
Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Working as a self-employed independent consultant providing security expertise and programming services to clients and partners.
(Online Media industry)
November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Part-time work doing Ruby on Rails development and Linux system infrastructure management.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2004 — July 2008 (4 years 1 month)
Helped company with information systems security management. Protected networks with IDS and vulnerability scanning. Advised developers with secure application architecture and coding practices. Filled in as part-time senior member of Unix systems administration team when they were short staffed.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ABT; Pharmaceuticals industry)
May 1999 — July 2004 (5 years 3 months)
Primary job role was Unix systems administration. As a security expert, I was also a member of the company's Operations Security Council and managed two firewalls as well as Unix systems outside company firewalls. As a senior-level member of the Unix team, I led the team's involvement in several projects. Using my skills as a software developer, I provided tools to the team to aide and simplify management of the infrastructure.
(Financial Services industry)
March 1998 — May 1999 (1 year 3 months)
Supported users of an options clearing application on SunOS and Solaris.
(Consumer Services industry)
April 1997 — March 1998 (1 year )
Software developer using C, C++, and REXX on the OS/2 platform. Was primarily responsible for the customer service, credit card processing, and quality assurance applications.
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
October 1995 — June 1997 (1 year 9 months)
Had systems administration duties for Unix, Windows NT, and Mac OS systems. Held the team lead position for dormitory computing specialists. Provided technical support, both over the phone and in person, to computer users throughout the university including faculty, students, and staff.