David Galiata
Principal Security Engineer @ Aquia
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Summary
Principal Security Engineer with a proven track record of leading high-impact projects in cybersecurity and cloud engineering.
Education
Central Washington University
2023 - 2024
Master of Science, Information Technology and Administrative Management- Cybersecurity
Western Governors University
2008 - 2010
Bachelor of Science, Information Technology
Industry Certifications
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| ISACA | Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) |
| (ISC)² | Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) |
| (ISC)² | Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) |
| Cloud Security Alliance | Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) |
| Cloud Security Alliance | Certificate of Competence in Zero Trust (CCZT) |
| Cloud Security Alliance & ISACA | Certificate of Cloud Auditing Knowledge (CCAK) |
| Amazon (AWS) | Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate |
| Amazon (AWS) | Certified Cloud Practitioner |
| GitHub | GitHub Foundations |
| Microsoft | MCSA: Windows Server, Azure Fundamentals |
| CompTIA | A+, Network +, and Project+ |
Work Experience
Aquia
Remote, December 2021 - Present
Website: Aquia
Description: Security and Compliance lead for AI/ML program within the US Government.
Position: Principal Security Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Analyze cloud / cyber security requirements and technologies to identify potential risks or issues.
- Participate in design of solutions, defenses, or mitigation approaches.
- Research, document, and apply cyber best practices, controls, policies, procedures, and standards.
- Apply cyber or information privacy approaches to systems, networks, services, devices, tools, communications, policies, or business processes.
- Participate in special projects or investigations into specific technology or solution issues and research and piloting of new technologies.
- Serve as a point of contact for engineering efforts while maintaining compliance with the customer's policies and guidelines.
- Maintain documentation for exceptions to standards.
- Provide timely and adequate response to threats/alerts.
- Assess security events to drive to a resolution; provides timely and sufficient response to security incidents and assessment services.
Coblatix
San Francisco, CA, June 2021 - Dec 2021
Website: Coblatix
Description: Senior IT Consultant responsible for implementing technological solutions to solve business problems for clients throughout the Bay Area.
Position: Senior Enterprise Network and Systems Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Technical lead and project manager for customers IT services.
- Managed IT initiatives and collaborated with in-house technical staff on wide range of projects.
- Provided strategic advice on technology services to achieve goals.
- Followed cybersecurity best practices and engaged in training with clients.
- Microsoft 365 migrations +Support and Azure administration- Intune and Cloud App Security.
- Network switching, routing, firewalls, and secure remote access methods (Site to Site + Remote Access VPN’s).
- Prepared documentation and presented progress reports to customers.
Nims & Associates
Petaluma, CA, Nov 2017 - June 2021
Website: Nims & Associates
Description: Senior IT Consultant responsible for planning and executing successful IT deployments and fostering strong client relationships. Additionally, required to develop, architect, design, and support the technology needs of clients ranging from 5-500 users.
Position: Senior IT Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the technical lead for clients throughout the Bay Area.
- Implement projects ranging from on premises server builds (VMWare + Hyper-V), to Cloud deployments (AWS & Azure).
- Office 365 migrations and Azure administration- Intune, and Cloud App Security.
- Network switching, routing, firewalls, and secure remote access methods (Site to Site + Remote Access VPN’s).
- Perform project management on all projects.
- Lead Engineer for all technology related topics and customer questions, issues and service opportunities.
- Execution of project plans within time and budget constraints.
- Perform security assessments and audits for current and prospective clients.
- Develop backup and disaster recovery strategies.
- Monitor backups (Local and offsite) for all clients.
- Document client systems to facilitate future training and support activities.
- Manage AWS Partnership for the entire company.
KLH Consulting
Santa Rosa, CA, Apr 2013 - Nov 2017
Website: KLH Consulting
Description: Designed, implemented, analyzed, and maintained the IT Infrastructure of internal and external customer environments; including network connectivity and utilization, Windows server administration, virtualization, performance tuning, backup and restore.
Position: Senior Network Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Served as the principal IT Engineer for clients throughout the Bay Area.
- Implemented projects ranging from virtualization server builds (VMWare ESXi), Office 365 migrations, network switching, routing, firewalls, and secure remote access methods (Site to Site + Remote Access VPN’s).
- Assisted with project management tasks on all projects.
- Technical lead for all technology related topics and customer questions, issues and service opportunities.
- Reviewed network and system monitoring reports on a regular basis to identify trends.
- Managed internal and external resources in tasks relating to scheduling, implementing, and delivering client projects in a timely manner under demanding time constraints.
- Supervise work of internal resources on client engagements to assure best practices are followed.
- Performed security assessments and audits for current and prospective clients.
- Developed backup and disaster recovery strategies.
- Monitored backups (Local and offsite) for all clients.
- Documented client systems to facilitate future training and support activities.
- Consistently remained 100% billable on time sheets.
Portola Systems
Sebastopol, CA, Dec 2010 - Apr 2013
Website: Portola Systems
Description: Served small and medium businesses in all facets of technology, including workstations, servers, printers, networks, vendor specific hardware and software.
Position: Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Designed and implemented Windows server environments including Active Directory 2003/2008, DHCP, DNS, WEB (IIS), Print, File services, DFS, and Group Policy Objects.
- Configured and deployed Cisco networking technologies including switching, routing, security (ASA firewalls + VPN), and Cisco Aironet wireless devices.
- Supported and administered VMWare server and clustered environments.
- Served small and medium businesses in all facets of technology, including workstations, servers, printers, networks, vendor specific hardware and software.
- Supported remote access solution implementations: VPN, Terminal Services, and Citrix.
- Administered Exchange 2003 / 2007 / 2010 servers.
- Provided phone system administration and support (Cisco CME, Unity, Nortel, and Shortel VOIP).
- Served as escalation point for Helpdesk staff.
- Mentor and trainer for new hires.
Hansel Enterprises
Petaluma, CA, Apr 2009 - Nov 2010
Website: Hansel Enterprises
Description: Internal IT Department position supporting over 500 users in 7 different locations.
Position: Junior Systems Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for all Helpdesk/desktop tickets and email.
- Server support for all company-wide servers (File, Print, VPN, DNS, DHCP, DC’s, Web, etc.).
- Administration of tape backups daily.
- Deployed company’s first Linux server.
- Provided support for third party software including company wide proprietary DMS system.
Marketlive
Petaluma, CA, Sep 2007 - Apr 2009
Website: Marketlive
Description: Provided website and server support for 1200+ servers for a web development e-commerce company. Responsible for maintaining e-commerce sites availability, Windows and Linux server administration, and client facing communication in a fast-paced production environment.
Position: NOC Technician II
Responsibilities:
- Served as escalation point for NOC team members for trouble tickets and severity 1 outages.
- Provided support for Windows Server OS 2000/2003 and Linux OS, including but not limited to administration of JVM, Apache, IIS services, MySQL and site performance research.
- Responsible for client account access including Active Directory administration, and FTP.
- Daily use of monitoring tools such as Gomez, Keynote, Nagios, and MRTG.
- Contributed numerous documents to NOC knowledge base and training modules.
- Trained new hires.
Syntechs
Petaluma, CA, Nov 2006 - Sep 2007
Website: Syntechs
Description: Contract position to repair computer hardware.
Position: Computer Technician
Responsibilities:
- Provide hardware diagnosis and repair for laptop and desktop computers.
- Accept service calls for computer hardware related issues.
- Repaired computer systems via in home or business service calls.
- Performed follow up with customers prior to closing tickets.
Last updated on July 2024