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Maria Suglia
Associate Director - Cybersecurity
Keansburg, NJ, United States
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Experience:
Senior-level (IT) cyber security professional with over 25 years with proven hands-on experience leading, architecting, designing, orchestrating, and implementing large scale and highly available integrated solutions for AT&T’s Chief Security Office as part of the Threat Analytics organization primarily for Hadoop Big Data technologies.
- Serves as a subject matter expert for technology related disciplines including defining architectures, platform engineering, testing/certification activities and integration of supporting tools. Recommends strategies for improvement, including continuous improvements and leading best practices programs in conjunction with my organizations vision.
- Skilled at making a positive impact by building collaborative relationships, mentoring colleagues, adapting to changing environments, working with ambiguity, and managing complex tasks.
- Known for my ability to establish excellent working relationships with individuals inside and outside of my own organization at the executive, technical, and managerial levels. Demonstrated self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
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2023 : Present
AT&T
Associate Director Cybersecurity
Assigned full time to AT&T Chief Security Office (CSO) Division located in Middletown N.J. as a Senior Member of Technical Staff assigned to CSO.
Current Assignment : Lead Test Engineer/Platform Support- responsible for installation, configuration, system testing, deployment, operations training, Tier IV support of Big Data Analytics 300+ node CDP hadoop cluster, 81 node HP MapR cluster, network based DDOS attack detection and mitigation system as well as a Mobility network security dashboard used to detect known and potential threats.
Required to research, procure, provision, upgrade, test, integrate and deploy and provide written technical documents, training and Tier IV support on the setup and configuration of the following products :
Hortonworks Hadoop 2.3.4.7, 2.6.4.0
Cloudera CDP 7.1.7-1
Cloudera Manager 7.4.4
Ambari 2.2.2.0, 2.5.2.0
Hewlett Packard MapR Core 6.1.0
Hewlett Packard MapR MEP 6.3.6
Sqrrl 2.5.1, 2.7.4, 2.8.2
Brocade Fiber Channel SAN Switches 12K, 2800, 3800, 3900, 4100, 5000 Series, 6510
Cisco Catalyst Switches 2900 – 3750 and 4900 Series, Cisco Network Assistant
Voltaire Infiniband Switches : 9024/4026/4036
Brocade EFCM/DCFM Storage Area Networking Management System.
Hitachi 9960, 9970, 9980, 9990 and AMS Storage Devices 200, 300, 500, 2300, HUS-110, HUS-150
Hi-Command, Storage Navigator and Hitachi Storage Network Manager (HSNM2)
Pillar Axiom 600
Pillar Axiom Mgmt. Software 05.03.02
StorageTek 6140/6180/6540/6780/2540 Storage Devices
StorageTek Common Array Manager 6.x (CAM)
StorageTek 9310, L180 and L700 Tape Libraries
StorageTek 9840B and LTO2 Tape Drives
StorageTek ACSLS tape robotics software 6.x and 7.0
Oracle Sun SAMFS 3.76 and 4.x
Oracle Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10
Red Hat Linux
Oracle Mid-Range Sunfire Servers
Dell R710, Dell R730, Dell R910 Servers
Hewlett Packard DL580 Server
IBM Blade Center
Responsible for all Vendor related hardware/software contracts, entitlement and licensing issues for both Lab and Production environments.
2002 :
AT&T
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
2002 :
AT&T
Software Engineer
Responsible for major financial institutions relating to day-to-day sales as well as maintenance contracts, service contracts and project rollouts.
Ability to meet critical deadlines from initial point-of-sale through to implementation.
Revised RFP procedures to ensure faster turn-around for all customer requests.
Worked with end users to determine their specific needs.
Built strong relationships with customers at all management levels.
Met with management to discuss critical projects in order to arrange shipping schedules and ensure adequate inventory was available.
Worked with purchasing managers to develop pricing structure for the account as well as handle billing issues.
Provided technical solutions (LAN/WAN) for those accounts lacking dedicated IT staff.
Streamlined order processing procedures while increasing efficiencies.
Implemented strategies to re-activate dormant accounts, surpassing previous revenues.3
Cultivated new accounts through leads, cold calling and related prospecting techniques.
1996 : 2002
Data Access/Datapatch, Inc.
Senior Account Executive
Test Engineer Consultant assigned to AT&T
1995 : 1996
Softcom, Inc.
Test Engineer Consultant assigned to AT&T
- Serves as a subject matter expert for technology related disciplines including defining architectures, platform engineering, testing/certification activities and integration of supporting tools. Recommends strategies for improvement, including continuous improvements and leading best practices programs in conjunction with my organizations vision.
- Skilled at making a positive impact by building collaborative relationships, mentoring colleagues, adapting to changing environments, working with ambiguity, and managing complex tasks.
- Known for my ability to establish excellent working relationships with individuals inside and outside of my own organization at the executive, technical, and managerial levels. Demonstrated self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
.
2023 : Present
AT&T
Associate Director Cybersecurity
Assigned full time to AT&T Chief Security Office (CSO) Division located in Middletown N.J. as a Senior Member of Technical Staff assigned to CSO.
Current Assignment : Lead Test Engineer/Platform Support- responsible for installation, configuration, system testing, deployment, operations training, Tier IV support of Big Data Analytics 300+ node CDP hadoop cluster, 81 node HP MapR cluster, network based DDOS attack detection and mitigation system as well as a Mobility network security dashboard used to detect known and potential threats.
Required to research, procure, provision, upgrade, test, integrate and deploy and provide written technical documents, training and Tier IV support on the setup and configuration of the following products :
Hortonworks Hadoop 2.3.4.7, 2.6.4.0
Cloudera CDP 7.1.7-1
Cloudera Manager 7.4.4
Ambari 2.2.2.0, 2.5.2.0
Hewlett Packard MapR Core 6.1.0
Hewlett Packard MapR MEP 6.3.6
Sqrrl 2.5.1, 2.7.4, 2.8.2
Brocade Fiber Channel SAN Switches 12K, 2800, 3800, 3900, 4100, 5000 Series, 6510
Cisco Catalyst Switches 2900 – 3750 and 4900 Series, Cisco Network Assistant
Voltaire Infiniband Switches : 9024/4026/4036
Brocade EFCM/DCFM Storage Area Networking Management System.
Hitachi 9960, 9970, 9980, 9990 and AMS Storage Devices 200, 300, 500, 2300, HUS-110, HUS-150
Hi-Command, Storage Navigator and Hitachi Storage Network Manager (HSNM2)
Pillar Axiom 600
Pillar Axiom Mgmt. Software 05.03.02
StorageTek 6140/6180/6540/6780/2540 Storage Devices
StorageTek Common Array Manager 6.x (CAM)
StorageTek 9310, L180 and L700 Tape Libraries
StorageTek 9840B and LTO2 Tape Drives
StorageTek ACSLS tape robotics software 6.x and 7.0
Oracle Sun SAMFS 3.76 and 4.x
Oracle Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10
Red Hat Linux
Oracle Mid-Range Sunfire Servers
Dell R710, Dell R730, Dell R910 Servers
Hewlett Packard DL580 Server
IBM Blade Center
Responsible for all Vendor related hardware/software contracts, entitlement and licensing issues for both Lab and Production environments.
2002 :
AT&T
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
2002 :
AT&T
Software Engineer
Responsible for major financial institutions relating to day-to-day sales as well as maintenance contracts, service contracts and project rollouts.
Ability to meet critical deadlines from initial point-of-sale through to implementation.
Revised RFP procedures to ensure faster turn-around for all customer requests.
Worked with end users to determine their specific needs.
Built strong relationships with customers at all management levels.
Met with management to discuss critical projects in order to arrange shipping schedules and ensure adequate inventory was available.
Worked with purchasing managers to develop pricing structure for the account as well as handle billing issues.
Provided technical solutions (LAN/WAN) for those accounts lacking dedicated IT staff.
Streamlined order processing procedures while increasing efficiencies.
Implemented strategies to re-activate dormant accounts, surpassing previous revenues.3
Cultivated new accounts through leads, cold calling and related prospecting techniques.
1996 : 2002
Data Access/Datapatch, Inc.
Senior Account Executive
Test Engineer Consultant assigned to AT&T
1995 : 1996
Softcom, Inc.
Test Engineer Consultant assigned to AT&T
Company:
AT&T
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