ANDREW P. LASSER
Wentworth,NH
Summary
Experienced Solutions Architect determined to be a top performer by maintaining cutting edge skills, the latest industry knowledge, and a massive drive to make money.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Solutions Architect (Systems Engineer)
Fortinet
10.2021 - Current
- Maintained current and in-depth understanding of Fortinet products, services, and solutions
- Worked with developers, engineers, architects, directors, and C level execs to realize technological solutions.
- Broke down technical ideas and issues into non-technical terms for business executives.
- Gained valuable relationships with 50 to 100 named customers within Mid-Enterprise space.
- Won many 6 figure deals and regularly made/exceeded quota.
President Wentworth Broadband Expansion Committee
Town Of Wentworth
07.2020 - Current
- Leading effort to expand broadband throughout town via SB170
- Creating RFI/RFP
- Interacting with local and state government
Owner
ShireTek (On Hold)
07.2020 - Current
- Provide Computer Endpoint, Network, Email, and Cyber Security Products/Services to Small/Medium Business
Volunteer Firefighter
Wentworth Fire Department
08.2019 - Current
- Cover Wentworth and surrounding towns in the event of an emergency requiring the fire department's assistance
- Calls could include fires, motor vehicle accidents, hikers stranded, power lines down, and assisting EMS teams
Selectman
Town Of Wentworth, NH
03.2021 - 03.2022
- Serve on the Board of Selectmen that serves as the chief executive body in town.
- Help to maintain a cohesive relationship between the various departments of the town including police, fire, highway, and transfer station.
- Resolve issues and requests of residents/businesses that require Select Board intervention.
- Participate in yearly budget hearings to determine budget for each fiscal year.
Senior Security Engineer
Right Networks
06.2020 - 08.2021
- Conducted security audits and vulnerability scans to identify security gaps.
- Network security incident response analysis
- Worked with Network Engineering to harden network security environment
- Enhanced network security monitoring and reporting capabilities
- Provided my expertise to less experienced engineers/analysts for them to gain more knowledge in cyber security as a whole.
- Deployed/maintained Fortinet Products such as FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiClientEMS, FortiClient, and FortiGate firewalls.
Senior Information Security Engineer (Contractor)
United Health Group
10.2018 - 09.2019
- Engineering Lead for FireEye NX, EX, AX, FX, and CM products that amount to about 70 devices
- Architecture lead that included EX (Email Security) re-design
- Provide operational support including troubleshooting errors and various maintenance tasks
Channel Systems Engineer
FireEye, Inc.
05.2017 - 10.2018
- Provide technical enablement expertise for Solution Architects and Systems engineers at Value Added Resellers of FireEye Inc
- Technical enablement includes our entire product and services portfolio
- Covered South West and then New England regions as the Channel Systems Engineer for each region
Senior Cyber Security Engineer
Fidelity Investments
05.2016 - 04.2017
- SME/Engineer/Product Owner for RSA Netwitness and FireEye CM/EX/NX/AX platforms
- Certify new features/code for upgrades and pass install plans off to operations team for install
- Worked with Proxy Engineering team to give a cyber security perspective on nextgen proxy environment at our company
- Previous Bluecoat SME for network security operations team
Senior Cyber Incident Response Analyst
Fidelity Investments
01.2015 - 05.2016
- Triage daily queue of alerts from sources such as Bluecoat, FireEye, SourceFire, McAfee Antivirus/HIPS, Splunk logs, Active Directory, Lancope, Checkpoint Firewalls, and Juniper Firewalls
- Investigate alerts for potential malicious activity Run DFIR scripts on endpoints in event of potential malware and analyze after Investigate potential DLP issues within company Investigate possible network attacks such as DDOS, DOS, DNS attacks, and server exploitations Train new hires Represent our team using oncall rotation for large scale issues on conference calls
Senior Network Engineer
Fidelity Investments
07.2013 - 01.2015
- Highly proficient in troubleshooting hardware platforms such as Juniper Netscreen/SRX, Juniper IVE (instant virtual extranet) Checkpoint (IPSO, SPLAT, GAIA), F5 (LTM/GTM), Cisco routers/switches, Cisco XML Gateway, HP Tippingpoint IPS/IDS and Bluecoat Director 510/ProxySG (many models and software versions)
- Took escalations from less experienced engineers and handled highest impacting incidents
- Created power point presentation for newer engineers to include network diagrams and troubleshooting information for given platform
- Installation of maintenance/bug hot-fixes for various platforms
- Policy modifications, additions, deletions for all platforms above
- DDOS fire drills/mitigation
- Automated various daily tasks with HP automation utility
Network Engineer
Fidelity Investments
09.2011 - 07.2013
- Maintain/troubleshoot enterprise internet network environment to include extranet/internet environments
- Devices include firewall, web proxy, xml gateway, IPS/IDS, load balancing, employee remote access VPN, and client SSLVPN
- Highly proficient in troubleshooting hardware platforms such as Juniper, Checkpoint, F5, Ciscorouters/switches, Cisco XML Gateway, HP Tippingpoint and Bluecoat Director/ProxySG
Senior Systems Services and Support Analyst
Fidelity Investments
09.2007 - 09.2011
- Manage high/low impact Network/Security/Unix/Linux related issues/conference bridges including VPN, large fiber optic circuits, routers/switches, malware, denial of service attacks, etc
- Subject Matter Expert for Network/Desktop security within NOC
- Assist with Security and Knowledge Management Database related projects
Private First Class
US Army
12.2001 - 01.2004
- Trained as a Combat Medic
Education
Bachelor of Science - Cyber Security
Norwich University
Northfield, VTAccomplishments
- Skills Troubleshooting/maintaining/engineering/architecture of firewalls, web proxy (secure web gateway), DNS, xml gateway, IPS/IDS, load balancing, endpoint protection, vulnerability scanning/assessments, employee remote access vpn (SSL and IPSEC) all in physical and cloud data centers.
- Engineering/Architecture/Operations of Bluecoat ProxySG, FireEye CM/NX/EX/AX/FX, RSA Netwitness, Fortinet FortiGate NGFW (IPS,Web Filtering, Anti-Virus, Sandboxing, SSL Interception, Application Control, and integration with Forticlient), Fortinet FortiClient/EMS, Sourcefire IPS/IDS, previous experience with Checkpoint/Juniper firewalls, F5 Load Balancers, and Tenable (Nessus Vulnerability Scanning).
Certification
- GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
- NREMT Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)
- Fortinet Network Security Expert Level 4: Certified Professional
- Fortinet Network Security Expert Level 7: Certified Architect
Timeline
Solutions Architect (Systems Engineer)
Fortinet
10.2021 - Current
Selectman
Town Of Wentworth, NH
03.2021 - 03.2022
President Wentworth Broadband Expansion Committee
Town Of Wentworth
07.2020 - Current
Owner
ShireTek (On Hold)
07.2020 - Current
Senior Security Engineer
Right Networks
06.2020 - 08.2021
Volunteer Firefighter
Wentworth Fire Department
08.2019 - Current
Senior Information Security Engineer (Contractor)
United Health Group
10.2018 - 09.2019
Channel Systems Engineer
FireEye, Inc.
05.2017 - 10.2018
Senior Cyber Security Engineer
Fidelity Investments
05.2016 - 04.2017
Senior Cyber Incident Response Analyst
Fidelity Investments
01.2015 - 05.2016
Senior Network Engineer
Fidelity Investments
07.2013 - 01.2015
Network Engineer
Fidelity Investments
09.2011 - 07.2013
Senior Systems Services and Support Analyst
Fidelity Investments
09.2007 - 09.2011
Private First Class
US Army
12.2001 - 01.2004
Bachelor of Science - Cyber Security
Norwich University
Interests
- Currently run various Fortinet appliances in home lab environment including virtual/hardware FortiGates, FortiSwitches, FortiAP, FortiAuthenticator, FortiWeb, FortiDASD, FortiClient/EMS, FortiCamera/Recorder, FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager, and FortiNAC. With SD-WAN multisite AD-VPN deployment.
- Previously ran my own cisco switches, FreePBX server, FreenNAS, Splunk (for syslog), PFSense firewall, Linux web server, Win2008 servers, console server, VMware ESXi, and WAP at home. These are all housed in a server cabinet I own
- Previously loved to snowboard and was a previous instructor. Current hiker.
- Interested in new technologies
- short/long term goals are always a must to progress my career in Cyber Security Engineering/Architecture
- FCC Licensed Ham Radio Technician
- Volunteer emergency radio communications at Dallas Marathon