W. LEE BLACK

5792 Lancaster-Kirkersville Road NW, Baltimore, OH 43105

513-360-8510 Ÿ w.lee.black@gmail.com

 

 

August 6, 2014

 

 

As a customer focused, Solutions Architect, I have a wide-ranging skill set across multiple hardware and software platforms. I have extensive business experience providing solutions for customers, employing my technical knowledge and effective listening skills to determine which products are the best fits for tactical and long-term strategic objectives. The majority of my work has been with Government agencies and financial organizations, so I am intimately familiar with strict deadlines, increased confidentiality and the concept of working as part of a team. I am eager to share my talents with you to enhance your customer experience.

 

Examples of my career accomplishments include:

 

 

ü       Designing and Integrating a NetScout Service Assurance Solution with HP ArcSight Enterprise Threat and Risk Management platform providing many Federal customers’ with a pervasive end-to-end visibility into their service delivery environment to more effectively identify behavioral anomalies that allow forewarning into emerging security issues.

 

ü       Designing and Integrating multiple NetScout, SOURCEfire and McAffee solutions for the United States Army for both accurate real-time detection and full traffic analysis of security events in addition to reviewing historical and enterprise wide direct and indirect events.

 

ü       Designing and Implementing Cisco’s SOURCEfire and LogLogic solutions in support of a SOA managed service for Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

 

ü       Improved collaboration and synergy between site-based and central staff and engineering through leadership and communication skills.

 

ü       Realized significant cost savings associated with downtime through effective management of client, company, and engineers to redesign support system.

 

ü       Secured networks from outside influences at all perimeters through leadership of vulnerability assessment engineering team.

 

I have intimate familiarity with many network and security vendor products and also with many customized solutions. If you are looking for a strong consultant engineer who is passionate about providing excellent customer satisfaction, I would welcome the opportunity to further discuss my qualifications. Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to speaking with you.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

Lee Black

 

Enclosure

 

 

 

 

Key Strengths

 

Business-Driven Technology Solutions ◙ Network and Application Performance Management ◙ Protocol Analysis ◙ Application Delivery Networking ◙ Enterprise Consolidations/Data Center Services

Systems Architecture ◙ Information Security/CyberSecurity ◙ Regulatory Compliance

NOC/SOC Support ◙ Incident Management

 

Hold active Top Secret Clearance (SSBI)

 

Analytical Problem-Solver - 20+ years developing and facilitating network security, end-to-end monitoring and enterprise solutions for commercial organizations and the Federal Government.  Subject Matter Expert in Information Security and Application Performance Management and Service Oriented Architectures.

 

Hands-on Strategist - effectively align business needs with IT strategies to drive business services and applications performance, system architecture, network and security measures, compliance, and best practices. Skilled in MS Project; and I am very comfortable leading a Team through complex, customer focused, initiatives.

 

Client-facing Technical Consultant - at ease with building and maintaining long-term customer relationships.  Uncover specifications and inefficiencies to create actionable plans and alternatives by interfacing with key stakeholders to draw out facts and business requirements.  Provide top-level pre-/post-sales support; continuously engaged to resolve complex issues and provide superior customer satisfaction.

 

 

Professional Background

 

Customer Solutions Consultant2013 – Present

Commercial Financial Organizations; JP Morgan Chase, Huntington Bank, AIG

ù         Providing Network, Security and Application proactive health monitoring solutions; GAP analysis, application migrations planning and root cause analysis to increase business productivity.

ù         Implemented Paloalto next generation firewall’s

ù         ADM migrations (CSS, ACE, F5); CMDB integrations

 

Professional Services Senior Consultant / Solutions Architect

NetScout Systems2010 – 2013

ù     Conduct network, security and application assessments in support of critical business services/applications for immediate root cause analysis or solution optimizations in support of proactive performance measure and security threat monitoring.

ù     Secure solutions utilizing DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) for compliance and the protection of data; including Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance.

ù     Increase customer productivity by providing seamless transfer of knowledge and best practices to allow for most effective solution operations.

 

IT Consultant

Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions2009 – 2010

ù     Provided international support to 130 Proctor and Gamble plants and 16 tech centers as key member of the British Telecom Critical Response Team. Served as sole team engineer with performance management and capacity planning subject-matter expertise.

 

 

 

 

IT Consultant

Robert Half Technology2009

ù     Assessed ManageEngine monitoring suite for helpdesk integration with Cisco management and monitoring products to drive synergistic solutions. Advocated need for collaboration across IT department.

ù    Identified root cause and resolved persistent production outages across IT footprint; positioned client to move forward with robust, interwoven systems; ensuring ongoing stability.

 

Manager – Systems Engineering

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)2008 – 2009

ù     Played key role in company’s contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to structure a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for business and IT alignment in compliance with the client’s information assurance policies, DoD’s STIG, and industry best practices.

ù     Led a team of engineers to design the infrastructure upgrades to accommodate managed SOA services; championed roll-out of an application performance management solution for DoD. 

 

Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) Contract

Level-III Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton2005 – 2008

ù     Served as customer solution architect for the DFAS account - designed infrastructure and application performance management (APM) solutions and delivered tier-3 operational support.

ù     Collaborated with staff and senior management to detect technical issues/risks and develop mission-critical proposals. 

ù     Utilized Microsoft Terminal Servers and Juniper WAN Optimization appliances for base realignment and consolidation (BRAC) and datacenter management in support of capacity planning (workload and database transitions); completed BRAC site closures within time and budget constraints with minimal production impact.

IT Planning & Support Manager, Unisys 2002 – 2005

ù     Promoted as contact liaison between Columbus site and central support office for DFAS’s NOC/SOC – advised in local production efforts, bridged technology and business goals, and tracked progress to optimize organizational practices/policies and integration of virtual network team.

Senior IT Engineer, Unisys 1995 – 2002        

ù     Electronic Document Management (EDM) architecture; Novell and Unix interoperability, EDI, IIS/PKI and E2E performance monitoring for this government paperless initiative.

ù     Successfully transferred 2,500+ users from seven buildings into one location as an engineering staff member on the DFAS Military Construction (MILCON) team.

ù     Integral in orchestrating and implementing infrastructure upgrades for lifecycle and scaling expansions, Cabletron FDDI, Cisco ATM LANE, and Ethernet backbones. 

ù     Provided centralized enterprise infrastructure support systems for 30,000 users and 600+ Novell, UNIX, and NT file servers for DFAS through the design of centralized helpdesk/NOC/SOC.   

 

Education, Key Certification and Affiliation

Bachelor of Science in Technical Management, DeVry University, Columbus, OH10/2010
Certifications:

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – in progress

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) – past written and IPExperts training purchased

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

PMG Architect & Cross-Technology Level Net Analyst Standards-Based Certifications

Novell Master Certified Novell Engineer (Novell Master CNE)

CNSS: Committee on National Security Systems and National Security Agency

 

 

 

 

 

Addendum of Technical Skills, Additional Certifications, Awards & Affiliations

 

Hardware

ù     Cisco Routers: 76XX,75XX,74XX 72XX 45XX, 36XX, 26XX, 25XX

ù     Cisco Switches:12XX,19XX, 29XX, 35XX, 39XX, 40XX, 45XX, 50XX, 55XX, 65XX, 85XX

ù     Access Servers: Cisco AS5300, Cisco ACS

ù     Firewall: Paloalto, Cisco PIX/FWSM/ASA5500, Secure Computing Sidewinder

ù     IDS/IPS: Cisco 42xx, Niksun NetDetector, Sourcefire 3D systems

ù     VPN: Cisco 3XXX, PIX, Cisco Router, SafeNet HA2000

ù     Other: Cisco Wide Area Acceleration Services (WAAS), Cisco Telepresence, F5 (BigIP;LTM,GTM), Juniper (WAN Acceleration Platforms), Enterasys, Marconi (ASX1000’s), Layer 7 (XML gateways), LogLogic

ù     Packet Capture Appliances: Endace, OPNET ARX, Network General Distributed Sniffers, Infinistreams, Niksun NetDeterctor/NetVCR, Radcom, Clearsight networks, NetScout probes

ù     Network Packet Brokers: cPacket, Apcon, Gigamon
 

Technology

ù     Operating Systems: Windows, Netware, Unix, BSDI, Linux, Cisco CatOS and IOS, Solaris 10

ù     Protocol families: TCP/IP, Novell, IBM, Appletalk, ATM and Lan Emulation, IP Security

(IPv4, IPv6, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP, PPP, HSRP, SNMP, RMON/RMON2, NetFlow, IP_SLA, SMTP, HTTP/S, DHCP, FTP, SMB/CIFS, SQL, IPSec, LDAP, Radius, Kerberos, TACACS+, SIP, H.323, RTP, Skinny, XML, WSS, SOAP)

ù     Technologies: CSU/DSU, ISDN, T1, T3, DS3, OC3, OC12, Frame Relay, ATM, POS, HSSI, Virtual Channels (PVC, SVC, Tunneling, Ether Channel), Ethernet, Spanning Tree, VLANS, IP Multicast, FDDI, Token Ring, Wireless, VPN, Encryption, VoIP, Trunking, IPS, PKI, ITIL

ù     Applications: SevOne, Statscout, Niksun NetX, NG Sniffview and Visualizer, nGenius, Periscope, OPNET Ace, Wireshark/Ethereal, WildPacketes/EtherPeek, Compuware/Optimal Networks Application Expert/Vantage, HP OpenView, TeleAlert, CA eHealth, NetIQ AppManager, NetQoS, IxChariot/Endpoints, HP/Mercury SiteScope, HP Insight Manager, Ping Plotter, Cisco Infrastructure and security management products, Microsoft Office, Excel, Project, Visio, SharePoint, IIS, Remedy ARS, Cobra (Sidewinder manager), Citrix, Variety of VPN clients, Oracle/BEA applications (AquaLogic Service Registry; Service Bus; Business Process Manager,  WebLogic Server and Portal), Amberpoint SOA Management Suite

 

Awards

ù     Commended by the US Army’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of Financial Operations due to disaster recovery actions for the Pentagon following ‘9/11’, receiving an Achievement Award of Excellence; established secured critical access for required resources.

ù     Customer Awarded - Bronze Recognition Award; supported Electronic Document Management (EDM) application for security breaches. 

ù     Customer Awarded - Certificate of Recognition; provided Novell server lock-ups resolution.

ù     Customer Awarded - Certificate of Recognition; standardized SmartPass/DCII security clients.

ù     Customer Awarded - Certificate of Recognition; supported the DFAS Arlington Tiger Team.

ù     Customer Awarded - Achieved Award of Excellence; member on the Brain Trust Team, providing business process improvements for virtual teams.

Affiliations

                        National Institute of Technology Advisory Board, Technical Advisor

                    FBI/InfraGard National Members Alliance

                    ISSA and (ISC)2 Member

 

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