WENDELL R. RITCHIE 1411 Winterwood Drive Allen, Texas 75002 (972) 727-5190 rritfam3at_private OBJECTIVE Seeking an opportunity as a senior information security specialist, or security consultant in the Dallas area. I am a high-energy professional with a positive outlook and an enthusiastic attitude. In addition to being reliable, I am a conscientious and proactive team player. SUMMARY Nineteen years of overall experience in Information Security, security audits, and assessments, project management, team leader, production control, computer operations, disaster recovery drills, firewall administrator, writing standards, procedures, and implementation. TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE Software TIS Gauntlet firewalls 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, UNIX Sun Solaris 2.6, Omniguard Enterprise Manager, Omniguard UNIX Resource Manager, Omniguard UNIX Privilege Manager and Omniguard Intruder Alert. PGP 6.0.1, SSH, MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Remedy, CA-ACF2, RACF, Top Secret, ETF-A, TSO, JCL, CA certificates, MS Outlook, Cobol, VM, and Assembler. Hardware NAS 9000 series processors, VAX 11/780, VAX 8650, VAX 6360, VAX 8840, IBM Laser Printer, MVS/XA/JES2, UCC7, VAX-DCL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Perot Systems - Project Leader Dec 1998 – Present Developed Perot Systems Y2K audit methodology, and policies. Successfully completed all the Y2K audits before scheduled deadline and achieved appreciation from board of directors for a successful project.  Managed a team of three, writing the Y2K audit methodology and scheduling of audits.  Consulted with CIOs, CFOs, account managers, attorneys, and project leaders of various industries throughout Europe and the US to determine project readiness.  Developed Y2K command center and coordinated a team of 100 people, supporting all accounts worldwide.  Prepared Y2K progress reports for board of director’s quarterly presentation.  Participated in the development of a global facilities disaster recovery plan.  Wrote the Year 2000 desktop compliance policy. Perot Systems - UNIX Firewall Administrator – Information Security Feb 1998 – Dec 1998 Daily administration for eleven TIS UNIX Gauntlet Firewalls. Developed documentation and standardized procedures for team members.  Performed daily administration, proxy service changes, troubleshooting, and system performance tuning, monitoring, and installed patches on Gauntlet Firewalls.  Upgraded firewalls to TIS 4.1 from 3.2.  Monitored and maintained usage of VPN for Swiss Bank.  Wrote Internet Security Firewalls Policies, Procedures, and Standards.  Analyzed and implemented spamming patch with 4.1.  Beta Tested new versions of TIS Firewall software using the GUI and VI text editor on a Lab firewall.  Worked with Network Associates Gauntlet Support Level 2 for Gauntlet firewall problems and enhancements. Perot Systems - UNIX Administrator – Information Security May 1997 - Feb 1998 Quickly became knowledgeable of Axent’s software. Trained two other team members on software configuration and provided documentation of daily administration procedures.  Wrote security standards and procedures for maintaining client/server security solution.  Installed and configured Axent Omniguard products (ESM, ITA, UPM, URM) on 22 UNIX AIX systems.  Monitored and reviewed daily logs ensuring policies were enforced.  Created certificate X509 tokens for secure signon.  Daily use of Remedy to process customer service requests, answer telephones and support oncall. Perot Systems - Information Security - Project Leader June 1995 - May 1997 Completed all merges, migrations and special projects successfully. Wrote supporting documentation to assist the helpdesk personnel in understanding various terminology of mainframe systems.  Project leader of ten associates over the mainframe Helpdesk and technical analyst team. Assist in their career development, troubleshooting and support of major projects.  Project leader of Swiss Bank ACF2 database split at their data center in New York City.  Project leader of Swiss Bank CA1 upgrade on four mainframes, which includes interfacing with all infrastructure teams.  Project leader of customer disengagement from mainframe. Developed project plans and interfaced with customer and infrastructure teams.  Participated in disaster recovery planning and testing activities for all customer and infrastructure teams.  Daily use of PGP in sending secure emails. Electronic Data Systems - Information Security Analyst June 1993 - June 1995 Single handedly standardized 40 production jobs, and security screens on seventeen systems in three months. Before becoming a part of the team, there were three people assigned to perform these functions.  Provided global technical support for the entire Information Security staff of 30 people at the headquarters office.  Project leader in maintaining and supporting sixteen ACF2 systems and one RACF system.  Project leader for migrations, merges, conversions and disaster recovery plans. Electronic Data Systems - Information Security Administrator Oct 1989 - June 1993 Project leader in converting all customers from CA7/11 to Control-M that I performed single handedly in six months. Project leader on converting CA-Dispatch to Control-D on two mainframes.  Responsible for Information Security customer supports for the Plano region.  Provided daily online security requests, password resets, and assisted customers in technical questions.  Involved in CA-ACF2 distribution upgrades, reorganization of security databases, and migrations. TRAINING & EDUCATION  TIS Gauntlet Firewall  UNIX fundamentals  Introduction to networking  TCP/IP  Axent Omniguard  Management problems of the Technical person in a leadership role  Successful project management  Taking the lead  Top Secret, RACF and ACF2  JCL procedures and sorts Des Moines Area Community College Diploma Computer Operation, 1989 Associate of Science Degree, 1991 References Provided Upon Request
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