IT & ITSM & IT Security

Highlights

Before Security

Embarking on my journey into cybersecurity, my professional background is rooted in comprehensive software quality assurance and systems administration. A significant part of my experience involved performing white/black box, stress, and complex functionality testing for FXCubic Forex Bridge and FXI Business Intelligence. My responsibilities extended to:

• Assessing compatibility across various trading and technology platforms: MetaTrader 4 & 5, CTrader, FIX Protocol, APIs
• Network infrastructure management, including Firewalls, Routers, tunnel, VPN, Load Balancers, and Switches
• Database management with a focus on SQL and SQL light
• Expertise in MQL4&5 Expert Adviser
• Providing internal support and training to new employees
• Leading a support team to deliver technical application support to customers
• Delivering process automation and integrating existing toolsets for system patches, leveraging CI/CD pipelines, Selenium, Jira, and scripting with Bash & Python, as well as Docker containment
• Unix/Linux/Windows systems administration
• High-level review and definition of appropriate change and financial controls for best practice testing
• Assessing the current estate, identifying functionality gaps, reporting to management, and utilizing Jet Reports & Power BI
• Attending weekly meetings with support staff to review items in progress and backlog
• Providing security enforcement and vulnerability scanning
• Automating office workflows using Zoho tools: Desk, Projects, Assist, CRM, SalesIQ, Flow

Expanding on my versatile skill set, I have also delved into various domains, showcasing proficiency in a myriad of areas:

• Building ML predictive models on Python using Tensorflow & Pandas, R, and SAS
• Investigating cloud service usage within the enterprise, understanding employee utilization patterns
• Network design, implementation, and maintenance across LAN and WLAN environments
• Troubleshooting network and security issues with expertise in CISCO equipement
• Networking configuration encompassing subnets, network class, routing, switching, DNS, VLAN, NAT/PAT, VPN Tunnel, IPsec, and SSL encryption
• Network monitoring proficiency with tools like Solarwinds
• Performing vulnerability and network scanning, simulating security breaches for system security testing
• Analyzing TCP/UDP issues using Wireshark, configuring anti-virus products and SSL certificates
• Managing Splunk Enterprise, ensuring timely and accurate communication of alerts to IT, network, or security groups
• Providing technical support internally and externally
• Leading teams in designing Arduino test sets, conducting research, and data acquisition
• Elaborating on data acquisition tools & techniques, prototyping with Arduino & sensors
• Evaluating data analysis tools & libraries, setting project requirements in Python and R
• Cleaning and analyzing data using Python (Numpy, Pandas) and R (Janitor, Dplyr)
• Designing and writing ML algorithms in Python (ELI5, LIME, Tensorflow) and R (e1071, Rpart)
• Visualizing and interpreting results, building Tensorflow graphs
• Creating a web interpretation interface using Python Django
• Writing research papers (IJMLNCE.2018v02i02.002)
• Reviewing colleagues’ code & work
• Providing Linux systems support and administration
• Participating in a 24/7 on-call support rotation
• Researching and implementing a PKI infrastructure for certificate-based authentication
• Displaying troubleshooting skills in analyzing hardware configurations and isolating malfunctioning components
• Replacing vulnerable network infrastructure with robust security architecture
• Monitoring server reports, backup logs, and enforcing corrective actions when necessary
• Applying effective organization, leadership, communication, and teamwork in all IT operations oversight
• Administering LAN with over 200 computers, managing user account information in Active Directory, network rights, permissions, and Exchange administration
• Studying Code Division Multiple Access/Wireless Local Loop technology, collaborating closely with MSC/WLL, HONET (MSAN), and CA engineers.

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