Staff -- Axxure, LLC
Certifications: CISSP, CCNP, CCSP, CCNA, INFOSEC, JNCIA, CCIE Security (Written) Maurice has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years. He was CEO of Amerishield, LTD, one of the leading suppliers of RF/EMI shielding to the US military in the 1980s and 1990s. He has worked with some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the US. These include IBM Global Services and Computer Science Corp (CSC). While working on the CSC account, Hawker Beechcraft, Corp. (HBC), he was involved in the divestiture of HBC from Raytheon Aircraft (RAC). The goal was to eliminate all HBC dependencies on the RAC network infrastructure. He led team that was assigned the task of migrating the internal and external DMZs from RAC to HBC. This task included editing thousands of lines of firewall code on FWSMs in the RAC network and migrating the scrubbed firewall rules to ASA 5540s and Check Point UTM-1s in the new HBC network. Also, he designed and implemented VMware and Thin Client IP address schema and vlan structure while on the HBC account. He led team that designed and deployed the WIN Portal on Nissan, N.A. data center in Inverness, CO while in the employ of IBM. Specifically, he was responsible to deploy a Net App proxy server solution world-wide for the WIN project. He has also filled many consultant roles for such clients as the State of Colorado, TD Ameritrade, DOD (White Sands Missile Range).
Certifications: CCIE #1074 R&S Ray has 25+ years in the computer, telephony, and networking arena. He has spent the last sixteen years with Cisco Systems in progressively challenging positions. He was last a Senior Network Consulting Engineer within Global Central Engineering for Cisco. In this capacity he was One of 5 consulting Engineers to build a new team within Central Engineering focused on Productivity and Software defect resolution. Also, he created, developed, implemented, and measured strategic initiatives focused on software quality, field engineer productivity and education, and service innovation. Ray created and taught a 5-day bootcamp focused on training Cisco’s. 1500+ field engineers in the area of software strategy, tools, and deliverables. He was manager of Cisco’s Advanced Services for 2 years. He led 9 Network Consulting Engineers in creating a world class customer service team supporting the following customers; EDS, MBNA, Department of Agriculture, Lockheed-Martin, Amgen, and Motorola. Prior to becoming manager of Advanced Services he was a Senior Network Engineer IV for the group. He provided Motorola, Lockheed and Amgen with networking design consulting services and was, also, the single point of contact for network outages and P1 issues. As a consulting engineer he provided Cisco IP Telephony Solutions design and implementation assistance. He was a Sales Engineer for 3 years with Cisco working with several service providers including Qwest IT. He has worked as a customer service engineer in Cisco TAC for 3 years. Prior to his employment with Cisco, Ray held network engineering positions requiring a high level of skills with several large IT players in Northern California. Jason Forrester Certifications: CCIE #8748, ITIL Foundations, TOGAF Certified Architect, IBM Certified Architect, JNCIS, JNCIA, CCNP, CCDA, CCNA, CCSA, NNCDA, NNCSS, NNCAS, MCSE, CAN, CompTIA Network+, I-Net+ & A+ Jason has been with IBM Global Services for more than 8 years as a Network Delivery Executive / IT Architect. While at IBM he has designed, deployed, managed complex information systems for many Fortune 500 companies. Jason led a team charged with the relocation and consolidation of 6 global data centers into a single center, reducing the client’s IT spending from 17% to 12% of the corporate budget – a $43 million annual savings. He has focused on simplicity of design and reduced 4 IT infrastructures to a single enterprise environment, resulting in a 21% reduction in maintenance spending, an 11% decrease in mean time to repair, a 17% reduction in failed changes, and a 45% increase in average speed. He has redesigned a management infrastructure and all processes, cutting the mean time of fault notification by 23% and mean time to react to the fault by 44%. He has achieved 99.98% of service-level objectives for 8 consecutive quarters. He has architected and directed the implementation of IT enabled security and accounting controls to meet ISO security requirements and satisfy Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance guidelines. His effort eliminated redundant IT functions while increasing financial reporting accuracy by 27% and data integrity by 7%.
Joshua Dughi Certifications: CISSP, CCNP, CCNA, JNCIA, CIPT, CCIE Security (Written) Josh has more than 10 years experience in network infrastructure support, with a significant portion of that time spent in network administration. He has worked for such Managed Network Services (MNS) industry leaders as IBM and AT&T. He is proficient in the use of enterprise-level tools for problem trouble-shooting and remediation. Josh has successfully led many network teams in critical outage situations, the most notable being finding a quick solution to an outage that affected national advertising during a Super Bowl. He did this while supporting the Cingular account. While Josh was employed as the technical lead and project manager at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS, he directed a team of eleven engineers who migrated a 10,000 user, 100 building military base from an ATM LANE core to a GigabitEthernet core.. This task was successfully accomplished in a 10 hour change window. While with IBM Global Services he performed RCA’s (Root Cause Analysis) on Sev-1/Crit-Sit problems for management review. His RCA reports also included “lessons learned” to guide network engineers in procedures to avoid future incidents. He also has considerable experience as a network security architect. He has worked for the State of Colorado’s CISO and the Governor’s office to remediate vulnerabilities as prescribed by new Federal DHS mandate. He helped codify policies and participated in task force which created a risk-based gap analysis report for use by the CISO.
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