Seeking information security position

From: Korak Dasgupta <dasgupta(at)cs.utk.edu>
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 17:54:42 EDT

I am looking for a security analyst or systems administrator position.

I am currently in Nashville, TN, USA but am ready to relocate anywhere in the world. I am recently SANS GCFW certified and am working on GCUX and GCIH certifications. I am including my resume in text format here. It is also available at -
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dasgupta/kdresume.htm

I have over 3 years of systems security, administration and networking experience. I possess in-depth understanding of Operating Systems (UNIX and Windows) and a strong understanding of network security technologies, and issues. I also have thorough technical knowledge and experience of firewalls, encryption and cryptography, systems administration, penetration tests, auditing, hacker tools, policy writing, virus software and wireless technologies. I have strong problem solving and excellent interpersonal communication skills. I am an adaptive team player with organizational and leadership capabilities.

Please contact me via email since I check my email several times a day.

I'd like to mention that I am very interested in security positions in Canada too. I can obtain Canadian green card by virtue of my marriage to a Canadian.

Sincerely,
Korak Dasgupta
Email: dasgupta@cs.utk.edu

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Korak Dasgupta
GCFW
E-mail: dasgupta@cs.utk.edu
URL: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dasgupta/kdresume.htm

OBJECTIVE Pursuing a challenging career in systems security, administration, and networking with a progressive organization.

SUMMARY

• Over 3 years of systems security, administration and networking experience.
• In-depth understanding of Operating Systems (UNIX and Windows).
• Strong understanding of network security technologies, issues and players.
• Thorough technical knowledge of firewalls, security architectures, encryption and cryptography, systems administration, penetration tests, hacker tools, wireless technologies.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Adaptive team player with organizational and leadership capabilities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE July 2000 - Aug 2002
01/2002 - 08/2002: Systems Analyst, OIT, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
06/2000 - 12/2001: Graduate Assistant (Network Analyst), Network Services, UTK
Duties include design and coding of web based automatic MAC address registration system with the DDNS/DHCP/LDAP/ARS Remedy server; Develop router configuration management and backup scripts in Perl using SNMP to a central tftp server;
Shell scripting using K-shell, C-shell, Perl, CGI, SNMP; Setup and configure Cisco switches and routers; Responsibilities also include installing, administering and hardening Solaris (2.7, 2.8, 2.9), Linux, OpenBSD and Windows (NT/2000/XP) machines; performance tuning system configurations and troubleshooting; Setting up Apache web server, Solaris volume manager, NFS, SAMBA, DNS, sendmail services on Solaris and Linux Operating Systems; Installing, configuring and hardening Microsoft IIS, Active Directory services on Windows 2000 server system; Installing, setting up and configuring Check Point Firewall-1/VPN-1; Setting up and monitoring security using -

    Security Tools - NMAP, NESSUS, YASSP, TCP Wrappers, PGP, Crack, lsof 
    Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) - Snort, ISS RealSecure, Tripwire 
    Firewalls - Check Point Firewall-1, Cisco PIX, NAT, IPChains, IPFilters,

Sunscreen
    Sniffers - Tcpdump, Snoop, Ethereal Provide help-desk support to customers from University network operations center (NOC);
Provide 27x7 on-call customer support to customers; Network trouble shooting, resolving and escalating to appropriate personnel;

Network Usage and Security Policy writing; Web page development.

Aug 1999 - May 2000
Graduate Assistant, Department of Computer Science, UTK Teaching laboratory courses: (1) Data Structures (2) Computer and Network Security.
Programming of approximate eigen-value solver using Divide and Conquer algorithm in C and Fortran for block tri-diagonal matrices in C.

Jan 1999 - Jun 1999
Programmer, PGS Tensor, Inc., Houston, TX Software development on IBM SP2, Intel and SGI platforms for stand-alone and parallel environments in C, C++ and Fortran.

Jan 1997 - Dec 1998
Systems Analyst, E-Biz Inc., Knoxville, TN Responsible for Windows NT systems administration and security implementation, IIS deployment, business development and expansion, software support, web page design, live Internet broadcasting of TV programs, website development using HTML, CGI scripts in Windows environment. 

Aug 1995 - Dec 1998
Systems Administrator, Dept. of Geological Sciences, UTK Responsible for setting up and maintaining a network of Windows NT/9x, Mac and Solaris workstations, and servers; operating system and software installations, trouble-shooting, user accounts setup, security hardening, patching and administration.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Solaris 2.6/7/8/9), Linux, OpenBSD, and Windows NT/2000/XP Systems Administration including - installing OS, security hardening, and performance tuning.
• Experience with firewall and VPN configurations, administration and auditing (Checkpoint Firewall-1, Cisco PIX, Sunscreen, ipchains).
• Security vulnerability analysis and penetration testing using nmap, nessus, l0phtcrack, lsof, hping, whisker.
• Experience with Intrusion Detection systems (IDS) - snort, NFR, Tripwire.
• Experience with network traffic sniffers - tcpdump, snoop, ethereal.
• Experience with PKI, LDAP, SSL, PGP, Netscape/iPlanet Certificate and Web Servers, Apache web server, IIS web server, Windows Active Directory.
• Experience with Cisco routers and switches.
• Experience with wireless network deployment, and wireless security.
• Experience with Anti-Virus software and network/computer usage policy writing.
• C, Perl, HTML, Javascript, Java programming, UNIX shell scripting, in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP.
• Experience with designing, developing and coding web based search engine.

CERTIFICATIONS

1. SANS GCFW - GIAC Certified Firewall Analyst. Details at http://www.giac.org/GCFW.php

TRAINING May 2001
SANS (System Administration, Networking and Security) Security 2001: Firewalls, Perimeter Protection & VPN course.

Jan 2001
SANS Security 2001: Auditing Networks, Perimeters & Systems course.

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Dasgupta, Korak, GCFW Practical Assignment, May 2003.

EDUCATION August 2002
M.S. Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

May 1994
M.S. Exploration Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India.

May 1992
B.S. (Honors) Applied Geology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India. Received on Thu May 8 13:37:48 2003