Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Timeline
PROJECTS
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Morris Frost

Morris Frost

Suffolk,VA

Summary

Experienced manager and leader seeking SOC analyst opportunities. Recent cybersecurity graduate building on previous IT experience to transition into cybersecurity related positions. Passionate learner with experience implementing and enhancing key information security objectives and control frameworks.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
6
6

Certifications

Work History

Systems Administrator 2

Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding
02.2023 - Current
  • Orchestrated integration and communication of software upgrades.
  • Spearheaded inventory control measures to replenish and maintain IT equipment, supplies, tools and replacement parts.
  • Kept software licenses current for computers and mobile devices.
  • Provided comprehensive training to internal and off-site users to optimize systems maintenance and resolve recurring issues.
  • Setup, configured, and maintained splunk server.
  • Ran weekly Nessus scans, and remedied vulnerabilities.

Senior Store Manager

Mattress Firm
12.2021 - 03.2023
  • Implemented store systems, and implemented Microsoft azure framework
  • Effectively manages daily operations, leading 10 employees
  • Maintains inventory through regular audits
  • Conducted monthly staff performance evaluations to establish career progression plans for critical staff retention and reduced staff turnover
  • Responsible for store's daily operations, high-volume customer service, profit and loss management, setting, monitoring, and driving sales goals
  • Responsible for budget management

GENERAL MANAGER

Buddy’s Home Furnishings
03.2020 - 12.2021
  • Performed maintenance and troubleshooting of electronic devices for customers
  • Established operational objectives and scorecard metrics within the department to ensure growth and department success
  • Held daily strategy meetings with department managers to formulate daily goals and review the previous day's performance
  • Executed successful sales events, promoting aggressive marketing campaigns
  • Held monthly one on one reviews with all employees, gauging progress toward annual goals
  • Recruited all associates on my team, developing "tomorrows leaders" through regular training and coaching

MERCHANDISING AND COMPLIANCE MANAGER

Sam’s Club
11.2017 - 03.2020
  • Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures including environmental and federally regulated operations
  • Ensures proper personnel procedures are followed for selection and recruiting, record retention, and training as required
  • Manage compliance procedures to adhere to standards of Federal, State and Local regulatory agencies such as the
  • Environmental Protection Agency, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Alcohol/Tobacco/Firearm(ATF), , U.S
  • Food and Drug Administration, aswell as government agencies that address Privacy, Financial and Fuel

CHANGE MANAGER

GrandBrands
11.2011 - 11.2017
  • Configured software to implement rent-to-own operations, including overseeing software development and systems integration
  • Established operational objectives and delegated assignments to department managers
  • Held daily strategy meetings with department managers to formulate daily goals and review the previous day's performance
  • Conducted technical meetings with C-Level staff ensuring projects were on track, and understood

TECHNICAL SUPPORT TIER

Teleperformance
06.2004 - 08.2011
  • Assisted customers with setting up and troubleshooting network connectivity
  • Handled assisting customers with identifying and remediating malware
  • Assisted customers on maintenance and support of windows, mac, and linux pc's
  • Defused volatile customer situations calmly and courteously, Handled network mapping, and utilized network tools to assist customers with uncommon network issues

COMMAND AND CONTROL TECHNICIANS OPERATOR

US Marine Corps
03.2003 - 09.2003
  • Operate, maintain and repair mainframe computers, large-screen displays
  • Medically discharged, Projects

Education

Communication Research Wireshark Flexibility & Adaptability Certificate – Cybersecurity Bootcamp -

Old Dominion University

Skills

  • Linux
  • Nessus
  • Snort
  • VMWare
  • Networking
  • Security
  • Splunk
  • Azure/Office 365

Certification

CompTIA Security+

CompTIA CySA+

CompTIA Network+

CompTIA Linux+

Cisco CCT

Microsoft AZ900

Timeline

Systems Administrator 2

Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding
02.2023 - Current

Senior Store Manager

Mattress Firm
12.2021 - 03.2023

GENERAL MANAGER

Buddy’s Home Furnishings
03.2020 - 12.2021

MERCHANDISING AND COMPLIANCE MANAGER

Sam’s Club
11.2017 - 03.2020

CHANGE MANAGER

GrandBrands
11.2011 - 11.2017

TECHNICAL SUPPORT TIER

Teleperformance
06.2004 - 08.2011

COMMAND AND CONTROL TECHNICIANS OPERATOR

US Marine Corps
03.2003 - 09.2003

Communication Research Wireshark Flexibility & Adaptability Certificate – Cybersecurity Bootcamp -

Old Dominion University

PROJECTS

Project: Network Configuration
Scope: Set up corporate network and implemented security settings for new bank branch

• Devised network topology plan and where to assign IP addresses
• Built VLANS, trunks, and routers to allow multiple-stream communication
• Arranged switches to work with port security and routers to work with OSPF
• Configured network devices to prevent unauthorized access by securing privilege mode, encrypting passwords, and
designing security messaging. Conducted a successful connectivity test


Project: Network Security
Scope: Acted as security analyst to protect company communication for a business with remote employees

• Set up three machines: client, host, and threat; established connection; and engaged in communication through network
requests and emails
• Created firewall rules to block access to unwanted websites by employees while allowing customer traffic to continue
• Created a quick solution for employees to access the company server while a VPN was not yet installed
• Implemented a detection and prevention system to protect against known network attacks including DoS and Brute Force
attacks


Project: Penetration Testing
Scope: Acted as penetration tester for company and tasked with cracking passwords to access employee’s files

• Cracked passwords and extracted files for review
• Reviewed the extracted files to gain information on the employee’s machine
• Gained access to the employee machine and escalated privilege to gain root access


Project: Configured a SAN
Scope: Acted as a Systems Administrator for a company and tasked with setting up a Storage area network

• Responsibilities: Creating raid groups, binding luns, creating Meta luns, creating storage groups, and registering hosts.
• Established SAN Security using Zoning.
• Installed & Configured Shadow Image for Local replication.
• Monitoring of Storage environment of Critical systems and escalation of issues
• Backup and restore of data
• General monitoring for performance & availability

PROJECTS

Project: Network Configuration
Scope: Set up corporate network and implemented security settings for new bank branch

• Devised network topology plan and where to assign IP addresses
• Built VLANS, trunks, and routers to allow multiple-stream communication
• Arranged switches to work with port security and routers to work with OSPF
• Configured network devices to prevent unauthorized access by securing privilege mode, encrypting passwords, and
designing security messaging. Conducted a successful connectivity test


Project: Network Security
Scope: Acted as security analyst to protect company communication for a business with remote employees

• Set up three machines: client, host, and threat; established connection; and engaged in communication through network
requests and emails
• Created firewall rules to block access to unwanted websites by employees while allowing customer traffic to continue
• Created a quick solution for employees to access the company server while a VPN was not yet installed
• Implemented a detection and prevention system to protect against known network attacks including DoS and Brute Force
attacks


Project: Penetration Testing
Scope: Acted as penetration tester for company and tasked with cracking passwords to access employee’s files

• Cracked passwords and extracted files for review
• Reviewed the extracted files to gain information on the employee’s machine
• Gained access to the employee machine and escalated privilege to gain root access

Morris Frost