Experience

Glendale Community College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Jan 2018 - Present

  I started working as Senior Information Security Officer for Glendale Community College in 2018 to perform these tasks:I govern full-scope procedure of designing security solution with ability to analyze loopholes, overcome flaws, and mitigate potential risk, as well as delivering technical and analytical assessment on college’s vulnerabilities for disabling problems related to critical infrastructure. I generate reports regarding research on broad and targeted attacks. Some of My Key Achievements are:➢ Enhanced skillsets of coworkers and staff by mentoring and organizing training sessions. ➢ Recognized for creating enhanced security solutions to mitigate hackers, viruses, and network worms. ➢ Eliminated potential threats by hardening new and existing systems against threats/breaches. ➢ Acknowledged security professional for acquiring desired goals, while working on special assignment from district office of Maricopa County Community College District.➢ Built Centralized Logging Server using Redhat Linux which streamlined log analysis and correlation, and increased on-demand network event history from one week to three months. Show less

• • Jul 2004 - Jan 2018

  During my job as Information Security Administrator, I performed the following given tasks:I have directed end-to-end process of analyzing infrastructure, identifying flaws, assessing breaches, developing cyber strategies, and implementing advanced solutions to mitigate potential threats. I have integrated VMware ESXi for deploying and serving virtual computers to GCC and GCC North Operations. I collaborated with system administrators, administration, staff, and students to resolve problems and optimize procedures.My selected key Contributions are:➢ Established exceptional security measures by upgrading applied and integrating advanced security solution. ➢ Mitigated potential threats by using Rapid7’s Nexpose and Tenable’s Nessus to perform vulnerability scans. ➢ Ensured establishment of secured IT infrastructure by developing cybersecurity strategy. ➢ Minimized breaches by presenting detailed analysis on vulnerabilities occurred to deliver suitable solutions. ➢ Utilized Rapid7’s Nexpose and Metasploit to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and harden systems.➢ Deployed Psionic’s PortSentry open-source IDS/IPS on Linux hosts to detect/prevent intrusions at no cost. Show less