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Christopher Salzgeber
Principal Information Security Engineer
Ft. Washington, MD, United States
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Experience:
2020 : Present
Fifth Third Bank
Principal Information Security Engineer
Founder of Cogenc, an Information Technology Consulting Practice specializing in Identity & Access Management, SSO Integration, Metadirectory Architecture, Virtualized Infrastructure, Automation and Orchestration.
2015 : 2020
Cogenc, LLC.
Principal
Principal Cyber Security Architect for Honeywell Connected Enterprise, where I work as the Security Architecture group's Identity & Access Management SME.
2018 : 2019
Honeywell
Principal Cyber Security Architect, Identity & Access Management at Honeywell
Principal Systems Engineer for HERE's Identity & Access Management Group. Resident Active Directory and PowerShell SME.
A highlight of my responsibilities and accomplishments are as follows :
- Principal and final point of escalation for HERE's IAM team.
- Key stakeholder in incident response, auditing, compliance and information assurance activities.
- Architect of forest design, domain consolidation, role-based access control, multi-factor authentication, disaster recovery and security strategies for our LDAP and SSO infrastructure.
- Sole developer of ADA, our internal Active Directory integrated Identity and Access Management platform used primarily for User Lifecycle Management. ADA was written by me from scratch, entirely in PowerShell. ADA is unique in that it allows for granular, attribute-level recovery of objects within Active Directory without system state backups by leveraging XML exports of objects in memory during at any point in time while changes are written to directory objects. In addition, ADA includes automation for and is closely integrated with O365, Skype for Business, PeopleSoft and SailPoint.
- Annual PowerShell & DevOps Summit, Microsoft Ignite Attendee.
- Completed Advanced Architecting on AWS Course.
2015 : 2018
HERE
Principal Systems Engineer
Active Directory Architect for the Global Technology Services (GTS) Enterprise Systems Group.
Daily automation of routine tasks, business processes and creation of modules (comprised of advanced functions) using PowerShell 4.0, 5.0, OneGet, etc. Integrated PowerShell automation with SCORCH, vRealize, DSC, vCenter Orchestrator, Vagrant. Wrote Chef cookbooks and completed unit testing with Pester, Kitchen, etc.
Completed Active Directory integration of Centrify, Cyber-Ark and SiteMinder during an upgrade from r6 to r12.
Completed Opscode Chef Intermediate Training.
Currently operating in a technical advisory capacity as a project lead for global initiatives, including Workday integration, an Active Directory upgrade from 2003 to 2012 R2 spanning 125 domain controllers, application migration of >100 COTS applications and 1500 servers from Windows 2003 to 2012 R2 and datacenter migration including 150,000 computer objects and 600,000 user objects.
2014 : 2015
IHG - InterContinental Hotels Group
Senior Technical Consultant
Fifth Third Bank
Principal Information Security Engineer
Founder of Cogenc, an Information Technology Consulting Practice specializing in Identity & Access Management, SSO Integration, Metadirectory Architecture, Virtualized Infrastructure, Automation and Orchestration.
2015 : 2020
Cogenc, LLC.
Principal
Principal Cyber Security Architect for Honeywell Connected Enterprise, where I work as the Security Architecture group's Identity & Access Management SME.
2018 : 2019
Honeywell
Principal Cyber Security Architect, Identity & Access Management at Honeywell
Principal Systems Engineer for HERE's Identity & Access Management Group. Resident Active Directory and PowerShell SME.
A highlight of my responsibilities and accomplishments are as follows :
- Principal and final point of escalation for HERE's IAM team.
- Key stakeholder in incident response, auditing, compliance and information assurance activities.
- Architect of forest design, domain consolidation, role-based access control, multi-factor authentication, disaster recovery and security strategies for our LDAP and SSO infrastructure.
- Sole developer of ADA, our internal Active Directory integrated Identity and Access Management platform used primarily for User Lifecycle Management. ADA was written by me from scratch, entirely in PowerShell. ADA is unique in that it allows for granular, attribute-level recovery of objects within Active Directory without system state backups by leveraging XML exports of objects in memory during at any point in time while changes are written to directory objects. In addition, ADA includes automation for and is closely integrated with O365, Skype for Business, PeopleSoft and SailPoint.
- Annual PowerShell & DevOps Summit, Microsoft Ignite Attendee.
- Completed Advanced Architecting on AWS Course.
2015 : 2018
HERE
Principal Systems Engineer
Active Directory Architect for the Global Technology Services (GTS) Enterprise Systems Group.
Daily automation of routine tasks, business processes and creation of modules (comprised of advanced functions) using PowerShell 4.0, 5.0, OneGet, etc. Integrated PowerShell automation with SCORCH, vRealize, DSC, vCenter Orchestrator, Vagrant. Wrote Chef cookbooks and completed unit testing with Pester, Kitchen, etc.
Completed Active Directory integration of Centrify, Cyber-Ark and SiteMinder during an upgrade from r6 to r12.
Completed Opscode Chef Intermediate Training.
Currently operating in a technical advisory capacity as a project lead for global initiatives, including Workday integration, an Active Directory upgrade from 2003 to 2012 R2 spanning 125 domain controllers, application migration of >100 COTS applications and 1500 servers from Windows 2003 to 2012 R2 and datacenter migration including 150,000 computer objects and 600,000 user objects.
2014 : 2015
IHG - InterContinental Hotels Group
Senior Technical Consultant
Company:
Fifth Third Bank
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Identity & Access Management (IAM) Subject Matter Expert (SME) with more than a decade of experience focused on architecting and engineering Virtualized Infrastructure for Enterprises using Cloud Technologies (*aaS, Hybrid Clouds) and DevOps Automation (CM, CI, Orchestration).
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