Neil Matchan
Alpharetta,GA
Summary
This summary captures your broad range of technical skills, certifications, and deep experience, making it highly suitable for an IT Director role. Analytical Chief Information Officer with 33 years of experience in Network design and security. Adept at data security and technology budgets. Committed to designing effective and streamlined systems and instructing team members.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCIO)
InterDev
12.1998 - 06.2024
- Conducted inventory and budget analysis reports
- Led IT/business alignment strategy meetings and interviews
- Recommended IT strategies based on risk assessments and business needs
- Monitored and oversaw projects to ensure timely completion and alignment with overall goals.
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
InterDev
04.2022 - 06.2023
- Managed the security department, overseeing a team of three personnel
- Developed security strategies and recommended relevant security products for internal and client use
- Expanded the department, adding roles for a backup engineer and a patch management engineer
- Created and implemented patch management and backup strategies.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
InterDev
03.2019 - 04.2022
- Directed the implementation and recommendations for technologies utilized and sold by the company
- Vetted various technologies to ensure they met internal and client requirements, balancing needs against risks and necessary functionalities.
IT Manager
InterDev
03.2017 - 03.2019
- Managed a team of eight engineers, conducting performance reviews, and handling hiring and firing of IT staff
- Oversaw various client requests and projects, ensuring timely and successful completion.
Project Engineer
InterDev
03.2014 - 03.2017
- Managed and executed projects for all InterDev clients, including Office 365 migrations, server upgrades and refreshes, and deployment of Line of Business (LOB) applications and servers.
Tier 3 Engineer
InterDev
12.1998 - 03.2014
- Built, supported, and deployed all major Microsoft servers and applications
- Deployed various solutions provided by the company, including firewalls, spam firewalls, web application firewalls, antivirus solutions, network routers, and switches
- Responded to all support requests, serving as the escalated tier 3 engineer to resolve critical issues, including disaster recovery and server outages involving major Microsoft technologies such as SQL, Exchange, and Active Directory.
Corporate Sales
CompUSA
03.1993 - 12.1998
- Maintained $1M+ monthly quota
- Managed Fortune 1000 class of clients, such as the AJC, BellSouth and America’s Favorite Chicken
- Maintained a consistent sales leadership and achieved top national rankings for several years
- Earned sales certifications in all major brands carried by CompUSA, including Dell, Apple and IBM.
Sales/Development
PDQ Notes
09.1991 - 03.1993
- Sales – traveling to various medical conferences to meet with doctors
- Programmed in FoxPro to add features that were requested by the perspective clients.
Skills
- CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- GCIC: Global Certified Incident Commander
- CCA-N: Citrix Certified Associate - Networking
- Barracuda Certifications: Expertise in Spam & Phishing, WAF, NG Firewall (First US Certified Engineer), MSP Portal Administration, Archiver deployment and administration, FOIA request handling
- Fortinet Firewalls: Extensive experience in IPS/IDS, SSO, web filtering, SD-WAN, virtual switching, and wireless deployments
- SIEM Solutions: Fortinet FortiSIEM, Perch, Blumira, and various cloud SIEM providers
- MFA Solutions: Duo, Microsoft
- ThreatLocker, SentinelOne: Deployment, management, and diagnostics
- RapidFire Network Detective: Network scanning, reporting, and administration
- Secret Server: Administration, AD integration, SSO
- Microsoft Technologies: All Microsoft Server versions from NT to 2022, including on-prem and cloud Active Directory, Azure P1/P2 deployments, Microsoft Desktop OS from DOS to Windows 11, Exchange Server (55 to 2019), Office 365 migrations, securing, and policy management (DLP, MFA, Passwordless, etc)
- Office 365: SSO implementations, Backup & disaster recovery strategies, OneDrive & SharePoint deployments, file server migrations, and data security policies
- Networking & Infrastructure: Routing & Switching: Proficient in HP, Cisco, Dell, Extreme, FS, Fortinet, and Aruba, Network Management: VLANs, Layer 3 routing, QoS, policy-based routing, and Auvik deployment/administration, Backup & DR: Expertise in Veritas Backup Exec, Datto, Barracuda, Acronis, Veeam, and NinjaOne
- Virtualization & Cloud Technologies: VMWare: Certified administrator with extensive deployment and management experience, VM migrations, DR strategies, Nutanix: Deployment, administration, VM & DR deployment, hosted site support for major airlines, Hypervisors: Nutanix AHV, VMWare, Microsoft Hyper-V, fault tolerance, and DR implementations, Citrix ADC: CCA-N certified, Citrix ADC management
- Hardware & Server Expertise: Dell Servers: Experience in server hardware deployments, from single-server to large-scale server farms, including NAS and SAN implementations (iSCSI, etc), Desktop deployments and management across various platforms
- Managed Services Platforms: NinjaOne: Full deployment and management of RMM platform, software deployment policies, Windows updates, and backup management, Webroot: Security platform expertise, Imperva: Cloud-based WAF deployment and management
IT Compliance
IT Governance
Infrastructure Management
Data Security
Certification
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- CCCA-N: Citrix Certified Associate - Networking
Timeline
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
InterDev
04.2022 - 06.2023
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
InterDev
03.2019 - 04.2022
IT Manager
InterDev
03.2017 - 03.2019
Project Engineer
InterDev
03.2014 - 03.2017
Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCIO)
InterDev
12.1998 - 06.2024
Tier 3 Engineer
InterDev
12.1998 - 03.2014
Corporate Sales
CompUSA
03.1993 - 12.1998
Sales/Development
PDQ Notes
09.1991 - 03.1993
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