About...
...Me
The author of this website is a professional with over 2 decades of experience in Information Systems, having specialized in the areas of technical support, consulting, implementation, architecture, operations, development, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance and program management. Currently employed by IBM as a Software Developer managing all corporate source code disclosure and product security governance for CISO, while also maintaining a CISSP® certification. Connect via LinkedIn!
Current skills and technical hobbies include:
Linux® - Most Distributions: Red Hat® Linux since 3.0.3 (1996) and variants (CentOS/Fedora®), Gentoo™ since 1.4 (2003), Debian® since 3.1 (2005), Ubuntu® since 6.06 (2006)
BSD® - FreeBSD® since version 3 (1998), FreeNAS®, IPCop/IPFire (2004), m0n0wall® and pfSense® (2009)
UNIX® - Sun/Oracle Solaris® since version 2.6 or SunOS™ 5.6 (1997)
Apple® - Mac OS X® all workstation versions since since 10.4 (2005)
Microsoft Windows® - all workstation versions since Windows® 3.0 (1990), all server versions since Windows NT® 4.0 (1996)
Virtualization - VMware® since Workstation™ 3.0 (1999), VirtualBox®, Proxmox, QEMU, OpenVZ, KVM, OpenStack
Data Network - CAT3/CAT5/CAT6, T1, LAN, WAN, WLAN (802.11 Wi-Fi), RAS, VPN, Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Proxies, Cisco®, SonicWALL®
Voice Network - ISDN BRI/PRI, POTS/PSTN, SIP/RTP VoIP, Asterisk®/IAX2, Avaya/Lucent® Definity ProLogix™ PBX and Intuity™ Audix® Voicemail
Information Security - Security Policy, Data Privacy, Corporate and Regulatory Compliance, Security Architecture, Risk Management, Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking, Physical and Logical Access, Data Encryption, Virtualization Security, Forensic Analysis, Data Loss Prevention, Security Awareness Training and Education, Product Security
Security Operations - SecOps, Firewall Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), Endpoint Detection and Respose (EDR), Health Checking (CIS), Vulnerability Scanning and Remediation, Application Security Scanning (SAST/DAST/IAST), Security Event and Information Management (SIEM), Security Operations Center (SOC), Security Incident Handling and Emergency Response (SIRT)
Software Development - DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Scrum, Agile Development, CI/CD Pipelines, Automation, Infrastructure as Code, Software Architecture, GitHub, Code Scanning, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
Cloud - Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), DigitalOcean
Containers - Docker, Podman, Portainer, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Mogenius
Certifications
2008-Apr-08
[SY0-101] Security+ Exam (2000)
2008-Apr-08
[XK0-002] Linux+ Exam (2004)
2009-Mar-26
[XK0-003] Linux+ Exam (2009)
2011-Mar-03
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...This Server
This website is powered by NGINX and Docker running on Ubuntu Linux.
The server hosting this website was built, customized, and configured by the author. In addition to hosting websites, this server is also configured as a production DNS and email server - complete with virus and spam filtering.
Real-time server performance statistics.
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