Brian Honaker

Experience

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  Geek Squad City

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2007

  Sscia
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  MaximumASP

  May 2007 - Mar 2009

  Systems Engineer

  • I was responsible for the day to day support of customer's servers and web hosting plans. • Primary support was done via a SmarterTicket ticketing system. • I helped manage a 5000 server enterprise class datacenter. • I helped design and implement new products and technologies. • I have intimate knowledge of IIS web server administration..• I was the Lead Administrator of the Parallels Virtuozzo Containers based virtual server infrastructure. • I worked extensively with Microsoft Hyper-V based technology to help build and manage a 14 node virtualization cluster residing on a highly available SAN. • As a member of the Mail Team, I also managed the email server environment including thousands of email domains. • I have experience with MS SQL 2005-2008. • I worked daily with Microsoft Windows Server 2000, 2003, and 2008 operating systems, all residing in and Active directory infrastructure.• I represented our company at the Parallels Summit in Washington DC. (2008) Show less

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  Southern Graphic Systems

  Dec 2009 - Jun 2011

  Corporate Information Systems Specialist

  Maintain worldwide corporate infrastructure.Support users and hardware.

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  Heartland Payment Systems

  Jun 2011 - now

  I support nation wide operations of Windows/RedHat systems. This includes load balancers, web servers, AWS cloud infrastructure, and network monitoring. I travel to satellite offices for office builds and local support when needed. I have been a strong Windows administrator for 6 years and have been a RedHat administrator for just over 1. Vetting new and proposed architectural changes in a PCI compliant environment to ensure they are secure. Addressing concerns of a constantly changing environment. Sitting on the Cloud Team in an advisory role to ensure we foray into the cloud securely.

  • Senior Systems Administrator

    Jun 2011 - now

  • Information Security Architect

    Jun 2011 - Jul 2020
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  Global Payments Inc.

  Jul 2020 - now

  • Manager of Security Advisory

    Aug 2021 - now

  • Lead Security Advisor

    Jul 2020 - now