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Daniel Silverman
Senior Lead Information Security Analyst at Stanford University
United States
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Education:
Bachelor's degree
Computer and Information Sciences, General
University of Phoenix
1998
2000 -
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Computer and Information Sciences, General
University of Phoenix
1998
2000 -
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Experience:
Senior Lead Information Security Analyst
Stanford University
2019 -
Headed down the rabbit hole for all things security.
Threat Hunting, Ethical Hacking, Cyber Security, Disaster Recovery
CEH, ISACA, E-Council, IANS, InfraGard, ITIL
Senior Information Security Analyst
E. & J. Gallo Winery
2016 - 2019
* Work with various groups across the enterprise to ensure informational security.
* Manage offshore assets for Data Security related work.
* Perform Security Hardening for Windows Servers.
* Administer Centrify users.
* Create users, decommission users, AD, Exchange, LDAP.
* Generate Standard Operating Procedures for Data Security to use.
* Administer Palo Alto Firewalls.
* Create network folders and folder groups in AD.
* Create local AX400 and Linux Accounts.
* Administer LDAP GDS.
* Administer JDE.
* Assist Desktop Support Personal where required.
* Perform Security checks with Secure Works, Cylance, Carbon Black, Qualys.
* Troubleshoot network security issues across multiple platforms.
* Work across functional groups within the organization to define operating procedures, and policies.
* Update scripts in Service now for proper functionality and routing.
* MimeCast Email Administration.
* Working with Deloitte on SAP conversion project.
Sr. IT Consultant
Independent Contractor
2015 - 2019
* Provide Support for Windows, Mac, and Linux environments to manufacturing customers.
* Manage Exchange, Office 365, Windows Active Directory environments.
* Administrate VMware installs utilizing VCenter with VMotion, and Replication between hosts.
* Provided 24 x 7 IT Services Management, and Troubleshoot complex end to end issues in the environment.
* Provided IT Services Integration to streamline operations and promote robust revenue growth.
* Provide installation for SAGE, and Syspro environments.
* Administrate Symantec, Ancient, DATTO, and iDrive Backups installations.
* Provide quarterly network audits, and security assessments for all clients, complete documentation for staff and clients.
* Provide training to clients and staff along with technical support documentation.
Sr. IT consultant
Carrier IQ
2010 - 2015
* Provide desktop and laptop support for Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems. This includes hardware repairs, and operating system troubleshooting as well as engineering application support.
* Administrate Active Directory domain for cross functional 2003 / 2008 domain architecture with multiple satellite offices across the US, and the world.
* Administrate 500+ CentOS servers in our customer data center. This included raw deployments using kickstart, ongoing patch management using Nagios, and hardware / software troubleshooting.
* Administrate Cisco, Switches Routers, and wireless access points. We use large data center blade switches with redundant supervisor blades. Additionally we have ASA Firewalls for both customer facing and corporate facing networks.
* Administrate, customize and provide end user training on Jira, and Confluence. Jira is a bug fix / help desk ticketing system. Confluence is an intranet used by both internal and external clients for collaboration purposes.
* Administer Nagios, Cacti, and Tripwire monitoring systems for all our infrastructure.
* Maintain an EMC SAN, and various NAS implementations for our large Oracle installations as well as DDUP, using YARBU, and Symantec Backup Exec Instances. This included hardware break fix, volume allocations, resizing etc, and troubleshooting.
* Maintain Windows DNS, and DHCP Scopes for all offices.
* Administer Exchange installations, which included upgrading, migrating mailboxes between mail stores, new account creation, old account archiving and removal, and mail policies, including relays, mailbox sizing, etc.
* Active directory administration including Local and global policies, login scripts, etc.
* Script programing from Linux based Cron jobs, as well as Windows .bat files for various automated processes.
* Administer 500+ Linux, and Windows based servers in a cloud environment in internal data center. Over 5 million wireless devices connecting.
* Administrate BIG IP F5 Load balancers.
Head of IT Operations
ADARA Networks
2007 - 2010
* Windows 2008 Domain structure upgrade with HA for the corporate environment.
* Switch, firewall, and wireless network to provide HA, and improved security using two factor authentication.
* Exchange migration to Exchange 2007
* Standardized company platform.
* Manage lab environment for 200+ servers FreeBSD.
* Deployed Microsoft SharePoint server.
* Trained end users on SharePoint functionality.
* Upgraded company from CVS source code control to Perforce.
* Implemented improved NetBackup strategy.
* Manage day to day administration of the Barracuda anti spam.
* Successfully executed file sharing services project. Windows 2008 server with NIS compatibility.
* Administrate NIS and AD domains with active employee changes.
* Performed BES migration to new server platform with latest BES version.
* Provide excellent support to end users running MAC, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Red Hat systems.
* Provide basic shell and Perl scripting for cron and startup scripts for infrastructure.
* Work with QA and Engineering groups to validate hardware platforms for custom kernel implementations.
* Continually refine and develop IT services to support the corporate infrastructure.
* Train Engineering, QA, and Se groups on new tool sets, and production systems used within the corporate environment.
* Virtualized various services using VMWare and Microsoft Virtual Server.
* Consolidated the number of switches used by 30% while providing gigabit speed to the desktop with POE services for future products.
* Implemented ISP cutover to provide a robust backbone to the internet with new IP schema while minimizing downtime and improving DNS for externally hosted systems.
* Provide budgetary and capacity planning projections for IT department.
* Report directly to the CEO and CFO.
* Maintained and audited inventories with regard to hardware and software used by the company, as well as ensuring licensing compliance.
Senior Network and Systems Administrator
Lyris
2007 - 2008
* Manage internal network and support for five geographically dispersed offices including Canada.
* Define and budget IT projects and capacity planning.
* Modified the corporate network architecture to provide improved services, and eliminate weak points.
* Implemented Trapeez Networks wireless system for US based offices.
* Performed day to day administration of the network infrastructure.
* Provided network infrastructure recommendations for capacity planning.
* Worked closely with Sarbanes Oxley auditors to ensure IT compliance.
* Provide executive management project plans with risk and cost analysis on various projects.
* Drove projects that would reduce costs by $400,000.00 in IT savings per year.
* Maintain a 95% Help Desk request completion without escalation.
* Maintained an inventory of hardware and software.
* Managed and executed on the project to merge acquired businesses onto Lyris Inc's corporate infrastructure.
* Performed Nortel Phone system upgrade to handle rapid growth within the company.
* Upgraded corporate servers to Windows 2008 server.
* Implemented corporate standards for all companies acquired by Lyris
* Created and implemented policies for new hire and termination procedures.
Sr. IT Consultant
QinetiQ North America
2000 - 2007
* Manage implementation for Indian Health Services network operations security center delivering security products ahead of schedule to monitor 470 sites across the United States.
* Provided Indian Health Services with Cisco based solutions for the North Eastern tribal groups.
* Manage NOSC service level agreements by direct management of work flow to NOSC employees.
* Provide day to day administration of NOSC monitored devices for IHS.
* Manage Red Hat based servers for production environment.
* Performed day to day administration for the corporate network infrastructure.
* Managed infrastructure procurement and delivery on US Navy and Home Land Security contracts valued at approximately $15M with follow on. Provided cost savings off the shelf product integration for large scale, overseas deployments.
* Delivered new VOIP implementation which saved the company over 80K annually with an ROI of 36 months.
* Manage customer / vendor relationships to provide cost savings implementations of large-scale, complex, cross-functional solutions.
* Provide leadership in budgeting, and technology focus for the company.
* Author policies and procedures documents for use within IT, and customers.
* Design and deploy media centers for commercial and government customers.
* Manage network and site security across the enterprise.
IT Manager
AllAdvantage.com
1999 - 2000
* Manage help desk, desktop support, and administrator’s team of twenty staff members to provide world wide support coverage to 1000 + employees.
* Generated project, infrastructure performance reports to provide detailed metrics to executive management.
* Maintained a 98% or better up time on all business critical systems through strong leadership and goal oriented management.
* Responsible for authoring and managing project plans, defined deliverables, goals and expectations on mission critical systems.
* VOIP implementation provided over 30% communications cost savings annually to the company.
* Maintain a 95% Help Desk request completion without escalation by empowering front line support.
* Developed and maintained relationships with executive manageme
Stanford University
2019 -
Headed down the rabbit hole for all things security.
Threat Hunting, Ethical Hacking, Cyber Security, Disaster Recovery
CEH, ISACA, E-Council, IANS, InfraGard, ITIL
Senior Information Security Analyst
E. & J. Gallo Winery
2016 - 2019
* Work with various groups across the enterprise to ensure informational security.
* Manage offshore assets for Data Security related work.
* Perform Security Hardening for Windows Servers.
* Administer Centrify users.
* Create users, decommission users, AD, Exchange, LDAP.
* Generate Standard Operating Procedures for Data Security to use.
* Administer Palo Alto Firewalls.
* Create network folders and folder groups in AD.
* Create local AX400 and Linux Accounts.
* Administer LDAP GDS.
* Administer JDE.
* Assist Desktop Support Personal where required.
* Perform Security checks with Secure Works, Cylance, Carbon Black, Qualys.
* Troubleshoot network security issues across multiple platforms.
* Work across functional groups within the organization to define operating procedures, and policies.
* Update scripts in Service now for proper functionality and routing.
* MimeCast Email Administration.
* Working with Deloitte on SAP conversion project.
Sr. IT Consultant
Independent Contractor
2015 - 2019
* Provide Support for Windows, Mac, and Linux environments to manufacturing customers.
* Manage Exchange, Office 365, Windows Active Directory environments.
* Administrate VMware installs utilizing VCenter with VMotion, and Replication between hosts.
* Provided 24 x 7 IT Services Management, and Troubleshoot complex end to end issues in the environment.
* Provided IT Services Integration to streamline operations and promote robust revenue growth.
* Provide installation for SAGE, and Syspro environments.
* Administrate Symantec, Ancient, DATTO, and iDrive Backups installations.
* Provide quarterly network audits, and security assessments for all clients, complete documentation for staff and clients.
* Provide training to clients and staff along with technical support documentation.
Sr. IT consultant
Carrier IQ
2010 - 2015
* Provide desktop and laptop support for Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems. This includes hardware repairs, and operating system troubleshooting as well as engineering application support.
* Administrate Active Directory domain for cross functional 2003 / 2008 domain architecture with multiple satellite offices across the US, and the world.
* Administrate 500+ CentOS servers in our customer data center. This included raw deployments using kickstart, ongoing patch management using Nagios, and hardware / software troubleshooting.
* Administrate Cisco, Switches Routers, and wireless access points. We use large data center blade switches with redundant supervisor blades. Additionally we have ASA Firewalls for both customer facing and corporate facing networks.
* Administrate, customize and provide end user training on Jira, and Confluence. Jira is a bug fix / help desk ticketing system. Confluence is an intranet used by both internal and external clients for collaboration purposes.
* Administer Nagios, Cacti, and Tripwire monitoring systems for all our infrastructure.
* Maintain an EMC SAN, and various NAS implementations for our large Oracle installations as well as DDUP, using YARBU, and Symantec Backup Exec Instances. This included hardware break fix, volume allocations, resizing etc, and troubleshooting.
* Maintain Windows DNS, and DHCP Scopes for all offices.
* Administer Exchange installations, which included upgrading, migrating mailboxes between mail stores, new account creation, old account archiving and removal, and mail policies, including relays, mailbox sizing, etc.
* Active directory administration including Local and global policies, login scripts, etc.
* Script programing from Linux based Cron jobs, as well as Windows .bat files for various automated processes.
* Administer 500+ Linux, and Windows based servers in a cloud environment in internal data center. Over 5 million wireless devices connecting.
* Administrate BIG IP F5 Load balancers.
Head of IT Operations
ADARA Networks
2007 - 2010
* Windows 2008 Domain structure upgrade with HA for the corporate environment.
* Switch, firewall, and wireless network to provide HA, and improved security using two factor authentication.
* Exchange migration to Exchange 2007
* Standardized company platform.
* Manage lab environment for 200+ servers FreeBSD.
* Deployed Microsoft SharePoint server.
* Trained end users on SharePoint functionality.
* Upgraded company from CVS source code control to Perforce.
* Implemented improved NetBackup strategy.
* Manage day to day administration of the Barracuda anti spam.
* Successfully executed file sharing services project. Windows 2008 server with NIS compatibility.
* Administrate NIS and AD domains with active employee changes.
* Performed BES migration to new server platform with latest BES version.
* Provide excellent support to end users running MAC, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Red Hat systems.
* Provide basic shell and Perl scripting for cron and startup scripts for infrastructure.
* Work with QA and Engineering groups to validate hardware platforms for custom kernel implementations.
* Continually refine and develop IT services to support the corporate infrastructure.
* Train Engineering, QA, and Se groups on new tool sets, and production systems used within the corporate environment.
* Virtualized various services using VMWare and Microsoft Virtual Server.
* Consolidated the number of switches used by 30% while providing gigabit speed to the desktop with POE services for future products.
* Implemented ISP cutover to provide a robust backbone to the internet with new IP schema while minimizing downtime and improving DNS for externally hosted systems.
* Provide budgetary and capacity planning projections for IT department.
* Report directly to the CEO and CFO.
* Maintained and audited inventories with regard to hardware and software used by the company, as well as ensuring licensing compliance.
Senior Network and Systems Administrator
Lyris
2007 - 2008
* Manage internal network and support for five geographically dispersed offices including Canada.
* Define and budget IT projects and capacity planning.
* Modified the corporate network architecture to provide improved services, and eliminate weak points.
* Implemented Trapeez Networks wireless system for US based offices.
* Performed day to day administration of the network infrastructure.
* Provided network infrastructure recommendations for capacity planning.
* Worked closely with Sarbanes Oxley auditors to ensure IT compliance.
* Provide executive management project plans with risk and cost analysis on various projects.
* Drove projects that would reduce costs by $400,000.00 in IT savings per year.
* Maintain a 95% Help Desk request completion without escalation.
* Maintained an inventory of hardware and software.
* Managed and executed on the project to merge acquired businesses onto Lyris Inc's corporate infrastructure.
* Performed Nortel Phone system upgrade to handle rapid growth within the company.
* Upgraded corporate servers to Windows 2008 server.
* Implemented corporate standards for all companies acquired by Lyris
* Created and implemented policies for new hire and termination procedures.
Sr. IT Consultant
QinetiQ North America
2000 - 2007
* Manage implementation for Indian Health Services network operations security center delivering security products ahead of schedule to monitor 470 sites across the United States.
* Provided Indian Health Services with Cisco based solutions for the North Eastern tribal groups.
* Manage NOSC service level agreements by direct management of work flow to NOSC employees.
* Provide day to day administration of NOSC monitored devices for IHS.
* Manage Red Hat based servers for production environment.
* Performed day to day administration for the corporate network infrastructure.
* Managed infrastructure procurement and delivery on US Navy and Home Land Security contracts valued at approximately $15M with follow on. Provided cost savings off the shelf product integration for large scale, overseas deployments.
* Delivered new VOIP implementation which saved the company over 80K annually with an ROI of 36 months.
* Manage customer / vendor relationships to provide cost savings implementations of large-scale, complex, cross-functional solutions.
* Provide leadership in budgeting, and technology focus for the company.
* Author policies and procedures documents for use within IT, and customers.
* Design and deploy media centers for commercial and government customers.
* Manage network and site security across the enterprise.
IT Manager
AllAdvantage.com
1999 - 2000
* Manage help desk, desktop support, and administrator’s team of twenty staff members to provide world wide support coverage to 1000 + employees.
* Generated project, infrastructure performance reports to provide detailed metrics to executive management.
* Maintained a 98% or better up time on all business critical systems through strong leadership and goal oriented management.
* Responsible for authoring and managing project plans, defined deliverables, goals and expectations on mission critical systems.
* VOIP implementation provided over 30% communications cost savings annually to the company.
* Maintain a 95% Help Desk request completion without escalation by empowering front line support.
* Developed and maintained relationships with executive manageme
Company:
Stanford University
Years of Experience:
27
Spoken Language:
Hebrew
Skills
Cloud Computing, coatings inspection, Enterprise Software, HTML, Integration, Linux, Management, Networking, Politics, Program Management, Project Management, Public Speaking, Software Development, System Administration, TCP/IP, Telecommunications
About
CEH Certified Ethical Hacker
ITIL Foundation Certified
PCI-DSS PCIP Certified
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
NACE Coatings Inspector Level 1 - Certified
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