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About Me

Started my career by joining the Navy right after high school. It was the best decision I ever made. I studied electronics and worked on the weapons systems of my ship.
After the Navy I worked for Intel manufacturing computer chips. I maintained equipment, ran equipment and build the training program for my area from the ground up.
I moved back to Pennsylvania to be closer to my family.
I continued in electronics with a bench technician job performing component lever trouble shooting of electronic subsystems, then I worked in a plant as a electrical maintenance technician. I was laid off in 2003 when they closed the plant and moved production to Mexico.
I took this opportunity to change careers. I had been building my own computers for years and was eligible for retraining because of the plant closing. I went to College and got an Degree in Computer Networking.
After college I got a job with Catholic Charities in their IT Department. Since school I achieved two GIAC certifications, GISF (GIAC Information Security Fundamentals) and GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler).
Currently employed with Solutionary as an Information Security Analyst.

Work History

• Solutionary
• Information Security Analysis
• Febuary 2011 to Present

• Review network traffic to discover malicious events. Interpret Snort logs, firewall logs and other Intrusion Detection logs to determine if the traffic is a true positive or a false positive. Make recommendations to resolve true positives.

• Catholic Charities
• PC\Network Technician
• July 2005 to Febuary 2011

• PC\Network Technician: Primarily responsible for computer maintenance and support for 41 users in satellite office of Catholic Charities. Responsibilities include, maintaining active directory, user accounts, system backups, software upgrades, firewalls, IDS and repair of computer network. I am also responsible for resolving user issues in a timely manner and documenting the resolution. I have standardized system builds, implemented an IDS solution and migrated network computers to Thin Clients. I have also implemented Software Restriction Policies to improve security.

• Buter County Community College
• Intern - IT Department
• July 2004 to May 2005

• Primary responsibility was to respond to user requests for assistance with computer problems. This would include installing/reinstalling software, recovering lost files, configuring email accounts, repairing hardware/software problems and cleaning spyware/adware from computers. In addition I would load new computers with required software, create an image with Norton Ghost, and restore that image to computers requiring the image.