Security and Network Engineer

Network Engineer with TS clearance and Manager skills with 18+ years in the Computer/Network field. I specialize in many aspects of the computer industry from Analysis of Virus Strains at McAfee to Network topology analysis on the Sniffer Products at Network Associates (Network General Division). I focused on Network Security analysis and protection while at Check Point Software, to Desktop Support Perot Systems and MPI. I have detailed experience in Installation, Training customers, and Security from Check Point to McAfee to Intrusion.

Specializing in network Security with 3+ years CISSP, CompTIA Security + certifications, as well as previous MCSE, CNE, CSA, CCSE+ and over 18+ years experience in systems and desktop analysis, team leadership, program testing, and problem resolution, as well as personnel administration and professional development. I am a problem solver with strong communication, and interpersonal skills. I also have skilled supervisor and manager abilities.

I am currently Lead Technical / Installation / Security engineer installing, training, and supporting customers in high tech security leak prevention products for the financial, medical, educational, and government industry. I am willing to travel internationally.

Areas of Expertise

• IDS, IPS, AV, Firewall systems

• Management of 15+ employees.

• Network Configuration, Analysis, Security in the TCP/IP protocol Suite

• Hardware and Software installation and support.

• Windows, Unix/Linux, Solaris operating systems.

• Basic, C, and scripting languages

• Design/Develop Web / CD based Training and support Portals.

• Current and previous certifications: CISSP, COMPTIA Security +, Certified Microsoft Systems Engineer, Cisco Admin, Novell Engineer, Check Point Systems Engineer, McAfee WebShield, Microsoft SQL.

Experience

Intrusion.com 4/2006 to Current

Lead Engineer for IDS/IPS Systems as well as member of TS projects

SQL based data analysis and implementation to our proprietary IDS/IPS systems.

Integrate our products into customers IT department including Email Encryption.

Provide detailed training and support.

Make suggestions on how to prevent leaks and secure the network.

Develop Flash presentations to be used on our website and CD to help customers implement and operate our products.

McAfee Software / Network Associates 2005 to 2006

Tier II Support of Webshield, WS SMTP, PGP, Security Shield products

Analyze and Support High level technical issues before going to T3 and Development for these products.

Analyze customers’ configurations and traffic patterns to help better implement our products into their environment.

Check Point Software, Grand Prairie, Texas 1999 to 2005

Manager / Technical Support Bench Escalation Engineer

Last line of support before the issue is sent to developers to resolve.

• Manage International/Night and Day Product Specific Support Team as well as backup to other Managers.

• Run our InterOP lab where sales, customers, and Vendors come to test and evaluate our products.

• Created and Lead Engineer for the OPSEC SDK Support department.

• Supporting over 300 OPSEC Developers to write code that integrates with our FireWall-1 Products using our SDK libraries.

• Standardized and improved the OPSEC Certification procedures in which a product is certified.

• Created Testing Certification Standards and checklists that the products had to pass in order to be certified.

• Supported High Level and highly complex customer issues as the Second level "Bench Engineer".

• Supported all Checkpoint products from Firewall-1 to MetaIP to Floodgate on all platforms including Solaris, Linux and NT.

Network Associates (NAI), Dallas, TX 1997 to 1999

Enterprise Support Engineer

Antivirus Enterprise Engineer, Sniffer Analyzer Enterprise Engineer

• Support high profile clients with their implementation, rollout, and troubleshooting of our Antivirus Software.

• Analyze samples of Macro Viruses before sending to developers to create signature.

• Streamlined the processes by creating unique forms before the virus could be escalated.

• Set up and ran departmental web page where engineers access the latest software and troubleshooting techniques.

Perot Systems, Richardson, TX. 1995 to 1997

Corp. Help Desk Support

Corporate Rollout of Windows 95, Corporate Helpdesk Support, Client Hardware/Software Upgrades.

• Main Lead Engineer for the creation and implementation of the corporate rollout of Windows 95.

• Traveled the US upgrading clients.

• Night and Day corporate helpdesk support and server farm engineer.

• Created stand alone Web Server that interfaced with our Ticketing system for real time look at the service level of support.

Meeting Professionals Int., Dallas, TX. 1993 to 1995

LAN Administrator

Company wide network support desk.

• Install and manage 3 NT and SQL server side customer database systems.

• Demonstrated the need for a web page presents by developing a mock web server

• Implemented Server side Backups instead of Jumbo Tape drives on each machine.

Education

North Garland High, Garland, Texas 1984

H.S., Electronics

East Texas State University, Commerce, TX 1987

Photography Major

Texas Baptist Institute, Henderson, TX 1986

Theological Study

Personal References on request

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