Resume - Information Systems Security Professional

From: Jim Truitt (jtruittat_private)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 06:30:35 PST

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    CONTACT INFORMATION
    James O. (Jim) Truitt              1-770-650-5705 (home)
    2115 Old Forge Way              http://jotruitt.tripod.com/
    Marietta, GA 30068                E-mail: jtruittat_private
    
    INTRODUCTION
    Over twenty years experience in all aspects of the software/system life 
    cycle. Progressing from Software Developer, to System  Integrator, to Task 
    Leader, to Systems Engineer, to Information Systems Security  Professional. 
    I have been actively involved with network, computer and  information 
    security as an Information Systems Security Professional since 1989.
    
    CERTIFICATION
    Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
    
    EDUCATION
    University of Florida	Math	Masters/Bachelors
    
    CLEARANCE
    DoD Top Secret clearance, with SBI. (last active June 1998)
    
    SKILLSETS
    security, network security, computer security, information security, 
    security policy, security program, security architecture, intrusion 
    detection, penetration testing, security plan, security awareness, risk 
    management, risk review, risk assessment, assurance, security engineer, 
    security analyst, security consultant, security administration, security 
    testing, security management, biometrics, forensics, disaster recovery, 
    business continuity, security audit, privacy, encryption, PKI, information 
    warfare, information protection, information assurance, web security, 
    ecommerce security, security consulting, security training, security mentoring
    
    Work History
    Georgia TEMP (6/02 - 8/02)
    Position: 3 month contract
    
    My responsibilities included: risk assessments, policy review and 
    development, project management, process re-engineering, new technology 
    review, internal security consultant.
    
    Worldspan (7/98 - 11/01)
    Position: Information Security Engineer
    
    My responsibilities as Information Security Engineer included:
    
    Providing leadership and direction for the Worldspan Information Security 
    Program. Facilitating and providing guidance to the Worldspan Security 
    Council (VPs and Directors) and the Worldspan Security Working Group 
    (Managers and Administrators). Establishing policies, standards, 
    guidelines, procedures, and controls ensuring the security and integrity of 
    all Worldspan computing environments, networks, systems, and information 
    assets. Defining and developing methodologies, processes and procedures for 
    penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, log monitoring and incident 
    management. Working with the Development, Roll-Out and Quality groups to 
    incorporate security into their respective processes. Providing support to 
    Internal Audit in developing and conducting security audits and reviews. 
    Acting as liaison with the Legal Department on matters of electronic 
    privacy, acceptable use, terms of service and 3rd party agreements. 
    Assisting the Regulatory Group with the annual European Union Audit and 
    Worldspan privacy initiatives. Providing security consulting and expertise 
    to all Worldspan projects. Promoting security awareness across the 
    enterprise with security web pages, security presentations and security 
    reading rooms. Performing risk reviews, risk assessments and product 
    reviews for Worldspan functional groups, such as Human Resources, Finance 
    and Product Development. Supporting Technical Operations and Internal 
    Systems with the planning and design of security solutions for all Intranet 
    and Internet connectivity. Assisting the Marketing Group in responding to 
    security questions and issues that come up as part of the proposal process.
    
    Booz-Allen & Hamilton (1/97 - 6/98)
    Position: Senior Associate
    
    Network Security and Information Assurance (IA) task area leader supporting 
    the IA Branch of N5 of the National Communications System (NCS). This 
    Includes supporting the Network Group (NG) and Information Infrastructure 
    Group (IIG) of the President's National Security Telecommunications 
    Advisory Committee (NSTAC). Additionally I was involved in the Firm's 
    Information Security (IS), Information  Warfare (IW), Infrastructure 
    Protection (IP) and IA activities.
    
    SSDS, Inc. (11/95 - 5/96)
    Position: Security Engineer
    
    GlaxoWellcome Firewall migration. Supporting the customer's project to 
    consolidate two existing firewalls (TIS Gauntlet and DEC SEAL) into a 
    single new firewall (TIS Gauntlet). Involved in business development 
    activities. Assisted in the development of security services offerings.
    		
    General Research Corporation International (6/95 - 11/95)
    Position: Information Systems Security Engineer
    
    Defense Investigative Service (DIS) Integration program 
    Information  Systems Security Engineer for the integration 
    effort.  Responsible for the integration of security controls in the 
    overall DIS integration effort. Responsibilities include; review of the DIS 
    Computer System Security Plan (CSSP), review and refine security 
    requirements, provide support to the test organization for developing 
    security test plans and procedures, define and create a Security 
    Integration and Test Environment (SITE), interface with customers to 
    resolve security issues and develop solutions for the program, work with 
    vendors to assess how their products may be applied as part of the DIS 
    security solution, assist in the development of a Continuity of Operations 
    Plan (COOP) for DIS.
    		
    Harris Information Systems Division (10/89 - 12/94)
    Position: Staff Engineer
    
    National Crime Information Center (NCIC) 2000 program Security  Engineer. 
    Total responsibility for security in the developed system. A major 
    component of the security effort was the development and integration of an 
    intrusion detection capability.
    
    * Security requirements analysis and allocation
    * Security presentations at program reviews:
       System Requirements Review (SRR), System Design
       Review (SDR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR),
       Critical Design Review (CDR), In Process Reviews
       (IPRs), Technical Interchange meetings (TIMs)
    * Create security documentation:
       System Security Plan (SSP), Security Architecture,
       Security CONOPS, Security Policy, Trusted Facility
       Manual (TFM)
    * Designed Intrusion Detection subsystem:
       Hardware/software components, generate design
       documentation; Prime Item Specification (B1),
       Software Requirements Specification (SRS),
       Interface Control Document (ICD)
    
    ISDN Security Program. Exposure to ISDN protocol, ISDN services,  ISDN 
    security, ISDN Key management services, Secure Data Network  System (SDNS) 
    security protocol. (study)
    
    DNS team. The DNS team designed the replacement network for 
    NASA's  back-end DNS, migrating from dedicated point-to-point 
    communication  lines to a true networked environment using the TCP/IP 
    protocol suite. Tasks dealt with computer/network security issues/concerns 
    associated with this migration. This culminated in a 75 page Security White 
    Paper and four ESRs to implement the papers recommendations.
    
    * Performed Risk Analysis:
       identified assets and threats, evaluated vulnerabilities,
       determined probabilities and assessed impact due to
       breach of security
    * Developed recommendations for risk mitigation
    * Proposed controls included:
       firewalls, gateways, packet filtering, hand-held
       authenticators, restricted shells, use of proxies,
       Kerberos
    * Network architecture: FDDI backbone bridged to FDDI
       global buses, in turn routed to Ethernet LANs
    * Worked with routers, bridges, comm servers
    * Worked with TCP/IP, SNA, GOSIP/OSI
    * Worked with Ethernet, Token Ring
    * Generated estimates for cost and schedule to implement
       security ESRs selected from DNS Security White Paper
    * Researched and evaluated the feasibility of implementing
       hand-held authenticators for access control
    
    Range Operations Checkout and Control (ROCC) program.
    Provided coding support in the areas of data acquisition
    and display processing. Development was done per
    DoD-STD-2167A.
    
    * Design, code, test, integrate, document custom software
    * Designed, coded, implemented test drivers and automated
       test files
    * PDL, Peer reviews, code walkthroughs
    * 17 CSUs, 125 modules, 40,000 LOC (these are approximate
       values)
    * Involved re-engineering a large amount of legacy code
    
    Cost History Database (CHDB). Designed and implemented an
    Oracle database to house project measures and metrics
    related to project estimated and actual cost and schedule.
    Designed and implemented Sequel screens to access, format
    and display the data. Designed and implemented standard
    reports.
    
    Harris Controls Division (12/77 - 10/89)
    Position: Associate Principle Engineer.
    
    Real-time Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
    systems for electric utilities. Activities covered all areas
    of system development; system configuration and build;
    database configuration and build; system integration and test.
    Developed and taught custom courses and provided support
    for problem resolution (phone support and on-site support).
    Designed, coded, integrated, tested and documented custom code.
    General categories included:  Data Acquisition (DAC),
    Man-Machine-Interface (MMI), Database (DB), data links and
    handlers. The coding was done in assembly language and
    FORTRAN.  Other activities included Task Leader and
    proposal support.
    
    Computer Science Corporation (10/77 - 12/77)
    Position: Scientific Programmer.
    
    Continuation of work done for Federal Electric Corporation.
    
    Federal Electric Corporation (6/77 - 10/77)
    Position: Scientific Programmer.
    
    Centaur launch support. Maintained programs written in
    Honeywell's GMAP assembly language and provided programming
    support to the weather office at the Kennedy Space Center.
    Designed, coded, tested and integrated a program to plot wind
    shears.  Programming was done in BASIC.
    
    Brevard County School Board (3/71- 6/77)
    Position: Teacher, Secondary Mathematics.
    



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