E. Charles Sterling  CISSP   Security+

Technologist and Business Continuity Professional

Introductory - A summary of the many developed and practiced skills accumulated by performing international business.

resume - An overview of experience in Business Continuity, Emergency situations, Security (data, personnel, facility) and Technology Consulting.

Emergency situations  -  A list of international experiences to reflect on catastrophes that identify the unexpected.
[Hurricanes, Floods, police corruption, issues that can compromise the traveler, personnel catastrophes]

Certification targeted next = CEH

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Historical events in my career include the following which would not necessarily be on the resume.

 

Countries involved in my career: Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, England, Nigeria and Tokyo.

 

Welder fabricator (array of farm, oil field projects).

 

Truck driver (small loads under 20 tons, rice farms and oil field).

 

Oil field services (family vacuum service business - drilling fluids; pipe and rigging).

 

Gas pipeline Compressor Stations (Buda engine, propane gas fueled).

 

Auto mechanics (maintained & rebuilt gasoline and specific diesel engines, built hot rod 57 chevy).

 

Datacenters - design, install and maintain. Installations included being shipboard on Seismic vessels. Datacenters were installed in multiple US states and foreign countries.
 

Storage experience spans an array of tape drives to include the Sony DTF 200GB and other high-capacity drives.

 

Companies or corporate divisions that may no longer be in business or have the same business name. These are key to my employment or to product / services rendered.

Digicon Geophysical, DEC, Convex, Intel Supercomputer SP2, n-Cube, Ohio Medical Products, McGregor Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine, Horizon Geophysical, HP High Performance products, Storageway Inc., Pioneer Standard, Petty Ray Geophysical, Texas Instruments and various other small businesses in many industries).
 

Presales - consultant since 1982 for array of clients,

 

Projects - (DEC, Compaq, HP, Pioneer Standard, Intel super computer, lots of use equipment business. ...
 

Industries - medical, legal (discovery & maintenance), manufacturing, ...

 

datacenters - $250,000+ each, ~20 on land / sea, ...
 

Security, -

    personnel - (money physically in country, overseas travel / planning / corrupt environments, customs bribes & normal shipments, ...

    data - patents, seismic & other custom software / methods, policies & procedures, ...

    business - bribery, fines & fees to conduct business, data classification and archival methods / sources, educate c-level on data classification, ...

    facility - physical (boundaries, interface with local first responders, special conditions for HAZMAT / HVAC / SAFETY for the staff themselves. ...

 

Compliance - involving legal industry educated law firms to data management and how they could violate SOX or other compliance’s, work with childcare facilities to bring them online with FERPA and HIPAA, .

 

BCP / emergency / disaster - global, no FEMA; corrupt officials, onboard during storms, facility location & preparation for earthquakes and local disasters)

 

Associations - Infragard (Malware lab, emergency practice sessions), HTCIA, ISSA, NAISG, ACP, NSA, NDCPI, ...

 

Presentations - HTCIA, SecureWorld Expo (Child Safety on the Internet), worked with vendors on presentations to HL&P; El Paso Energy; HISD and other local enterprises. ...

 

Mass storage - D series tape drives, PB tape libraries, general planning for EMC / SAN / JUKEBOX systems for significant storage needs. Demonstrated the cost effective mode of using remote storage (~$.10 MB in 1999). In the DEC world we brought in some of the first StorageWorks hardware (still the best storage).

 

Networks - ATM switched circuit (predecessor to iSCSI), FDDI, (at&t mpls - multi-city, multi-office), wireless (mounted antenna between buildings), ...

 

Systems - DEC VAX (700 to 8000), DEC PDP 8x, Texas Instruments TIMAP, Perkin Elmer 3xxx, I have several DEC Alpha workstations that would be fun to bring back online with a more modern version of Linux or a later Tru64 OS...
 

Super computers or unique systems - DEC Alpha, nCube, several Seismic systems, Intel SP2, FPS (floating point systems) array processors (used market sales & repair), ...
 

HVAC - datacenter needs (power distribution, secondary AC, remote controls, fire methods in various countries) ...
 

One of a kind projects - via Pioneer Standard / Compaq worked in "HAPI center" where we ported code & configured hardware to demo to clients the advantage of using the DEC Alpha system. Proved floating point error in HL&P's forecast program via benchmark process of PC versus Alpha. .
 

Vendors & office related - procurement, SLA creation / alteration / compliance, vendor interface / negotiations, ...
 

Inventory management - created inventory system and staff to manage multi-million dollars of local and global depot inventor storage areas. ..
 

Customer support - years of in-house and field service work, created customer service team to manage two dozen data centers - global, managed private maintenance services for years. ...
 

Paperwork - business plans (small project to 5-year), create / alter / present SLA's - SOW's - responses to RFP/Q's, department / system expense forecast toward maintenance or growth variances,
 

Research - I'm involved in many technical areas, not limited to this array. (alternative [clean or non-polluting or regenerating] fuels-energy-engines, advanced medicine, obviously security and other technical areas, ..
 

Programming - I don't consider myself to be a programmer but have programmed near a dozen languages and several scripts with most of this involved in troubleshooting or test related activity.

 

Applications - to me applications are generally databases with a GUI, my diverse exposure to many levels of software allow me to quickly adapt to a program that I've never seen and often do under the guise of helping someone understand that program or to fix a problem or to change defaults to suit the user.

 

Virtualization - I started with VMware at version .9 which was Linux only and fixed 2GB partition. I revisited VMware around version 2.0 and again two months ago when we used VMware Workstation (version 8 I believe) during a CEH class. virtualization was on various larger systems that I've been on where my access / use was more as a user of the OS's and storage than a VM operator.

 

Linux - started with Linux at version .9 when on 5.25" floppies. Initially I worked with about six distributions before I stepped away for a while. Applications were the biggest problem at this time. I returned to Linux just before the DEC Alpha came into my realm which bounced me between NT4 and Linux on several DEC Alpha computers. Later came DEC Tru64 Unix to my workings. This was the time when I met Jon “Maddog” Hall, while he was at DEC. I currently bounce between several distributions pending the need. (Backbox, Backtrack, uBuntu, Fedora, SUSE (Novell) and occasionally one of several others.
 

Travel - best suited to long-stay trips. ...