Professional Experience

With almost two decades of IT experience, I'm happy to showcase my responsibilities and professional achievements during various roles.

Western Nebraska Community College

Information Security Administrator

2023

· Lead the cybersecurity program within the IT team, focusing on information integrity and security across multiple platforms, and ensuring the alignment of IT practices with cloud-based infrastructure security and data protection standards.

· Ensure the security of data, network access, and backup systems by applying various security controls and solutions for on-premises and cloud environments. Achieved through migration to Role Based Access Control, micro segmentation of networks, Kerberos, IPSec, BitLocker for encryption at rest, WPA3 with RADIUS and Blob storage for backup redundancy.

· Management of 2000+ users for hybrid cloud environment. Achieved through deployment and tuning of Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access Policies, Licensing, and 365 Portals.

· Evaluate data sources and owners to create a data classification scheme for compliance, enhancing security and aligning with cloud security compliance and risk mitigation strategies using Microsoft Purview.

· Strategically planned and implemented various solutions for compliance across multiple frameworks, CIS, GLBA, ISO 800-171 and ISO 27001. Achieved through comprehensive audits and assessments to define current security posture, creating a baseline and engineering solutions to meet compliance regulatory requirements.

· Established a cyclic approach to vulnerability management through routine scans and assessments, patch management and incident response process. Achieved by policy and process development, end to end visibility of network devices and users by leveraging Defender, Lansweeper and Tenable Nessus.

· Manage vendors and service providers to ensure that security standards are in line with organizational standards, emphasizing cloud DLP, cloud KMS, and encryption strategies.

· Designed, implemented, and coordinated systems with deployment of SIEM for centralized log management and EDR with Defender and SentielOne for incident response of the security program.

· Currently sit on multiple boards to discuss, review, and implement organization-wide policy and process changes.

Kone Labs - IT Director

2016-2023

· Lead the cybersecurity program within the IT team, focusing on information integrity and security across multiple platforms, and ensuring the alignment of IT practices with cloud-based infrastructure security and data protection standards.

· Evaluate data sources and owners to create a data classification scheme for compliance, enhancing security and aligning with cloud security compliance and risk mitigation strategies.

· Manage vendors and service providers to ensure that security standards are in line with organizational standards, emphasizing cloud DLP, cloud KMS, and encryption strategies.

· Manage and mentor IT staff by recruiting, training, and coaching employees in cyber security hygiene and best practices, contributing to organizational influence and support across various levels.

· Design, implement, and coordinate systems, policies, and procedures for the security program, ensuring robust technical and operational controls and the security of data.

· Ensure the security of data, network access, and backup systems by applying various security controls and solutions, including encryption in transit and at rest.

CBM Specialists - Network Administrator 2009-2016

· Designing, implementing, and testing wireless, Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), internet, and other data communications systems and segments.

· Performing network hardware/software troubleshooting, performance tuning, and security auditing.

· Providing on-call technical support for network and communication problems.

· Researching and choosing hardware and software products to be deployed and supported by client services.

· Provided network drive access to the related path, remapped drives as per the users' request.

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