Marlin Cannon
Columbia,Maryland
Summary
I am a Cyber Security Professional that has a great passion to learn, educate, and provide areas of expertise in the field of Information Security. I have 7+ years of experience in designing network layouts, system diagrams, constructing SSP, POAM, and technical plans. Also, I have experience in engineering physical and virtual servers, conducting vulnerability scans, analyzing packet data, overseeing patch management for over 200+ servers, deploying testing environments. 15+ years providing technical support and over 20+ years of leadership in both military and civilian settings, looking to leverage my knowledge and experience into a role as a Senior Cyber Security Engineer.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cyber Security Engineer
XOR Security - Agile Defense
06.2023 - Current
- Manage Information Systems (Windows Server, VMware, Centos, JIRA, Confluence, Mandiant and Acronis) in a virtual environment
- Patch Management (using WSUS and manual updates)
- Conduct STIG checks and remediate any vulnerabilities that are identified in the environment
- Design and engineer information systems, worked on projects such rolling out new domain controllers, deploying new agents for backup solution (Acronis)
- Create network diagrams and SOPs to be used as TTP's
- Deploy LDAPS (Windows Active Directory, Horizon, and Linux) in an enterprise environment.
Information Systems Security Engineer (Onsite Support Engineer)
Penlink
05.2019 - 05.2023
- Deployed and managed over 200+ servers (Hyper-V) with 10 RDS Cluster, maintaining a 5% downtime
- Configured WSUS for patch management for 200+ servers and manually rolled out hotfixes for Oracle Database
- Utilized PCAP analyzer to identify 500+ unwanted network packets, safeguarding network systems by mitigating the proper controls per site procedures
- Designed network and system diagrams to produce Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP's) for all systems
- Managed system resources and end-users through Microsoft Active Directory, defined rules by creating GPO's
- Engineered server roles for 3rd party API's using Windows IIS Manager
- Spearheaded disaster recovery procedures and orchestrated quarterly failover testing for critical servers to ensure the readiness of standby servers to function properly and provide availability for information resources in lieu of an outage
- Conducted weekly and monthly sanity checks which consisted of checking server uptime and logs, verifying storage capacity on local and network drives, performing STIG checks on information systems, and provided weekly and monthly reports for all work that was performed and any outages that were recorded
- Automated Microsoft Exchange configurations using Exchange Manager Powershell
- Constructed testing procedures and created a testing environment to ingest and analyze test data
- Created and resolved trouble tickets, customer request tickets using SalesForce application.
Cyber Security Engineer
DCI-Solutions
05.2018 - 12.2022
- Provided information security and threat management for a $30 million Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) that provides early warning readiness against unidentified potential threats
- Constructed System Security Plan (SSP) to identify which security controls to apply for each category; created Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) to work in tandem with the SSP to track all controls that were not able to be controlled
- Implemented cyber security controls and security engineering for enterprise and tactical systems
- Exercised the act of due care when accessing information systems IAW NIST Special Publication 800-37, 'Risk Management Framework' and applied due diligence while administering NIST Special Publication 800-53 'Security Controls' on information systems to reduce any known vulnerabilities
- Engineered end-point security for Peer-to-Peer sharing onto a close restricted network.
Information Security Technician GS-11
Maryland Army National Guard (JFHQ)
08.2017 - 05.2018
- Maintained and managed Microsoft SharePoint Server for Maryland Army National Guard that provided support for 6,000+ service members
- Designed Sharepoint Landing Page and created electronic forms for 12 units
- Created network cables and performed cable runs to support over 12 Army National Guard Sites
- Managed quarantine user accounts and re-imaged over 500 laptops and desktops
- Monitored network alerts and errors using Solarwinds dashboards
- Conducted briefings and updates regarding network related items to Senior Officers
- Troubleshooted network related outages at various National Guard Armories.
Fiber Technical Analyst
Verizon
10.2016 - 08.2017
- Assisted business customers and residential customers with configuring their Customer Premise Equipment
- Configured anti-virus software for 50+ customers
- Configured 200+ email clients and email accounts for customers
- Successfully problem-solved over 1000 network related issues which contributed to having 99% first time resolution closing trouble tickets
- Troubleshooted and resolved network related outages
- Negotiated service appointments for business and residential customers.
Senior Technical Support
Hughes Network
12.2012 - 09.2016
- Spearheaded and managed the RSA key process; created over 1000+ RSA keys for business customers
- Configured 1000+ Cisco ASA Firewalls for business customers
- Monitored alarms and alerts in a NOC environment
- Investigated Cisco router issues for customers remotely
- Created and resolved trouble tickets using Remedy
- Configured Cradle Points devices remotely for business customers.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance -
Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UTAssociate of Applied Science in Network Security -
ECPI University
Virginia Beach, VASkills
- Penetration Testing
- Risk Management
- Security Tools
- Gov Cloud
- Active Directory
- SalesForce
- WSUS
- Oracle
- SQL Developer
- Veeam Backup
- Visio
- Nessus
- Python
- SCAP
- Packet Analyzer
- Cybersecurity
- RMF
- PCI-DSS
- ITIL
- GPO
- Server Manager
- SharePoint
- Firewall
- Remedy
- CRM
- Azure
- Hyper-V
- AWS
- Networking
- RSA
- Solarwinds
- Reports
- Meeting Deadlines
- Linux
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Acronis
- VMware
Certification
- DoD 8570 IAT II (CompTIA Security +)
- Qualys
Accomplishments
- Army Commendation Medal (2016) Received the Army Commendation Medal for serving in Operation Noble Eagle in The National Capital Region as Flight Director.
Timeline
Cyber Security Engineer
XOR Security - Agile Defense
06.2023 - Current
Information Systems Security Engineer (Onsite Support Engineer)
Penlink
05.2019 - 05.2023
Cyber Security Engineer
DCI-Solutions
05.2018 - 12.2022
Information Security Technician GS-11
Maryland Army National Guard (JFHQ)
08.2017 - 05.2018
Fiber Technical Analyst
Verizon
10.2016 - 08.2017
Senior Technical Support
Hughes Network
12.2012 - 09.2016
Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance -
Western Governors University
Associate of Applied Science in Network Security -
ECPI University