Dereck Berry
El Paso,TX
Summary
Ambitious Cyber Security Engineer committed to formulating innovative solutions to challenges while optimizing processes. Polished in developing and implementing security plans and procedures and developing strategies to respond and recover from security breaches. Logical and analytical leader familiar with security tools and technologies such as firewalls and proxy servers.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
SIGNAL SUPPORT SYSTEM SPECIALIST
US Army
- Provided training to over 150 senior leaders in Afghanistan on how to operate and maintain a (SNAP) Secure Internet
- Protocol Router/Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router (SIPR/NIPR) Access Point in a combat environment
- First soldier in the US Army to communicate a Line of Sight Radio system over 50 miles in a field environment
- Responsible for over 200,000 dollars of communication equipment that I operated and maintained
- With a Secret security clearance, I played an integral role of the US Army Network Integration Evaluation
- Fielding new network equipment to determine if they were viable solutions in a combat environment
- Completed Warriors Leaders Course (WLC) and lead 5 soldiers as their direct supervisor
- Bachelor of Science in Network Administration/ Cyber Security Green River College at Auburn, Network Penetration testing
- Windows Server and active directory environments
- Linux scripting
- ELK Stack
- Splunk
- Customer Service professionalism
- Routing and switching
- Firewall management
Tier 1 Desktop Support Analyst
ANALYST Starbucks
04.2015 - 04.2016
- Supported the implementation of the mobile order and pay system
- Provided general technical support for all of the
- Starbucks stores in North America
- Processed 25 - 30 tickets a day with a high level of customer service.
SOC ANALYST
Cl Security
10.2019 - 10.2020
- Monitors outside intelligence sources to identify emerging threats and associated protections and determines how they apply to the SOC enterprise environment
- Collaborate with customers to develop Suricata rules BASED ON DEPARTMENTAL NEEDS to improve alerting capabilities to enhance the security posture of the organization - Developing a sandbox environment to test new ideas in a controlled environment and evaluate outcomes and the effects on production environments
- Coordinating and conducting event collection, log management, event management, compliance automation, and identity monitoring activities using the ELK stack -Accurately reporting investigations of IOCs to the SOC supervisor.
Associate Engineer
Cyber Security T-Mobile
05.2020 - 08.2022
- Monitor, investigate and remediate security incidents for alerts based upon companywide log collection from servers, desktops and cloud environments -Collect and organize pertinent security data to create reports and make recommendations for tuning existing content, inform new monitoring rules, and discovering security trends, Investigate and respond to user reported Phishing incidents -Experience with multiple security tools including Splunk, Symantec Endpoint Protection, FireEye H X,
- CheckPoint NextGen Firewalls among various others
- Serve as a security point of contact for the organization's Data Loss Prevention program -Provide training and mentoring for new hires.
- Created and presented security-based presentation to both smaller teams and larger originations
Cyber Security Engineer
T-Mobile
08.2022 - Current
- Performed risk and vulnerability assessments and provided results and recommendations to senior management.
- Worked with business partners to balance requirements, security and risk reduction.
- Translated strategy into solutions and operating models by leading or managing others,
- Represented company's technical security interests to partners to provide bi-directional flow of technical information and best practices in information security.
- Developed security metrics and technical analysis to give insight into performance and trends.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Cyber Security And Network Administration
Green River Community College
Auburn, WA06.2019
Skills
- Security Systems Knowledge
- Risk Management Evaluations
- Telecommunications Systems
- Security Improvements
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Training Junior Team Members
- Incident Response Management
- Phishing
- Documentation
Timeline
Cyber Security Engineer
T-Mobile
08.2022 - Current
Associate Engineer
Cyber Security T-Mobile
05.2020 - 08.2022
SOC ANALYST
Cl Security
10.2019 - 10.2020
Tier 1 Desktop Support Analyst
ANALYST Starbucks
04.2015 - 04.2016
SIGNAL SUPPORT SYSTEM SPECIALIST
US Army
Bachelor of Science - Cyber Security And Network Administration
Green River Community College