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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)