Highly versatile, innovative, and data-driven engineering leader with extensive industry knowledge and enterprise experience; designing and deploying secure solutions across diverse infrastructure environments. I excel at identifying and closing threat vectors, strengthening process and policy governance, and securing multi-cloud and private infrastructure alike, through modern methodologies, automation, reporting, and policy enforcement. I am ready to make a measurable impact, strengthen operational outcomes, and help exceed leadership’s KPI expectations.
Vulnerability Density Identification | Cloud and O.S. Compliance | EPSS vs CVSS | GenAI Governance, Risk and Compliance | Process Improvement Liaison | Identity/PAM | Zero Trust/Workload Identity | Cloud Native/DevSecOps | IDM, SOAR, SIEM, UEBA, EDR & DLP
Development Officer - Mentor - Early Careers
Strategic Planner + Tactical Executioner
Agile - SCRUM - Lean Leadership Methods
Cloud, Hybrid, O.S. Audit & Compliance
Securing Policy & Processes
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Secure Local AI/ML Architect
GenAI Council - Data Loss Prevention
Kaizen Culture (DBS)
Certifications & Training: CCSP | ITIL Fundamentals & Practitioner Certified | Agile | SCRUM | CMMI | RHEL | RHCSA 6.5 | PCI ISA & PCI-P | SCTE DVEP | Puppet | Docker | Splunk Fundamentals I & II | Splunk Adv. Searching & Reporting | Splunk SOAR | Tanium- Converge 2022 & 2023 | Tripwire FIM | Kenna | Operating Systems: RHEL | Debian | AIX | OEL | Solaris | OSX | ProxMox w. SRIOV | VMware vSphere & vRealize | Windows Azure & Sever 2008, 2012 & 2016 | Identity / PAM: JumpServer | Centrify / Delinea | RBAC | Least Privilege | Secrets Management | Privileged Session Management | Service Accounts / Non-Human Identities | SSO | MFA | OAuth 2.0 | OIDC | SAML | Zero Trust / Workload Identity: SPIFFE | SPIRE | mTLS | PKI | X.509 | Certificate Lifecycle Management | Infrastructure / Networking: OPNsense | Pi-hole | LibreNMS | Proxmox VE 3-Node Cluster | SR-IOV | VLAN Segmentation | NGINX | Storage / Resilience: ZFS | UNAS / NAS | Backup & Recovery | Cloud-Native / DevSecOps: Kubernetes | Docker | Git | CI/CD | Ansible | Infrastructure Automation | API Integration | Security Operations: DLP | UEBA | SOAR | SIEM | Threat Detection & Response | Security Automation | Platforms & Services: Symantec DLP | Varonis | Splunk SOAR + XSOAR | Symantec RiskFabric ICA & UEBA | ProxmoxVE | Metasploit | OpenStack | Oracle PCA | Docker | Kubernetes | AWS | Azure | NGFW | vSphere SDDC | Skyline Advisor + LogInsight | MySQL | Elasticsearch | Splunk | HPSA | Remedy | Jira Service Desk | Confluence | Service Now | Cherwell & Thick-client Automation | IDE’s | CI/CD Pipelines | Centrify | Alteryx | Ansible | Puppet | Git | CrowdStrike | NGINX | CDN | Tripwire FIM | SOAP | Tableau | Tanium | Grafana | Qualys Engine with Kenna UI | Frameworks: .NET Core | jQuery | Spring | Programming Languages: Bash | Python | Perl | HTML5 | shell | node.js | CSS | Golang | Java | JavaScript | SQL | C# | Objective-C | hex | binary | Home Lab & Technology Stack: JumpServer PAM | 3-Node Proxmox VE Cluster / Hypervisor Administration | OPNsense NGFW | Pi-hole DNS Security & Filtering | LibreNMS | Multi-VLAN Network Segmentation | Multi-Node Linux & macOS Infrastructure | Docker & Kubernetes | SSH, RBAC & MFA Privileged Access | Credential & Secrets Management | Git & CI/CD Automation | Bash & Python | API / SaaS Provisioning & Integration | ZFS NAS Backup & Data Protection | UniFi UNAS Production Storage | Infrastructure Monitoring, Logging & Security Automation | Local AI/LLM Infrastructure
Email: me@willpressly.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/WillPressly