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Kristopher Klunder
Cybersecurity Specialist at Homer Electric Association, Inc.
Kenai, AK, United States
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Experience:
Oversee network security operations : administrate IPS/IDS, malware detection systems, firewalls, log monitoring systems, perform forensic analysis, penetration-testing, threat hunting, and vulnerability assessments.
Designed and led internal capital work plan IT projects, compliance GAP assessments, process improvement initiatives, security audits, and cyber risk management programs.
Built the utility’s Cybersecurity and Compliance initiative, through creation of acceptable use, data retention, change management, cyber training, and disaster recovery policies to meet NIST-800, PCI-DSS and NERC-CIP/AKCIP compliance, and co-authored Alaska’s Critical Infrastructure Protection standards.
Deployed and currently maintains a wide array of SIEM/SOAR, monitoring, and compliance technologies to help secure and enable business operations.
Used Ansible, Chocolatey (NuGet), Rundeck, PDQ, and WDS/MDT to standardize deployments, apply and verify PCI-DSS and NIST/NERC-CIP compliance, control configuration skew, and autoremediate issues based on alerting from new centralized monitoring system.
Automated network configuration management via custom integration with Netbox for single source of truth/automated provisioning for corporate and industrial control systems.
Designed, deployed and managed multi-year company backbone transport upgrade project : integrating a SONET-to-MPLS transition technology for industrial controls and a DWDM-based 400GB long-haul fiber backbone for datacenter transport. This included managing deployment of a brand-new aerial fiber run to a generation facility to meet subsecond data acquisition needs.
Led development and integration of applications, frameworks, reporting tools and ad-hoc middleware for the Cooperative's various independent systems, written with Python and Powershell, utilizing Git and Gitlab for CI/CD pipelines and in-house team development. Pioneering the transition to containerized deployment of internal enterprise applications.
2017 : Present
Homer Electric Association, Inc.
Cybersecurity Specialist
Previous responsibilities with additional focus on solutions engineering--design, deployment and project coordination with customers for unified VPN, WAN, LAN and VOIP networks.
Dedicated significant time to network device automation and standardization using Solarwinds NCM, Chef/Ansible for configuration management and Python for logic-based change.
Additional focus on developing an MPLS infrastructure for future customer growth and expansion, working around the limitations of current in-production gear.
2017 : 2017
AlasConnect LLC
Systems and Network Engineer
Managed L2/L3 network security for 70+ businesses : vulnerability patching, advanced network design and deployment, and VPN meshes at customer sites across the U.S.
Designed and deployed managed wireless solutions for customers from Ubiquiti and Cisco to meet their specific needs (BYOD, HIPAA and CJIS).
Deployed and maintained Cisco Collaboration (CUCM, CME, CUBE) systems plus necessary gateways across multi-site WAN topologies for customers.
Automated and centralized configuration management of 1000+ network devices across Alaska and the continental United States using Solarwinds NCM and associated tools.
Managed projects working with our engineers, customers and their vendors to reach optimal solutions with minimal workflow impact.
Successfully deployed Cisco and Calix Metro-E MPLS technologies for large projects such as FNSB Emergency Services E911 WAN, City of Fairbanks Metro Ethernet, and the State of Alaska StateCONNECT intertie between the City, Borough and State infrastructure.
2015 : 2017
ALASCONNECT, INC.
Senior Systems Technician
Provided in turn Helpdesk, Desktop, and Server/Network support to 50+ companies.
Managed, built and maintained Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2 environments including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, along with a large assortment of customer applications.
Automated server builds and administration of Red Hat Linux 4.0 to 7.1 servers powering Oracle Databases and monitoring applications.
Created and updated documentation for projects as well as moving/integrating network devices to Solarwinds.
Set up and managed Cisco L2 switches, ASA’s for firewall and VPN, and Ubiquiti/Cisco integration for our new wireless expansion project.
2014 : 2015
ALASCONNECT, INC.
Systems Technician 1
Provided Helpdesk support for 50 companies by phone, email and in-person consultation.
Created documentation for customers and fellow technicians alike for various software deployments.
Rebuilt and brought into standardization a Cisco Video Surveillance IP Camera System for the DataCenter.
Worked with customers to troubleshoot a variety of software and hardware issues on workstations, laptops and mobile devices.
2013 : 2014
ALASCONNECT, INC.
Intern 1
Designed and led internal capital work plan IT projects, compliance GAP assessments, process improvement initiatives, security audits, and cyber risk management programs.
Built the utility’s Cybersecurity and Compliance initiative, through creation of acceptable use, data retention, change management, cyber training, and disaster recovery policies to meet NIST-800, PCI-DSS and NERC-CIP/AKCIP compliance, and co-authored Alaska’s Critical Infrastructure Protection standards.
Deployed and currently maintains a wide array of SIEM/SOAR, monitoring, and compliance technologies to help secure and enable business operations.
Used Ansible, Chocolatey (NuGet), Rundeck, PDQ, and WDS/MDT to standardize deployments, apply and verify PCI-DSS and NIST/NERC-CIP compliance, control configuration skew, and autoremediate issues based on alerting from new centralized monitoring system.
Automated network configuration management via custom integration with Netbox for single source of truth/automated provisioning for corporate and industrial control systems.
Designed, deployed and managed multi-year company backbone transport upgrade project : integrating a SONET-to-MPLS transition technology for industrial controls and a DWDM-based 400GB long-haul fiber backbone for datacenter transport. This included managing deployment of a brand-new aerial fiber run to a generation facility to meet subsecond data acquisition needs.
Led development and integration of applications, frameworks, reporting tools and ad-hoc middleware for the Cooperative's various independent systems, written with Python and Powershell, utilizing Git and Gitlab for CI/CD pipelines and in-house team development. Pioneering the transition to containerized deployment of internal enterprise applications.
2017 : Present
Homer Electric Association, Inc.
Cybersecurity Specialist
Previous responsibilities with additional focus on solutions engineering--design, deployment and project coordination with customers for unified VPN, WAN, LAN and VOIP networks.
Dedicated significant time to network device automation and standardization using Solarwinds NCM, Chef/Ansible for configuration management and Python for logic-based change.
Additional focus on developing an MPLS infrastructure for future customer growth and expansion, working around the limitations of current in-production gear.
2017 : 2017
AlasConnect LLC
Systems and Network Engineer
Managed L2/L3 network security for 70+ businesses : vulnerability patching, advanced network design and deployment, and VPN meshes at customer sites across the U.S.
Designed and deployed managed wireless solutions for customers from Ubiquiti and Cisco to meet their specific needs (BYOD, HIPAA and CJIS).
Deployed and maintained Cisco Collaboration (CUCM, CME, CUBE) systems plus necessary gateways across multi-site WAN topologies for customers.
Automated and centralized configuration management of 1000+ network devices across Alaska and the continental United States using Solarwinds NCM and associated tools.
Managed projects working with our engineers, customers and their vendors to reach optimal solutions with minimal workflow impact.
Successfully deployed Cisco and Calix Metro-E MPLS technologies for large projects such as FNSB Emergency Services E911 WAN, City of Fairbanks Metro Ethernet, and the State of Alaska StateCONNECT intertie between the City, Borough and State infrastructure.
2015 : 2017
ALASCONNECT, INC.
Senior Systems Technician
Provided in turn Helpdesk, Desktop, and Server/Network support to 50+ companies.
Managed, built and maintained Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2 environments including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, along with a large assortment of customer applications.
Automated server builds and administration of Red Hat Linux 4.0 to 7.1 servers powering Oracle Databases and monitoring applications.
Created and updated documentation for projects as well as moving/integrating network devices to Solarwinds.
Set up and managed Cisco L2 switches, ASA’s for firewall and VPN, and Ubiquiti/Cisco integration for our new wireless expansion project.
2014 : 2015
ALASCONNECT, INC.
Systems Technician 1
Provided Helpdesk support for 50 companies by phone, email and in-person consultation.
Created documentation for customers and fellow technicians alike for various software deployments.
Rebuilt and brought into standardization a Cisco Video Surveillance IP Camera System for the DataCenter.
Worked with customers to troubleshoot a variety of software and hardware issues on workstations, laptops and mobile devices.
2013 : 2014
ALASCONNECT, INC.
Intern 1
Company:
Homer Electric Association, Inc.
Spoken Language:
English
About
Bridging the gap between cybersecurity, compliance, and infrastructure automation. Passionate about modernizing the technology stacks of critical infrastructure utilities and bringing together the people, processes and technology to make that happen.
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