance, recommended cost-effective solutions for the proper identification and mitigation of IT risks; achieving clients' business objectives. (e.g. HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and PCI-DSS, etc.) Worked with support organizations, business units/cost centers to identify infrastructural enhancements. Served in both technical, and management capacities in serving established companies/clients in the leading industries. (Business needs coupled with technical requirements). Architecture Solutions Enterprise, Enterprise PKI, COSO/COBIT frameworks, ITIL. Planning, implementation, deployment, support of information technology and security solutions using strong authentication mechanism and methods, directory services, information protection, and federated identity. Operating systems; UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX), LINUX, MS WINDOWS, (MS-W2K*). TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, WINS, NIS/NFS, WORK EXPERIENCE

LAN/WAN, PKI, IDS/IPS, WAF, Web Services, XML, SAML, XACML. Familiar with SDLC, OWASP, and NIST Standards, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 planning and architecture; site and solution, server, and farm environments, C, and Java Programming languages. Identity and Access Management Systems (IAM); LDAP Sun DSEE, X.500, X509, Certificate Management Systems/Certificate Authority (CA), Sun IA&M, Microsoft IDA Solutions; Active Directory - AD DS, AD CS, AD LDS, AD FS and AD RMS, Tivoli IAM, SAP Security, Scripting including PERL. User Identity Lifecycle;

Creating identity, Provisioning access, maintaining identity access, and terminating access). Enterprise Architecture Solutions and GRC.

Planned, organized, scheduled and led meetings. Troubleshooting, problem solving, analytical, and strategically thinking skills. Performed various administrative duties, as required, including preparing documentations and presentations using Microsoft Office products/tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project). Led and coordinated variety of technical projects to successful completion and under budget. Thus, reducing and minimizing cost. Project management, business processes and strategies 01/2003 to Current Information Security Specialist EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS SKILLS 10/2000 to 11/2002 Senior Security Engineer

Sun Microsystems, Inc

01/1998 to 10/2000 Manager

Deloitte & Touche Security Services

08/1995 to 12/1997 Senior Systems Engineer

MSIT

Northwestern University

Bachelor Interdisciplinary Studies: Computer Science Northeastern Illinois University

Computer Science

Diploma

University of Southern California

Business Expansion Network (BEN)

Certification PREP CISSP, MCTS, CCNA, and PMP. Member, Chicago Microsoft SharePoint Business Strategies User Group, Chicago Cloud Computing User Group Active Directory, ADMINISTRATIVE, administrative duties, AD, AIX, budget, business processes, C, CA, clients, DHCP, DNS, XML, HP-UX, IDS, information technology, ITIL, Java Programming, LAN, LDAP, LINUX, meetings, Access, Excel, Microsoft Office products, PowerPoint, Microsoft SharePoint, MS WINDOWS, W2K, Word, Enterprise, NFS, Network, NIS, OFFICE MANAGEMENT, Operating systems, PCI, PERL, presentations, problem solving, Project management, RMS, SAP, Sarbanes-Oxley, SDLC, Scripting, Solaris, Sun, TCP/IP, Tivoli, Troubleshooting, UNIX, WAN, X.500