Chris Fedson
Des Moines, IA
Education
Masters in Cybersecurity - Purdue Global
August 2018 to July 2020
Bachelor’s Information system - Kaplan
2015 to 2016
Associate Computer Science - DMACC
2014
Experience
Toool - Volunteer
2018 to present
Leverages physical security expertise to instruct hundreds of students attending security conferences.
Educates new event attendees on lockpicking regulations.
Advocate for Toool organization’s non-profit mission: Accessible locksport education and continuous improvement of physical security technologies.
Sponsors regional locksport activities and competitions.
Assist in setup and tear down activities for conferences.
Associate Engineer - Security - Casey's General Store September 2021 – Present
Creates, maintains, and modifies layer-7 firewall rules to enable day-to-day operations and protect critical information assets at 2,700 locations.
Utilizes and maintains Panorama firewall orchestration technology that enables seamless application of rules and policies to each site.
Assures conformity to industry standards for email security with Proofpoint e-mail whitelisting and defense technologies.
Introduced firewall scripting automation that vastly improved reliability and efficiency of configuration changes.
Maintains operability and whitelisting of back-end Postfix mail server that supports our 2,700 stores.
Triages firewall and email incidents with a variety of internal teams.
Expands capabilities of existing firewall and email infrastructure through a vigorous testing and staged deployment of new features.
Research vulnerabilities and strategizes how to best mitigate threats on critical firewall and email infrastructure.
Store Team Windows Administrator - Casey's General Store February 2020 - September 2021
Responsible for working with a team to maintain, update, and fix 12,000 windows systems across multiple states.
Maintain PCI standards while automating as many processes as possible for the systems to continue to perform.
Create new programs as needs change with a focus on reliability, security, and performance.
Work with third-party vendors to test and integrate new and updated software into our system.
Aureon - System Engineer
August 2017 to July 2019
Troubleshoot malfunctions of Linux servers, network hardware and software applications.
Maintaining multi-site network operations and software applications, operating systems and regular maintenance with both private and public facilities running Red Hat, Sun, and Ubuntu versions of Linux.
Create, review, and maintain network documentation as well as procedural documents.
Keep project and service tickets current and up to date daily.
Taught myself Python to implement updates to outdated scripts.
Participated and was responsible for key areas of a large DNS migration from bind to Infoblox.
Gathered and migrated large sets of DNS data for migration project using automation.
Design, setup and configure complex Linux server environments.
Updated old scripts for reporting that ran more efficiently and more accurately than the ones being replaced.
Identified by management as a key factor in increased communications and improved relationships with other departments.
Identification of system problems and implemented fixes.
Created scripted solutions to automate repetitive duties using Bash, Python, and Perl resulting in higher accuracy and significant time saving over previous manual procedures.
Linux System Administrator - Mediacom
2015 to August 2017
Troubleshoot malfunctions of Linux servers, network hardware and software applications.
Maintaining multi-site network operations and software applications, operating systems and regular maintenance with both private and public facilities running Red Hat, Sun, and Ubuntu versions of Linux.
Create review and maintain network documentation as well as procedural documents.
Keep project and service tickets current and up to date daily.
Design, setup and configure complex server environments.
Created portal to transfer duties from eliminated department to another department, allowing them to be more efficient, and help the customer faster.
Research and reported on new software solutions to be implemented.
Participated in on-call rotation duties.
Created scripted solutions to automate repetitive duties.
Worked with vendor to set up a Splunk server and configure logging.
Email Abuse Analyst - Mediacom
May 2014 to 2015
Protect e-mail infrastructure from blended threats including Spam, Viruses, Denial-of Service attacks, Harvesting attacks and Phishing.
Monitoring of RBL's, Abuse, FBL's & Postmaster accounts, generation and reporting of daily reports.
Processed Reverse DNS request, Push firmware, and lock email accounts for phishing/spamming
Unlock email accounts after education of violation.
Tasked with the UN-provisioning of modems for unsecured networks and/or abuse noting ACSR/CSG.
Work closely with Cloud Mark and their Server Management Application, IMP Server Management Console, and Zimbra's Admin Console.
Implemented company policies, technical procedures and standards for preserving the integrity and security of data, reports and access.
Monitored network performance and provided network performance statistical reports for both real time and historical measurements.
Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new functional designs and suggested options for performance improvement of technical objects.
Created software solutions in Bash and Perl as needed to complete tasks.
Created training documentation.
Configuring new and existing DNS entries on the network.
Configuring software network solutions using Nagios and Cacti.
Installed, configured, and maintained Spiceworks software solution.
Installed and configured servers in the data center.
Run network cabling to include both fiber and ethernet.
Created scripts to perform repetitive tasks to maintain workflow as manpower diminished in the department.
Skills
Perl, Python, Java, C++, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Splunk, VMWare, Linux, System Administration, Infoblox, DNS, DHCP, Palo Alto ,PowerShell, Proofpoint, E-Mail, SPF, DKIM, DMARC
Certifications
A+
Military Service
Army Reserves
1988 to 1994
Administrative specialist – Pvt
Memberships
SecDSM
Toool
SALUTE Honor Society
Golden Key Honor Society