Chief Information Security Officer

• Jan 2018 - Present

Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology

Head Of Information Security

• Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

Founder

• Jan 2015 - Jan 2022

Content publishing company. Social media alchemy Content publishing company. Social media alchemy

Penetration Testing Engineer (remote private contractor)

• Mar 2008 - Dec 2018

Responsible for threat detection and prevention. Assists teams in various security and privacy risk mitigation efforts; including incident response. Leads or participates in information security related projects or in managing strategy. Evaluates new security technologies and products and performs engineer-level work and analysis to determine if solutions should be pursued. Acts as a mentor to train and develop Cyber Threat Center staff. Conducts forensic investigations for HR, Legal, or incident response related activities. Develops new detective and investigative capabilities using current technical solutions. Grows cyber intelligence capabilities and networks. Works with various business units and technical disciplines in a security consultant role for cyber threats. Performs data analysis and threat research/hunting activities Show less

SOC/Security engineer

• Jan 2014 - Oct 2016

• Engage in proactive and reactive network/systems monitoring. • Upon receipt of network trouble conditions, follows procedures to validate and classify impact, perform basic troubleshooting and notify appropriate personnel. • Operate within established SLA guidelines. • Enters new trouble tickets, assigns existing tickets and keep users informed of status. • Engage in activities to further advance the monitoring platform such as creating network maps, rack diagrams. • Generate reports for engineering teams such as bandwidth utilization, CPU performance, and network status. • Performs proactive health checks as part of normal surveillance. • Execute routine maintenance activities, such as tape backups and printer maintenance. • Smoothly transfer information at the end of each shift with other NOC staff about any outstanding issues and tasks. • Work to ensure that procedures are well documented and understood. • Update process documents and internal knowledgebase. • Create, adjust and maintain monitoring rules and configurations. • Provide basic Help Desk support to employees, Distribution Centers and Call Centers nationwide. • Help other teams with projects as time permits. Show less

Linux Systems Administrator/IT Consultant

• Mar 2013 - 2016

Linux installation Linux security CMS WebDash Installation Code review Remote administration Technical Writing Automation Windows exchange server Linux installation Linux security CMS WebDash Installation Code review Remote administration Technical Writing Automation Windows exchange server

IT System Administrator

• May 2013 - Oct 2013

• Design, develop, configure, secure, maintain, and upgrade scalable and redundant IT infrastructure to serve websites, web-based applications, databases, mail, and related technologies. • Design, develop and maintain virtualized environments utilizing VMware. • Manage, configure, and maintain EqualLogic and PowerVault SAN Storage. • Administer Linux based servers (Red Hat & CentOS) and Windows Servers. • Implement, configure, maintain, secure, and upgrade Juniper networking infrastructure across multiple sites. • Maintain security of all IT systems via pro-active monitoring, improvements, and software/hardware upgrades to guard against vulnerabilities. • Participate in the development of policies, procedures, and resources that standardize the function and security of the IT infrastructure and environments. • Proactive identification of potential issues with IT infrastructure. Identify options for potential solutions and assess them for both technical and business suitability. • Participate in an on-call rotation to provide 24x7 coverage for the production environment. Respond to outages and service failures. Troubleshoot and diagnose hardware/network/software issues. • File and VM backups. • Keep up-to-date documentation of applications, system, network equipment, licenses, and applications. Maintain parts and equipment inventory. • Manage licenses for software and applications. • Log, monitor, and update, support requests and take appropriate action to ensure satisfactory response with acceptable time frame for end users. • Keep up-to-date with current trends and be prepared to make recommendations. • Manage and support user accounts for staff. Support both customers and staff in IT related tasks. Show less

Linux Systems Administrator

• Jan 2012 - Sep 2012

Linux/Security System Administrator/Web Admin Installed, upgraded and patched Red Hat Linux, Windows 2000, Window XP, and Solaris. Monitoring the health and stability of Linux and Windows System environments Analyzed network traffic using sniffer tools, optimized network performance and balanced network load bandwidth Diagnosed and resolved problems associated with DNS, DHCP, VPN, NFS, and Apache Installed and maintained desktops, laptops, printers, fax devices, routers, switches, NIC, and applications software provided technical support for end-user customers, diagnosed and resolved problems associated with network connection Environment: Backtrack 5, Gentoo, Apache Web Server, My Sql, VMware, Redhat. Show less

Systems Administrator

• Dec 2008 - Jan 2010

Created and set the security and file system stander for Jessizfresh.com web site Installed, configured and maintained Apache Web Server, PHP, SQL, and Word Press Deployed SSL certificates Trouble shoot the WebServer Configuration Participated in remote administration to restore website functionality Customized the bash shell scripts Installed, configured Trip Wire Secure and installed e-commerce solution Environment: Backtrack 5, Gentoo, Apache Web Server, My Sql, Word Press, VMware Show less

Linux Systems Administrator

• Jun 2008 - Nov 2009

Created and set the security and file system stander for That’s Major News web site. Installed, configured and maintained Apache Web Server, PHP, SQL, Word press. Deployed SSL certificates Trouble shoot the WebServer Configuration. Participated in remote administration to restore website functionality Customized the bash shell scripts Installed, configured Trip Wire Environment: Backtrack 5, Ubuntu, Apache Web Server, My Sql, Word Press, VMware Created and set the security and file system stander for That’s Major News web site. Installed, configured and maintained Apache Web Server, PHP, SQL, Word press. Deployed SSL certificates Trouble shoot the WebServer Configuration. Participated in remote administration to restore website functionality Customized the bash shell scripts Installed, configured Trip Wire Environment: Backtrack 5, Ubuntu, Apache Web Server, My Sql, Word Press, VMware

Linux Systems Administrator

• Oct 2001 - Apr 2004

Worked as a Unix/Security system administrator for the company, also designed a method of converting uploaded business cards images to company format Installed, Configured and SPARCcenter 2000, IBM System i5 Installed Redhat Linux 5.6, Slackware 7.0, FreeBSD 3.0, Windows NT, Mac OS Installed, Configured, Maintained Black Berry Enterprise Server Installed, Configured, Maintained Trip Wire, Big Brother Installed, Configured, Maintained Apache Web server, Wu FTP Installed and configured OpenSSH for Slackware systems All UNIX operating systems like Solaris, Redhat Linux are hardened based on SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute recommendation Administered DNS (Domain Naming Service), Bind 9.1.0 to support Internet Naming services for entire network Created new filesystems and mounted new filesystems and unmounted filesystems, usage and load of the system & performance monitoring Created and maintained users, profile, security rights, diskspace and monitoring Monitored Filesystem regularly to keep space available and removing corefiles with the help of Cronjob Filesytem administered, resolved system errors, crashes and filesystem error Installed patches fixes and updates to the operating system 24X7 on-call support for systems System performance monitoring is done that includes System Activity Report,Load Averages,CPU usages,Virtual Memory Statistics and close wait of different sockets using various tools like Sar,Vmstat,Mpstat,Iostat,Netstat. Written shell scripts for routine system maintenance activities using Korn, Awk Environment: IBM System i5,Sparc II Solaris 8.0,2.6,Mac OS work Stations, FreeBSD 3.2, various 6650,DNS (Bind 9.2.1), Apache HTTP ,Wu Ftp, Autorpm, Openssh, Trip Wire, Big Brother. Show less

Linux Systems Administrator

• Aug 2000 - Jun 2003

Created and set the security and file system stander for San Diego Unified School District web site Installed, configured and maintained Apache Web Server, PHP Nuke Unix platforms Deployed SSL certificates Trouble shoot the WebServer Configuration Participated in remote administration to restore website functionality Customized the bash shell scripts Installed, configured Big Brother and Trip Wire Environment: Slackware 5.0, FreeBSD 3.2, Windows NT, Apache Web Server, MySQL, PHP Nuke, Solaris 7, 8. Show less