Accomplished Security Engineer with a proven track record at Oracle Health, specializing in vulnerability management and cyber compliance. Leveraged exceptional project management skills to enhance security postures significantly across multiple environments. Known for fostering strong team collaboration and driving initiatives to successful completion, consistently achieving beyond set goals.
- Responsible for vulnerability management of both NESSUS and DISA STIGs within the entire Federal scope by means of JIRA and PowerBI reporting.
- Facilitate and manage burndown events for broad range of findings ranging from group policy modifications to manual host cleanups.
- Track results of quarterly Linux and monthly Windows patching to ensure all hosts within the Federal span remain cyber compliant.
- Actively lead discussions and efforts to create efficiency in the vulnerability management pipeline resulting in substantially lower risk profiles for the environment by keeping solution teams accountable for metric-tracking.
- Responsible for driving annual re-baseline and audit requests from the government to successful completion to illustrate cyber compliance.
- Responsible for writing and tracking progress on federal-wide POA&Ms to ensure vulnerabilities are patched as quickly as possible.
- Member of incident management on-call rotation where I am responsible for driving client-impacting issues to completion by engaging the appropriate parties to troubleshoot and resolve problems.
- Responsible for project management efforts for a single client site within the Veteran’s Affairs healthcare system.
- Facilitated several recurring meetings between both internal and external stakeholders covering a broad spectrum of topics ranging from project-centric to issue resolution.
- Led a team of multiple System Engineers by means of assigning tasks, assisting with technical questions, and providing guidance which led to the successful completion of in-flight projects.
- Created, facilitated, and executed technical project plans using Microsoft Project and JIRA resulting in positive change in client systems.
- Responsible for multiple levels of vulnerability and asset management ranging from interpreting and understanding NESSUS vulnerability scans, planning large-scale burndown efforts, and hands-on patching. This allowed my team and I to successfully lower the risk posture of our client site to acceptable levels of a 2-year Authority to Operate granted by the VA
- Provided Front-End Windows and Back-End Linux support for Cerner Millennium system applications for a subset of four clients with an estimated total end user count of 31,000.
- Held two Subject Matter Expert rolls in which I was the primary point of contact for solution upgrades and troubleshooting live environments.
- Supported a multitude of code and solution upgrade projects simultaneously to promote ongoing technology currency efforts.
- Established strong working relationships with client contacts to help foster effective communication for purpose of issue resolution, effort planning and production troubleshooting efforts.
- Project and Vulnerability Management
- DISA STIG Viewer
- Experience in Active Directory and Group Policy
- Understanding of the Agile Methodology
- Proficiency in Technical Writing
- Team-Oriented and Dependable
- Highly Organized and Driven