Bio

https://www.sans.org/profiles/john-smith/ Recruiters: I appreciate any consideration and I remember the days when YOU WEREN'T calling but I am VERY happy in my current role and am not looking to make a move. Do still connect and reach out, I know people who are highly skilled and very professional and maybe I can help. (Will not ask for a fee) I have over 20 years of experience that has involved re-inventing my skill set several times. I have function at a principal level in the roles of Integration/Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Technical Marketing (including content creation) breach responses and operations. Can write code, present to leadership, mentor newer professionals and function as a pen tester and blue teamer. I have conducted several SANS webinars that included creating the content myself. Efforts in 2020 brought in over $30m in pipeline and produced several high quality leads. I have extensive experience with integrations between REST API solutions as well as experience with Jupyter Notebooks, and leveraging languages such as Python and JavaScript to get security solutions to work together to deliver higher fidelity intelligence and reducing the time to respond to incidents. Experience with Python to integrate with REST APIs including use with OSQuery, Bro-Zeek, Demisto and SNOW platforms. Social Selling Index in the top 2% of LinkedIn and have extensive experience with marketing both writing articles, establishing narratives to meet business/product needs and have been a panelist on several podcasts. Extensive technical marketing and pipeline generation. Experience with Red Teaming for the purpose of emulating attacks so that I can write scripts to detect them and work with Product teams to assist get PCAPs to them so that they can write ML based detection algorithms. Very good SQL Ad Hoc query skills and experience collecting flat files and putting them into databases so that they can be queried for additional context. LOVE OSQuery! I have experience as a senior Linux/Unix administrator as well deploying and managing products such as Weblogic, Tomcat, Snort, Oracle, MySQL, Nessus and IPTables. I have extensive training and mentoring experience including two years as an adjunct instructor and over a dozen years of mentoring younger engineers. I have also functioned in a supervisory role either as a technical manager or team lead for over ten years including handling HR related issues, writing evaluations and assisting with career planning.