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WORK EXPERIENCE
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Alltel Corporate Services, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas
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12/2005 - Present
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Manager - Enterprise Security and Risk Office
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- Develop enterprise security strategy and architect security solutions for a Fortune 500 company to ensure compliance with statutory and industry regulations such as PCI Data Security Standard 1.1, Sarbanes-Oxley, and SB1386.
- Serve as a security subject matter expert by providing guidance to senior management and project team security analysts for new business initiatives and emerging technologies.
- Lead an enterprise assessment team that provides network, application, and facility vulnerability assessments and penetration tests, resulting in an 80% reduction of vulnerabilities.
- Evaluate security risk to develop security policy and standards for operational and strategic initiatives, enabling the organization to make informed business decisions.
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SANS Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas
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5/2005 - Present
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Instructor
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- Lead the only SANS Security Essentials and SANS Securing UNIX/Linux classes in Arkansas.
- Prepare students for the GIAC GSEC or GCUX certification exam, resulting in a 95% pass rate.
- Provide instruction on topics such as TCP/IP networking, traffic analysis, routing and firewall fundamentals, security policy creation, password management, and Unix/Linux and Windows security.
- Concentrate on bringing course material to life through real-world examples and exercises.
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Alltel Communications, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas
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5/2002 - 12/2005
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Systems Engineer - Data Network Operations
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- Team leader for the budgeting, purchasing, management, administration, and security of a production datacenter.
- Drove efficiency through a high level of automation to provide a server to administrator ratio of 100:1, over nine times the national average.
- Architected and implemented all capacity planning, performance monitoring, and event monitoring systems for Alltel's Data Network Operations Center, which facilitated improved customer service for 350,000 DSL customers.
- Migrated ATM switch management systems during the acquisition of 1.9 billion dollars worth of Verizon DSL assets, which contributed to an increase of over 100,000 customers.
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AssureCo, LLC., Little Rock, Arkansas
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8/2001 - 10/2005
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Consultant
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- Set the overall IT vision and direction of a complex Internet-based company.
- Managed a corporate LAN, consisting of eight business divisions across three states.
- Provided database server and file server design, implementation, and maintenance.
- Executed security and business continuity schemes, including firewall, tape backups, and network redundancy strategies to exceed customer service level agreement requirements.
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas
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5/2001 - 5/2002
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Computer Specialist - Graduate Institute of Technology
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- Managed the College of Information Technology and the College of Math and Science networks, consisting of over 500 Linux, Solaris, and Windows workstations and servers.
- Administrated UNIX and Linux database and application servers for the Computer Science Department, providing reliable access for faculty and students.
- Developed and maintained the GIT Help Desk, a web-based system created to simplify the process of submitting and managing trouble tickets, resulting in a 50% reduction in response times.
- Worked with faculty to reduce administrative overhead by developing a centralized identity management scheme for student UNIX workstations.
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