Mike Toscano

Current

Information Technology Manager at ActiveState
Principal at BIT ENGINE

Past

Senior Systems Engineer at Blast Radius
Director of Information Technology at BMM
Computer Analyst II at City of Henderson

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Education

University of Nevada-Las Vegas
College of Southern Nevada

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Industry

Computer Networking

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Mike Toscano’s Summary

Innovative, dedicated, and energetic technology leader with over 10 years experience in information technology.

Primary areas of expertise are Unix/ Linux servers and services, networking, and information security in the enterprise space.

Mike Toscano’s Specialties:

System and network administration, information security, system integration, web development, project management, IT management.

Versed in Linux (Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE), Solaris, OpenBSD, MS Windows (all versions), Apache, PHP, MySQL, Oracle, Cisco equipment, Tomcat, JBoss, ATG, Joomla CMS, Sugar CRM, Active Directory, Samba, numerous firewalls (ASA/PIX, iptables, PF, and others), load balancers (f5, pen), netcat, Nmap, Wireshark/Ethereal, tcpdump, Nessus, and more.

Mike Toscano’s Experience

Information Technology Manager

ActiveState

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

December 2009 — Present (1 month)
Principal

BIT ENGINE

(Computer Networking industry)

August 2002 — Present (7 years 5 months)

Build, implement and maintain network and computing infrastructure, including high capacity and high availability servers, routers, firewalls, switches, storage devices, and network appliances.

Perform comprehensive information security audits, penetration testing, intrusion, detection, incident response, forensics, and system hardening

Integrate, customize, and support content management systems, customer relationship management solutions, and web-based applications.

Provide professional information technology consulting, planning, and policy drafting.
Senior Systems Engineer

Blast Radius

(Public Company; WPPGY; Internet industry)

August 2007 — December 2009 (2 years 5 months)

Design, implement, and maintain server and networking infrastructure as well as perform comprehensive security auditing and penetration testing for some of the world's best known brands.

Support developers and clients by isolating and troubleshooting issues on environments, deploying code, maintaining security, installing servers, performing updates and maintenance to applications, operating systems, network configurations, and hardware.

Technologies primarily utilized are Tomcat, JBoss, Oracle, MySQL, Red Hat Linux (RHEL), Cisco, f5, Windows/ IIS (for .NET sites), VMWare (Server and ESX), ATG, and network analysis tools such as netcat, tcpdump, Nmap, and Wireshark.
Director of Information Technology

BMM

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry)

April 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Restructured and dramatically expanded company technology and networking infrastructure.

Responsible for all aspects of IT environments from workstations, to networks, servers, applications, telephony, security, and web development.

Developed modern, practical, and comprehensive technology policies.

Introduced cutting edge computing tools, services, and processes to the organization, resulting in substantial efficiency and productivity gains in addition to tremendously reduced liabilities and costs
Computer Analyst II

City of Henderson

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

May 2003 — May 2006 (3 years 1 month)

Performed hardware and software deployments.

Built and maintained Snort sensors, web and database servers, firewalls.
Managed users, groups, mailing lists, print queues, et cetera with directory management tools such as Novell ConsoleOne, and Windows NT Manager for Domains.

Repair, upgrade, install, and build PCs, networks, and network components for internal clients.

Install and configure operating systems and software.

Work directly with end-users regarding their problems and needs.