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Education

Professional Certifications

CompTIA A+ 2005 Version
CompTIA Network+ N10-006, NT10-007
CompTIA Security+ SY0-401, SY0-501
Cisco CCNA Routing & Switching
NICCS CECL Certified Expert Cyber Law
NICCS CECI Certified Expert in Cyber Investigations
GIAC GSEC Security Essentials Certification
ISC CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional
PCISS PCIP PCI Professional

I also hold a number of vendor-specific certifications, which are ackhowledgements issued by companies to certify your proficiency level with their software or platform.
I currently hold these acknowledgements with cPanel, Mirantis (for OpenStack), and Nimble.

Knowledge Areas

Operating Systems & Panels

Linux - Redhat/CentOS, Debian/Ubuntu, cPanel, Plesk

Virtualization

Virtuozzo, OpenVZ, KVM, Xen, VMWare, Openstack, Cloud Services (AWS, Google, Most all cloud providers such as Digital Ocean, Rackspace, Vultr, etc)

Software

Wordpress, CloudLinux, ModSec, CSF/APF/iptables, BIND, MySQL/MariaDB, Red5, Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed, RoR

Monitoring, Backups, & Automation

Nagios, Icinga, Cacti, Puppet, Git, GoCD, Duplicity, Restic

Programming Languages

Bash, PHP, Python, HTML

Compliance

PCI DSS, HIPAA, CSA, ISO 27001

Professional Work History

Position: Sr. Product Line Manager
2012 - Present
Position : IT Manager, Tier 3 Operations
2012 - 2021
Position: Team Lead, Tier 3 Operations
2017 - 2012
Position : Systems Architect
2012 - 2017
Position : System Administrator
2009 - 2012
Position : Technical Support
2007 - 2009

CTO
Information Security Specialist

Platform Engineer
IT Consultant

VANESSA [at] thecpaneladmin.com