Iben Rodriguez

Bio2009: Iben Rodriguez is an Infrastructure Consulting Professional with over 20 years experience working in complex IT environments. Iben has an extensive knowledge of VMware-specific environments having spent 2 years working for VMware/EMC in various roles. Iben has delivered complex projects for international pharmaceutical and semiconductor companies, ecommerce companies and large city governments. Iben is considered one of the foremost industry experts in Enterprise Virtualization security and infrastructure design.
Eco-Virtualization Evangelist - Helping save our planet by promoting virtualization of security appliances for our enterprise data centers.

Contributor to ESX Server Security Benchmark: http://www.cisecurity.org/tools2/vm/CIS_VM_Benchmark_v1.0.pdf

"Hands-On" IT Manager responsible for Telecom, Local and Wide Area Networks, Email/Exchange system, Web Servers, VPN, Firewalls, Source Control system (Perforce), Development servers and laptops etc. as well as helping establish best-practices for high availability and security. Responsible for managing the External Applications Hosting Data Center.

Security Manager at VMware. Worked with EMC Headquarters. VCP 2006.

ESX 3 and Virtual Center 2, Storage Area Networks, Ethernets, Firewalls, Wireless.

Customer Application Manager supporting end users at a large biotech traveling to remote areas for distributed client server application. Oracle forms, SQL*net on Windows NT, Macintosh, Solaris in an FDA validated environment.

4 Years in US Air Force as Telecommunications Equipment (teletype, crypto, punched paper tape) Technician.

Volunteer for 1988 Seoul Olympics, Santa Clara Swim Club (SCSC), and Peninsula Bible Chuch, Cupertino (PBCC).

Iben Rodriguez’s Specialties:

Top Down Approach to Information Systems Security with Real World Experience to security issues affecting large and small companies.

Working with hardware and software appliance companies to integrate into Virtual Infrastructure.
Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery, Remote Virtual Desktops

VCP - VMware Certified Professional obtained in 2006.

Iben Rodriguez’s Experience

Virtual Infrastructure Benchmark Lead

The Center for Internet Security

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

http://groups.google.com/group/vmsec?hl=en

http://lists.cisecurity.org/mailman/listinfo/vm-security-benchmark
IT Service Management Consultant

4Base Technology

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

VMware Operational Readiness Maturity

Capacity & Availability
Incident & Problem
Provisioning
Consumption
Operations
Security
Change
Configuration

Presenter at SANS Virtualization Security Summit
http://files.sans.org/summit/virtualization08/
Consulting Systems Architect

HyTrust, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

I leverage my many years of hands-on vmware and security consulting engagements to contribute to the design and architecture of HyTrust's solutions that allow customers to achieve enterprise-grade security for virtual infrastructure.
Consultant

VMware

(Public Company; VMW; Computer Software industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )

Design, Implement, and Transition Complex Virtual Infrastructures for Enterprise Customers anywhere. Awarded vExpert status in 2009.

http://www.vmware.com/communities/vexpert/
IT Consultant

Panasonic Research and Development

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MC; Consumer Electronics industry)

October 2006 — July 2008 (1 year 10 months)

Establish Global EDA IC Design Collaboration System with Silver Peak WAN Acceleration Appliances, MatrixOne Synchronicity, Perforce SCM.

Implement Security Best Practices and Company Policies.

Setup VMware ESX Servers with site to site replication between headquarters office and co-location facility.

Support engineering and product development work with CentOS / RHEL 3 and 4 using Kickstart, Cfengine, PXEboot, BIND, LDAP, Active Directory.

Isilon IQ 200, HP Blade Servers, iLO, Silver-Peak NX5500, DataDomain 565, Extreme Networks Summit Switches.

Link to podcast on design:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/092407-panasonic-speeds-chip-design.html

Virtual Desktop Disaster Recovery Project:
http://www.mokafive.com/solutions/casestudy_Panasonic.pdf
IT Consultant - Virtualization and Security - Professional Services

Arcscale

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Director of Professional Services, Managed Services, Virtualization Practice
VMware Certified Professional - ESX, Virtual Center, Virtual infrastructure 3, VMotion, VCB, HA, DRS, HA, DR, BCP
QLogic Fibre Channel Specialist (FCA, FCS) - Jan 2008
Isilon Certified Clustered Storage Associate (ICCSA) - May 2007
Citrix Presentation Server Setup and Administration
Public Speaking Engagement: http://www.applicationcontinuity.org/appcon2007/agenda.asp
IT Manager

Carrier IQ

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

May 2006 — December 2006 (8 months)

Responsible for providing technical support services to both internal and external customers.

Moved 50 employees into new building.

Bottom up infrastructure setup of network, servers, and applications for entire business.
Expert Technical Operations Engineer

VMware, Inc - An EMC Company

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; EMC; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 5 months)

Information Systems Security Manager. Develop and evangelize information security policies and procedures.
Perform network vulnerability assessments, Risk Analysis, and security awareness training. McAfee Foundstone.
Evaluate and deploy Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems with Passive Network Taps. Lucid Security IP angel.
Setup and harden bastion hosts for DMZ - SSL VPN, DNCP, DNS, FTP, NTP, Proxy, etc. FreeBSD
Setup and maintain VMware ESX, Virtual Center, P2V, and VMotion.
3rd level technical support for software and quality assurance engineers.

Public Speaking at VMworld 2005 Las Vegas - SLN241: Virtualization Streamlines Regulatory Compliance

http://communities.vmware.com/message/263121
Head of the internal security program to ensure the safety of intellectual property at VMware.

http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2005/sln241.pdf
IT Manager

Tropian, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1999 — January 2005 (5 years 10 months)

Responsible for all areas of company's Information Technology.

Network, Phones, Remote Access, Cell Phones, Data, Security, Computers, Power, AC, Labs.

- Hire and manage resources for desktop support, network administration, Windows, Linux and Solaris hardware and software system administration. Second level support for all functions.
- Support Cisco Routers, Netscreen and Sonicwall firewalls, RADIUS, DDNS, DHCP, FlexLM.
- Setup Neoteris SSL VPN.
- Migrated from Unix POP/SMTP server to MS Exchange.
- Cell phone administrator for 40 AT&T GSM world phones and PC Cards.
- Blackberry Enterprise Server setup.
- Converted conference room into server room with racks, redundant Power.
- Graphing for temperature, network utilization, usage trends.
- Burglar alarm and access control system for three buildings.

Contributor to nessus vulnerability scanner project:
http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus-cvs/2004-March/msg00202.html
Senior Technical Specialist

Syntex Research / Roche Bioscience

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RHHBY; Biotechnology industry)

January 1993 — April 1999 (6 years 4 months)

Application Manager supporting 400 end users worldwide connecting to Oracle databases for Clinical Trial and Adverse Event tracking in a validated environment.

• Support physicians using Oracle Clinical, AdVent, Oracle Forms Developer and Runtime versions. BrioQuery, Timbuktu, and Oracle SQL*Net on Mac and PC.
• Participated in company wide Global Change Control process for System Integration.
• Setup and administrate Multi-Server Remedy Action Request System.
• Configure X-Windows sessions to Macs and PCs from UNIX and VMS servers.
Technical Specialist

Tandem

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1991 — 1992 (1 year )

End user help desk support for 400 Macintosh clinets moving from direct connect to main frame hard line connections to tcp/ip based ethernet connections.
Telecommunications Equipment Specialist

US Air Force

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USAF; Military industry)

April 1985 — March 1989 (4 years )

Maintained secure teletypes and encryption devices to ensure reliable operation.
Stationed with the SR-71 and U2 planes overseas at Osan Air Base, South Korea as well as at Beale Air Force Base, CA and Wurtsmith Air Force Base, MI.

Duties and accomplishments:
• Visit Secure Communication Centers worldwide to maintain and repair data communications and encryption equipment.
• Obtained Top Secret SCI/SBI security clearance to handle sensitive information.
• Used data analyzers and oscilloscopes to troubleshoot to discrete electronic components.