Background

Strategic, results-driven systems administrator and U.S. Army veteran with expertise in cyber-data security, IT risk management, Data Loss Protection (DLP), regulatory compliance, infrastructure support, and applications. Extensive leadership experience in managing teams and collaborating with multi-disciplinary internal and external partners to reach organizational and client goals. Transformational leader who develops and trains junior-level staff through mentorship and coaching to position them for success. Consultant to organizations that want to effectively complete IT projects and scale.

Job experience

• February 2017 - present
  SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER / INTERFACE SECURITY
  ANN & ROBERT H. LURIE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO
  

  Chicago, IL, USA

  o Adeptly advises non-technical team members, senior management, and C-suite staff of potential web security risks, vulnerabilities, and threats to system compliance.
  o Develops, automates, and implements Lawson and Epic — the electronic data-retention system that ensures HIPPA compliance by maintaining records for the more than 220,000 patients that the 1,800 Lurie Children’s Hospital physicians and health professionals treat each year.
  o Deploys controls that secure sensitive information for DLP using Job Scheduler and vsftpd.
  o Supports Cache Operational Database necessary for Epic Systems implementation for dozens of hospital partners and affiliated clinics as hospital’s Epic expert.
  o Administers Linux/Unix - Red Hat in a VMWare vSphere virtual environment after migrating it from AIX physical servers.
  o Upgraded local Red Hat server accounts to authenticate with hospital’s active directory service using LDAP and Kerberos for data retention.
  o Configured a Red Hat 8 template to CIS level-one hardening for advanced threat protection.
  o Implemented and maintains Red Hat server log collection and transfers syslog to the hospital’s CyberArk Server to ensure forensic evidence for log file analysis to prevent data loss.
  o Deploys, secures, and maintains Lurie’s public-facing ftp/sftp Dropbox server using OpenBSD.
  o Operates Identity and Access Management (IAM) to create secure user accounts for transferring mission-critical data using EDI, SFTP, SSH, and FTP with PGP/GPG encryption.
  o For key and certificate management, establishes, implements, and supports cryptographic keys, keyrings, and digital signatures.
  o Resolves failures in network and transmission processes to ensure continuous patient care.
  o Controls Red Hat Satellite 6, which manages Red Hat servers across Lurie’s enterprise, and implements configuration management with Ansible and Puppet.
  o Led teams to successfully upgrade hospital GE pacs and radiology Yarra imaging systems.
  o Leads and assists with other departmental and general organizational projects, including technical product and troubleshooting support, data protection, policy development, and job automation, log maintenance, and monitoring, as needed.
  

• March 2005 - February 2017
  INTERFACE SECURITY / COMPLIANCE SPECIALIST
  ADP - AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING
  

  Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  o Led the team that successfully relocated access from a legacy server to a cloud access secure environment for 2,000+ business clients and vendors in less than half the requested timeframe.
  o Facilitated the implementation of controls to secure sensitive information in transit and at rest Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, and DOD compliance for the secure transmissions of the world’s largest payroll and human resource organization.
  o Collaborated with internal and external customers to identify and implement security compliances that protect against potential vulnerabilities and data loss protection.
  o Monitored event and security logs and fixed breakdowns in the network and transmission process that cause in delays in getting payroll to clients.
  o Optimized the access-provisioning lifecycle for secure transmissions of payroll and HR data from Fortune 500 Companies for ADP, a $15 billion global company.
  o Managed Identity and Access Management by using EDI, SFTP, SSH, and FTP with Data Loss Protection/Encryption security in compliance with various controls to create secure user accounts for retaining transferring mission-critical data.
  o Implemented AutoSys, Tivoli and other scheduling servers to develop and maintain transmission confidentiality and integrity to support client and functional requirements.
  

Education

• UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-DEARBORN
  MASTER OF SCIENCE IN FINANCE
  

  2021 - present
• UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-DEARBORN
  BACHELOR OF ECONOMICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
  

  2012 - 2015

  Member: Omicron Delta Epsilon – The International Economics Honor Society

• Certified Web Application Security Professional (CWASP)
  Network Intelligence Institute of Information Security
  Credential ID CWASP15122110
  

  December 2021 - present
• Secured Cloud Computing Practitioner (SCCP)
  Network Intelligence Institute of Information Security
  Credential ID SCCP29112164
  

  November 2021 - present
• Python Data Structures
  Coursera
  Credential ID 2Q47TB2PBCPR
  

  December 2020 - present
• Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)
  Coursera
  Credential ID ERPACHQUJZ63
  

  November 2020 - present