Ernest Braun

Chief Information Security Officer at CMT Group (Creative Mobile Technologies)

Philadelphia, PA, United States

Details

Education: A.A.S.

Information Sciences

Camden County College

1988 : 1989

A.A.S.

Computer Sciences

Camden County College

1986 : 1988

Experience: Converted entire backend infrastructure from a colocation facility to AWS. Developed and architected the CI/CD processes along with agile methodology to comply with PCI-DSS. Built infrastructure security as code for our entire product lifecycle following OWASP. Built Kubernetes/Docker infrastructure as code from the ground up using oauth2 self serve security for developent/QA.

2017 : Present

CMT Group (Creative Mobile Technologies)

Chief Information Security Officer

Managing a 200+ server hybrid cloud PCI-DSS Level 1 Certified infrastructure for a technology company leading the industry in mobile electronic payment and advertising for the transportation industry.

2016 : 2017

Creative Mobile Technologies

Director of Technical Operations

PCI-DSS Compliance Officer

Network Security

Physical and Virtual Infrastucture

2013 : 2016

Creative Mobile Technologies

Infrastructure / Security Architect

• Managing 7 individual production level virtual infrastructure farms containing over 300 ESX hosts and 2700+ virtual server environments

• Implemented automatic build configuration scripting to improve on VMware’s host profiles

• Implemented check and alert script to verify the differing ESX host configurations in each farm

• Implemented script to balance a cluster for both average memory and CPU usage

• Created a storage reporting tool for trending and analysis

• Architected and deployed the upgrade from vSphere4 to VI 5

• Managing the upgrade project for the company’s premier J2EE product

• Coordinating infrastructure with development and testing for J2EE product

2011 : 2013

Siemens PLM Software

Systems Integration Engineer

• Expanded the virtualization technology to a third remote datacenter

• Implemented the full upgrade of Vl 3 to vSphere 4

• Provided fault tolerant solutions through virtualization.

• Implemented updated customer service portal experience though the use of LAMP technology and Drupal using MySQL cluster and Master-Master replication.

• Designed the monitoring and trending system through custom scripting, opensource and 3rd party products.

2009 : 2011

Vertex Inc.

Systems Solutions Engineer

Company: CMT Group (Creative Mobile Technologies)

Years of Experience: 36

Skills AIX, BladeCenter, Cloud Computing, Databases, Data Center, Disaster Recovery, Dreamweaver, Enterprise Software, Integration, Linux, Microsoft SQL Server, Networking, Network Security, Operating Systems, Oracle, Requirements Analysis, SAN, Servers, Solaris, SQL, Storage, TCP/IP, Testing, Unix, Virtualization, Visio, VMware, VMware ESX, VMware Infrastructure, VMware vSphere, vSphere, Web Applications, Windows, Windows Server

About Security and compliance technology professional providing PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPA solutions by analyzing business needs and translating them into business value for your firm through my highly applicable skills in cloud infrastructure, virtualization technology and application integration.

• IT professional with 30+ years of Information Technology experience focusing on enterprise application integration in cloud infrastructure, hybrid networks, and security compliance of web based customer facing applications, systems integration, requirements analysis, project management, testing and quality assurance, and vendor relationships.

• Extensive experience, 10+ years in AWS, Azure, and Cloudstack

• Extensive experience, 6+ years in Dev-Ops with Jenkins, Chef, ELK Stack and Puppet

• Extensive experience in security and compliance (10+ years) with recent focus on PCI-DSS v3.2 and the payment card industry

• Extensive experience in virtualization technology, all major ERPs, all major OSs with focus on Linux and Windows.

• Extensive experience in secure networks with focus on PCI-DSS level 1 compliance

• Proficiency in problem-solving by combining business and technical perspectives to develop effective solutions.

• Motivated achiever who guides organizations in applying technology to business settings

• Extensive experience in highly skilled, rapidly evolving project team environments including collaboration with software developers to integrate enterprise solutions and third party software for rapidly expanding software development environments.

Specialties:

PCI-DSS v3

SOX/HIPA

CI/CD Automation

Security and Infrastructure as Code

Containerization - Kubernetes / Docker

Virtualization - VMware Hybrid Cloud / Infrastructure

Cloud - AWS, Azure, Hybrid Cloud, Open Source KVM

Automation - Jenkins Openstack/Zen, Rightscale, Puppet, Chef

Hardware - IBM, Dell, HP and BladeCenters

EMC SAN - EqualLogic/Dell

OS -

Windows 2003/2008/2012/7/8/10

RHEL 7/6.0/5.5/4/3 CentOS 7/6/5/4 Ubuntu 12.05 SuSE 11/10 Others

AIX 7.1/7/6.1/6/5.3

HP/UX 10/11

Solaris 10/9/8/7

Apps -

Microsoft SQL 2012/2008/2005/6.0/5.5

Oracle EE Server 12/11.1/10.2/9.0/8.1/7.3.4

MySQL Cluster and Master-Master 5.5/5.1/5.0

LAMP PHP/Perl/Javascript/CSS

J2EE Jetty/Tomcat/Weblogic/JBoss

Oracle eBus 12/11.5/10

Peoplesoft FSCM 9.1/9.0/8.8

SAP R/3

Zenoss/IP Mon/Quest Foglight/Nagios/Munin