Burlingame, CA 94010 650.863.1796
Innovative Cyber
Security Professional
Recognized as a strong team member with
diverse systems experience
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Strong Linux and Microsoft administration skills. RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu/Windows
Server.
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Strong knowledge of virtualization management in VMware and
AWS.
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Protected the systems of most popular endpoint security
vendor using automation.
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Diagnosed, resolved, and globally communicated the status of
issues as an incident coordinator.
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Extensive Certificate and Software Lifecycle Management
experience.
Professional Experience
DIGITALWORK - DW DATA, INC.
(Remote),
Scottsdale,
AZ 2020 -
CURRENT
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
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Maintain a Hybrid AWS/Bare Metal infrastructure. Ubuntu,
Centos, IIS, Docker, FreeBSD and SQL.
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Setup Prod, Dev, QA, DR, and Staging environments.
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Implement solutions to automate and secure an online
multi-vendor shared environment.
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During the pandemic enabled businesses to develop an on-line
presence.
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Design, install, and maintain a dynamic infrastructure
running on Virtual Systems. Virtual Box/VMWare.
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Responsible for monitoring the capacity and performance of
systems and maintaining fault-tolerance.
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Ensure uptime of both internally critical and
externally-visible systems.
DigiCert,
INC. (Retained as part of Symantec acquisition), Mountain View, CA 2018 - 2020
Security
SME (Subject Matter Expert)
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Migrated PKI infrastructure services from Symantec’s managed
data centers to a hybrid cloud environment.
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Deployed to lab and production environments using
Orchestration software.
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Designed operation dashboards and configured a diverse set of
enterprise level monitoring tools.
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Trained staff and verified fulfillment of mandated audit
requirements.
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Tracked action items assigned
to multiple teams until resolved.
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Diagnosed, resolved, and
globally communicated the status of issues as the incident coordinator.
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Decreased overall issue
resolution time over 200% by customizing Jira workflows.
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Substantially reduced outage
time by guiding staff as on-call manager.
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Assisted in growing install
base to over 1M endpoints after the migration of services.
SYMANTEC CORP.,
Mountain View, CA 2010 - 2018
SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)
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Performed SecOps orchestration and vulnerability remediation.
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Participated in on-call duties as an issue manager in a 24x7
environment.
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Managed and trained new employees in the use of
virtualization, automation, and operational procedures.
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Received award for automating the
discovery and renewal of SSL certificates at world’s largest certificate
authority preventing outages caused by expiring certificates.
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Protected the systems of the most popular endpoint security
vendor.
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Created monthly presentations that summarized issues that
inspired quick resolutions of open action items.
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Monitored and maintained a complex CRL and OCSP global
distribution system.
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Ran okta Single Sign system before the acquisition.
VeriSign
INC., Mountain
View, CA 2005 - 2010
Senior IT
Infrastructure Specialist, Security Group
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Performed hardware maintenance, networking support, system
build / deployment and system management.
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Ran MSS (Manage Security Services) to deliver timely and
quality firewall security services to customers.
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Setup and maintained a complex Windows / Linux / Solaris
environment running the world’s leading Certificate Authorities (VeriSign /
GeoTrust / Thawte / DOD).
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Monitored, generated, installed, and revoked all SSL
Certificates.
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Independently handled all aspects of daily web deployments
including networking modifications.
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Resolved payments and nightly bank reconciliation issues
running on SQL databases.
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Ran the entire Pay-Flow Gateway application before its
acquisition by PayPal.
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Built, configured, and secured the Active Directory Servers
utilized for heterogeneous Single-Sign-On.
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Achieved an SLA of 99.95% uptime maintaining the RSA VIP OTP
Token validation application.
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Protected DOD and major enterprises securing underlying PKI
infrastructures.
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Recognized and rewarded for quickly resolving major PCI
vulnerability using automation.
VISA, San
Mateo, CA 2001 - 2005
Systems Engineer, Software Configuration
Management
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Designed, engineered, installed, tested, and maintained
multiple web applications and databases.
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Performed first, second and third-level support for
production and development systems and applications.
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Mentored staff on technical issue resolution methods.
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Specialized in UNIX and Windows integration and file sharing.
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Performed a full range of software configuration activities
including analysis, design, code modification, unit testing, integration
testing, software delivery management, troubleshooting, deployment,
maintenance, enhancements and documentation.
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Setup and maintained multiple lab environments. Prepared and
executed functional and automated load-based tests utilizing Rational's
Development Suite that ensured problem-free code deployments.
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Received a trophy for developing and documenting the process
that resolved the Unix Change Control audit item.
Education
Bachelor
of Science (BS), Computer Science, Notre Dame de
Namur University, Belmont, CA
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Management, Sonoma State
University, Sonoma, CA
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE),
Quickstart Intelligence, San Francisco, CA
Cloud Computing (AWS), VMWare, Python, UCSC
Extension, Santa Clara, CA
Certfied Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Linux Foundation