Cindy Perry
510-421-5676 |
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OBJECTIVE
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Resourceful, versatile IT professional
seeking challenging permanent (or contract-perm) UNIX OS Maintenance/Security
or Technical/Project Management position in San Francisco or East Bay area. |
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SUMMARY
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Able
to quickly adapt to evolving,industry-specific
applications, concepts and terminology. A team leader whose excellent
management, organizational, problem-solving, communication and people skills
provide support and direction in a hectic and complex arena. Technical
skills include:
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EXPERIENCE
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Lead Technical Consultant |
Jan 2010 - present |
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Kaiser Permanente Information Security, Identity & Access Mgmt (IAM) UNIX Supporting Identity and Access Management for over 2500 myriad, geographically dispersed UNIX systems (AIX, Solaris, various implementations of Linux). Providing leadership, technical direction and support for all UNIX security projects and related compliance efforts. · Hired as temporary FTE after 18 months as contactor. Promoted to permanent FTE position after 3 months. · Leading, motivating and mentoring team of 7 other engineers. · Managing and streamlining daily Remedy queues. · Coordinating audit research and responses. · Working as part of core team to evaluate and implement replacement of existing central management product with a UNIX-to-Active Directory solution. · Assisting with establishing Technical Security Standards and extending throughout the enterprise. |
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UNIX OS Security Engineer |
Jun 2008 - Jan 2010 |
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PrO Unlimited - contractor for Kaiser Permanente Information Technology, UNIX Access Mgmt (UAM) · Successfully deployed BeyondTrust (Symark) products (PowerBroker, Password). · Developed documentation to satisfy audit requirements for SOX and PCI certifications. · Collected and reported OS security-related data. · Identification and root cause analysis of security issues and vulnerabilities. · Worked directly with the business/application-side customers to remediate UNIX security issues. · Extensive shell coding and task automation |
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Senior OS Engineer (UNIX), Technology Manager |
Mar 1997 - Jan 2008 |
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Wells Fargo & Co., UNIX Production Quality Control Proactive critical OS & security patch and security maintenance for over 3000 UNIX servers, serving 200+ Business Units across the enterprise. Extensive Korn shell programming to automate and streamline processes for system builds, account administration, data collection, database updates and security compliance. Installation, maintenance and support of various layered security products: Quest VAS, OpenSSH, VAS, CyberSafe Kerberos AppSuite, Symantec ESM, sudo, Symark PowerBroker. Assisted peer engineering teams with software rollouts, troubleshooting and general UNIX support.
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Spearheaded research, tests, pilots, production rollouts and subsequent support of VAS (Quest's Vintela Authentication Services), a leading-edge UNIX PAM authentication product, allowing secure UNIX to Windows Active Directory user authentication via LDAP and Kerberos. Successfully installed/configured VAS client on 3000 UNIX servers (Solaris 8,9,10), Red Hat Linux (4x, 5x), HP-UX (11x), AIX (5x). Removed over 200,000 local accounts and converted all remaining NIS clients to VAS, bringing all major lines of business into compliance with password and account security standards and saving a minimum of 12,000 hours annually in password change management efforts alone. Provided ongoing VAS application support.
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Honored with 2 Gold Coins, 15 Service Excellence nominations, 13 On the Spot awards in less than 3 years (2005 - 2007), then bestowed with highest recognition as a 2006 Sales and Service Excellence award winner and sent (May 2007) to an all-expenses-paid trip to a Wells Fargo conference in Hawaii! Each year, the senior executives of the Technology Infrastructure Management organization evaluate and select the top performers for this annual event according to the number and quality of nominations from colleagues and internal customers.
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Completed intensive project to ensure all 3500+ supported UNIX servers were patched and prepared for the new 2007 Daylight Saving Time changes (per the U.S. Congress Energy Policy Act of 2005).
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Conducted research/reporting for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance and passed rigorous OCC (Federal) and internal audits of UNIX patch maintenance in the Bank.
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Chaired the (2001) Wells Fargo Linux Working Group and co-chaired the superseding Open Source Working Group.
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Designed and populated Informix tables, forms, ACE reports and (Informix SQL) queries.
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Maintained system documentation/procedures and designed/maintained internal Apache website.
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Remediated Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) security vulnerabilities on 3000+ servers. · Management duties: Team representation, H/R reviews, hiring, equipment assessment and purchasing |
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Open Systems Security Analyst |
Sep 1996 - Mar 1997 |
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Realtek Innovations (contract for Wells Fargo & Co.) Joined Wells Fargo Bank as a Consultant/Project Lead for testing, development and implementation and support of front-end multiple-OS UNIX administration software (EAC/Axent Technologies).
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Research, tracking, scheduling & implementing UNIX Security related patches, maintaining system build/upgrade documentation/procedures and providing root level support on 150+ production & development UNIX servers.
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Technical liaison and advisor for related groups (Security Access Services, Risk Control & Monitoring, Customer Implementation & Support, Database Administration, Client Server Operations).
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Directly assist Security Products Services teams with software troubleshooting, support and product rollouts (ESM, URM, PowerBroker, Best1, Kerberos and SSH tools).
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Shell programming to automate manual processes for everything from system builds to account administration and security compliance, thus allowing a small staff to effectively monitor and make changes to hundreds of supported servers in a DNS environment.
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Assist in design, update and maintenance of internal Web site for Production Quality Control.
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Respond to daily and on-call requests for UNIX administration support.
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Collect & maintain data, design tables, forms, queries & reports in Informix database (SE/ISQL) regarding servers, OS info, status, proponents, etc. |
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Kaiser Permanente |
Oakland, CA |
Lead Technical Consultant |
2010 - present |
PrO Unlimited |
Oakland, CA |
UNIX OS Security Engineer |
2008 - 2010 |
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Wells Fargo &
Co. |
San Francisco, CA |
Operating Systems Engineer 6 |
2005 - 2008 |
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RealTek Innovations |
San Leandro, CA |
Open Systems Security Analyst |
1996 - 1997 |
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22 Solutions, Inc. |
San Francisco, CA |
Independent Consultant |
1996 - 1996 |
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Montgomery Asset Mgmt. |
San Francisco, CA |
Systems Analyst |
1994 - 1995 |
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Blum's of San Francisco |
Emeryville, CA |
Senior Programmer |
1991 - 1993 |
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SBG Partners, Inc. |
San Francisco, CA |
Information Systems Coordinator |
1989 - 1991 |
Business and Technical Training
Professional References & Recommendations
Personalysis Summary
Situational Leadership Profile
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ADDITIONAL
INTERESTS
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A
certified Piano Technician since 1979, I continue to stay active in piano
tuning and repair.
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Tennis,
Pilates, board games, riding my
motorcycle with my dog!
