VINCENT THOMAS

VIRTUALIZATION/ENDPOINT ENGINEER

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EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

Deployment/Endpoint Engineer

RedRiver Technologies 2023

Provide hardware implementation and support for Cisco UCS environments. Engineer virtualization system solutions for large enterprises, ensuring performance and reliability.

Participate in weekend maintenance and on-call rotations, responding to critical incidents.

Configure, install and provide technical support for the Endpoint Security Solution for Symantec Endpoint Protection.

Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and configuration details for vSphere versions 6.x-8.x

Configured and implemented Symantec Endpoint Protection solutions, configure policies being applied to users and devices

Maintain documentation for exceptions to SEP standards. Knowledge of installation, configuration, troubleshooting, repair, design and planning of Symantec Endpoint Protection Security systems.

Utilize advanced scripting skills in PowerShell to automate tasks and streamline operations.

SOC Incident Handler

Diversant Technologies – Citizens Bank 2022-2023

Work under Incident Response leadership to perform emergency response for Citizen’s Bank SD-WAN Infrastructure. Provide escalations and proactive Ebond’s to AT&T ISE and AT&T Center of Excellence for circuit stability and CoE of edge nodes and routers.

Create and analyze SOD and EOD reports to understand threat campaign(s) techniques, lateral movements and extract indicators of compromise (IOCs).

Perform log analysis over disparate data sources using enterprise log aggregation tools such Velo Cloud and OC Netreo. Demonstrate experience and competence in malware analysis, host forensics, firewall analysis, network switch and router forensics.

Provide support and hands-on experience (Protect, Detect, Respond and Sustain) with all CFG Circuits, AT&T Flexware, Comcast and ATT&T Spectrum modems.

Mitigated SOC threats, power validation/outages, circuit down, branch/site down, ATM, Teller Machines, and methods of exploitation with an understanding of intrusion techniques and procedures (TTPs).

Virtualization Engineer

GDIT – HIGLAS/Center for Medicare Services 2019-2022

Provided support for NetScaler load balancing and ADC. Managed Active Directory, Group policies, DNS and DHCP scopes. Test, install, upgrade, configure, maintain, and provided support for all software and hardware related to the Citrix end-user-devices/servers.

Built and managed an 8 node VMware based HA configured cluster with NSX Guest Introspection polling devices.

Delivered a Greenfield Citrix VDI W10 LTSR 64-bit Operating System platform. Applied Microsoft Cumulative and Security patches to base image for W10 LTSR.

Oversaw a Citrix Virtualization farm consisting with 300+ virtual desktops, and servers in multiple datacenters running on ESXi 6.7

Configured Citrix XenApp, App Layering, and/or Enterprise Layer Manager (ELM). Created 4 Gold Disk that serviced 9 Developmental enclaves consisting of Application, Validation and Production Development zones. Created and updated Machine Catalogs, Delivery Controllers, Provisioning servers and Storefront servers.

Configured Authentication, Authorization and Auditing (AAA) access control, Workload Load Balancing, and SSL Certificate Management to spread workloads across servers

Virtualization/Security Engineer

NLink/CyberData Tech– Dept of Commerce/NOAA 2017-2019

Managed Dell PowerEdge M1000e Modular Blade enclosures. Provided support for identical and symmetrical Cisco UCS fabric and enclosures. Utilized Dell’s M1000e Centralized Chassis Management Controller (CMC) modules for redundant, secure access.

Built, and maintain support documents, standard operating procedures and policies related to the network, security systems, server and storage infrastructure and best practices.

Set standard operation procedures for agency IT network backup and disaster recovery. Executed scheduled tests of policies and processes to ensure they are being carried out. .

Lead SAAS application migrations to cloud via Azure solution, including automation.

Built and managed the automated builds, deployments, validations, and configurations for Domino Data Lab in Azure. Created comprehensive reports for USDOC Datacenter cascade project.

Cloud Operation Manager

BlueCross BlueShield – FEPOC Program 2014-2017

Led FEPOC initiative as Hadoop/Cloudera Engineer for FEPOC Big Data Project. Served as Lead Engineer, conducted capacity planning for Dev and Production environments.

Lead MicroStrategy Project, configured 27 RHEL 7.2 VM’s. Licensed and racked gear per Cloudera/Hadoop administrator specifications.

Upgraded VMware SRM in order to migrate VM’s from one Data Center to another.

Upgraded VMware vROPs to 6.x to better forecast issues in FEPOC infrastructure

Upgraded vOrchestrator for VM deployment and snapshot management.

Upgraded 2 (vCenters) and all ESXI Host managed in virtual environments to the latest ESXI 5.5 uX patch level. Converted two windows based vCenter’s into VCSA (Virtual Appliances) with embedded Postgres Database’s.

Cloud Engineer

Edge Web Hosting 2011-2014

Provide Tier 2, 3 Level operational support across all layers of the converged infrastructure platform including: vSphere, UCS with B200 M3 and B200 M4 Blades,

Configured Zerto Replication Appliance (ZRA) deployment strategy, policies and procedures for deploying through vCloud Director 5.x and ESXI 5.1, 5.5, 6.0.

Integrated Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN connectivity. Installed EMC Power Path.

Assisted in the design, planning, and implementation of AWS EC2 infrastructure, tested new technologies and ensured that the solutions are highly available and performing.

Integrated and implemented wireless network security systems. Worked with Avaya Labs testing product integration and solution compliance with Aruba Networks, Newbury Networks, Vernier Networks and, Protego Networks.

Served as the primary point of contact for day-to-day interaction with executives and engineers related to incident response and network access control.

Infrastructure Security Engineer

Hexis Cyber Security 2009-2011

Integrated Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN connectivity. Installed EMC Power Path and Nimble Configuration Manager for Storage Path load.

Administered Cisco 5500 ASA and network infrastructure products, used knowledge of VLAN Tagging, VLAN Trunks, and NAT. Administered Active Directory / OpenLDAP servers and services. Utilized Windows administration experience to configure, and manage Microsoft Windows 2008/2012 Server.

Successfully delivered to Hexis CyberSolutions, a production-grade SIEM management platform. I installed and configured early adaptors of HawkEye G - Active Defense Grid. Successfully implemented at Inmarsat, Safenet, Bamco Financial and Babcock & Wilcox

Administered SAN Technologies: Dell 6100ps, Fujitsu Eternus DX80/90, NAS (iSCSI, NFS) Technologies. Maintained backup schedule for production, monitored environment

Conducted routine datacenter lifecycle maintenance duties (UPC power loads, environmental monitoring, rack installation, data cabling).

Major: Aeronautical Sciences

Dowling College -1995

CERTIFICATIONS

Security: (CISA) ISACA

VMware (VCP5-DCV)

VMware (vSphere)

VMware(vRealize)

VMware (vCloud Air)

vCloud Director

Cisco (CCNA)

Cisco (DCICN/UCS)

Storage: Nimble (NIST-I200)

TRAINING

UMD - IT Project Management

DOC/OCIO-Records Management

NOAA-Certificate Cyber Security

CMS-Certificate CMMI Security

CMS-Certificate HIPPA Privacy

Certificate AWS

TECHNICAL PROFIENCY

Windows10, RHEL, 802.11a; b; g; i; 802.1x, WEP, WPA2, Radius, LDAP, PEAP,

WiMax, Cisco Nexus, Cisco NAC, Cisco ISE, Hybrid Cloud Connectivity (HCX),

Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Windows XP/7/8/10,

Windows Server 2003-2016, RedHat Linux, Centos, Debian Apache

Nessus Tenable, Duo Security, Microsoft Cloud App Security, Carbon Black, Splunk

Enterprise, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, RSA AM, TripWire, Solarwinds Orion NPM,

ArcSight, Q Radar, Splunk, Netcordia, NetMRI, Netscreen, Action Remedy Trouble

Management System, Raptor, Spectrum Analyzer, Cisco ASA via ASDM, IFS, Vantive

FireEye, RSA SecureID, Vernier Networks, Network Observe

Sonicwall Viewpoint, Management System, EDS, Tipping Point, IPS, Cisco IPS, Aironet, Fluke Wireless Survey, Tenable Nessus Security System, Snort, NSX-V/T Guest Introspection, NetScout, Hawkeye-G, ESXi 6.x-8.x, SRM, vCenter Update Manager, vCenter Operations Manager,

Automation 6.x/7.x, vCloud Director, vROPS, VCSA,

XenApp/Xen Desktop 7.1x, CU3,4,5, Netscaler Gateway

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