Alex O.

Details

Education: B.Sc

Forensic Information Systems Technology & Cybercrime

United States International University - Africa

Experience: Handle various Splunk related roles such as Splunk administration, infrastructure observability and Monitoring, enterprise database security, risk based alerting, Splunk enterprise security administration, NERC- CIP operational technology compliance, design and implementation of knowledge objects, CIM compatible data onboarding and integrations.

2018 : Present

Olan Associates

Cybersecurity Splunk Engineer

- Liaised extensively with business owners and their internal IT team for requirement gathering.

- Analyzed clients' existing systems and business models.

- Mapped and documented interfaces between legacy and new systems.

- Identified options for potential solutions and assessed them for both technical and business suitability with a security perspective.

- Supported users on change control and system updates.

- Provided training and user manuals to users of a new system.

- Drew up, supervised and documented test use cases and schedules for completed systems.

2016 : 2018

OLAN ASSOCIATES LLC

System Analyst

Company: Olan Associates

Years of Experience: 7

Spoken Language: English

Skills

Active Directory, Big Data Analytics, Computer Hardware, Custom Websites, Database-driven Websites, Databases, Db connect, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, HTML, Information Security Management, ITIL, IT Infrastructure Management, IT Operations, Java, JavaScript, Management Information Systems (MIS), Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Network Administration, Networking, Network Security, Observability, Operating Systems, Oracle, PL/SQL, Requirements Analysis, SDLC, Security, Servers, Software System Analysis, Splunk admin, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI), SQL, System Administration, System Monitoring, Technical Support, Troubleshooting, VMware, Website Administration, Website Building, Website Promotion, Website Updating, Windows Server, Wireless Networking, XML

About

Alex is a collaborative Cybersecurity and Splunk engineer with operational knowledge of network and network security, cybersecurity frameworks, cloud security and SIEM.

A Certified Splunk Enterprise & Enterprise Security Administrator with strong skills in data onboarding, environment architecting, dashboarding, troubleshooting, management of Splunk enterprise components and general day-to-day Splunk administration.

I am experienced in developing security-focused and observability contents, data normalization using common information model (CIM), data parsing, and field extraction using regex.

I have outstanding depth of knowledge and abilities in complex search and reporting, advanced use cases of knowledge objects, and best practices for creating dashboards, forms, reports and alerts, as well as integration with ITMS tools and APIs.