James ‘J.D.’ Butt

235 N. Oak Ave.

Bartlett, IL 60103

(630) 673-7915

jbutt@firecracker.com

 

Objective:

To pursue a challenging career where my adaptive qualities and leadership abilities give quick solutions to technical problems, while helping the highly motivated and evolving company achieve its goals.

 

Certifications:

CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional

Juniper JNCIA-M

Juniper JNCIA-FWV/JNCIS-FWV

Vmware VCP

Checkpoint NG CCSA

Checkpoint NG CCSE

RSA SecurID Certified Systems Engineer 5.1,6.1

Cisco CCNA

Citrix CCEA

Citrix Nfuse Elite / MSAM

Stonebeat Full Cluster

Nokia Message Protector

ISS RealSecure Network Sensor

ISS RealSecure Host Sensor

ISS RealSecure Internet Scanner

ISS RealSecure Database Scanner

 

Firewalls / VPN Concentrators / IDS Products: Expert Checkpoint 4.0 thru NG NGX, Nokia, Nokia SSL Gateway, Cisco PIX and VPN Concentrators, Netscreen, Watchguard Firewalls, ISS, Snort, SourceFire, Fortinet, Aventail, Neoteris, F5 FirePass

 

Other Security products: RSA SecurID, Tripwire, eEyeRetina, Websense, NMAP, NESSUS, SATAN, Snort, F.I.R.E., SARA, SAINT, enum, dumpsec, Whisker/Nitko CGI Scanner, Netcat

Anti-Spam / Anti-Virus products: Sophos PureMessage, Aladdin E-Safe Gateway, Commtouch, TrendMicro, Nokia Message Protector, BlueCoat

 

Operating Systems: BSD UNIX (BSDI, FreeBSD, OpenBSD), Linux, Solaris, Windows 3.1 - Windows 2003, OS/2, DOS

 

 Network Gear: Cisco Routers 1700-12000 series, Cisco Switches, BigIP F5, Nortel/Bay Networks/Wellfleet Routers, Lucent/Ascend/Livingston NAS and Routers, Alcatel/Assured Access NAS, Proteon Routers, DEC Routers, 3COM NAS and Routers, xDSL (HDSL, ADSL, SDSL – DSLAMS from various vendors), Wireless Bridges/Transport Systems Point-to-Point and Multipoint (local and long distance), VoIP Gateways and Gatekeepers (Proprietary, H.323, SIP), Web Caches, Sniffers and protocol analyzers

 

Protocols: Frame-Relay, ATM, PPP, TCP/IP, HDLC, ISDN, BGP, RIP 1&2, OSPF, EIGRP, X.25, SNMP, IPSEC, SSL, RADIUS 

 

Services:  Apache, IIS, Sendmail, Qmail, Exchange, Bind, Radius, SMTP, POP3, INN, IMAP, DNS, DHCP, CVS, GateD, Zebra, qmail, jabber IM, Streaming Audio/Video services, Tape Backup (UNIX and Windows) 

 

Databases and Languages: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, mSQL, Solid, C/C++, Perl, HTML, CGI, SQL, Pascal, Visual Basic

 

Work Experience:

Nexum Inc.

Full Service Security Integrator

Director or Managed Security Services / Senior Network Security Engineer

August, 2004 – Present

  • Developed  first*defense MSSP (Managed Security Service Provider) product including customer facing product development as well as development of monitoring and management systems for backend support

·         Architected, preformed project management, and development on an next generation Security Event Correlation system

·         Designed process and procedure for the operation of Managed Security Services

·         Preformed project management and development of a customer facing web portal for accessing security and network status information

  • Acted as a customer facing engineer providing pre-sales architecture as well as post-sales integration and deployment of network and network security solutions for Fortune 1000 clients including device deployment, security assessments, and security architectural services.
  • Project lead for various large scale firewall conversion and replacement projects for large corporations in zero downtime tolerant environments, various custom tools were created to assist in created to assist in completion of projects
  • Architected several very large scale high speed full-mesh route-based VPN utilizing OSPF routing over tunnels
  • Preformed detailed technical product testing to ascertain the quality of various products for the potential inclusion into the Nexum product line

NCC Networks Inc.

Full Service Security Integrator

Senior Network Security Engineer

June, 2001 – August, 2004

  • Acted as a customer facing engineer providing pre-sales design and technical support as well as post-sales integration and deployment of network and network security solutions for Fortune 1000 clients.
  • Presented as part of customer education, technical sales presentations, as well as seminars to groups of 150+ attendees to an audience ranging from CTO/CIO to Engineers.
  • Specialized in highly available large scale deployments of firewalls and other network equipment, including clustered firewall systems and multiple entry point firewall and VPN systems allowing for guaranteed network uptime.
  • Completed several successful large scale 2000+ user client VPN roll-outs as well as roll out of hardware based SoHo VPN devices.
  • Wrote various templates used for project documentation as well developed methods to complete standards based security audits and assessments.
  • Developed network monitoring systems used to monitor customer systems as well as provide detailed statistical information for verification of vendor SLA’s.
  • Designed, Deployed, and managed large scale Citrix Metaframe Farms for customers including custom Nfuse integrations and specialized software debugging.

MidWest Communications, Inc.

Regional ISP/CLEC
Vice President and Senior Network Engineer - November, 1994 – June, 2001

Board Member - November, 1994 – January, 2003

  • One of 4 founders. Co-wrote the initial business plan used to secure initial round of funding, along with follow-up plans used to secure additional rounds of funding.
  • Lead the company from 0 to yearly revenue exceeding 10 million.
  • Performed the lead role in making technology decisions for the company.
  • Developed web based CRM/billing software including payment processing as well as commission generation for inside and outside sales forces. The application was possibly the first ever developed large scale web based business application. (Circa 1995)
  • Designed and implemented a large WAN with 100+ physical locations across Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Supporting Dialup service for 50,000+ customers and dedicated connections to over 50 companies.
  • Directed the team that acquired space and built out all POP locations including the design, construction, and installation of hardware and infrastructure.
  • Managed the roll out of copper, fiber, as well as wireless network infrastructure as part of an access network to serve customers.
  • Completed integration of customer bases and networks of various companies that the company acquired, creating many cost saving measures for the company.
  • Have designed and implemented back-end support systems including signup and normal wholesale network use for various set-top box manufactures.
  • Managed hosting for several of the highest utilized public websites

Internet Providers Association of Iowa (IPAI)
Founder and Board Member

August 1998 – June 2002

  • Have spoken at several state hearings about Internet access, helping to support issues the organization has been concerned about.

JDB Communications
Partner

August 1993 – January 1995

  • Specialized in installation of computer training rooms at schools.
  • Did computer consulting and training at small to medium sized business including some Netware, Lantastic, and custom programming.