REMOTE CLOUD SECURITY ENGINEER

Experienced IT Professional and U.S. Military veteran with 25+ years IT network infrastructure and IT security design, implementation and project management seeking to support an IT department by remote access to surpass business and departmental objectives.

• Excellent understanding of compliance regulations, especially PCI-DSS and HIPAA, and the measures required for complying and protecting confidential data.
• Strong security applications and equipment experience, including Checkpoint FW-1 and PIX/ASA Firewalls, IDS/IPS systems,, SIEM’s and other security related applications and systems.
• Strong security assessment and vulnerability testing skills, as well as skilled in various flavors of Linux, Unix, Solaris and Mac OS X.
• Experienced in various cloud implementations, including public, hybrid and private and the needs from a security perspective.
• Inactive Top Secret/Special Background Investigation (TS/SBI)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Vendor/Applications/Tools: CheckPoint (Check Point) FW-1/VPN-1 (3.x,4.x,NG,NGX, R72 & SPLAT), RSA envision, Symantec Anti-Virus (end point security) , WebSense URL Filtering, Nessus, OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), Nexpose, nMap, Metasploit,, wireshark, Autopsy, Monitor CTI with Anomali STAXX, Kali Linux and various other network troubleshooting, vulnerability, penetration and forensic analysis tools. Use full MS Office365 suite including MS Project and MS Visio, Apple iWork suite as well as iTask and OmniPlan

CERTIFICATIONS

Industry Certifications

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) #322857
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (CSAA)
• CASP – CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner
• CompTIA Linux Network Professional
• CompTIA Network+ certification
• CompTIA Security+ certification
• CompTIA Linux+ certification
• LPI LPIC-1 Linux Server Professional
• GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst GCFA (expired)
• SANS GIAC Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handler Training (expired)

Vendor Specific Training and Certifications

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
• SUSE CLA (Certified Linux Administrator)
• Nessus Fundamentals Certified
• Check Point Certified Security Engineer (CCSE) (3.0, 4.0, NG, R72) (expired)
• CCNP (expired)
• CCDA (expired)
• CCIE written (expired)
• RSA - enVision (SIEM) vendor certificate
• MCSE (expired)
• WebSense Content Filter Certificate