About bhicks

Seasoned Systems Security Engineer with experience in Systems Administration and Security Endpoint Engineering, I bring 18 + years of success in producing a diverse range of business solutions that adhere to a least privileged methodology while balancing the impact to the customer experience and low-cost business model. My experience includes assignments as a systems administrator, security engineering, cybersecurity-based initiatives, team leadership, evaluator of existing technology, build out of boxed solutions to address deployment limitations, patch management & vulnerability auditing, cross-training of staff across both large 300000 seat enterprises on down to 3000 seat mom and pop shops. Recent success encompasses working at some of today’s top fortune 500 companies, delivering everything from cloud hosted, behavioral based NextGen endpoint solutions to the more traditional, server hosted applications. Using a “role up your sleeves approach” I enjoy being right in the middle of the design and support efforts, being keen to set expectations while managing project perception and potential impact, change can bring to the user community.(key parts of any truly successful project). The past 4 years have “pulled” me over to more security-based projects which I have found both challenging and rewarding. I take great pride in my work and never shy away from the chance to “get my hands dirty “