Gary Halvorsen

Experience

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  NASA, WSC, HTSI/ETG,

  Oct 2009 - Jan 2011

  Systems Engineer IV

  • Create/document/manage and complete projects using MS Project, Autocad, Visio, and MS SQL database tools approved by station wide Change Control Board. • Station PM for International Space Station communications upgrade. • Support networks in/between two ground terminals using fiber and copper dedicated WANs (T-1/OC-12) to Guam and 3 Space Flight Centers across US.

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  SLFCU

  Jan 2011 - Dec 2019

  Network and Security Manager/VP Infrastructure

  Manage three direct teams...Help desk supporting 340 employees in 11 locations across New Mexico and California; Network, Security, and Servers managing nearly 100 physical and virtual servers at primary and DR locations along with vulnerability remediation and patch management; and Telephony (VoIP) and building security systems for 10 locations.IT project team lead integrating commercial mortgage software package with custom credit union core system. Reported to COO for this project. Manage direct and indirect staff. Prepared and administered budget of $350k + for hardware and services.Primary point of contact for IS/IT audits by National Credit Union Association, and private sector auditors. Prepared company response to audit items and briefed senior management/board on responses.Virtualization of Windows server (2003, 2008, 2012) infrastructure using both VMWare and Microsoft Hyper-V.Analysis/design of network security using Solarwinds Log and Event Management LEM/SIEM, Snort based IDS/IPS sensors, penetration and vulnerability scanning and remediation (Shavlik, WSUS).Server hardening and verification using MBSA, Nessus and commercial scanning tools.Configured Active Directory policies for domain, including data security polices. Show less

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  Century Bank

  Dec 2019 - now

  Information Security Officer/Physical Security Officer/Vendor Management Officer

  • Managed Vendor Due Diligence and Information Security program aspects of transition to Infrastructure as a Service vendor. • Managed MFA and security policy enforcement for remote access clients as organization transitioned to 30% remote workforce using Citrix Netscaler, Duo, then O365/Microsoft Authenticator and Duo. • Managed physical security system upgrade of cameras, physical access panels (mix of biometric and prox cards), alarm pads and monitoring contract.