Financial Database Administration / Architect / Auditor
Enterprise Arcsight Administration / Architect
Principal Security Engineer @ From June 2011 to Present (4 years 7 months) Senior Arcsight Architect @ From August 2010 to June 2011 (11 months) Information Security Manager @ From November 2004 to July 2010 (5 years 9 months) Information Risk Manager @ Responsible for multiple IT projects from beginning to end of the project life-cycle. These projects included vulnerability assessment programs, compliance and regulatory monitoring systems, multimillion dollar financial database clusters, Exchange email monitoring and archiving solutions, Linux financial trading platforms, Enterprise web monitoring and content filtering solutions. Developed environmental specific policies based on SOX regulations. From November 2004 to January 2007 (2 years 3 months) Senior Database Engineer @ Senior Database Engineer responsible for 100+ instances of SQL Server 7 and 2000. My responsibilities were to work with the clients and maintain their database environments for their key business transaction systems.
Major Contributions:
Developed standards for deploying and managing Microsoft SQL Server systems.
Project manager in charge of migrating 100+ servers from SQL 7 to SQL 2000.
Perform SQL Server performance tuning and optimization, including index creation and rebuilding, database partitioning.
Implemented a new backup system for all non-managed SQL servers for the company. From January 2001 to October 2004 (3 years 10 months)
Ethical Hacking @ EC-Council From 2013 to 2013 Degree of Science, Nursing @ University of Delaware From 1999 to 2001 James Chiffons is skilled in: CounterAct ForeScout, FireEye, ArcSight, Snort, Red Hat Linux, Windows Server 2008, VMware Infrastructure, Nmap, Nessus, Sourcefire, Metasploit, Wireshark, Linux, Windows Server, Data Center