Sharon Gardner

Senior Information Security Analyst at Lowe's.

Mooresville, NC, United States

Details

Experience: Work with a great team with a focus on IT Security, automation and always improving.

2012 : Present

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

Senior Information Security Analyst

Services offered include consulting in IT Security and IT Networking.

2011 : 2014

Sharon Gardner Consulting, LLC

Owner

Worked with Check Point firewalls, UNIX based systems and Internet Content filtering and Proxy systems.

2011 : 2011

BB&T

Network Security Engineer

I started working with Wilson Medical Center in November of 1987. Wilson Medical Center has 300 beds, non-profit county owned campus consisting of the main hospital, Nursing Home, Day Care facilities, Medical Offices, Wound Care Center, Community Radiology, Radiology Oncology, several Clinics and satellite labs. I started working on third shift as a Computer Operator, moved to Help Desk/PC Support, Network Administrator and then to the position as Supervisor of Networking and PC Support. As Supervisor of Networking and PC Support, I was responsible for a total of six people : two Network Administrators, four PC Support/Help Desk techs and outsourced staff. Hands on activities include monitoring, maintaining and scaling the wireless network, firewalls and the backbone, changing switch port settings, making firewall changes, assigning projects to staff, holding regular meetings with staff, budget, payroll, troubleshooting and support.

1987 : 2011

Wilson Medical Center

Supervisor Networking and PC Support

Company: Lowe's Companies, Inc.

Spoken Language: English

About

I am currently focused in the Security field which is always interesting.

Broad and extensive technical background in many areas of the IT field, as well as great communication skills.

Began working in IT with mainframes, and moved through various positions from Help Desk tech, PC Support Tech, Server Administrator, Network Administrator, Network Engineer and IT Supervisory position. As a result of this, have broad background and experience in IT from client systems to network backbone systems.

Take great pride in developing my IT career. Desire a job that is challenging to my current skills and future IT skillset.

Focus Areas: Security, Firewall Security, Security Optimization, Automation, Security Projects and Teamwork.