Technical Security Architect
Louisville, Kentucky Area
Technical Security Architect
Louisville, Kentucky Area
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HUM; Insurance industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HUM; Insurance industry)
October 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 8 months)
Enterprise Information Security Department, Application Security Architecture. Duties include: SME/Designer for SDL process, Program Management for 10+ projects (everything from oversight to spec design and use cases), creating of architecture and guidance documentation for various security initiatives (coding standards, PKI architecture, Identity Meta-system/CardSpace/OpenID), proof of concept coding and prototypes as well as general security consulting for business groups.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
May 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 6 months)
* Co-created an objective analysis and criteria process for sample severity and labeling
* Managed day to day quality assurance operations for false positive and false negative prevention
* Reviewed, gathered and classified samples for inclusion into anti-malware signature set
* Participated in daily defect review and prioritization meetings with development and program management teams
* Acted as an internal testing resource for both anti-malware products and Windows in general
* Researched emerging trends in the malware landscape with regards to vulnerability exploit and behavior
* Tested and reviewed various product features for both anti-malware and internal Windows builds
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2005 (5 years )
* Managed all aspects of customer support cases on various Microsoft Products
- Networking (DNS, ISA, Proxy Server, etc.)
- High Availability Clustering and Network Load Balancing
- Security Products (SUS, WSUS)
* Assisted customers with the design, implementation and configuration of various security features and practices
* Created internal documentation and reviewed externally facing documentation
* Provided feedback to the product teams on possible product improvments that could reduce customer pain points or support cost
* Acted as the team lead and mentor for the launch support team for Windows XP
* Preformed various tasks as the primary contact for spyware related issues within the product support organization
* Performed incident response tasks with regards to investigation with various customer segments
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Research industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
MS , Manangement Information Systems (MIS) , 1997 — 2000
BS , Microbiology , 1992 — 1997
1991 — 1992
1987 — 1991
CISSP, MCSE (Windows 2000), MCSE +Security (Windows 2000), ITIL