Brian Honaker

Brian Honaker

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Manager of Security Advisory at Global Payments Inc.

  • Education

    • Tandem Solutions

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    • RedHat

      2012 - 2012
      Completed RH124 - Red Hat Systems Administration 1
    • Sullivan University

      2006 - 2007
      Microsoft Network Engineer Certificate Information Technology

      I designed and implemented a fully working Active Directory infrastructure in a virtual environment.

  • Experience

    • Geek Squad City

      Jan 2007 - Jan 2007
      Sscia
    • 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

    • Southern Graphic Systems

      Dec 2009 - Jun 2011
      Corporate Information Systems Specialist

      Maintain worldwide corporate infrastructure.Support users and hardware.

    • 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
    • Global Payments Inc.

      Jul 2020 - now
      • Manager of Security Advisory

        Aug 2021 - now
      • Lead Security Advisor

        Jul 2020 - now
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • CompTIA Security+

      CompTIA