Michael A. Carver5513 Colonial Oaks DriveApex, NC 27539(347) 512-2257 (M)Email: carvercorp@yahoo.com

Seeks a position as a Network Security Engineer with an opportunity to support leading edge technology.

Hardware: Cisco (Firewalls, IPS, ACS Server), BlueCoat (Proxy, Director), F5 Load Balancers, Juniper (SRX, Netscreen, VPN Appliance), Fortinet (Fortigate Firewall), Routers and Switches.

Software: Nagios, Splunk, Tufin, Log Logic, Rumba, MS Office, Ms Project, Visio, WireShark.

Protocols: TCP, UDP, ARP, IPSEC, SNMP, SMTP, NTP, ICMP, HTTPS, SSL, FTP, SSH, SFTP, DHCP, OSPF & BGP.

Certifications: Cisco - CCNP Security, CCNP, CCNA, ASA Specialist, CNSS 4011, CNSS 4013.Palo Alto: PANOS 5.0 Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE).ITIL & Information Systems Security Professional (INFOSEC)

Cisco ID – CSCO10107430Certification Validation# 4D7F74893D7F7420

Work Experience:

1/08- Present Verizon BusinessPosition: Sr. Network Security Engineer

Responsibilities:* Configure & support Cisco ASA firewalls (5510, 5520, 5525, 5540, 5550, 5580 & 5585;* Configure & support Cisco FWSMs;* Configure & support Juniper Netscreen firewalls;* Configure & support Juniper SRX firewalls;* Configure & support Palo Alto firewalls;* Configure & support Checkpoint firewalls;* Configure & support Fortinet Firewalls;* Configure & support Juniper SSL VPN;* Configure & support F5 Load Balancers;* Configure & support Cisco CSS Load Balancers;* Configure & support BlueCoat proxies;* Configure & support BlueCoat ProxyAV.* Configure & support Cisco IPS* Support Cisco Secure ACS to manage and administer user access;* Serves as a third tier escalation for incidents or problems that occur in the customer environment.* Responsible for delivering capacity services, * Responsible for delivering configuration management services, engineering, development, administration, support and ongoing maintenance.* Responsible for the implementation, development, optimization and related business processes & procedures related to a designated customer network.* Responsible for analyzing requirements delivered by system and application administrators and developing management strategies.* Responsible for troubleshooting complex incidents and problems.* Responsible for providing hands on experience, training or certification focused on tier 2 Engineers.* Responsible for configuration change activities required to deploy and

maintain customer environments* Create and maintain documentation to support the configuration management for customer environments* Manage relationship with vendors for purposes of support, maintenance and escalation* Create knowledge base articles that can be used by tier 1 support engineers in response to routine incidents.* Identify and schedule routine maintenance events for customer environments* Provides technical support in the development, analysis and maintenance of systems, software, processes, products or equipment.* Performs procedures necessary to ensure the safety of information systems assets and protect systems from intentional or inadvertent access & destruction. * Assess risks, and plan and execute security and configuration audits* Engage in dialogue with business/IT management and various control partners to identify and assess risks and controls* Review and approve configuration of security controls* Recommend security policy changes and enhancements* Identify opportunities for process improvement; develop and execute project plans to enhance operational effectiveness.* Evaluate proof-of-concept information security technology for applicability to the enterprise.

8/05- 1/08 State Of North Carolina Office Of Information Technology Services (ITS) Position: Network Security Analyst

Responsibilities:* Configure & support Cisco Pix firewalls (501, 506, 525 & 535);* Set up & support site to site & client based VPNs on Cisco 3030 VPN Concentrator, 5500 series ASA and Pix firewalls;* Support Cisco Secure ACS to manage and administer user access for VPN;* Install, configure & support Cisco routers with firewall feature sets (7301, 2621, 837); * Install, configure & support FWSM to support firewalls on layer 2/3 switches (6513, 6509);* Install & support layer 2/3 switches (6513, 6509, 4507, 3550, 2950);* Add, remove & modify firewall rules per firewall rule requests;* Analyze IDS alerts; * Responsible for overall network security.

3/05- Tes/Northrop Grumman 8/05 Position: Telecommunications Engineer

Responsibilities:* Upgrade United States Postal Service MPI LAN;* Order network equipment;* Create network designs to support bandwidth upgrade of the USPS Mail Processing LAN from legacy 10 Meg Ethernet (10base5, 10base2) to a

switched (fast/gig) Ethernet LAN;* Conduct training sessions on network basics to the local site support team;* Conduct presentation on switch configurations, upgrade & support procedures;* Create network upgrade action plan & Network documentation.

4/04- Insight Global (IBM Contractor) 3/05 Position: Network/Security Engineer

Responsibilities:* Install, configure & support Cisco routers with firewall feature sets (7301, 2621, 3620, & 3640); * Configure & support Cisco Pix firewalls (525 & 535);* Install, configure & support FWSM to support pix-based firewalls on layer 3

switches (6506, 6509);* Add, remove & modify firewall rules per firewall rule requests.* Set up & support VPNs.

4/96- CAI Telecom /JPMorgan Chase 4/04 Position: Configuration Management Engineer

Responsibilities:* Configure & support Pix firewalls (535, 525, and 515);* Configuring & support VPNs:* Install, configure & support Cisco routers (7500, 4700, 4500, 3600, 2600 & 2500 series);* Install, configure & support Cisco Catalyst switches 6500, 5500, 4000, 3500, 2900 series);* Provide Basic Configuration for Cisco CSS Load Balancers;* Install, configure & support Nortel routers (BN, ASN);

Former Responsibilities:* Managing data implementation projects for the JP Morgan Chase Broker Dealer Services group to completion;* Evaluating data implementation project;* Defining data implementation project requirements;* Ordering data circuits (T-3, T-1, Frame Relay, 56K DDS, ISDN, SW56, Pots);* Ordering communications & lan/wan equipment, LAN switches, routers etc);* Coordinating applications, systems testing, executing test scripts;* Installing & configuring csu/dsu, modems, and muxes);* Providing documentation to the NOC upon project completion.

Education: Copper Silicon LabsBrooklyn, NY (July 2000)

Diploma, Networking With SNA, TCP/IP & IPX; Metropolitan Institute Of Network Technology; Jersey City, NJ (December 1990),

B.S., Computer Science, Elizabeth City State University; Elizabeth City, NC (July 1987).

References: Available Upon Request