Security Engineer at ITA Software
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Founder & CEO at Stateless Creations
- Security Engineer at ITA Software
- Past
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- Mentor at TechStars
- Information Security Consultant at Security Management Partners
- Network Administrator at Internet Marketing Center of Canada
- VP of Engineering at ProHosters, LLC
- Education
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- Tufts University
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Penn State University
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Mike Schroll’s Summary
Security specialist with strong background in Unix Internet Server services and security. Always looking for new challenges, and am very quick to learn new things. Interested in startups as well as security consulting firms.
Mike Schroll’s Specialties:
Experienced: FreeBSD, Linux, DNS, Apache, mail, FTP, SSH, MySQL, PHP, CGI/perl, DHCP, Nagios, NFS, VMWare
Security: Firewalls, encrypted services, SSL, logging & notification, penetration testing (Nessus, metasploit, nmap, Cain & Abel)
Working Knowledge: Windows/Windows Server, Active Directory, IIS, programming, XML/XHTML, Unix shells, Java, Novell
Mike Schroll’s Experience
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Founder & CEO
Stateless Creations
(Consumer Electronics industry)
January 2009 — Present (1 year )
Stealth Mode startup developing a consumer software/hardware/online solution.
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Security Engineer
ITA Software
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Working in a small security team - I focus on corporate IT security - Evaluating and mitigating risk across offices and datacenters through penetration testing, auditing, and intrusion detection.
Responsible for physical security - alarms, card swipe systems, theft prevention.
Work with other internal departments as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on security topics.
Train staff on security topics, secure coding techniques, and incident response procedures.
Improve IDS functionality through filtering, reporting, analyzing, and resolving issues causing alerts. -
Mentor
TechStars
(Computer & Network Security industry)
July 2009 — September 2009 (3 months)
Provided technical and business mentoring to the 9 Boston TechStars startups for 2009.
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Information Security Consultant
Security Management Partners
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
March 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Working alone or in small teams - Performed penetration testing, forensics, social engineering, physical engineering, and incident response at Banks, Hospitals, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, and Corporations.
Wrote comprehensive reports for clients outlining weaknesses and strengths along with specific recommendations to mitigate discovered issues. -
Network Administrator
Internet Marketing Center of Canada
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 3 months)
Maintained a handful of FreeBSD webservers running web services, mail, dns, mysql, etc.
Installed, maintained, optimized services on the host, and migrated to new hosts/servers as we expanded.
Worked on PHP projects with lead developers, focusing on database performance and scalability. -
VP of Engineering
ProHosters, LLC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
August 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 3 months)
Ran the Technical side of an international hosting company with over 1,000 clients around the world. Coordinated two datacenter migrations as we grew. Managed and hired remote technicians. Handled escalated issues, managed customer service.
Mike Schroll’s Education
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Tufts University
Masters , Engineering Management , 2008 — 2010 (expected)
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Rochester Institute of Technology
BS , Applied Networking Systems Administration , 2001 — 2006
- Activities and Societies:
- True Gentlemen's Club (pre- SAE - Sigma Alpha Epsilon)
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Penn State University
Additional Information
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Mike Schroll’s Interests:
Entrepreneurship
Mike Schroll’s Groups:
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On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs -
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Boston ENET
Mike Schroll’s Honors:
Won the Hack portion of Shmoocon 2007 Hack or Halo Competition
Mike Schroll’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- expertise requests
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