Hakeem Seriki
Houston,United States
Summary
Insightful Information Technology Manager with over 6 years of IT leadership experience including oversight of infrastructure, application support and security services. Dedicated to efficient satisfaction with focused delivery of technical solutions. Proven leader in directing operations, maintenance and support of complex systems. Develops creative business solutions, leveraging diverse methodologies and delivering engineering solutions for leading organizations. Highly adept in request for proposal development, technology needs assessments and staff training.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Cybersecurity Manager
Law Firm Of O.J. Lawal And Associates
10.2022 - Current
- Created cybersecurity best practice communications to educate staff against known threats and potential vectors of attack.
- Authored security incident reports, highlighting breaches, vulnerabilities and remedial measures.
- Designed company-wide policies to bring operations in line with Center for Internet Security (CIS) standards.
- Participated in creation of device hardening techniques and protocols.
- Spearheaded bring your own device program, defining necessary security parameters and designing complementary security deployments.
- Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work.
- Maintained professional, organized, and safe environment for junior security engineers.
- Worked closely with management teams to plan, develop and execute technical strategies aligned to firm's vision.
- Played key role in on-going network design, reevaluation and optimization to keep pace with company growth.
- Organized weekly training to security engineers to maximize team agility and performance.
- Onboarded new security engineers with training and new hire documentation.
- Communicated clearly with security engineers, system administrators, and higher officers to keep everyone on same page and working toward established business goals.
- Led and assisted technical upgrade projects for the firm by working and coordinating with consultants and developers for integrations.
- Reviewed and assessed architecture design, implementation, testing and deployment needs to identify project requirements and costs.
Cybersecurity Engineer
Law Firm Of O.J. Lawal And Associates
03.2019 - 10.2022
- Performed risk and vulnerability assessments and provided results and recommendations to senior management.
- Validated and verified system security requirements definitions and analyzed system security designs.
- Represented company's technical security interests to partners to provide bi-directional flow of technical information and best practices in information security.
- Ensure identified weaknesses from vulnerabilities scans are remediated in accordance with NCI defined times frames.
- Develop Security Assessment Report (SAR) detailing results of assessment along with Plan of Action Milestone.
- Applied leading theories and concepts to development, maintenance, and implementation of information security standards, procedures, and guidelines.
- Developed, implemented and documented security programs and policies and monitored compliance across departments.
- Counseled senior-level management on current privacy and security trends and recommendations to mitigate risk.
- Planned and oversaw configuration changes for security infrastructure platforms.
- Delivered network system upgrade on time, under budget and with minimal service interruption.
- Provided consultation and technical services on all aspects of information security.
- Engaged business and technology stakeholders to gather goals and requirements.
- Designed, installed and configured email encryption gateways with data loss prevention.
- Developed security metrics and technical analysis to give insight into performance and trends.
- Performed network troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common problems.
- Liaised with third parties to respond to security events and understand threat landscape.
System Administrator
Law Firm Of O.J. Lawal And Associates
05.2018 - 03.2019
- Installed important security and functionality patches to maintain optimal protections against intrusion and system reliability
- Provisioned new software and hardware for use, following established security policies
- Managed onboarding and offboarding of employees
- Established network specifications and analyzed workflow, access, information and security requirements
- Completed reports detailing network and systems performance and downtime issues
- Oversaw file system and storage upgrades while safeguarding data integrity and redundancy
- Designed proactive preventive maintenance schedules to prevent unnecessary downtime and hardware faults
- Implemented corrective plans of action for network availability and latency
- Introduced management tools to create and manage virtual server computing environment
- Served as subject matter expert on proposed technology purchases
- Drove continuous improvement of IT governance processes
- Migrated data from legacy system to Microsoft Azure
- Integrated and updated software products to boost system compatibility
- Attended meetings to deliver status reports to key stakeholders
- Conducted routine and emergency maintenance of assigned data center equipment
- Performed backups, and file recovery
Software Developer, React JS
Menaget
02.2017 - 03.2018
- Maintained high-level expertise in React state management strategies.
- Designed REST calls using React to streamline user interface performance.
- Discussed issues with team members to provide resolution and apply best practices.
- Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.
- Participated in software field testing to verify performance of developed projects.
- Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
- Developed software for desktop and mobile operating systems.
- Documented technical workflows and knowledge to educate newly hired employees.
- Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
- Designed reusable and reliable code for use within distributed cloud environments.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Estam University
Cotonou, Benin Republic06.2021
Skills
Technical Skills
Firewall, Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (Snort, Palo Alto Networks), VPNs (Virtual Private Networks), Network Segmentation, Proficiency in Windows, Linux, Unix, Wireshark, Nmap, Metasploit, Burp Suite, Snort, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools (Splunk, Google Chronicles), Nessus, OpenVAS, Qualys, AWS, Azure, JavaScript, Python, SSL/TLS, PGP, IPsec, RBAC, ISO 27001/27002, NIST cybersecurity framework
GDPR, HIPAA, or other relevant compliance standards
Certification
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- CompTIA Security+
Timeline
Senior Cybersecurity Manager
Law Firm Of O.J. Lawal And Associates
10.2022 - Current
Cybersecurity Engineer
Law Firm Of O.J. Lawal And Associates
03.2019 - 10.2022
System Administrator
Law Firm Of O.J. Lawal And Associates
05.2018 - 03.2019
Software Developer, React JS
Menaget
02.2017 - 03.2018
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Estam University
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- CompTIA Security+
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