Summary

Software and technical engineer with thorough hands-on experience from Testing, QA to Production. I thrive myself on learning new technologies. On my spare time I enjoy building servers just to test and develop ideas running through my mind. I spend much of my free time reading and experimenting.

Experience

Comcast – Senior Security Engineer 1/3/2011 – Present

Develop and maintain a MVT system to manage all firewalls and tools deployed though out the network.
Developed a RestAPI to interact with Thrift to add Data to LDAP and Active Directory.
Develop and maintain a remote monitoring system to manage and calculate statistics based on length of time to connect, Authenticate, and download for all VPN remote locations.
Develop and maintain portal to generate web proxy statistics.
Develop and maintain security system fault management support procedures for assigned systems.
Develop and maintain security incident management procedures for assigned systems.
Investigate opportunities to update security system capabilities or perform policy updates based upon system performance reports and observed incidents or threats.
Perform configuration updates, such as modifying configurations, signature definitions or implementing new policies.
Perform daily OS and application-level administration for assigned security elements, support regularly schedule maintenance and change requests.
Provide advanced application-level support for the resolution of security system faults, including system patches and software upgrades.
Respond to security incidents and report on incident handling and resolution.
Ensure timely proactive identification and reporting of security gaps and vulnerabilities to the network infrastructure.
Assist with the preparation of quarterly, monthly, and weekly reports, and trend analysis, based upon network security incidents, faults and performance data.
Assist with exception security audits to verify completeness of security required configurations and verify system hardening.
Participate in the post-mortem investigation of catastrophic network security incidents and prepare security incident reports documenting the findings

Merck Inc – Test Environment Engineer 8/7/2007 – 12/31/2010

Build and configure Oracle Siebel Environments based on specific applications.
Configure and manage Unix/HP shell scripts for processing operation data.
Managing and executing remote scripts using SSH and SCP.
Manage all change and configuration requests processed.
Record and document all build and configuration procedures.
Responsible for maintenance and configuration changes for VMWare 3.5 hosts.
Configuring and building new servers in a VMware 3.5 environment.
Migrating data loads from environment to environment.
Responsible for maintaining Help Desk cases and troubleshooting environment issues.
Responsible for applying and documenting patches crossed environments.
Complete builds of Siebel 8.0.0.2 systems and database servers.
Responsible for configuration and change management for (8) Siebel 8.0.0.2 environments.

Lucid Security Corp – Senior Developer and Security Analyst 5/2003 – 7/6/2006

Covert installation of security controls and monitoring systems.
Discreet Insider/Executive/Employee investigations such as Industrial Espionage, extortion, blackmail, theft of Intellectual Property, etc.
Design and configure Checkpoint firewalls for internal and customer networks.
Design and extend ipANGEL: an IDS with adaptive intrusion prevention technologies, the primary sustenanceof the company.
Monitoring Internal and Customer firewalls and servers 24/7 to ensure as little downtime as possible.
Design and configure 20 UNIX/Solaris servers on demand in production and development environments.

Broadview Networks – Systems Engineer 6/2004 – 12/2005

Maintain and configure 50 Solaris 7/8/9, 20 FreeBSD, 10 Slackware (linux) systems in an ISP environment.
Monitor and maintain all ISP related software: qmail, Sendmail, BIND, djbdns, Apache, FreeRADIUS, MySQL, etc.
Work closely with customers regarding high-speed Internet connections, collocation servers,
Configure and work closely with customers to build IP networks to meet their needs.
Troubleshooting Cisco and Livingston routers for T1’s, T3’s, SDSL, and ISDN.
Maintain DNS management system for use by employees and ISP customers.
Maintain Virtual Webserver management system.

NetCarrier Inc – UNIX Software Engineer, NOC Technician 10/2002 – 6/2004

Provide Unix Administrative support to software development efforts
Coordinate software development efforts with the NOC and system administration departments
Program as needed in PHP, Shell, HTML, Perl, C in variety of applications
Configure and interface with Unix-oriented services for software projects such as qmail, Radiator, MySQL, OpenLDAP, Apache, OpenSSH , and OpenSSL
Ability to manage emergencies and scheduled projects / maintenance 24×7 as required in service-provider environment.
Troubleshooting dialup connections, web hosting, email and many other Internet related problems.

Education

Abington Highschool Sep 1992 – Jun 1995

High School Diploma

Eastern Center for Arts and Technology Sep 1991 – Jun 1995