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Damian Silvera

Network Security Engineer/Architect

Employed Available
Results oriented senior level architect with a strong track record of coupling keen
business acumen with over 25 years of experience in a myriad of roles across
multiple industry verticals. Strong communicator with a penchant for tailoring strategies and solutions for SMBs as well as the Fortune 500.
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  • Finance, Banking and Accounting
    • Bank of America: Enterprise-wide F5 Audit (APM and LTM), NIST SP-800-53r4 Compliance
    • KPMG: F5 Deployment and Training (WAF), Venafi Integration, Thales Luna Integration
    • Voya Financial: Data Center Migration (LTM, DNS, APM (VDI), DNS+DNSSEC), BASH Scripting
    • LPL Financial: Viprion Deployment, Data Center Migration (LTM, DNS, APM), F5 SSL FWD Proxy Implementation, iRule Development, F5 Implementation (APM)
    • Zions Bancorporation: Enterprise-wide F5 Audit
    • First Citizens Bank: Cisco ACE Migration, F5 audit
    • South Eastern Credit Union: iRule Threat Mitigation Analysis
    • AgFirst: Enterprise-wide F5 Audit, Training (WAF)
  • Telecommunications
    • Verizon: F5 Implementation (Ansible, Openstack, LTM, DNS), BIG-IQ
  • Technology
    • 1010Data: F5 Upgrades (LTM)
    • Altera Digital Health: F5 to Netscaler Migration
  • Energy
    • WEC Energy Group: Data Center Implementation (LTM, WAF, DNS, APM), iRule+iRulesX Development, BASH Scripting, REST API
    • Evergy: Enterprise-wide F5 Audit (LTM, AFM), Troubleshooting (AFM)
    • Duke Energy: Audit and Troubleshooting (SSLO)
  • Insurance
    • Blue Cross/Blue Shield (South Carolina): F5 Migration (LTM and F5 APM), SSL Orchestrator Implementation, Enterprise-wide WAF Implementation and Training
    • Brown and Brown: F5 Migration (LTM)
    • Mutual of Omaha: F5 Troubleshooting (APM)
    • Primerica: F5 Support (LTM, DNS)
    • TrialCard: F5 Migration (LTM, DNS)
  • Higher Education
    • NYU Langone: Enterprise-wide WAF Implementation and Training
    • University of Miami: Viprion Deployment, F5 Migration (LTM, DNS), iRule Development
    • University of Maryland Medical System: F5 Analysis (LTM)
    • Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency: F5 Migration (LTM)
  • Food and Beverage
    • Chipotle: Cloud Migration (LTM, WAF, iRules), Telemetry (Splunk Cloud)
    • Reyes Distribution: F5 Audit
  • Government
    • State of Tennessee: Enterprise-wide WAF Implementation
    • State of Delaware: F5 WAF Support
  • Retail
    • JJill: PCI Compliance (AFM)
    • Lands' End: Netscaler to F5 Migration
    • Vineyard Vines: F5 Migration
  • Healthcare
    • Hays Medical Center: F5 Audit and Upgrades (LTM)
    • Heartland Dental: Kerberos Integration (APM)
    • Garnet Health: F5 Audit and Upgrade (LTM), Enterprise-wide WAF Implementation and Training
  • Manufacturing and Construction
    • TTI Group: F5 Migration (LTM, DNS), REST API
    • Honda Aircraft: F5 Migration and VDI Implementation (LTM)
    • Hill International: F5 Migration (LTM)
  • Transportation
    • Delta Airlines: Venafi Integration
  • Insurance
    • Essent Insurance: AMBA Scripting, MFA Client Deployment
    • Blue Cross Blue Shield (South Carolina): SecurID Migration
    • Trustmark Insurance: SecurID Implementation
  • Travel and Leisure
    • Carlson Holdings: RSA SecurID API Implementation
  • LPL Financial: SSO Implementation on IBM DataPower
  • AAA Ultra Sound Productions: ACME SSL Integration

F5 Engineer

Apptive Solutions
October 2013 to October 2016
Consultant
  • Finance and Banking
    • AgFirst: F5 Implementation (LTM, APM, WAF)
  • Telecommunications
    • Windstream: F5 Migration and Upgrade (LTM)
  • Energy
    • Comverge Energy: F5 Implementation (LTM)
    • West, Inc. F5 Implementation (WAF)
  • Higher Education
    • College Foundation, Inc.: F5 Migration (LTM, WAF)
    • Duke University: F5 Migration (LTM)
  • Food and Beverage
    • Pepsi Bottling: F5 Implementation (LTM, DNS)
  • Retail
    • Harris Teeter: F5 Upgrade (LTM)
  • Manufacturing
    • SAE: F5 Implementation (WAF)
    • Toshiba, Inc.: F5 Support (APM)

RSA SecurID Engineer

Apptive Solutions
October 2013 to October 2016
Consultant
  • Finance and Banking
    • Coastal Federal Credit Union: SecurID Design and Implementation
    • South State Bank: SecurID Upgrade
  • Technology
    • Forsythe, Inc. SecurID Implementation
  • Energy
    • First Solar: SecurID Design, Implementation and Token Provisioning
    • West, Inc. SecurID Design, Implementation and Token Provisioning
  • Insurance
    • Blue Cross Blue Shield (South Carolina): SecurID Migration and Upgrade
    • AoN Insurance: SecurID Assessment
  • Retail
    • Walgreens: SecurID Migration
    • Harris Teeter: SecurID Upgrade
    • ftd.com: SecurID Upgrade
  • Marketing
    • RR Donnelly: SecurID Assessment and Migration
  • F5: Viprion Implementation and Migration, LTM
  • BlueCat IPAM: Design, Threat Protection and Operations
  • ClearPass: 802.1x Design and Implementation
  • Dell Force 10: Implementation
  • Cloud Administrator: Amazon S3 and Google Search Appliance
  • Administrative Duties: Managed a staff of 17 technicians (Infrastructure, Service Desk and Audio Visual)
  • Enterprise SSL Administrator: Verisign and Thawte
  • Firewall Administrator: Juniper (Netscreen) Firewalls
  • Directory Services Administrator: Active Directory 2K8 and 2K3
  • SAN Administrator: Dell/EMC CLARiiON FC SAN
  • Enterprise Switching: Brocade (Layer 3 and 2)
  • Network Operating Systems: LAMP (CentOS, RedHat, Oracle), WIN2K12, WIN2K8, WIN2K3
  • Virtualization: VMWare ESX 5.x
  • PCI DSS Liason
  • Email Threat Mitigation: Cisco Ironmail
  • Collaboration Administrator: MOSS 2007 and Wordpress 4.x
  • Database Administrator: MySQL, MSSQL
  • MultiMedia: Distance Learning (Echo360), Digital Signage (iCompel)
  • Promoted 3 times during tenure from Network Administrator to Network Engineer to Security Manager
  • Incident Response Administrator: laid groundwork for communications, data collection and remediation
  • Administrative Duties: managed budget of $250,000
  • *NIX Administrator: Linux (Redhat and Debian) and Solaris 2.x - 8
  • HIPAA: Served as technical lead for enterprise HIPAA initiatives
  • IPAM Administrator: ISC2 BIND and DHCP
  • Kerberos Administrator: MIT Kerberos
  • Firewall Administrator: Juniper (Netscreen)
  • F5 Certified! Technical Specialist, BIG-IP ASM (F5-CTS, BIG-IP ASM)
  • F5 Certified! Administrator, BIG-IP (F5-CA, BIG-IP)
  • F5 Certified! Distributed Cloud Technical Pre-Sales
  • Fortinet Certified Associate Cybersecurity
  • Fortinet Certified Fundamentals Cybersecurity
  • F5 Certified Administrator, BIG-IP
  • F5: Viprion, LTM, DNS, SSL Orchestrator, APM, ASM, AAM, AFM
  • KEMP Load Balancer
  • Citrix Netscaler
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS S3
  • RSA SecurID/Authentication Manager
  • HP Clearpass
  • DUO
  • Symantec VIP
  • RSA SecurID
  • BlueCat 8.x
  • ISC2 (BIND and DHCP)
  • Windows 2K12, 2K8
  • Linux/LAMP (CentOS) 6.x
  • Windows 2K12, 2K8, 2K3
  • Verisign
  • Thawte
  • OpenSSL
  • Openstack
  • VMWare ESX/i 5.x
  • Spanish (Functional)
  • French (Functional)

MBA

University of Miami

August 1993 to May 1996
Finance and Information Systems
Graduated with Honors

BBA

University of Miami

August 1988 to May 1993
International Finance and Marketing