Brian T. Contos brian_contosat_private PLEASE E-MAIL ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE A PDF OR MSWORD FORMAT OF MY RESUME. OBJECTIVE I am interested in a director level opportunity in pre-sales engineering. My core competencies are within the computer security industry, specifically the MSP/Managed Security space. I am open to other leadership opportunities within the security field and the technology field in general. SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE I have over seven years of experience in information systems and network security; much of this experience was gained working internationally. I have worked within academic, government and corporate environments as a director, manager, pre-sales engineer and security consultant. During the last two years, I have been tightly integrated within pre-sales engineering as a director and sales engineer. My current position as Director of Engineering encompasses management responsibility for all security field consulting and pre-sales services for my company’s Western and Central Regions (California through Chicago.) My security expertise includes: network and information systems security consulting, performing risk assessments, developing security policies, designing security architectures, writing white papers and performing penetration studies. * Director of Engineering Riptech Real-Time Information Protection, Inc. May 2001 - Present Since joining Riptech I have helped win several critical accounts and solidify existing strategic and channel partner relationships including: government, academic, transportation, financial, healthcare, ISPs, Fortune 100s, utilities, dot coms, MSP/ASPs, and numerous others. I was involved in penetrating new markets, participating in VC funding activities, acquiring new real estate; hiring employees and I helped grow the business from a couple dozen to almost 200 employees. In 2001 I presented the company’s value proposition and key differentiators at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco and at the Enterasys Security Conference in San Jose. I am currently Riptech’s Director of Engineering responsible for the Western and Central Regions. I am focused on two areas, pre-sales engineering and professional services consulting. I provide oversight for these organizations and I participate in conducing proof-of-concepts, customer presentations, partner training, technical writings and business development. Prior to Riptech receiving series-A funding I also participated as a senior security consultant for technical risk assessments and penetration studies. * Senior Field Engineer and Lead Sales Engineer Lucent Technologies – Bell Labs February 1999 – March 2000 My primary duties as a field engineer consisted of designing and deploying security architectures internationally. I averaged 95% travel, 100% of which was outside the United States. I then moved to a Sales Engineering position where I was responsible for several accounts in South America and Western Europe. I worked with executives, sales, marketing, business development and engineers alike to define business solutions for customers while I helped grow the pre-sales consulting practice focusing on international accounts. I successfully worked many global security architecture accounts, some of which were several billion dollars. I helped define solutions for business needs, design architectures around the technical portions of the solutions, and assist the field engineers with those designs. I would occasionally be called upon to help with the actual deployments when needed. * Senior Network & Systems Administrator Compaq Computers January 1997–February 1999 While at Compaq, I was a system and network administrator for Compaq’s E-Business solutions Group. I designed, implemented and supported servers and network devices (DNS, SMTP, FTP, HTTP, Firewalls, IDS, Routers, Switches, Proxies, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Microsoft operating systems, etc). I conducted security assessments dealing with the mergers of Tandem Computers and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). I helped develop employee awareness campaigns to include creating an educational video and new-hire training workshops for HR personnel and I worked closely with the internal legal and audit departments to continually evaluate the current state of Compaq’s global networks from a security perspective. * Security Assessment Team Member (Tiger Team)Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) - Department of Defense (DoD) 1996 I worked with a wide array of protocols, security tools, operating systems and network technologies to conduct security assessments for the United States Government. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND * Formal Education B.S., Business Administration, major in Management Information Systems (MIS), Computer Science Influence, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 1996 * Industry Certifications Certified E-Forensic Computer Crime Expert 2001 Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) 2001 Check Point Certified Security Engineer (CCSE) 2000 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 1999 Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) 1999 Lucent Managed Firewall (LMF) Certified 1999 Lucent Stinger ATM & Remote Access Certified 1999 ISS Certified in UNIX & NT 1999 University of California Certifications Certified in Network Engineering 1998 Certified in UNIX System Administration 1998 Certified in TCP/IP Internetwork Engineering 1998 Certified in Network Management and Administration 1997 * Professional Training Modern Network Operating Systems 1999 Bridges, Routers and Gateways 1999 Routing Algorithms 1999 Advanced Routing Protocols 1999 Cisco ICRC 1999 Network Modeling for Engineers 1998 Network Management 1998 Network Architecture 1998 IPv6 and Multicast 1998 Probability and Statistics for Network Engineers 1998 Deploying Cisco Routers 1998 Switched Networking 1998 UNIX System Administration I 1997 UNIX System Administration II 1997 UNIX Security 1997 Advanced UNIX utilities and shell programming 1997 PERL programming with Solaris 1997 UNIX Troubleshooting 1997 TCP/IP Architecture 1997 INDUSTRAY AFFILIATIONS Computer Security Institute (CSI) The Advanced Computing Systems Association (USENIX) The System Administrators Guild (SAGE) SECURITY CLEARANCE & INVESTIGATION Secret Security Clearance was granted in 1996 through DISA; NACI was conducted in 2000. 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