{"id":29,"date":"2022-11-23T23:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:41:11","slug":"about-me-dave-wells-resume-iam-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davewells.me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table has-small-font-size\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/davewells.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Resume-of-Dave-Wells-2023.odt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Open Document Format<\/a><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Dave Wells<\/strong><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/davewells.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Resume-of-Dave-Wells-2023.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Word Document Format<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table has-small-font-size\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Current Position<\/td><td>System Integrator<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Years of Experience<\/td><td>30 +<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Certifications<\/td><td>ITIL v3, ISACA Associate, CISSP<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Education<\/td><td>Various vendors<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Clearance<\/td><td>Level 6 Public Trust<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Qualifications Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">I have spend most of my career in the (IAM) Identity and Access Management domain in the public sector. I started with integrating SiteMinder with an IBM AS\/400. From there, performed installs, configurations and upgrades of SiteMinder and ancillary products such as Netscape Directory (LDAP), which turned into Sun Directory, for various customers. Then transitioned to integration and support of the Siteminder product where most of my time has been to now. Doing this I have utilized web agents, SAML 2.0, ODIC in the Federation and Single Sign-On namespace, with numerous HTTP servers and applications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Professional Experience and Accomplishments<\/strong><br><br>Systems Integrator<br>LS3Tech <br>From Sept 2022 \u2013 Present<br><br>Currently working on an internal project related to Identity and Access Management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Systems Integrator<br>LS3Tech<br>From Sept 2020 \u2013 June 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Dept of Ed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Recently on contract with the Dept. of Ed. focusing on integrating applications with Oracle OAM 12c, with the SAML protocol. <br><br>Working with customers sometimes guiding them through the configuration of their software to complete a successful integration. Additional tasks troubleshooting and resolving access management issues. Established and maintained good working relationships with all IAM customers. <br><br>Other tasks were creating various documents, questionnaires to gather the information needed for the integrations, tracking, process to perform an integration, topology diagram of the integrations. Some of the applications that were integrated were Connect HR, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Tenable and Splunk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Systems Integration<br>LS3Tech<br>Sept 2016 \u2013 Sept 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">USDA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Contracted to the US. Department of Agriculture providing application integration support. Supported two of the three largest agencies with approx. 300 of 500 total applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Duties included working with business owners, developers and or server administrators with designing and implementing application security for new applications and making changes to existing ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Utilized log files and command-line tools to identify issues and resolve them in a timely fashion. Using various methods for application security, web agents, SAML for Federation or reverse proxy servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Additional duties are writing documentation for customers and peers to perform various tasks, install guides, configuration, training, reference material or process. Performed some research and development with CA Secure Reverse Proxy Server to validate as a viable option for a service offering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the SAML integrations include Tableau, MPS (Xerox), JIRA, SalesForce, and Remedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Began getting involved with the OpenID Connect protocol as another method of Identity and Access Management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Accomplishment \u2013 Received an Administrator Award (Internal acknowledgment) .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Systems Integrator<br>Ace Info<br>Aug 2011 \u2013 Aug 2016<br><br>USDA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Provided expertise to the US. Department of Agriculture involving application integration support. Currently supporting two of the three largest agencies with approx. 220 of 450 total applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">During this time also migrated all of the apps to a new environment while supporting the existing applications. Most environments consist of Windows Server 2008 \u2013 2010 and Red Hat 6.x, utilizing IIS 7 \u2013 8 and Apache 2.2.x. Using SAML 2.0, web agents or proxy servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Accomplishments \u2013 The migration of 200 apps in 2 weekends with a 99% success rate. Several emails to management about my performance. Year-end award for dedication, above and beyond. Integrated 99 Apps in 5 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Systems Integrator<br>FMI<br>Jul 2006 \u2013 Aug 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">USDA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Provided expertise to US. Department of Agriculture involving application integration support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Duties include assisting developers with designing and implementing application security. The environments consist of Windows 00-08, Apache 4-6.x, Siteminder 6.x, IdentityMinder 6.0 and Active Directory. Currently planning an upgrade to version 12.x of Siteminder and IdentityMinder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Accomplishment \u2013 Redesigned the security for over 100 apps to accommodate agency changes without impact to application security or outages. Integrated 145 Apps in 5 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Education, Training, and Certifications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Vendor education:<br>Netegrity \u2013 Siteminder<br>Computer Associates \u2013 CA SSO<br>IBM Tivoli TAM<br><br>Certifications:<br>CISSP (12\/2024)<br>ITIL<br>ISACA Associate (CMMI)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Currently studying for the CEH &#8211; Certified Ethical Hacking exam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Document Format Dave Wells Word Document Format Current Position System Integrator Years of Experience 30 + Certifications ITIL v3, ISACA Associate, CISSP Education Various vendors Clearance Level 6 Public Trust Qualifications Summary I have spend most of my career in the (IAM) Identity and Access Management domain in the public sector. 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