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.
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.
F5 Senior Professional Services
Self-Employed
Since October 2016
Consultant
- 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)
- Bank of America: Enterprise-wide F5 Audit (APM and LTM), NIST SP-800-53r4 Compliance
- Telecommunications
- Verizon: F5 Implementation (Ansible, Openstack, LTM, DNS), BIG-IQ
- Verizon: F5 Implementation (Ansible, Openstack, LTM, DNS), BIG-IQ
- Technology
- 1010Data: F5 Upgrades (LTM)
- Altera Digital Health: F5 to Netscaler Migration
- 1010Data: F5 Upgrades (LTM)
- 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)
- WEC Energy Group: Data Center Implementation (LTM, WAF, DNS, APM), iRule+iRulesX Development, BASH Scripting, REST API
- 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)
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield (South Carolina): F5 Migration (LTM and F5 APM), SSL Orchestrator Implementation, Enterprise-wide WAF Implementation and Training
- 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)
- NYU Langone: Enterprise-wide WAF Implementation and Training
- Food and Beverage
- Chipotle: Cloud Migration (LTM, WAF, iRules), Telemetry (Splunk Cloud)
- Reyes Distribution: F5 Audit
- Chipotle: Cloud Migration (LTM, WAF, iRules), Telemetry (Splunk Cloud)
- Government
- State of Tennessee: Enterprise-wide WAF Implementation
- State of Delaware: F5 WAF Support
- State of Tennessee: Enterprise-wide WAF Implementation
- Retail
- JJill: PCI Compliance (AFM)
- Lands' End: Netscaler to F5 Migration
- Vineyard Vines: F5 Migration
- JJill: PCI Compliance (AFM)
- 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
- Hays Medical Center: F5 Audit and Upgrades (LTM)
- Manufacturing and Construction
- TTI Group: F5 Migration (LTM, DNS), REST API
- Honda Aircraft: F5 Migration and VDI Implementation (LTM)
- Hill International: F5 Migration (LTM)
- TTI Group: F5 Migration (LTM, DNS), REST API
- Transportation
- Delta Airlines: Venafi Integration
- Delta Airlines: Venafi Integration
RSA SecurID Professional Services
Self-Employed
Since October 2016
Consultant
- Insurance
- Essent Insurance: AMBA Scripting, MFA Client Deployment
- Blue Cross Blue Shield (South Carolina): SecurID Migration
- Trustmark Insurance: SecurID Implementation
- Essent Insurance: AMBA Scripting, MFA Client Deployment
- Travel and Leisure
- Carlson Holdings: RSA SecurID API Implementation
- Carlson Holdings: RSA SecurID API Implementation
Kerberos and SSL Engineer
Self-Employed
Since October 2016
Consultant
- 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)
- AgFirst: F5 Implementation (LTM, APM, WAF)
- Telecommunications
- Windstream: F5 Migration and Upgrade (LTM)
- Windstream: F5 Migration and Upgrade (LTM)
- Energy
- Comverge Energy: F5 Implementation (LTM)
- West, Inc. F5 Implementation (WAF)
- Comverge Energy: F5 Implementation (LTM)
- Higher Education
- College Foundation, Inc.: F5 Migration (LTM, WAF)
- Duke University: F5 Migration (LTM)
- College Foundation, Inc.: F5 Migration (LTM, WAF)
- Food and Beverage
- Pepsi Bottling: F5 Implementation (LTM, DNS)
- Pepsi Bottling: F5 Implementation (LTM, DNS)
- Retail
- Harris Teeter: F5 Upgrade (LTM)
- Harris Teeter: F5 Upgrade (LTM)
- Manufacturing
- SAE: F5 Implementation (WAF)
- Toshiba, Inc.: F5 Support (APM)
- SAE: F5 Implementation (WAF)
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
- Coastal Federal Credit Union: SecurID Design and Implementation
- Technology
- Forsythe, Inc. SecurID Implementation
- Forsythe, Inc. SecurID Implementation
- Energy
- First Solar: SecurID Design, Implementation and Token Provisioning
- West, Inc. SecurID Design, Implementation and Token Provisioning
- First Solar: SecurID Design, Implementation and Token Provisioning
- Insurance
- Blue Cross Blue Shield (South Carolina): SecurID Migration and Upgrade
- AoN Insurance: SecurID Assessment
- Blue Cross Blue Shield (South Carolina): SecurID Migration and Upgrade
- Retail
- Walgreens: SecurID Migration
- Harris Teeter: SecurID Upgrade
- ftd.com: SecurID Upgrade
- Walgreens: SecurID Migration
- Marketing
- RR Donnelly: SecurID Assessment and Migration
- RR Donnelly: SecurID Assessment and Migration
Senior Network Architect
University of Miami
January 2015
to March 2016
- F5: Viprion Implementation and Migration, LTM
- BlueCat IPAM: Design, Threat Protection and Operations
- ClearPass: 802.1x Design and Implementation
- Dell Force 10: Implementation
Network Architect
University of Miami School of Law
May 2004
to December 2014
- 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)
Information Security Manager
University of Miami School of Medicine
December 1993
to December 2003
- 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)
