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Paul Holgate, CISSP
Cybersecurity Engineer at Benton County Public Utility
Kennewick, WA, United States
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Experience:
Planning, implementing, managing, monitoring and upgrading security measures for the protection of the organizations data, systems and networks. Ensure that the organization's data and infrastructure are protected by enabling the appropriate administrative and technical security controls. Lead team efforts in incident response and forensic investigations. Perform and advise on vulnerability assessments, network security threat and impact assessment, penetration testing and subsequent remediation. Liaison with external law enforcement, emergency response and energy industry sector support entities. Lead technical work related to NERC-CIP, PCI-DSS and HIPAA regulatory and transactional requirements.
2020 : Present
Benton County Public Utility
Cybersecurity Engineer
In this role, I manage the Information Technology department staff, operations and services, including telecommunications, network and server infrastructure, vehicle technology services and information security. Responsible for the cradle to grave management of projects and department budget.
2020 : 2020
Ben Franklin Transit
IT Manager
Provide Information and Technology services to a transportation agency in the tri-cities area. As a very small IT team, I have a broad set of responsibilities. Areas of responsibility include infrastructure design and maintenance, deployment of new technology, MDT and mobile devices support and network management. Configure, manage and monitor domain infrastructure servers and various security implementations. Cisco ios support, configurations and modifications. Skills in network monitoring and packet analysis. Splunk SIEM configuration, monitoring and reporting. Systems administration duties with responsibilities in configuration and management of DNS, DHCP, Print, Domain and other domain services.
2015 : 2020
Ben Franklin Transit
IT Analyst, Infrastructure and Security
Provide classroom and hands-on training to students in the IT Specialist / CompTIA training program. These adult learners are in worker retraining programs and looking for new careers in the IT industry. We prepare them to learn new IT information and successfully pass A+, Network + and Security + exams.
2014 : 2018
ProTRAIN SYS - Computer Training
IT Specialist Program Administrator
In this role, I provided full-spectrum technical support to small and medium size businesses in the Snohomish County and tri-cities area. My primary focus was ensuring the security and continuity of business hardware and applications, following the concepts of confidentiality, integrity and availability.
2003 : 2015
Holgate Technical Solutions
Owner and Lead Technical Specialist
2020 : Present
Benton County Public Utility
Cybersecurity Engineer
In this role, I manage the Information Technology department staff, operations and services, including telecommunications, network and server infrastructure, vehicle technology services and information security. Responsible for the cradle to grave management of projects and department budget.
2020 : 2020
Ben Franklin Transit
IT Manager
Provide Information and Technology services to a transportation agency in the tri-cities area. As a very small IT team, I have a broad set of responsibilities. Areas of responsibility include infrastructure design and maintenance, deployment of new technology, MDT and mobile devices support and network management. Configure, manage and monitor domain infrastructure servers and various security implementations. Cisco ios support, configurations and modifications. Skills in network monitoring and packet analysis. Splunk SIEM configuration, monitoring and reporting. Systems administration duties with responsibilities in configuration and management of DNS, DHCP, Print, Domain and other domain services.
2015 : 2020
Ben Franklin Transit
IT Analyst, Infrastructure and Security
Provide classroom and hands-on training to students in the IT Specialist / CompTIA training program. These adult learners are in worker retraining programs and looking for new careers in the IT industry. We prepare them to learn new IT information and successfully pass A+, Network + and Security + exams.
2014 : 2018
ProTRAIN SYS - Computer Training
IT Specialist Program Administrator
In this role, I provided full-spectrum technical support to small and medium size businesses in the Snohomish County and tri-cities area. My primary focus was ensuring the security and continuity of business hardware and applications, following the concepts of confidentiality, integrity and availability.
2003 : 2015
Holgate Technical Solutions
Owner and Lead Technical Specialist
Company:
Benton County Public Utility
About
Experienced network and systems professional with a demonstrated history of working in infrastructure, security and leadership roles. Expertise surrounds policy and procedure development, network engineering and administration, systems engineering and administration, information security and assurance and building strong teams toward successful outcomes. Strong working technical and administrative knowledge across multiple domains.
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