Seeking positon or contract work in Southern US

From: Jon Vandiveer (vandiveeat_private)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 18:37:25 PST

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    I am currently based in Memphis, Tn and though I would like to remain here,
    am willing to relocate to the SE or SW regions.
    Checkpoint is my primary focus, both consulting and instruction, though I am
    able to do other security engagements.
    
    Thank you,
    
    Jon Vandiveer
    CCSI, CCSE, CCAE, CCQE, NSA
    vandiveeat_private
    
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    JON D. VANDIVEER
    1064 North Highland
    Memphis, Tennessee  38122-3356
    home: (901) 452-1824
    * e-mail: vandiveeat_private
    
    
    
    
    IT / INTERNET / ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS - MANAGEMENT & ENGINEERING OVERVIEW
    
    Guided career growth into engineering, managing, consulting on complex
    multi-tier VPN/SVN/LAN/WAN,  enterprise, and ASP projects. Skilled in
    solutions engineering and project management in e-business, B2B, and VPN
    environments.  Expert in developing secure solutions and gateways to allow
    corporations to share critical information and resources with partners,
    suppliers, and others in a closely linked data sharing loop.  Proven record
    of integrating VPN technology to extend security to networks, systems,
    applications and users and across intranets, extranets and the Internet.
    
    Transferable Skills:
    · Served as project manager and systems analyst from conceptual stages
    through completion on: major multi-site, multi-state software and hardware
    engineering, installation, upgrade and system administration projects.
    · Experience includes a record of: (1) strategic planning to guide programs,
    projects and technologies to become a benchmark for comparison, (2)
    innovation related to technology planning, service solutions and customer
    retention and (3) significant internal and external (customer) cost savings.
    · Established a reputation for ability to take charge, orchestrate resources
    and efficiently guide projects toward cost goals, completion deadlines and
    functionality requirements.
    · Experience includes: traveling throughout the U.S., meeting with
    customers, identifying service and technology needs, developing project
    objectives, presenting customer proposals and managing projects through
    budgeting, installation, and on-going support phases.
    · Other areas of expertise:
    - creating ACLs
    - locking down IP services
    - system armoring
    - enhanced logging & alerting
    - traffic shaping
    - enhancing failover functionality
    - intrusion detection
    
    CERTIFICATIONS:
    
    CCSI  (Check Point Certified Systems Instructor 4.0, 4.1, CP2000, NG) #11903
    CCSE+ (Check Point Certified Systems Engineer NG plus Enterprise Integration
    and Troubleshooting
    CCSE  (Check Point Certified Systems Engineer 4.0, 4.1, CP2000, NG)
    CCQE  (Check Point Certified Quality of Service Engineer)
    CCAE  (Check Point Certified Addressing Engineer)
    CCNA  CISCO #10037495
    MCSE  (NT4 - MCP+I) #918444
    NSA   (NOKIA Security Administrator)
    
    EXPERIENCE:
    
    Jon Vandiveer Consulting, Memphis, TN 10/10/2001 - Present
    Network Security Specialist
    Networking and security solutions development, configuration and
    implementation.
    
    
    MENTOR TECHNOLOGIES, Annapolis, MD 01/01/00 - 10/10/01
    (formerly Chesapeake Computer Consultants )
    Senior Instructor/ Network Security Consultant
    · Serve as a key information point, systems analyst, technology solutions
    engineering for this value-added partner of Checkpoint.  Travel on-site to
    client locations within the Washington D.C. area to manage projects from
    start to finish.
    · Innovate solutions using Check Point's Firewall-1, VPN-1, and Provider-1
    security technologies.
    · Serve as senior instructor and consultant on Checkpoint Firewalls (course
    owner).
    · Scope of projects include, but are not limited to:
    · Implementation/integration of Firewall-1/VPN-1 code into multiple systems.
    - Advanced solutions development in implementation and configuration phases
    of gateway-to-gateway VPN (IKE/IPSec, FWZ) and client-to-gateway projects
    through system certification.
    - Enhancing perimeter protection through improved Cisco router
    configurations.
    - Hardening operating systems for bastion hosts and firewall platforms.
    
    VENTURE TECHNOLOGIES, Memphis, TN  02/15/99 - 12/31/99
    Network & Security Specialist
    · Advanced solutions development on security and networking
    applications/projects involving Nokia, (Checkpoint-FW-1), Cisco and 3Com
    technologies.
    · Successful system design/engineering in deploying Checkpoint and related
    products: E-Safe, WebSense and RealSecure) in Enterprise, VPN and SVN
    settings.
    · Intrusion and detection analysis, configuration and prevention.
    



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