| Contact Information | |
| Name: | Christian Montesdeoca |
| Email: | cmontesdeoca (at) themscsystems (dot) com [email concealed] |
| Location: | North Arlington, New Jersey, United States |
| Resume | |
| Position/Title: | Manager, Information Security |
| Resume: |
Christian Montesdeoca 150 River Road North Arlington, NJ 07031 (973)280-9386 chrism (at) themcsystems (dot) com [email concealed] Summary An IT experience person involving overall system design, analysis and project management with an understanding of how to practice a Defense in Depth Information Security Strategy. Knowledge of UNIX and Windows based operating systems, and strong ability to dissect and resolve real world business and IT problems with innovative and proven ideas. Possess and excellent professional ability to work independently and as a team member to realize individual and company goals. Professional Experience Banc of America Investments Services - Scivantage, Downtown New York City - 2/07 – Present Information Security Analyst •Responsible for the ongoing process of exercising due care and due diligence to protect information, and information systems, from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, destruction, modification, or disruption or distribution. Work focuses primarily on the continuous assessment of administrative and business systems for regulatory compliance and to identify key risk areas and ensure controls are implemented to mitigate the risk and liability to the organization. •Managing the Information Security Services for the Bank Investors site in order to protect the network perimeter and mitigate risks against the company’s assets. •Managed project that secured network to ensure timely compliance with SOX Security Standards. •Researched, Developed and implemented all managed security services by ISS including, IPSs, IDSs and Vulnerability scan server to protect the integrity, confidentiality and availability of company’s sensitive data. •Analyzed firewall and system logs to detect suspicious activity or other anomalies. •Configuration of IDS/IPS to detect attacks or misuse of corporate networks. •IT Security Audit - Firewalls, routers and switches. •Helped on configuration of site to site VPNs with business partners to ensure secure communications. Fair Isaac Corporation, Cranbury, New Jersey 5/04 – 01/07 Technology Security Operations Engineer •IT security Audit of Roaming data exchange to reduce detection time and decrease fraud losses •Maintain Integrity and visibility of roaming subscribers, primary for fraud control and billing applications. •Serve as a liaison between client relationship managers and engineering teams to analyze, decipher and coordinate business and technical staff at both client and FICO to facilitate seamless on boarding. •Operate, monitor, and troubleshooting data center environmental, computer equipment and production and development systems. •Provide Technical Support for RoamEx – a UNIX application used by cellular carrier companies to exchange roaming Call Detail Records among their wireless networks •Monitor client systems to provide resolutions and ensure continuity in mission critical business decisions SUNY IT, Utica NY 1/03 - 2/04 Help Desk Applied Technologies and D&L Associates 3/01 – 12/01 Desktop Engineer •Migrated Windows 95/98 and Windows NT4.0 to Windows 2K •Used Ghost and sys-prep to clone workstations; backed up all user data to server; created image to be used for deployment. •Changed passwords, assigned rights, add users to groups, and set up shares. MBS Solutions, Inc., Edison, New Jersey 12/99 - 2/01 Network Engineer •Solved network problems for various companies on location, and by phone; resolved remote connectivity issues. •Set up, configure and troubleshoot peer-to-peer and client-server networks •Designed a WAN for a client with over 7 remote offices. Education Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ Master of Science, Information Systems, Concentration: Information Security, December 2006 State University of New York, Utica, NY Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications, December 2003 NYU, NY, NY CISSP: Security Certification for IT Professionals Ciphertechs, NY, NY Ethical Hacking SUNY IT, Utica, NY CCNA course Skills Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, CISCO IOS, Win 2000/NT/98/95, MS DOS, MAC Hardware: IDS, SiteProtector-Event Collector, VMS scan, Aventail VPN, PC/MAC Laptops, IDE/SCSI/optional drives, PCMCIA, Modems, Wireless/Wire Routers Software: ISS vulnerability scans, HIDS agents, Packet analyzers, Nagios monitoring systems, TCP/IP /UDP/ DNS / DHCP /, OPNET, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, FrontPage), Remedy Requester Information Security: RSA Authentication Manager, RSA Authentication Adaptive, CA CEM, CA Introscope, LDAP Sun Microsystems Bilingual: Fluent reading, writing, and speaking Spanish Seminars: The ABC's of Starting a Successful Business Communicating with Diplomacy and Professionalism |
