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Chief Information Security Officer for Fairfield University

SHU in Fairfield, CT, offers full- & part-time associate and bachelor's undergraduate degrees, and graduate master's and doctoral programs in CT & abroad.

A goal oriented, accomplished IT Security infrastructure manager with exemplary organizational, technical, written, oral, and interpersonal relationship skills, strongly focused on teamwork, security, policy and process, systems implementation and administration, system uptime and health monitoring, vulnerability management, DR/BCP and incident response. Introduces new technologies to address and ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data, processes, and systems. Leads, implements, and trains teams on new technologies, best practices, and methodologies to address key systems. Utilizes superb attention to detail to analyze and proactively address system performance, health, and data integrity issues. Experienced with a variety of monitoring technologies, SIEM, and threat management. Progressively engages tools and advances processes to better position organizations for solid short and long term growth, introducing new methodologies to colleagues, cross-training wherever possible with the goal of complete transparency and keeping costs down. Specialties include but are not limited to threat management, IT systems monitoring, systems administration, IT Security and user awareness training, patch management and system hardening, SIEM, IDS, PKI, cryptography, and account management lifecycle. Experienced in Cisco ASA and Palo Alto firewall technologies, SIEM (RSA enVision, QRadar, Splunk), Office365, Exchange, Active Directory, WSUS, SCCM, SCOM, antivirus/IPS (Symantec Endpoint, TrendMicro Deep Security, Carbon Black, Traps, others), vulnerability management (Tenable, Rapid7, Qualys), CA ARCserve RHA, BES administration, Microsoft Identity Management (MIM), Cisco IronPort. Further experience in SSO (Apereo CAS), as well as implementation / administration of Linux OS. Extensive systems administration, troubleshooting, and monitoring experience.