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Kurt Eisinger

Kurt Eisinger

Sr. Cyber Security Engineer
Edinburg,Texas

Summary

An experienced Cyber Security Consultant working in a DevOps, Agile, heterogeneous environments, including N-Tier, Cloud, Hybrid Cloud and OSW architectural environments. Experience working in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Cyber governance, risk and governance functions. Strong familiarity with SaaS, PaaS and IaaS in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Experienced in multiple scripting languages and knowledgeable in all phases of Network security, Internet security, Endpoint security, Cloud security, OSW and Application security used to prevent unauthorized or malicious users from getting inside your network. As a Certified Information Security professional, I am seeking a contract implementing security solutions. Able to provide technology guidance, solution definition, architectural conceptual models, detailed design, and project management, as well as hands-on implementation. Thorough knowledge of compliance frameworks, security policy creation, vulnerability discovery, SNMT Traps and mitigation. Skilled in network defense, incident handling, penetration testing, cloud security and disaster recovery. Particularly adept at graphically illustrating and presenting technical concepts and metrics to executive management. Solid attention to detail, great organizational skills and the capability to work under pressure, to meet tight deadlines. Expert ability in Disaster Recover (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Ability to effective y manage multiple concurrent projects. Continuously evaluate and automate infrastructure to improve performance and reliability, writing of scripts for the administration, automation, provisioning and fault remediation of the IT infrastructure, while assuring adherence to appropriate compliance standards. Strong understanding of information security practices and services. Excellent ability to generate reports for senior management. Flexible hard worker ready to learn and contribute to team success. Diligent Engineer takes responsibility for ongoing projects and new endeavor planning. Provides deep technical knowledge and common-sense business acumen for initiatives. Committed to reaching business goals through technical management and impactful analyses. Motivated Engineer recognized for strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities coupled with successful 25-year track record in industry. Dedicated to offering innovative solutions to eliminate legacy issues and elevate performance metrics. Diligent creator of innovative workflows and exceptional final products. 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

28
28
years of professional experience
20
20

Security +

15
15

Certified Network Defender (CNDv2)

15
15

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv1)

1
1

Ethical Hacking Core Skills (EHCS)

15
15

Certified Incident Handler (ECIH)

15
15

Certified PenCetration Tester (CPENT)

15
15

Computer Hacking and Forensic Investigator (CHFI)

15
15

(CHFI), Certified Disaster Recovery Professional (EDRP)

10
10

Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

25
25

Microsoft Certified Professional 2000 (MCP)

25
25

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 2000 (MCSE)

25
25

Microsoft Certified Database Administrator 2000 (MCDBA)

Work History

Cyber Security Engineer: Team Lead

Infosys Cloud & Infrastructure Services
Plano
08.2015 - Current
  • As a hands-on technical manager, provide daily work direction and guidance to Information Security Engineering group; hiring, workload assignments, training plans, mentoring, goals, performance reviews, integration and scheduling of IT, Associate, Rotation personnel to maintain a secure posture, embrace patch management program and provide recommendations to enhance the overall secureity posture of supported organizations
  • Lead and assist with projects, provide technical direction, define SOPs, individually contribute as a cyber security subject matter expert to evaluate security-focused tools and services, identify risks and recommend solutions for remediation
  • Institute Risk Triage and Risk Assessment process to prioritize Security Engineering workload
  • Interacts with vendors, IT and business area contacts to facilitate flexible, salable and cost-effective security solutions
  • Conduct Vendor negotiations and contract development for new technology purchases and contracted security consulting and professional services engagements
  • Shape value-adding consulting solutions that enable our clients to meet the changing needs of the global landscape while ensuring adherence to appropriate security standards and Data Privacy, just to name a few
  • Serve the company's as an adviser on best practices and is responsible for designing and effectively implementing enterprise security strategies, architectures and solutions that guide IT security direction
  • Accountable for the security architecture across a variety of applications or domains and assigned to project/initiatives of large size, complexity and risk
  • Develop actionable security blueprints, principles, models, designs, standards and guidelines to ensure enterprise information technology architecture is consistent, usable, secure and adds value to the business
  • Security Architects
  • Responsible for design and implementation of security strategy, architecture and platforms
  • Responsible for enterprise due-diligence activities including, security monitoring and security metrics to evaluate effectiveness of the enterprise security program and established controls
  • Accountable for adhering to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring security technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to enterprise architecture strategy-setting
  • Responsible for ensuring necessary security controls are part of technical designs
  • Participates in security governance processes
  • Participates in IT security efforts across all business areas and client groups
  • Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue resolution
  • Serves as security architecture subject matter expert to business areas, project teams and vendors to apply and execute appropriate use of technology solutions and lead efforts to examine technology vision, opportunities and challenges
  • Builds consensus around principles of security architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles
  • Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options
  • Provides technical guidance to less experienced Security Architects
  • Participates on project teams contributing input with regard to security standards and the impact to technology
  • Investigates and reports on security threats and incidents
  • Conducts post-event reviews of security incidents
  • Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and architecture blue prints
  • Evaluates strengths and flaws in Security Architecture designs including performance, confidentiality, integrity, availability, access and total cost of ownership
  • Facilitates project hand offs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions
  • Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects
  • Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise
  • Provides technical guidance to less experienced Project responsibility.

Sr. Cyber Engineer

IBM
St. Louis
07.2012 - 07.2015
  • Implementation of High Availability Firewall and Intrusion Detection for Internet N-tier Web Services Infrastructure, Grid Control, Cash Management and Wire Transfer, Payment Processing, and Call Center Operations
  • Migrated production computing assets from pre-existing flat network topology into 3-tiered High Availability firewall infrastructure
  • Surpassed 99.999% uptime SLA Goal
  • Implement Disaster Recovery hot-site and multi-exit Internet connectivity and fail-over scenarios
  • Develop and implement Security Incident Response Team (CIRT) procedures and SOPs
  • Author Corporate Information Security and Compliance Strategy
  • Lead Incident Response and forensic analysis to identify and contain network attack vectors, document Root Cause formalize written Incident Analysis mitigation strategies
  • Project responsibility.

Cyber Security Engineer: Team Lead

Hewlett-Packard
Colorado
06.2011 - 06.2012
  • Provide daily work direction and guidance to 6-member Information Security Engineering group; hiring, workload assignments, training plans, define SOPs, mentoring, goals, performance reviews, integration and scheduling of IT Associate Rotation of personnel to maintain the highest levels of security
  • Lead and assist with projects, provide technical direction, and individually contribute as a cyber security subject matter expert to evaluate security-focused tools and services, identify risks and recommend solutions for remediation
  • Institute Risk Triage and Risk Assessment process to prioritize Security Engineering workload
  • Vendor negotiations and contract development for new technology purchases and contracted security consulting and professional services engagements
  • Project responsibility.

Sr. Systems Administrator Generalist & Cyber Security Specialist

IBM
Springfield
11.2010 - 05.2011
  • Working in a zLINUX, z/VM Hypervisor, Linux, VMWare/ESX/Vblock environment, support Red-Hat (RHEL4/5/6) server instance and SuSE (10/11) LINUX steady state environment, to include Production, UAT and Development environments
  • Supporting DB2, Oracle, MySQL, Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty, WebSphere, Netegrity SiteMinder, Apache, IBM HTTP server
  • Utilize Cluster Server for High Availability environment
  • Support Disaster Recovery planning and testing
  • Project responsibility
  • Working in an AIX 6.1, HACMP, VIO, FCM, GM, Computing environment work with transition team to stabilize environment for steady state support
  • Workout schedules for TSM backups of the Windows, AIX and LINUX servers, and VCB backup for the VMservers
  • Perform proof of concept for the LPM (Logical Partition Mobility), work with HACMP to stop/start managing and monitoring for maintenance window, work with Architects for build of test/development HACMP environment
  • Project responsibility.

Sr. Linux/UNIX Systems Engineer

USPS
San Mateo
06.2009 - 10.2010
  • Workings with SuSE 10.2 Linux on z/VM, Intel and Solaris 9 and 10 in a large Enterprise Computing, DevOps environment configure and maintain z/VM Susie Linux in support of postal PTS (Postal Tracking System)
  • Support Apache Web Servers, WebSphere Application Server, Oracle RDMS, Oracle/RAC, MySQL and DB2 data base servers, Tomcat, Control-M and MQ-Series in Production, Development, CAT and Stress environments
  • Train and support staff in maintenance and support of Linux on z/VM and assist in the development and implementation of postal standards, HTML, Shell and SQL scripts
  • Utilize Kickstart for LINUX and Jumpstart for Solaris server builds
  • Utilize Opsware for patch management
  • Project responsibility.

Sr

Cessna/CSC
Wichita
04.2007 - 10.2008
  • Working in a primarily AIX (4.2 to 5.3) (primarily P-Series Servers) environment, also LINUX grid computing and Solaris in a Shark and Hitachi SAN environment
  • Support a large server farm and workstation environment
  • Support, SAMBA, Lawson, Oracle, DB2, SAP, Apache, Tomcat, CATIA, NIS, and numerous minor applications including 3-tier web applications
  • Participate in a 7/24 call rotation schedule, remote support, root cause analysis, patch management, systems and network monitoring
  • Support both local business unit (Cessna) and enterprise environments (Textron)
  • Responsible for change control, project planning and project implementation
  • Participate in environment refresh (NIM installations) planning and execution
  • Perform TSM backup restores and scheduling
  • Project responsibility.

Sr. Systems Analyst

Herbalife International
Torrance
05.2006 - 12.2006

Sr. UNIX/LINUX Administrator/Architect

LA Superior Courts
01.2006 - 03.2006

Sr. Systems/Network/Security Architect

NASA
El Segundo
01.2005 - 12.2005

Sr. Systems Engineer

Technicolor
Camarillo
07.2004 - 12.2004

Sr. Systems Engineer

DTI Services, Inc
Los Angeles
05.2003 - 06.2004

Sr. Systems Administrator

United States Navy
Pensacola
09.2002 - 04.2003

Sr. Systems Administrator

ExxonMobil
Torrance
06.2002 - 08.2002

Sr. Systems Administrator

Environmental Tech. Group
Baltimore
02.2002 - 05.2002

Sr. Systems/Security Administrator

AOL/Netscape
Mountain View
05.2001 - 01.2002

Sr. Systems/Security Administrator

SBC
San Ramon
01.2001 - 04.2001

Sr. Systems/Security Administrator

IBM e
Santa Monica
06.2000 - 12.2000

Sr. Systems Administrator

Entertainer
Culver City
03.2000 - 05.2000

Sr. Security Administrator

Raytheon
Long Beach
02.1999 - 02.2000

Sr. Systems Administrator

Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles
08.1998 - 01.1999

Systems Administrator

Northrop/Grumman
El Segundo
01.1998 - 07.1998

UNIX Systems Administrator

TRW
Redondo Beach
08.1996 - 01.1998

Systems Test Engineer

Xerox
El Segundo
04.1996 - 07.1996

Lead support analyst

Red Hat
01.2000
  • For Linux, RHAS3 and RHAS4 on HP ProLiant servers (utilizing iLO, IPMI) in a clustered environment, Kickstart installations, (HP-UX) and Windows, and 2003 server (VMware) support and security
  • Supporting Oracle9i & 10g Rack, SQL, Apache, JBOSS and Tomcat environment
  • Project involved a move from one data center to another
  • Support HP SANs, both EVA and MSA and NEXTSAN SATABEAST with Brocade switches using Legato and Veritas Backup Exec
  • For Network Backup, BCP/Disaster Recovery (Business Continuity Planning), in a 3-tier web environment
  • Remote support, root cause analysis, patches management, systems and network monitoring
  • Project responsibility.

Education

IBM Skill Dynamics Co.; AIX/6000 Basic and Advanced System Administration, AIX TCP/IP Networking and AIX Networks DNS, NFS, NIS, UNIX Internals -

Camden College

AA Degree - Manufacturing Engineer

EL Camino College

Skills

  • Technical Skills
  • UTILITIES:
  • Security-Onion, Nmap,/Zenmap, Wireshark, John the Ripper, Nessus, Burp Suite/Zap, Metaploit Framework, Shodan, Social-Engineering Toolkit, AWSCloudTrail, Minikatz, Bloodhound, Sqlmap, Appsan, GitLab, HCL AppScan, Cunetix Vulnerability Scanner, Netsparker, Detectify DeepScan, Appknox, Checkmarx Powershell-Suite, Zmap, Xray, SimplyEmail, Wireshark, Hashcat, John the Ripper, Hydra, Aircrack-ng, L0phtCrack, RainbowCrack, Jira, Tripwire, Splunk, Tiger, Snort, Bitdefender, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, Cops, ISS, MS Defender, Kerberos, Satan, Swatch, GIT, Docker, Nexus, Micro Focus Fortify On Demand, PKI, NIS, NIS, NFS, PCNFS, SAMBA, NAS, SAN, FTP, BIND, Automounter, TCP/IP, SNMP, SNA, KVM, SENDMAIL, Postfix, EXIM, QMAIL, Squirrel Mail, SMS, LDAP, Active Directory, RSA, NDS, PPP, ISDN, EDM, SRDF, Solstice Disk Suite, Sun Clusters, iPlanet, X500, Veritas File Systems (VxVM), Veritas Volume Manager (LVM), VERITAS Clusters (VCS1), MC/Service Guard, Crontab, NIM for AIX, Kickstart for LINUX, Ignite for HP-UX and Jumpstart for Solaris installations, Red Hat Satellite Server, Oracle unbreakable LINUX and Spacewalk, CFEngine, Vi, Apache HTTP Web Servers, VMware, Jakarta Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, WildFly, OmniBack, NetBackup, Autosys, CVS, Jenkins, Git VPN, SUDO, SSH, SSL, Solstice Symon, Microsoft Defender, HP OpenView/Glance/Glance Plus, MeasureWare, VMware, MS-Office, MS-Project, Visio, Xwindows, Lotus Notes, TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager), Veritas NetBackup, OmniBack, SAR, Autosys and Redwood Schedulers, TCP Wrappers, NIDS, IAM, ECS, RDS, Route53, CloudTrail, CloudWatch CFEngine, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, IDS, IPS
  • Security Standards: SOX, PKI, HIPAA/HITECH, PCI, DSS, GDPR, FISMA, NIST, DSS, GDPR, FISMA, NIST, FedRAMP, IoMT, ISO, SSAE16 / SSAE18, CSF, FedRAMP, ISO/IEC, SSAE16 / SSAE18, Safe Harbor, Data Privacy, DFARS, FISMA, CSF, SOC2, Cyber Security Framwork, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, CIS
  • LANGUAGES:
  • BASH, KSH, CSH & SH Shell Scripting, CHEF, Ruby, Python, Puppet, Jenkins, PERL, C, SQL, MySQL, PHP, J2EE, HTML, FORTRAN
  • HARDWARE: Checkpoint, Juniper SRX, Cisco, Palo Alto IBM RS 6000, SP2, PC's and compatibles, IBM System z, Sun, HP, Silicon Graphics, Sequent, DEC VAX, PDP/11, IBM 3000 series, TI, Adege, TEKTRONIC, CALCOM, EMC Symmetrix, Hitachi, NAC (Network Appliance Corp), Compaq, Dell, IBM and compatibles, Foundry, Cisco, F5, Brocade Switches, SorageTek, Palo Alto, PIX
  • OPERATING SYSTEMS: IBM/AIX, Red Hat, AWS, GCP, Azure, S3, RDS, OpenStack Cloud Foundation, SUSE, Ubuntu, Centos, Susie, SLES, Oracle Unbreakable LINUX, (Spacewalk), Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware/ESX/ESXi/Vblock, SUN/OS/SOLARIS, HP-UX, SGI/IRIX, DIGITAL/OFS-1, DGUX, TRU64, BSD & Systems V UNIX, LINUX, Ubuntu, LINUX, Kali LINUX, DOS, NT, WINDOWS Server, VMS, VM, z/OS, OS/390, TSO, SPF, ISPF, IMS, CPM
  • NETWORKS: LAN’s, WAN’s, TCP/IP, Token Ring, Ethernet, FDDI, SLIP, SAN’s, CITRIX, Cloud, Wi-Fi, VPN, OSW
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Process Improvement
  • System Troubleshooting
  • System Design
  • Team leadership and direction
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cross-functional teams leadership
  • Cybersecurity Best Practice Implementation
  • Cybersecurity best practices
  • Cyber test engineering
  • Security team management

Accomplishments

  • CERTIFICATIONS: Security+, Certified Network Defender (CNDv2), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv1), Ethical Hacking Core Skills (EHCS), Certified Penetration Tester (CPENT), Certified Incident Handler (ECIH), Computer Hacking and Forensic Investigator (CHFI), Certified Disaster Recovery Professional (EDRP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Microsoft Certified Professional 2000 (MCP), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 2000 (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator 2000 (MCDBA)

Certification

  • Security+, Certified Network Defender (CNDv2), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv1), Ethical Hacking Core Skills (EHCS), Certified Penetration Tester (CPENT), Certified Incident Handler (ECIH), Computer Hacking and Forensic Investigator (CHFI), Certified Disaster Recovery Professional (EDRP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Microsoft Certified Professional 2000 (MCP), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 2000 (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator 2000 (MCDBA)

Languages

English
First Language
Spanish
Beginner
A1

Timeline

Cyber Security Engineer: Team Lead

Infosys Cloud & Infrastructure Services
08.2015 - Current

Sr. Cyber Engineer

IBM
07.2012 - 07.2015

Cyber Security Engineer: Team Lead

Hewlett-Packard
06.2011 - 06.2012

Sr. Systems Administrator Generalist & Cyber Security Specialist

IBM
11.2010 - 05.2011

Sr. Linux/UNIX Systems Engineer

USPS
06.2009 - 10.2010

Sr

Cessna/CSC
04.2007 - 10.2008

Sr. Systems Analyst

Herbalife International
05.2006 - 12.2006

Sr. UNIX/LINUX Administrator/Architect

LA Superior Courts
01.2006 - 03.2006

Sr. Systems/Network/Security Architect

NASA
01.2005 - 12.2005

Sr. Systems Engineer

Technicolor
07.2004 - 12.2004

Sr. Systems Engineer

DTI Services, Inc
05.2003 - 06.2004

Sr. Systems Administrator

United States Navy
09.2002 - 04.2003

Sr. Systems Administrator

ExxonMobil
06.2002 - 08.2002

Sr. Systems Administrator

Environmental Tech. Group
02.2002 - 05.2002

Sr. Systems/Security Administrator

AOL/Netscape
05.2001 - 01.2002

Sr. Systems/Security Administrator

SBC
01.2001 - 04.2001

Sr. Systems/Security Administrator

IBM e
06.2000 - 12.2000

Sr. Systems Administrator

Entertainer
03.2000 - 05.2000

Lead support analyst

Red Hat
01.2000

Sr. Security Administrator

Raytheon
02.1999 - 02.2000

Sr. Systems Administrator

Los Angeles Times
08.1998 - 01.1999

Systems Administrator

Northrop/Grumman
01.1998 - 07.1998

UNIX Systems Administrator

TRW
08.1996 - 01.1998

Systems Test Engineer

Xerox
04.1996 - 07.1996

IBM Skill Dynamics Co.; AIX/6000 Basic and Advanced System Administration, AIX TCP/IP Networking and AIX Networks DNS, NFS, NIS, UNIX Internals -

Camden College

AA Degree - Manufacturing Engineer

EL Camino College
Kurt EisingerSr. Cyber Security Engineer