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Aaron Daniel, MCP
Cybersecurity Leader, Veteran
Indianapolis, IN, United States
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Experience:
2022 : Present
Schneck Medical Center
Cybersecurity Manager
• Spearheaded most complex operating systems administration, including designing, installing, configuring, maintaining and testing, diagnosing system problems, backing up and restoring systems, participating in disaster recovery, and ensuring activities within IT policies and procedures.
• Contributed to long-term projects, such as rollouts of latest version of software to all 3,000 company Windows servers in U.S.
• Kept monthly patching cycle current by setting and monitoring patch deployments within SCCM for development and production Windows server systems.
◦ Pulled Tenable Nessus scan reports from all servers to find and remediate anything that failed or was missed.
• Read software vendor announcements for latest version information, analysis of threats, and to help alert company management of zero day vulnerabilities to stay ahead of threats.
• Engaged with vendors to work with engineers until solution developed for any vulnerabilities not remediated.
• Secured and renewed Department of Education and Treasury federal security clearances for ten-plus years.
• Co-created vulnerability management team after no regular patching schedule existed and Windows server environment contained 270,000-plus vulnerabilities from internal audit.
◦ Established monthly patching cycle and reduced and maintained vulnerabilities to less than 30 days’ age and approximately 6,500 total.
• Implemented Tenable agent configuration on 3,000 Windows servers in multiple network segments, allowing vulnerability scans to be scheduled twice daily and also ran ad hoc.
◦ Aided efforts to keep vulnerabilities reduced, with zero malware events nor any network intrusions.
◦ Kept company from having audit “findings,” allowing ability to maintain federal and state SLAs and continue business.
2017 : 2021
Navient
Senior Systems Administrator, Vulnerability Incident Prevention & Response
• Oversaw server administration of more than 2,200 Windows on HPE Proliant servers in development, quality assurance, and production environments.
• Chaired day-to-day duties that included server break and fix, builds, and decommissions.
• Worked with HBA configurations for EMC SAN, Microsoft high-availability clustering, NetBackup, HP server automation (Opsware), MOM, CA Unicenter, HP OpenView, VMware vSphere, HP Proliant DL, ML, and BL Servers, and Cisco UCS technologies and duties as assigned.
• Followed strict adherence to industry change management practices with frequent Sarbanes-Oxley audits conducted for compliance.
• Participated in semiannual disaster recovery events held company-wide to make sure solid and capable DRP.
• Spearheaded projects, including NetBackup client updates, decommission of CA Command Center, and replacement with HP OpenView for product and vendor streamlining, and Server 2003 SP2 and hotfix rollout, then migration to Server 2008 R2.
• Achieved federal security clearance levels of SF-85 Department of Education and Department of Treasury and SF-86 Department of Transportation maintained to conduct business.
• Directed large project with P2V of majority (1,500-plus) from HPE Proliant to vSphere, and migrated all remaining physicals to Cisco UCS hardware.
2008 : 2017
Navient
Systems Administrator
Oversaw departmental short-term and long-term staff scheduling, individual performance and training reports, interviewing and training new employees, and updating of internal knowledge base articles. Provided first and second-shift support analysis, and completed six weeks annually of 24x7 on call support. Aided client in maintaining FDA regulatory compliance proactively thorough ITIL and ITSM documentation of all changes and processes implemented. Supported 1,193 Windows NT 2000 and 2003 servers on Compaq and HP Proliant and Class C and P blade hardware. Established team projects, collected accomplishments, and authored monthly metrics reports for client executives.
2004 : 2008
Unisys Corp.
Sr Systems Analyst, Technical Team Lead
Provided Tier II MS Windows server support at Eli Lilly customer site, responding to approximately 250 incidents per month. Designed and maintained corporate data storage structure, security standards, and user accounts (30 requests per day). Provided ten weeks per year of 24x7 on-call support.
2002 : 2004
Paranet Solutions
Technical Solutions Consultant
Schneck Medical Center
Cybersecurity Manager
• Spearheaded most complex operating systems administration, including designing, installing, configuring, maintaining and testing, diagnosing system problems, backing up and restoring systems, participating in disaster recovery, and ensuring activities within IT policies and procedures.
• Contributed to long-term projects, such as rollouts of latest version of software to all 3,000 company Windows servers in U.S.
• Kept monthly patching cycle current by setting and monitoring patch deployments within SCCM for development and production Windows server systems.
◦ Pulled Tenable Nessus scan reports from all servers to find and remediate anything that failed or was missed.
• Read software vendor announcements for latest version information, analysis of threats, and to help alert company management of zero day vulnerabilities to stay ahead of threats.
• Engaged with vendors to work with engineers until solution developed for any vulnerabilities not remediated.
• Secured and renewed Department of Education and Treasury federal security clearances for ten-plus years.
• Co-created vulnerability management team after no regular patching schedule existed and Windows server environment contained 270,000-plus vulnerabilities from internal audit.
◦ Established monthly patching cycle and reduced and maintained vulnerabilities to less than 30 days’ age and approximately 6,500 total.
• Implemented Tenable agent configuration on 3,000 Windows servers in multiple network segments, allowing vulnerability scans to be scheduled twice daily and also ran ad hoc.
◦ Aided efforts to keep vulnerabilities reduced, with zero malware events nor any network intrusions.
◦ Kept company from having audit “findings,” allowing ability to maintain federal and state SLAs and continue business.
2017 : 2021
Navient
Senior Systems Administrator, Vulnerability Incident Prevention & Response
• Oversaw server administration of more than 2,200 Windows on HPE Proliant servers in development, quality assurance, and production environments.
• Chaired day-to-day duties that included server break and fix, builds, and decommissions.
• Worked with HBA configurations for EMC SAN, Microsoft high-availability clustering, NetBackup, HP server automation (Opsware), MOM, CA Unicenter, HP OpenView, VMware vSphere, HP Proliant DL, ML, and BL Servers, and Cisco UCS technologies and duties as assigned.
• Followed strict adherence to industry change management practices with frequent Sarbanes-Oxley audits conducted for compliance.
• Participated in semiannual disaster recovery events held company-wide to make sure solid and capable DRP.
• Spearheaded projects, including NetBackup client updates, decommission of CA Command Center, and replacement with HP OpenView for product and vendor streamlining, and Server 2003 SP2 and hotfix rollout, then migration to Server 2008 R2.
• Achieved federal security clearance levels of SF-85 Department of Education and Department of Treasury and SF-86 Department of Transportation maintained to conduct business.
• Directed large project with P2V of majority (1,500-plus) from HPE Proliant to vSphere, and migrated all remaining physicals to Cisco UCS hardware.
2008 : 2017
Navient
Systems Administrator
Oversaw departmental short-term and long-term staff scheduling, individual performance and training reports, interviewing and training new employees, and updating of internal knowledge base articles. Provided first and second-shift support analysis, and completed six weeks annually of 24x7 on call support. Aided client in maintaining FDA regulatory compliance proactively thorough ITIL and ITSM documentation of all changes and processes implemented. Supported 1,193 Windows NT 2000 and 2003 servers on Compaq and HP Proliant and Class C and P blade hardware. Established team projects, collected accomplishments, and authored monthly metrics reports for client executives.
2004 : 2008
Unisys Corp.
Sr Systems Analyst, Technical Team Lead
Provided Tier II MS Windows server support at Eli Lilly customer site, responding to approximately 250 incidents per month. Designed and maintained corporate data storage structure, security standards, and user accounts (30 requests per day). Provided ten weeks per year of 24x7 on-call support.
2002 : 2004
Paranet Solutions
Technical Solutions Consultant
Company:
Schneck Medical Center
About
I am a resourceful and talented IT manager of up to 20 people and a successful record of accomplishments in systems administration and engineering, vulnerability management, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, server deployments, configurations, installations, implementations, troubleshooting, and change management. A proven aptitude in complex internal assessments to deliver measurable results and solutions to strengthen operational performance. A versatile and capable producer, who utilizes strong communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills to work with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders to complete complex projects and redefine expectations.
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My most current skills reside in PowerShell, Python, WMI, HP Server Automation, Opsware, SCCM, Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere, HP SUM & SPP, NAS, Hyper-V, Azure, SQL, PKI, Tenable, Qualys, Proliant, Active Directory, RHEL/Debian/Ubuntu, Security+, Docker, Sharepoint, O365, ITIL, ServiceNow, ITIL and more.
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