Engineer with 20 Years IT Experience
Tom X Reilly
Information Security Engineer
Engineer with 20 years IT experience.
BA in Criminal Justice and Criminology from UTA.
Certifications in CISSP, Security+, Netware, Cisco, Watchguard, Palo Alto, Veeam and others, plus a background in physical security.
Active member of (ISC)² and the North Texas chapter of InfraGard.
Qnet Information Services, Dallas, TX
Chief Security Officer and Senior Network Engineer, 2000 – present
Chief Security Officer, Security Engineer, Network Engineer, Server Engineer, Disaster Recovery architect, Hosted Services Engineer, Pre-sales engineer.
Develop and implement security policy for Qnet and clients. Provide security training for technical team and clients. Perform vulnerability assessments and network assessments for new clients. Create detailed Visio network diagrams and documentation for all clients. Develop, implement, and manage backup systems for over 20 organizations. Security incident response on internal, hosted and remote supported systems. Design, implement, migrate, and manage firewall systems for over 30 locations. Manage secure file sharing systems for over 20 organizations. Implement SIEM/SOC solutions. Technical contributor in quarterly newsletters to clients. Project lead for building and migrating multiple data centers.
DFW Airport (via Qnet)
Senior Engineer, October-December 2014
Install Cisco server cluster and VMWare test environment for DFW airport 911 system upgrade.
Mercer Valve Co. Inc, OKC, Houston, DFW, + USA, Canada, Australia (via Qnet)
Senior Network Engineer, 2013 – present
Remotely support Cisco-based mixed-vendor network infrastructure in an enterprise environment spread across United States, Canada, and Australia. Migrate firewalls at all locations to next-gen firewalls and create a redundant interconnected firewall-based VPN structure with minimal downtime. Administer EMC Networker/DataDomain backup and disaster recovery system. Managed migration project of email accounts between hosted solutions and providers. Implemented and maintain cloud-hosted virtual server for custom application. Support internationally-distributed Active Directory system based around VmWare/EMC SAN virtualized environment.
Bureau of Prisons, Seagoville, TX (via Qnet)
Server Engineer , 2011-2014
Complete a previous contractor’s unfinished thin-client Active Directory environment implementation inside medium-security prison. Recreate AD environment from unrecoverable crashed domain controllers in the prison’s education center. Trained teacher and prisoners on how to manage the server systems.
Workforce Solutions of Greater Dallas, Dallas, TX (via Qnet)
Senior Engineer, 2005 - present
Architected, implemented and maintain centrally-managed next-gen firewall systems. Design, implement, and maintain server and network infrastructure for enterprise environment spread out across Dallas County. Coordination of multiple physical office relocations and rebuilds. Developed custom rsync-based backup system with BackupExec tape library, later upgraded to appliance-based tapeless backup systems. Architect, implement, and maintain Microsoft Active Directory system, migrated from Novell Netware eDirectory. Implement linux-based imaging systems. Design and maintain secure environment in multiple public-use workrooms that facilitate thousands of users. Assist with State security audits.
Employees Credit Union, Dallas TX (via Qnet)
Senior Engineer, 2005 - present
Install and maintain next-gen firewall. Assist with compliance audits. Implement and maintain server and network environments. Upgraded servers from NT to 2003 to 2008 to 2012 plus accompanying Exchange upgrades, all during normal business hours with no down time. Upgraded BackupExec tape library to tapeless appliance-based backup systems. Maintain centralized antivirus systems. Manage hosted anti-spam services.
Dallas County Clerk/AMCAD/Granicus, Dallas, TX (via Qnet)
Server Engineer, 2005 - present
Maintain dedicated server and network environment for document management system
Novell DISD Erate Server Team, Dallas, TX (via Qnet)
Senior Engineer, 2002-2004
Install 10 25-node-cluster Terminal Server farms. Develop linux-based replacement for MS Terminal Server farm. Install 250+ Netware Servers and edit accompanying Cisco switch configs throughout DISD. Assist team in scripting automated workstation software upgrades. Developed and implemented LAMP solution for automatic geographic redirection of software updates to accommodate bandwidth restrictions. Developed Perl-based scripting process to automatically build documentation on the 1000’s of automated upgrades. Complete GroupWise SAN migration and integration with tape robot library. Create high-detail documentation of entire new environment.
1997-2002 - Through several companies, worked my way up from HelpDesk to Desktop support to Server Room Operations to Server and Network engineer.
1995-1997 - Private executive security for the Bass family. Trained with Secret Service, FBI, ATF, Special Forces, Texas Rangers, local paramedics, and others.