I am a driven technologist specialized in Information Security, Data Centers, and Systems Architecture and welcome to my branded domain.
I am equally comfortable presenting to senior management, presenting at conferences, or analyzing a company wide information security plan.
I am an expert at bringing a site back from failure and in leading restoration and post-action review. I've also recently built out and installed thousands of servers within two very large data centers for a fortune 500 company.
I believe that every challenge can be met with a solution and I will exhaust every avenue to find something that works.

Key Areas of Interest

• Information Security
• Systems Availability
• Internet & Cloud
• Systems Architecture
• Data Center Architecture

• Information Security Technologies [ McAfee, Absolute, Vontu, Trend]
• Data Center Design
• SEM/SIEM [ ArcSight ]
• Network Access Control (NAC), 802.1X [ Juniper ]
• Internet/Intranet Technologies [ SSL, Bastion Host, VPN, PKI ]
• Clustering, High Availability [ Veritas ]
• DNS / NTP / SMTP
• UNIX/Linux/Solaris/AIX
• Perl, Shell Scripting

Recent Employment

2009-2011 - Principal Systems Engineer - Apollo Group / University of Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ
      - Data Center Architect, consolidation and build-out of facility
      - Information Security Tool Architecture – ArcSight, Syslog, Splunk, McAfee
      - InfoSec standards, policy design
      - Systems Availability lead for internal corporate applications
      - Mobile Security lead
 

2009 - COMSYS - Consultant @ PayPal
Phoenix, AZ
*  Expert system administrator consultant 
      - File system tuning EXT2/EXT3 under heavy I/O
      - Custom Perl development for kernel performance testing
      - Citrix NetScalar, IronPort email design

1999-2009 - Technical Director - Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. - Phoenix, AZ
* Information Security Architect, specializing in distributed systems, operational, and perimeter security strategy
- 10,000 distributed servers throughout the USA
- Responsible for overall Budgeting, Management Justification, Vendor Negotiation, Information Systems Architecture
- ArcSight Security Information Event Manager (SIEM)
- Juniper Network Access Control (NAC), Great Bay Software Profilers, Cisco Switches
- Corporate Email, Proxy, Remote Access Security, Mobile Devices
- Design/Engineering
- Total security protection for desktops, laptops, and Corporate intranet, External SSL with Verisign EV
- Security Operations Engineer & Architect [ DISA, NIST, ISO 17799]
- Distributed Availability Lead - Restoration of service, system design expert for Data center operations
- Middleware technologies, MQ, Request-Reply BUS, SOA, Single-SignOn
- Data Center Operations Technical Lead - Staff Mentoring, Training, Application Support expert, Change Management Review
- Technical Lead - Y2K Remediation of Distributed Systems

Employment Career
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2009-2011 - Apollo Group, University of Phoenix
2009 - Consultant - COMSYS & PayPal
1999-2009 - Technical Director - Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
1996-1998 - Senior Technical Analyst - Cargill, North Star Steel
1995 - Computer Scientist - National Security Agency, Department of Defense (TSSI/TSO)

Certifications
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CISSP - Certificate # 82707 - October 2005
AIX System Administration - 2003
Solaris System Administration - 2003
CompTIA INet+ - 2003
Microsoft Certified Professional - 1998

As of 09/01/2011 - edited with vi - sjc