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Jeremy T. Finke
14502 W 90th Terrace Lenexa, KS 66215 jeremy.finke@gmail.com 913-541-0037

Career Objective: To continue to provide quality security solutions for information security.

Education:
Masters of Business Administration, Business Administration General, Regis University, Denver, CO, 2005.
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, University of Evansville, Evansville, IN, 1997.

Certifications:
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Project Management Professional (PMP).
Dale Carnegie (Pathways to Success).

Summary of Qualifications: Over ten years of professional technical and managerial work, including architectural design and implementation of solutions with a focus on security. Strengths include Internet technologies, analytical problem solving, and team leadership skills. Multiple projects designing firewalls, anti-spam solutions, and anti-virus solutions. Support of enterprise UNIX systems. Certification and Accreditation of government systems. Project management and team management.

Professional Experience:
Director/Senior Security Analyst – Computer Security Consulting, Inc.
Warrensburg, MO (November 2006 – Present)

  • Performed Certification and Accreditation activities for various government agencies.
  • Assisted Fortune 600 company with internal SOX audit to prepare for their external audit.
  • Acting CIO for CSCI. Duties comprised of architecture, web development, corporate security, MOSS 2007, and other technical guidance.
  • Developed project plans for proposed and existing contracts.
  • Project manager.
  • Wrote and submitted proposals for RFQs/RFPs.
  • Gave presentations to clients regarding proposals.
  • Developed and gave guidance for documents, policies, and templates for FISMA and NIST compliance.
  • Managed team. Performed performance appraisals.
  • Interviewed potential team members. Gave recommendations for hiring and firing.

Systems Security Specialist – General Dynamics
Kansas City, MO (July 2004 – September 2006)

  • Developed a custom database application for the purpose of recording and reporting on the state of the security controls for a multitude of systems. This saved the team 50% of the time to perform the work and increased the consistency of the data.
  • Wrote security documentation per the requirements of the client, particularly for the US Government’s C&A process.
  • Performed onsite security evaluations of both logical and physical security.
  • Managed other team members in project planning and priority setting.
  • Performed logical security evaluations utilizing technical tools for Windows, UNIX, Netware, firewalls, and networks including Nessus, Nmap, NGSSQuirreL, and Sara.
  • Participated in writing proposals for client work requests per the clients’ needs.
  • Participated in writing content for brochures for marketing purposes.

Systems Programmer 4 – Yellow Roadway Corporation
Overland Park, KS (January 2002 – June 2004)

  • Acted as technical lead for a multi-team project which provided a new security solution including products such as Checkpoint’s NGAI54, Blue Coat caching servers, and CipherTrust’s Iron Mail.
  • Performed a security evaluation and upgraded Meridian IQ’s Checkpoint firewall as a result.
  • Upgraded older Dell BigIP appliances to F5′s BigIP 1000 switches.
  • Was responsible for Meridian IQ’s entire UNIX infrastructure, including maintenance, upgrade of both hardware and software, upgrade of the SAN, design of the Veritas cluster, and disaster recovery.
  • Implemented an anti-spam and anti-virus solution for Meridian IQ which included Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, and Interscan’s Viruswall.
  • Provided third tier technical support, internal consulting, and participated in the UNIX team’s on-call rotation.
  • Participated and designed solutions for disaster recovery for UNIX, Networking, and Firewall systems.
  • Developed a Business Impact Analysis regarding single points of failure for MeridianIQ.

Systems Engineer – Meridian IQ
Overland Park, KS (July 2000 – December 2001)

  • Checkpoint Firewall design, implementation, and administration.
  • Interscan VirusWall design, implementation, and administration.
  • Intrusion Detection and Penetration testing utilizing open source tools such as Snort, Nessus, and Nmap, and ACID.
  • Administration and installation of Netscape Enterprise Servers and iPlanet servers.
  • UNIX administration including installation, design, Veritas support, SAN support, VCS support and hardware.
  • BigBrother design, implementation, and administration including all servers and web applications, utilizing custom scripts and outside tools.

Senior Information System Analyst – Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Kansas City, MO (July 1999 – June 2000)

  • Administration of Solaris and Linux servers including design, implementation, and upgrading.
  • Spearheaded effort to get Linux certified for use within the organization.
  • Web administrator and capacity planner.
  • Participated in the Federal Reserve supervisory development program.

System Administrator – University of Evansville
Evansville, IN (January 1998 – June 1999)

  • Network administration, including design and implementation of Cisco and Synopitcs switches, hubs, and routers.
  • Configuration and design of DNS for 14 class C networks.
  • AIX administration including 3500 email accounts.
  • Windows NT and Novell Netware administration including 3500 printing accounts.
  • Installation of web servers including development of SQL based ASP pages.
  • Design and implementation of a web gateway to the UNIX mail accounts.
  • Instruction of faculty and staff on application usage.
  • Direct technical support to the President of the University.
  • Managed student workers, co-ops, and several computer labs.
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