J. Benjamin Huneycutt, CISSP CISA CRISC

Experience

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  HCI

  Apr 2012 - May 2016

  Construction Worker
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  SkyRider communications

  Jun 2016 - Jun 2017

  Network Technician

  Installed equipment for data communications networks including cabling, wirelessaccess points, Wireless PTP, Fiber, switches, routers and telephone systems.Logged and addressed customer tickets.Used networking monitoring tools to proactively address potential network issues and potential service degradation.

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  SkyRider Communications

  May 2017 - Nov 2020

  Systems / Network Administrator

  Wrote company’s (SkyRider) Disaster Recovery, BCP, and incident response policies.Worked with customers to write Cybersecurity policies, standards and guidelines.created and managed data backups and disaster recovery operations.Manged firewall rules and content filtering.Implemented firewall rules, secure network configurations, and EDR for clients to fitcompliance and security best practices.Setup and monitored network honeypots to detect and proactively block potentialthreat actors.Setup ACLs on edge network devices to prevent intrusions.Use network monitoring tools to detect and respond to incidents and intrusions.Provided support for an ISP network with over 600 nodes spanning 5 states.Took over several troubled environments and corrected long standing issues reducingtrouble tickets by 87%.Created and managed data backups and disaster recovery operations.Managed firewall rules and content filtering.Monitored network for suspicious actively.Managed ACL and network filtering rules for edge devices.Provided network security consultation and implementation for clients.Used network monitoring tools to ensure high levels of network health and proactivelyaddressed network issues.Consulted customers to ensure that their security posture fit industry best practices.Designed and administered Windows domains and Linux systems both in-house and forclients. Show less

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  Ouachita Parish (County)

  Nov 2020 - now

  Information Technology Security Engineer

  Maintained confidentiality, availability, integrity and compliance for critical 911 andfirst responder IT infrastructure.Designed redundant, mirrored infrastructure for 911 operations.Identified and responded to Cybersecurity incidents, by investigating andremediating threats, identifying false positives, and monitoring logins for suspiciousactivity.Implemented new backup and data recovery systems that fit security compliancerequirements and ensured high levels of data availability and confidentiality.Wrote and implemented new organizational security polices and procedures toensure that industry best practices were being followed and that all compliancerequirements were met.Utilized vulnerability management systems to prioritize high impact risk, assignedremediation to appropriate IT staff.Worked with various agency and department heads to ensure that technologysolutions fit compliance requirements and security best practices.Performed internal audits on firewall rules, content filtering, network security, andwindows domain configurations to ensure that security best practices are in place.Served as the department liaison with external auditors.Redesigned E911 system implementing hot/cold recovery sites, server high availabilityand network redundancy.Redesigned VMware virtualization environment, increasing network redundancy and performance by four times, added additional sites and clusters, added replication, data recovery, and failover solutions, created VMCA policy, implemented vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode, and creating a rotating update schedule.Implemented heuristic behavior based anti-virus solution and created tailored rules for each department to provided the maximum protection without interfering with business needs.Identified and responded to cybersecurity incidents, by investigating and remediatingthreats, hardening and patching systems. identifying false positives, and monitoringlogins for suspicious activity. Show less