Randy Hall

Senior Consultant at PacGenesis
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Chuck McCurry

Randy was the out-of-the-box thinker that I relied on. He always provides both the rational and, yes, the irrational decision choices to make -- made me think. And made it always fun to work though whatever problem we faced together. Collaboration was always just a nature of him working with me. A rare find in this world.

Bob Holley, NCDA, NCSA-SAN, MCSE

Randy is a highly-skilled security engineer. In addition he brings advanced Linux and troubleshooting expertise to the table. He is detail-oriented and has successfully led several technology projects. I am happy to recommend and fully endorse him. . . . Bob Holley

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Credentials

  • Riverbed Certified Solutions Associate - Network Performance Management
    Riverbed Technology
    Oct, 2014
    - Nov, 2024
  • Accredited Configuration Engineer - PAN-OS 6.0
    Palo Alto Networks
    Aug, 2014
    - Nov, 2024
  • Technical Sales Associate - Network Performance Management
    Riverbed Technology
    Nov, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • Technical Sales Specialist - Network Performance Management
    Riverbed Technology
    Nov, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • CCA for Citrix NetScaler 10
    Citrix
    Aug, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • CCA for Citrix XenDesktop 5
    Citrix
    Aug, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • Citrix Certified Sales Professional 2013
    Citrix
    Jul, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • Tivoli Endpoint Manager V8.2
    IBM
    Mar, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer
    Red Hat
    Jan, 2001
    - Nov, 2024
  • Citrix Certified Professional – Networking
    Citrix
    May, 2014
    - Nov, 2024
  • Infoblox Automation Solutions Associate
    Infoblox
    Oct, 2014
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional
    (ISC)²
    Jan, 2008
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • PacGenesis
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Consultant
      • Jul 2020 - Present

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  • IBM
    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Professional Services Engineer
      • Jan 2015 - Jun 2020

      Working as a professional services engineer has given me the opportunity to work with many aspects of the entire Aspera software product line as well as exposure to a variety of customer markets including Media, Federal, Healthcare and Legal. Assist customers with moves to the cloud, from the cloud and between clouds. Perform deployment of Aspera software to customers via on-site and remote engagements on Windows, Linux and MacOS. Represent the company and provide live product demos at NAB. Design, deploy and run Aspera software solutions in a managed cloud environment. Perform on site and remote training classes for Aspera products. Deploy custom solutions using Aspera Orchestrator requiring ruby on rails experience. Large projects include media packaging and media distribution. Developed initial version of Aspera Virtual Catcher which has become a significant product in displacing satellite delivery of media content. Developed migration solution allowing customers to easily upgrade from Aspera Shares 1.9.x to 2.0. This was a complete rewrite of the Shares product requiring new migration software between otherwise incompatible architectures. Developed High Availability clustering package based on a two-node redis cluster for Aspera Enterprise server when used with Aspera Files. Contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements to Aspera Orchestrator, Aspera Shares and various clustering packages for Aspera software. Most coding has been done in Ruby and Bash with some dabbling in Perl and GO.

  • SLAIT Consulting
    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Sr. Security Engineer
      • Jan 2010 - Jan 2015

      One of the advantages of working for such a great company is that I have the opportunity to do many types of diverse work. These are only some of the many projects I've been involved with over the past five years. Technical lead for migrating two different Microsoft Exchange organizations to Google Apps for Business. One of those customers expressed that it was the best run and implemented IT project he has ever experienced. Always ready to jump into the pre-sales role to showcase the many different products and services we can offer to our customers. Implemented a Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop & NetScalar environment for a health care organization. Converted complex proxy configuration from various products to Citrix NetScaler by writing my own translations scripts. Saving hundreds of hours of manual labor. Created an API the provided significantly more functionality for Bluecoat director. This allowed integration with the helpdesk software so that approving filter change in the helpdesk software would be all that is required to implement the change in the filters. Provide support for various local companies as part of our IT Outsourcing business. Plan and deploy enterprise wide security policies and full disk encryption. Perform packet level analysis of WAN connections in a Riverbed environment to determine resource hogs. Provide specific tuning points within the applications running over that link to adjust for optimal performance without guess work. Perform security assessments and penetration tests in both pre-sales and project based work.

  • Pilot Media Solutions | The Virginian-Pilot
    • United States
    • Advertising Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Sr. Security Engineer
      • Mar 2004 - Dec 2009

      Working for the Pilot Media Companies division of Landmark, I get to do a lot of fun stuff. I'm responsible for penetration testing of new acquisitions, managing desktop security for 1000+ nodes with Websense, SMS and Symantec, and contributing to policies & procedures. I also get to do forensic analysis from time to time for the HR or legal department. I have my finger on all remote access in one way or another leveraging RSA, CiscoSecure, Cisco PIX & ASA and blackberries. Because of my breadth of knowledge, not just my depth, I serve on the team that does new startups where we have to go from an empty building to publication in two weeks. I use Linux, Windows, Solaris, VMWare, Xen and Virtual Server on a daily basis and love the diversity. I am the company champion for using strong encryption everywhere it is appropriate and perform PCI audits to verify compliance.

    • Applications Solutions Analyst
      • Nov 2001 - Mar 2004

      I supported the output of the newspaper from the moment the postscript file was generated by DTI to the moment the image was burned onto plates for the press. It's a complex system that really does seem like magic when it works as designed. I was also involved in disaster planning for business continuity. I designed and implemented an off site warm standby location where the newspaper could still be produced if we lost our primary facility. One of my long lasting contributions here are numerous Perl scripts scattered on dozens of systems that act as the glue for the newspaper production process. I feel that I now know more that any human should have to know about postscript, PDFs and fonts.

  • Greatbridge
    • Sr Knowledge Engineer
      • Oct 2000 - Sep 2001

      This is where my career really took off. I was given the opportunity to contribute to a brand new startup in the world of open source software. During my consulting as a PostgreSQL database expert, I learned how small the IT world really is and how important networking is. This was also the smartest group of people in one small organization I had ever worked with. As as startup, I worked many projects. Writing documentation, writing code, providing telephone technical support, working as a presales engineer, managing a team of engineers, serving as a consultant, creating software distributions. It was the best experience of my career and would loved for the company to have survived.

  • Jefferson Lab
    • United States
    • Research Services
    • 500 - 600 Employee
    • Database Programmer/Analyst
      • Sep 1998 - Oct 2000

      Started here as a contractor from Metro Information services (now Keene). Worked for a year as a contractor then was hired on full time. I used my problem solving skills to provide elegant solutions to unique problems. I did a lot of dBase and Novell here but since it was a national research center, I got a chance to get even deeper into Linux and networking. Along the way, I also did cold fusion web development of internal applications. My fascination with firewalls and security was born here even though I had no direct security responsibilities. I came to the realization that open source was going to be big.

  • Metro Information Services
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Information Systems Consultant
      • Jun 1997 - Sep 1998

      This was a contract to hire for Jefferson Lab. Well, not really. But Jefferson Lab wanted me there so bad they bought out my contract with Metro. Details are in that position description. This was a contract to hire for Jefferson Lab. Well, not really. But Jefferson Lab wanted me there so bad they bought out my contract with Metro. Details are in that position description.

  • Raytheon
    • United States
    • Defense and Space Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Network Administrator / Programmer
      • Jul 1991 - Jun 1997

      First job out of the gate from college. Cannot say it was too terribly exciting but it did pay the bills and provide professional growth. I spent most of my time writing reports in dBase. I did however get my feet wet with networking. First with Novell then with Linux. Other than the networking and Linux, my resume from this job looks like a list of all the technology that has been forgotten about over the years. First job out of the gate from college. Cannot say it was too terribly exciting but it did pay the bills and provide professional growth. I spent most of my time writing reports in dBase. I did however get my feet wet with networking. First with Novell then with Linux. Other than the networking and Linux, my resume from this job looks like a list of all the technology that has been forgotten about over the years.

Education

  • Old Dominion University
    BS, Computer Science
    1987 - 1990

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