Brian Chappell
Information Security Analyst
Fort Worth,TX
Summary
Motivated cybersecurity and IT professional with over 12 years of experience providing system administration and cybersecurity support in varieties of enterprise environments. Proven history of maintaining and securing complex and critical IT infrastructures. Expert at providing service and solutions to customers. Skilled at problem solving, independent working, communicating, and collaborating. Also, taking every opportunity and initiative to expand education and experience in multiple cloud and security related fields and disciplines to drive constant self and professional growth.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
8
8
Certificates
Work History
Endpoint Security Analyst
Costco Wholesale
Plano, TX
12.2022 - Current
- Member of team that is responsible for managing endpoint drive encryption, enterprise EDR solution, and application white/black listing.
- Utilize Tanium as endpoint management and automation platform to coordinate security posture of over 70,000 varied endpoints.
- Assist with switching endpoint protection solution and large scale deployment, adoption, and troubleshooting of of new EDR tool across entire environment.
- Employ endpoint privilege management system to govern user admin rights and restrict non-approved software installation and usage.
- Monitor incidents within security tools to filter out false positive findings and escalate potential legitimate issues to incident response personnel.
- Work in ServiceNow to facilitate change management process and resolve issues that customers are experiencing due to security tools.
Information System Security Officer
Lockheed Martin
Fort Worth, TX
08.2021 - 12.2022
- Provided technical and administrative security oversight to multiple air-gapped classified networks that contained hundreds of devices including workstations, servers, and network devices.
- Conducted weekly security audits using tools such as Splunk, Nessus, and McAfee ePO to identify security risks, vulnerabilities, and verify technical security control functionality.
- Worked closely with IT support personnel to assure necessary STIG security settings were being implemented and system vulnerabilities were mitigated.
- Verified implementation of security controls to meet security framework requirements and compliance.
- Performed media custodian tasks such as approving media creation, tracking media usage, and conducting media destruction.
- Recommend improvements to security systems and procedures.
- Reviewed violations of computer security procedures and developed mitigation plans.
- Performed risk analyses to identify appropriate security countermeasures.
- Monitored use of data files and regulated access to protect secure information.
- Researched threats and vulnerabilities on systems and software to determine risk level and potential mitigation strategies.
Systems Administrator
Lockheed Martin
Fort Worth, TX
02.2011 - 08.2021
- Provided administration oversight to over 100 servers and multiple VMware environments to ensure highly resilient and available systems.
- Monitored vulnerabilities on systems utilizing tools like Foundstone and Qualys.
- Researched and remediated vulnerabilities on systems through patching, registry modification, and group policy deployment.
- Deployed data backup, antivirus, and security solutions across entire enterprise IT environments.
- Provided direct assistance to customers, including cloud, server, desktop, website, and shared storage support.
- Aided cloud based AWS environment deployments and post-deployment technical support.
- Supported day-to-day operations, monitoring and resolving client/server and storage issues.
- Contributed to development, administration and testing of disaster recovery plans.
Education
Master of Science - Cybersecurity
University of Dallas
Irving, TX 01.2018 - 05.2022
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi, TX 08.2005 - 05.2009
Skills
Growth Mindset
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Timeline
Endpoint Security Analyst
Costco Wholesale
12.2022 - Current
ISC2 CISSP
10-2022
CompTIA CySA+ ce
06-2022
CompTIA Security+ ce
06-2022
CompTIA Cloud+ ce
01-2022
Microsoft Azure System Administrator Associate
12-2021
Microsoft Azure Fundementals
11-2021
Information System Security Officer
Lockheed Martin
08.2021 - 12.2022
AWS Certified SysOps Associate
01-2021
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
10-2020
Master of Science - Cybersecurity
University of Dallas
01.2018 - 05.2022
Systems Administrator
Lockheed Martin
02.2011 - 08.2021
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
08.2005 - 05.2009
Security Clearance
2011-Present: DoD National Security Clearance-Secret
Self-Learning
Home Cyber Lab
- pfSense
- OpenVAS
- Security Onion
- VMware
Security Clearance
Active secret clearance, investigated 2020
Self-learning
- Listen to various cybersecurity podcasts and subscribe to cybersecurity email distributions to stay up to date with industry news and trends.
- Various home grown projects including Unraid, dockers, virtual machines, pfSense, Kali Linux
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