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Jeff Hodgkin

Blue Team | Defensive Security | IT Technician | Cyber Security Analyst | Full-stack MS .NET Engineer | SSCP | CySA+ | Net+ | Sec+ | A+ | Project+ | THM Top 2%
Lagrange, ME, United States
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Education: Masters of Science - MS, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance



Western Governors University

2022 : 2022

Bachelor of Science - BS

Cybersecurity and Information Assurance

Western Governors University

2021

Experience: A great family owned business where you get to wear many hats. I'm learning everything from AI/RPA to how to do punch downs!

2023 : Present

R. H. Foster Energy

IT Technician II

Order of the Sword and Shield Honor Society

National Society of Leadership and Success

2022 :

Western Governors University

Cybersecurity Immersion at Masters Level

2020 : 2021

Western Governors University

Cybersecurity and Information Assurance - Bachelors Program

• Researched and performed vulnerability remediation of coding issues identified by HP Fortify

• Supported vendor and insurance carrier security assessments working with CHC InfoSec

• Performed Identity and Access Management (IAM) reviews for users and servers in dental

• Acted as a local MS SQL Server database administrator in all environments

• Developed RESTful APIs and back-end server infrastructure to process dental attachments

• Collaborated with InfoSec and other CHC teams to create and maintain Business Continuity Plans

and Disaster Recovery Plans

• Managed multiple onshore and offshore vendors to complete strategic projects

• Assisted in migrating a credentialing company to CHC’s virtual environment, including installation

defining firewall rules, IIS configuration, and testing in all environments

• Acted as the project manager for the migration of the dental websites, real-time, and batch

applications to AWS; acted as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for many of the on-premises

applications during the migration and assisted with User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

2019 : 2020

Change Healthcare

Senior Director Product Development

• Designed and developed an Authentication and Authorization system compliant with OWASP best

practices to interface with proprietary dental applications

• Provided second-tier application and network monitoring / troubleshooting for real-time eligibility

(millions of transactions per month), real-time claim status (hundreds of thousands of transactions

per month), and batch ERA (Over $1 billion in payments to providers per month) to ensure the

availability of services for hundreds of insurance carriers, thousands of dental providers, and over

100 dental vendor companies

• Developed and maintained payer website utilized by the largest dental insurance carriers

• Developed .NET batch applications to process and accurately deliver millions of healthcare ANSI

ASC X12 277CA / 277U Claim Status and 835 Electronic Remittance Advice Transactions (ERA)

• Created batch programs, scripts, and scheduled tasks to process transactions offline and load MS

SQL Server databases

• Participated in on-call rotation

2006 : 2018

Change Healthcare

Director Application Development

Company: R. H. Foster Energy

Years of Experience: 23

Skills .NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Web API, Business Analysis, C#, Collaborative Problem Solving, Communication, Credibility, Cyber Defense, Cybersecurity, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Enterprise Architecture, Healthcare Information Technology, Healthcare Information Technology (HIT), HIPAA, Information Security, Information Technology, Internet Information Services (IIS), Leadership, Microsoft SQL Server, Programming, Project Management, Python (Programming Language), Requirements Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Scrum, SDLC, Security, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Project Management, SQL, Supervisory Skills, Team Building, Team Leadership, Teamwork, Troubleshooting, U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), VB.NET, Vendor Management, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), XML, C, TFS, Healthcare Information, Integration, Software Project, Data Warehousing, Software Documentation
About I have an extensive background in IT and was fortunate enough to work in a small company that allowed us to wear many hats and grow our professional careers in place. Over time, I progressed to become a full-stack MS .NET software engineer and manager of a highly functioning agile development/product team that I built from the ground up and had little turnover. I collaborated with my team to design and develop numerous applications. I also developed a significant number of applications independently.



After acquisitions, I led the migration of the applications I was responsible for from a small onsite physical data center to two virtual enterprise-scale data centers and ultimately to the cloud in AWS. As a working manager, I also spearheaded many of the strategic projects for our division. My management style is diplomatic, and I try to act as a servant leader. This encompassed my immediate onshore team as well as multiple offshore teams.



After 19+ years with my prior employer, I decided to take a planned career break and finish up my BS CSIA. I currently have two classes left to complete my MS CSIA. These were long-time personal goals.



I’m passionate about cyber security and being hands-on. I utilize many tools for training including StationX, TryHackMe and my virtual VMware lab environment. I needed a change and challenge, and this field certainly provides both.



TECHNICAL SKILLS:

. Nmap

. Wireshark

. Splunk

. C#

. MS SQL Server

. ASP.NET

. IIS

. RESTful APIs

. JSON

. XML

. X12



FAMILIAR WITH:

. Security Onion

. Kali Linux

. pfSense

. Burp Suite

. Linux

. TCP / IP

. Networking

. SOC

. SIEM



PERSONAL:



I love the outdoors and Maine. My family moved to Maine a little over three years ago from southwest Florida. It was quite a paradigm change. Since that time, we’ve worked to build a small homestead and be as self-sufficient as possible.



When I’m not studying cyber security, gardening, or tending to other chores I enjoy reading, chess, and bird watching in my backyard. I can’t stop putting up different feeders and feed. I also get joy from walking outside with my wife and three dogs, Rudy, a German Short-Haired Pointer, Maya, a Bullmastiff, and our newest addition Odin, a Bullmastiff puppy.