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Justin Wilde

Experience
Communications Analyst, Federal Reserve Board of Governors – Washington, DC
(June 2011 – Present, Career) (May 2010 – August 2010, Internship)
o Leads efforts to create a secure, non-persistent computing environment for governors
o Directs initiative to add a disk caching layer local to the server in virtualization architecture
o Performed both live and post-mortem analysis of attacks based on SIEM data
o Created dashboards and alerts to help other teams meet FISMA log and access review requirements
o Generated Splunk dashboards used daily for proactive maintenance of 1,200 servers
o Devised a script that allowed Splunk alerts to be programmatically entered as trouble tickets
o Setup synchronization of Exchange Global Address List consisting of four Active Directory forests
o Migrated to a new SharePoint backup solution that allowed for a full farm backup in 15 minutes
o Wrote rules for the F5 LTM to process web traffic more securely and intelligently
o Assisted with the implementation of PIV card authentication for sensitive accounts
o Provided production support for SharePoint, IIS, VMware, and Active Directory

Information Assurance Analyst, National Information Assurance Training and Education Center – Pocatello, ID
(August 2009 – May 2010)(August 2010 – June 2011)
o Deployed and managed ESXi environment used to run internal attack and defend scenarios
o Improved SOC by adding host monitoring and log gathering capabilities
o Acted as judge for the 2010 and 2011 Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
o Developed training materials associated with the NIST 800 series special publications and the Committee on National Security Systems standards 4011-4016
o Performed penetration testing on web pages as part of an ST&E which resulted in revealing a major SQL injection vulnerability

IT Manager, Heaven’s Best Corporate Office – Rexburg, ID
(April 2008 – August 2009) (February 2007 – December 2007)
o Eliminated various SQL injection vulnerabilities on company website
o Migrated website to new host and normalized SQL databases
o Advised the CEO in making technology related decisions
o Provided technical support to over 300 franchisees worldwide
o Conducted new franchisee training on using QuickBooks and online advertising
o Managed corporate firewall, VPN, and fileserver systems and performed weekly backups

Novell Technical Services (NTS) Lab Intern, Novell Inc. – Provo, UT
(January 2008 – April 2008)
o Recreated customer environments that were purported to cause software bugs
o Provided software and hardware troubleshooting for the entire NTS department
o Implemented a process that reduced Linux setup time by more than 50%
o Created a web-based inventory checkout system

Network Administrator, Block It Inc. – Rexburg, ID
(April 2006 – April 2007)
o Serviced a wide area network spanning four cities
o Provided technical support to over 5,000 network users
o Created point-to-point wireless connections spanning 1-5 miles
o Introduced premium service Internet plans for apartment customers through the use of QoS
o Integrated a captive portal with RADIUS authentication into the company’s server solution

Certifications
o (ISC)² CISSP Associate (April 2011)
o (ISC)² SSCP (April 2010)
o ITIL v3 Foundations (September 2013)
o Thales nShield Certified Systems Engineer (December 2013)
o Comptia Security+ (December 2009)

Education
Master in Business Administration with an Emphasis in Information Assurance
Idaho State University – Pocatello, ID
(Graduated May 2011)
o Graduated with honors with a 3.66 GPA
o Received National CyberCorps Scholarship for Service

Bachelors Degree in Computer Information Technology,
BYU-Idaho – Rexburg, ID
(Graduated July 2009)
o Graduated cum laude with a 3.89 GPA
o Received the Award of Excellence Academic Scholarship
o Vice President of the Linux Academic Society in 2007

Training and Conferences
o Splunk .Conf 2013 (September 2013)
o Splunk Application Development (September 2013)
o Splunk Advanced Administration (September 2013)
o ITIL v3 Foundations Training (June 2013)
o David Allen Getting Things Done (GTD) (April 2013)
o Splunk Searching and Reporting (September 2012)

NIATEC National Science Foundation Information Assurance Directorate Department of Homeland Security CISSE Scholarship For Service