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Mark Koenig

I have been in the information technology field for over 25 years. I
have solid experience
in information security, architecture, network engineering and
operations, network management,
applications development, quality, engineering, customer service, as
well as sales.

I have designed global enterprises, developed and managed global
organizations, and have worked
and lived internationally. I have cultural flexibility, solid breadth
of experience, and possess
the technical vision and leadership skills necessary for success in
today’s competitive environment.

I am both technical as well as business minded, and can establish
credibility and foster
communications between both disciplines.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Wells Fargo
2003 to Present
San Francisco, CA

Wells Fargo is a fortune 70 company and the third largest U.S. Bank
http://www.wellsfargo.com

Technology Manager – Security Operations Center

Provide management and leadership for all security monitoring,
intrusion detection, and incident response capabilities within the bank.
Managed a group of 19 people across 3 functional areas and maintain
responsibility for an eight million dollar budget.

Established process and procedure to enhance overall capability and
established metrics to demonstrate current state vulnerability VS risk,
and to understand volumes, response and resolution times, to address new
regulatory issues.

Applied Materials
2001 to 2003
Santa Clara, CA

Applied Materials is the largest supplier of products and services to
the global semiconductor industry.
http://www.appliedmaterials.com

Director – Global Information Security Services                

Established a world class information security organization and
capability that provided the highest
degree of resource availability, utility, integrity, authenticity,
confidentiality, and possession possible.

Provided vision and technology leadership to evolve security
capabilities able to address the next
generation e-business initiatives, focusing on the people, process and
technology aspects of the challenge.

Crafted and implemented a global outsourced IDS capability that
provided 7X24X365 monitoring and
incident response at 50% of the cost of doing it in-house.

Authored policy and designed the process and methodology to incorporate
security oversight into the
analysis phase of projects thus achieving a 50% reduction of
re-engineering.

Conducted enterprise wide assessments of critical applications and
created protection strategies that
addressed risks relative to the business, this reduced security
spending by 60% while providing better
protection to what’s important.


Seagate Technology
1994 to 2001

Seagate Technology is the largest independent storage technology
company in the world. http://www.seagate.com

Director – Worldwide IT Security                    (1999 to 2001) [San Jose, CA]

Established the global information security organization to address the
short and long term needs of the
organization.

Defined and implemented an ISO17799 based security framework and
governance to provide the highest
degree of security services.

Created the overall information security architecture for migration to
next generation technologies and
abilities

Senior Manager – Network Eng. & Ops.                    (1995 to 1999) [Singapore]

Built the Asian network engineering and operations organization that
allowed the company to utilize local
talent and realize significant cost savings.

Designed and standardized network infrastructure for 28 manufacturing
facilities that increased production
capability while reducing overall cost by 40%.

Senior Staff Engineer – Network Eng. & Ops.                (1994 to 1995) [Scotts
Valley, CA]

Designed and implemented the global LAN/WAN network architecture and
support environment that
helped transition the company into new business capabilities and
opportunities. Increased network
availability to 99.999%.

End2End Solutions
1993 to 1994
Mountainview, CA

End2End was my own consulting company that focused on communications
infrastructure.

Independent Consultant                            

Provided consulting services to mid-sized high-tech companies focusing
on IS and IT Infrastructure
planning, Database modeling and integration, Data warehouse
architecture development, and Enterprise
communications systems planning and development.

Cisco Systems
1992 to 1993
Mountainview, CA

Cisco systems is the largest communication equipment manufacturer in
the world. http://www.cisco.com

Manager – Customer Service Applications                    

Responsible for determining the overall information needs of the
Customer Advocacy organization. I
specified requirements and implemented a suite of next generation call
tracking and customer service
capabilities that allowed Cisco to scale quickly and economically.

SynOptics Communications
1990 to 1992
[Santa Clara, CA]

SynOptics communications, now NorTel, was the first company to provide
twisted pair ethernet products.
http://www.nortelnetworks.com

Manager – Customer Support Applications    

Held responsibility for the direction, design and implementation of
integrated information systems relative
to customer service and product support. Authored a global call
tracking system that increased customer
satisfaction by 50%.

Network Equipment Technologies
1983 to 1990

NET was the first company to provide carrier class T1 multiplexing
equipment after deregulation in 1984.
http://www.net.com

Manager – Office Automation                        (1987 to 1990) [Redwood City, CA]

Designed, developed and implemented new information systems
technologies that enhanced and increased
the productivity of the global sales force by over 50%.

Integrated Systems Consultant                        (1985 to 1987) [San Francisco, CA]

Responsible for sales development, and the creation of account
penetration strategies for communications
access products into targeted fortune 500 companies.

Senior Sales Engineer                            (1984 to 1985) [Santa Barbara, CA]

Sold and provided pre/ post sales technical support for a line of data
communications products focused on
LAN/WAN connectivity and managed a group of Mfg. Representatives in the
western sales region.

Quality Assurance Engineer                        (1983 to 1984) [Santa Barbara, CA]

Designed and implemented test systems and procedures to validate
communication products design
integrity, and improved overall quality by 70%.

Baldwin Electronics
1982 to 1983
Santa Barbara, CA

Baldwin electronics was a company that designed optical encoders for
analog motion measurement.

Senior Electronics Technician
Designed automated test procedures and platforms for optical encoder
calibration.

LTV - Ling, Tempco, Vaught, Inc.
1976 to 1982

LTV was a major military aircraft manufacturer that also engaged in
government communications
contracts.

Senior Electronics Technician                         (1980 to 1982) [Saudi Arabia]

Designed and implemented a CATV distribution system for the Royal Saudi
Naval Forces.

Electronics Technician                            (1976 to 1981) [Edwards A.F.B. , CA]

I was part of the team that designed and installed communications
equipment for the Ridley Mission
Control Center at Edwards AFB, that provided Space shuttle and other
test flight support.

EDUCATION

University Of Guam                            1972 to 1974 [Barrigada, Guam ]
Majors - Marine Biology, Electronics, Physics

Cerro Coso College                             1976 to 1978 [ Edward's AFB, CA]
Majors - Computer Science, Digital Design

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

- TCP/IP        - IPX/SPX            - Layer 3 switching and routing
- DNS/NDS        - LDAP                - Layer 2 switching and routing
- PKI/X.509        - SNMP                - Authentication and entitlement
- ISO 17799        - TCPM                - XML
- 802.1x        - 802.11            - Content Filtering
- Intrusion detection    - Event correlation        - Packet and proxy based
firewalls
- UNIX            - Windows            - Apple
- VMS            - MVS                - SQL    
- Cisco IOS        - Packet Decode/analysis    - Vulnerability analysis

REFERENCES
    
Jim Absmeier        Personal friend/ professional peer            (408) 978-9036
Bill Haag        Senior Director – Applied Materials            (512) 272-0054
Mark Brewer        CIO - Seagate Technology                (405) 324-3366
Lane Parker        VP IT Operations - Seagate Technology             (831) 439-7078
Maria Cirino        CEO – Guardent                        (781) 577-6501
Jerry Brady        CTO – Guardent                         (212) 937-2183
Michael Hamilton    Principle Consultant /CISSP – Guardent             (206)
953-9241
Curtis Coleman        Director Information Security – Seagate            (831)
439-7194

* Held “Top Secret” Clearance while at Edwards A.F.B.

RECOGNITIONS

- Sit on advisory board for Guardent – www.guardent.com
- Interviewed in Computer World on next generation managed service
providers.
- Interviewed by Gartner to define upper quadrant companies engaged in
intrusion detection/prevention.

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