Summary
I am a strong DevOps engineer with a breadth of experience in the Cybersecurity field and nearly two decades in the Information Technology space. I have served both as the boots on the ground executing critical tasks and as the leader directing operations. I hold my team to high standards and lead by example, maintaining the same standards for those to whom I report.
Professional Experience
eVolve Computing
Smyrna, DE
Senior Consultant, October 2020 – Present
- Account Manager on several customer accounts.
- Perform and participate in internal and external security audits and help resolve issues found.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement technical solutions that meet business requirements.
- Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure successful project delivery.
- Project: Architect and migrate existing solutions from on-prem to AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Project: Oversaw PHP 7 to PHP 8 upgrade / migration.
- Develop and maintain web applications using PHP, JS, HTML, CSS, BitBucket, and GIT.
- Deploy, secure, and manage web applications in Docker, Linux, and AWS environments.
- Conduct code reviews, identify areas of improvement, and implement best practices to ensure high-quality code.
- Communicate project status, issues, and risks to stakeholders and team members.
- Patch/Maintain server infrastructure based on Linux/AWS/Docker solutions.
- Personnel: Lead teams with up to seven people and mentor and coach team members to improve technical skills and achieve professional goals.
Deloitte
Glen Mills, PA
Manager, August 2018 – October 2020
- Supporting Cisco Firepower, Checkpoint, and Palo Alto intrusion and firewall technologies.
- Managing over 150 IDS sensors and over 20 IPS sensors.
- Maintaining and updating FW / Intrusion devices configurations and rules.
- Creating special scripts for maintenance and assisting with staging and prepping upgrades to over 300 devices which included sensors and virtual machines.
- Working in ServiceNow to maintain service and provide executive level reports.
- Assisted in building connectors and feeding data into ArcSight / Splunk solution.
- Research incidents in Splunk / ArcSight and help build filters and alerts.
- Project: Data Center migration from one country to another with production equipment having no outages.
- Project: ArcSight major release version upgrade which involved upgrading over 20 machines including loggers, connectors, virtual machines, and ESMs.
- Member of a documentation and review team for our service.
- Project: IPv4 to IPv6 migration for all technologies under our umbrella.
- Personnel: Lead teams with up to seven people.
Katabat Inc.
Wilmington, DE
Sr. DBA, February 2016 – August 2018
- Managing 90+ Linux servers and 120+ instances of MySQL/Percona 5.5–5.7 in a PCI compliant environment with on-call responsibilities.
- Creating scripts in PHP, Perl, Python, and shell scripting languages.
- Monitoring servers using Percona Monitoring, Cacti, Nagios, and custom scripts.
- Performed basic to advance MySQL queries, stored procedures, and functions for use in coding or problem investigations.
- Automating DBA tasks and new/patch deployments.
- Creating custom solutions for scanning our infrastructure or integrating with existing ones to detect PCI violations and correct them.
- Part of the hiring / interviewing process for new DBA potential hires.
- Created a solution to help review DB health across all environments and make necessary changes quarterly. (Indexes, data cleanup, archiving, etc.)
Computer Science Corporation
Newark, DE
Team Lead, January 2010 – February 2016
- Maintain a proprietary security portal (https://pulse.csc.com) based on a PHP and MySQL foundation. The portal offered asset management, tickets, reports, and various other customizable modules.
- Creating new tools within Pulse for users to interact with using PHP and MySQL.
- Created Perl and VBS scripted solutions where PHP was not allowed.
- Designed a PHP solution to pull data from product’s API, such as ArcSite, Mcafee EPO, SSIM, into Pulse.
- Helped create a custom ETL solution which was reviewed for patentability.
- Develop connectors to hook into various products and report back to SEIMs.
- Responsible for training new developers and assigning / reviewing their work usually through our own ticketing system.
- Responsible for hiring new developers and administering their yearly review.
- Planned and designed new MySQL database structures and evaluated existing ones to help determine if improvements can be made.
- Exposed to many forms of administration and troubleshooting in Linux, Windows, MySQL, PHP, VMWare, and Mac environments.
- Assisted in Pulse user redesign to use 2-factor authentication with RSA or soft-token login.
- Monitoring multiple SEIMs (Symantec, ArcSight, Qradar) and escalating events deemed as critical to customers.
- Evaluating events to create new correlation rules based on research.
- Managing VM lab for testing and training purposes.
- Communicating with clients and working to resolve problems based on network or FDE (CheckPoint Full Disk Encryption) issues.
- Setting up labs with various security tools (SSIM, Mcafee ePO, CheckPoint).
Technical Skills
- Programming: PHP, MySQL/MariaDb/MS SQL, C/C++, HTML, JS, CSS, VBS, Shell / Batch scripting, Perl, Python, SOAP/Restful API’s.
- Platforms: Windows Server / Desktop, Linux (Apple, RedHat, CentOS, Amazon), AWS
- Developer Training: Waterfall and agile development methods, database design and modeling, project planning, MVC framework, API integration.
- Security Training: OSI model, network infrastructure monitoring / prevention techniques, hardening server infrastructure, secure API integration / creation, firewall / intrusion technology rules / configuration maintenance.
- Soft Skills: Customer service centric ethics, mentoring nature, provide honest and candid feedback, vendor relations specialist.
Education
Wilmington University
Wilmington, DE
Bachelor of Science in Computer Networking and Security — GPA 3.75, consistent Dean’s List Recipient
Certifications
- CompTIA Network+
- CompTIA Security+
- Actively pursuing AWS certifications