Robert P.

Solve day-to-day network and infrastructure security challenges and initiatives. Provide subject matter expertise in areas of perimeter security, data center security, cloud security, remote-access platforms, and detection tooling.Last escalation point-of-contact for network security, perimeter Unified Threat Management Devices, and accompanying platforms. Oversight of network security device modifications, changes, implementations, and remediations. Plan, develop, and deploy network patching and configuration backup programs and processes. Configure, tune, troubleshoot, implement, and remediate multiple network security toolsets such as: IDS, IPS, SSL Decryption, Proxy, Content Filtering, DNSSEC, DNS Security tooling, Zero Trust, and NAC. Develop custom applications and utilities for use by the Information Security team. Assist in incident response activities including incident handling, process and procedure development, playbook creation, and design and administration of tabletop exercises. Provide network security guidance and leadership to lower-level teams and managed providers.

Maintain network security, disaster recovery plans, wide area and local area networks, and information and cyber security while managing a technical team with up to 10 direct reports and an annual budget of $1.2M for this school district with 2,500 students and 400 staff across 8 sites. Direct the full lifecycle of custom software development projects, aligning technology requirements with business needs. Present and recommend improvements to senior leadership and board on compliance and instructional and administrative technology use; represent district at county, state, and federal agency meetings.Plan, establish, and execute the technology long-term strategy and budget with a focus on disaster recovery planning, internal vulnerability, security planning, and alert response while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. Facilitate the planning of new purchases, renewals, and upgrades for one-time expenditures and recurring costs while reducing expenses by 50% by building and managing a 10-year rolling budget plan. Streamlined technical support response by growing the technical support team from 6 to 10 employees, reconfiguring staff to include 1 full-time help desk associate accountable for the full lifecycle of support requests, and implementing ITIL-compliant support tools and procedures. Standardized and simplified business processes by developing and launching multiple custom applications including student password reset and data syncing applications for students and file share and reporting applications for staff. Reduced the time and cost for approving vendor contracts by advocating for joining the California Student Privacy Alliance and adopting their student data privacy guidelines, enabling the district to utilize their bulk vendor agreements. Improved agility and efficiency while reducing server hardware expenditures and support costs by building and transitioning to a new hyper-converged data center.