Amado Tucker

Education: BA

Spanish and Italian Literature

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

2001 : 2011

Experience: In this role I oversee the synergies between software development, applications, and information security with emphasis on designing our security apparatus so that it meets the needs of our customers, the organization, and our future growth.

2022 : Present

Knowde

Head of Information Security Operations

I currently oversee activities related to the security, engineering, design, development, and implementation of the IT infrastructure and ensures that these requirements meets the business needs

Manage, coach, develop and guide a team of system administrators/engineers and developers

Long term modeling to ensure IT initiatives align with both growth and business continuity

Ensuring business continuity as it relates to disaster recovery, high availability, and publicly accessible assets

Collaboration with internal and external entities to ensure compliance of all IT assets

Development and implementation of software solutions to aide business functionality

2018 : 2022

Center for Internet Security

Application and Security Architect Manager

Collaborate with team members to design, implement and deploy critical business systems such as building virtualized environments across multiple hosts that are integrated with NetApp and AWS cloud, secured DNS (DNSSEC), secured NTP, and corporate wide ad/malware blocking and mitigation.

Continually analyze and identify opportunities for the business to effectively leverage technology for process improvements. Forecast technology requirements and upgrades to existing technology to satisfy business groups.

Areas of operational support are : VMware (vCenter Server, vSphere, View/VDI) NetApp storage devices, AWS, Backups (Veeam, Backup Exec), OSX /Linux/Windows Servers.

Execute projects for upgrades and new server based business systems (hardware and software) within a business area.

Analyze and resolve end user hardware and software computer problems in a timely and accurate fashion, and provide support when required.

Past projects include network security audit, DKIM email signing with Dmarc, inventory asset management, big fix/tanium evaluation, Tenable Nessus Security Center CV architecture and installation with LCE, PVS, nessus scanner with cloud based agents, IP address management, network monitoring with Icinga2/Nagios/Zabbix, Suricata IDS with NTOPNG .

CIS Critical Controls evaluation and road map for implementation

Migration of various workflows to AWS cloud as well as building cloud based infrastructure to support business needs.

Architecture secured and hardened operating system deployments for OSX, Windows and Linux Systems.

2016 : 2017

Center for Internet Security

Senior Network Administration Specialist/Senior Linux System Admin

As part of the infrastructure team at transworld I was tasked with creating and maintaing the

security posture of the corporation while also upgrading software and hardware stack

Administration of UNIX (AIX) & Linux Systems (Debian, Ubuntu LTS, Centos, RHEL)

Disaster Recovery for AIX and Linux Systems as well as writing DR scripts for those OS

Draft and implement security hardening policies and documents for Linux and AIX systems for PCI Compliance.

Deployed host based IDS on servers : AIDE or Tripwire

Created and deployed network based IDS to monitor all stores across the US as well as coporate networks

Clustering for Linux and AIX servers

Built terminal server clients for Distribution Center to interact with AS 400 via ssl

Daily audits and monitoring of all servers as well as daily log report analysis and management

Alerting and mitigation for all discovered threats as well as proactive notifications of suspicious activities

Penetration testing of all network resources as well as remediation for all security related issues

PCI compliance auditing and risk assessment of all network systems within scope

Administration, Configuration and Management of Nessus, Tripewire, Qradar SIEM servers, and Mcafee EPO

Development and deployment of secure communications between corporate headquarters and all store systems

Secure services transition as well as upgrades of SSL certificates and disabling all weak encryption ciphers

Docker server farm deployments

Creation of independent networking monitoring for all core network switches and systems with SMS notification in the event of catastrophic failure

2013 : 2016

Trans World Entertainment

Linux/Unix System Administrator & Security Administrator

In this role I was responsible for the administration and implementation of all servers, network and computer resources as they related to Rutgers University Newark Psychology Department; which serves approximately 5000 students and the general public.

Administration of 250 Departmental Linux Servers and Mac OSX Servers

System Administrator for Linux Computing Cluster

Email Server, Network Harddrives, Webserver, Printer Server : Design, Creation, and Administration, Departmental Webmail

Development and Administration of 4 separate vlans with wifi access with over 1000 hosts systems

Design and Creation of PTS : Psychology Ticketing System

MYSQL database administration for ticketing system and departmental webcalendar

Design and Creation of Multi Layered Antispam, Phising, Viral, and Trojan filtering for all departmental email servers as well as network firewall

Drafting and implementation of all IT policies and curriculum for IT classes for the entire Department

Managed staff of system administrator and helpdesk

2005 : 2013

Rutgers University Department of Psychology

Senior System Administrator & Department Computing Manager

Company: Knowde

Years of Experience: 19

Spoken Language: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish