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Matthew

Integration Engineer Network & Security Solutions

Preferred Location

Remote / Remote area

For the past 26 years, as an Integration and Security Engineer, Matt has tackled every aspect of F5 technology. Over his 17-year tenure as an F5 Subject Matter Expert (SME), he's designed, built, and installed countless F5 configurations. Matt's expertise extends beyond F5, having successfully integrated network and security systems for Fortune 500 clients like Amazon, Microsoft, and the NSA. His solutions, often multi-vendor involving F5 and Cisco, have been pivotal for clients ranging from Exxon to Target.

Skills

Professional Experience

Completed multiple F5 upgrades for both appliances and cloud applications for an energy trading company in Houston, TX

Performed WAF functions, SSL decryption and encryption, load balancing, LTM, Virtualization, and custom I-rules for applications

Completed a Palo Alto Firewall installation for a customer in Dallas TX

Ongoing support of an additional Palo Alto Firewall, multiple Fortinet Firewalls, Cisco multi-layer switches and Extreme multi-layer switches

Completed an F5 installation for a customer in Saudi Arabia

Tasks included implementation, design, documentation creation, 60 days of monitoring and testing and knowledge transfer

F5 performed web proxy, SSL decryption and encryption, load balancing, LTM, Virtualization, and base configuration for GTM

Contract with a manufacturer for complete network solutions including data center and multiple remote sites

Spent 13 months doing Fortinet firewall configuration, troubleshooting, security & VPN design on a daily basis for a customer that had 20+ locations

Contract with Gigamon for Professional Services

Tasks included aiding various customers to design, configure and install Gigamon high end packet brokers

Hands-on for Cisco major accounts of Amazon, B of A, MFST X-Box, Exxon, and hundreds of others

Design from legacy to proposed (IPs, VLANs, Routing, Trend Micro Security Zones, F5 Global Load Balancing, F5 Local Load Balancing, F5 Global DNS, Cisco Threat Defense, Cisco Edge Security, DMZ Security, RSA Certificate Management, Virtualization, Cisco UCS integration, Sourcefire network-based Malware, Host based Malware, Cisco WAF, Cisco ISE)

Setup vendor "bake-offs" with Palo Alto Firewall, Cisco FirePower Firewall, F5 Application Firewalls, ForcePoint Firewalls for feature and function comparisons

Prototype and Proof of Concept of Design

Load Testing, Penetration Testing, Local and Global Failover Testing, Initial Documentation

Network Migration to Production Environment, Firewall Implementation, DoS in Production, Application Migration for Tier A, B, &C

Knowledge Transfer to Customer, Firewall Training

Integration for both VM appliances and physical appliances

Quarterly monitoring and testing review against design specifications

Provide technical product testing, evaluations and competitive comparison for FireEye IDS, IPS, WAF, Sand Box, and Email Security Products

Designed and Implemented competitor labs including Cisco FirePower (SourceFire), Palo Alto Firewalls and F5 Application Firewalls to measure feature and function specifics

Assisted in NSS Labs and Gartner for FireEye product testing customer design validations

After winning competitive bake offs from NSS Labs or Gartner, responsibility was to deploy and install design from beginning to end

Responsible for internal FireEye product technical lab setups and proof of value demonstrations for customers

SME for Enterprise Data Solutions included VMWare integration and solutions

Ran POC implementations for all solutions with product value over $250K of multiple products

My group was the escalation point for troubleshooting and design of the most complex multi-vendor solutions at Trend Micro

Responsible to help establish buy in from enterprise customer's CIO, IT Directors, Network Architecture teams, Security Engineers, and other executive level audiences

Designed and implemented solutions in traditional physical, virtual, and public/private cloud data centers

Authored technical white papers and podcasts on Trend Micro Secure Cloud, vShield Endpoint and Trend Micro Secure Cloud

Awarded Principal Engineer of the year once, Most Valuable Player 4 times and Above and Beyond by piers 6 times

Implemented PO Concept/PO Infrastructure and customer production installations of all F5 Networks product lines

Key member of a team of engineers responsible for designing and implementing load balancing and security architecture

Once systems were implemented the same team worked on the production configuration and testing of the systems

System integrator for Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco, F-Secure and where F5 became the traffic manager for core networks

Escalation point for incidents with large proof of concepts projects for enterprise customers

Authored whitepapers, deployment guides, how-to videos and public speaking events

Mentored and trained Sales Engineers on all tools, processes, and procedures

Awarded Solutions Engineer of the year twice and Most Valuable three times

Industry Professional Certifications

F5 201 TMOS Administration
F5 301A LTM Specialist
F5 401 Application Delivery Fundamentals
F5 202 Pre-Sales Fundamentals
F5 301B GTM Specialist
F5 302 Application Delivery Fundamentals
F5 303 BIG-IP ASM Specialist
F5 304 BIG-IP APM Specialist

Fortinet NSE-4 2023

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert - Security
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert - Routing and Switching

VMware Certified Professional

SourceFire Network Security Specialist

Certified Information Systems Security Professional

Education

BA/BS Equivalent (3 Years)
Florida State University