Ronald Richter MBA, CISSP

Experience

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  Blue Ridge Community and Technical College

  Sept 2012 - Sept 2017

  Network Engineering Program Coordinator

  • Program Coordinator with experience in Enterprise Risk Management, Disaster Recovery, Information Security Policies and Procedures. Program Management duties include curricular review, design, grant reporting, interpersonal, and organizational and scheduling skills • Cisco Networking Academy Leader, getting new instructors approved within the Cisco Academy, attend regional academy meetings• Demonstrate network technologies required to support and secure a large enterprise network, to include: routing/switching, IPS/IDS, web filters, DNS, VPN, load balancer, firewall, email, and many other technologies and protocols• Administrative duties include semester scheduling, adjunct hiring, program design, text review, and advising students• Technical support includes maintaining physical network lab environment, as well as NETLAB virtual network environment, including host imaging, router and switch IOS upgrades. CISCO Routers 17xx, 26xx, 36xx and 76xx Series, CISCO 29xx, 39xx Series Switches, CISCO IOS 10.x 11.x and 12.x, IBM Routers and switches• Provide support for NETLAB virtual lab environment, using VMware vSphere client, VMware ESXI v3.5, cloning VM’s, pods, creating classes, server builds, licensing• Grant administration and reporting, curricula development for $25 Million US Department of Labor TAACCCT Grant for a multi-school, in-state consortium• Member of the Center for Academic Excellence (CAE/2Y) Project: The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security designate both 4 year and 2 year colleges as NSA/DHS National Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Information Assurance (IA)/Cyber Defense (CD).The purpose of the National CAE designation program is to promote higher education in IA and CD and prepare a growing number of IA/CD professionals to meet the need to reduce vulnerabilities in the Nation’s networks Show less

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  Maveris

  Oct 2017 - now

  Cyber Security Engineer

  Cyber Security Engineer supporting the CSOC TIC for the 2nd largest private network in the world. Analyzing system logs, performing maintenance and administration of security products. Performing technical aspects of cyber security and activities related to network and client computer protection. Have a broad knowledge of multiple technologies with a focus on security principles. Technologies include but are not limited to: Firewalls, ASAs and VPN's, SIEM solutions, Microsoft Server and clients, virtualization technologies VMware and Hyper-V, Switch and routing, O365 and MS Azure cloud services, Active Directory, DNS, TCP, UDP, IPSec, SSL HTTP protocols. Ability to identify, research, and resolve operational and security related problems while providing support to executive leadership within the CSOC team. Assists in defining strategies and providing best practice advice on controls and processes to ensure the integrity of systems. Working knowledge of NIST Security frameworks. Show less