Highlights:a) Leader in Cryptography project. b) Founder of InfoSec Department in Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA)

Skills:security, firewall, cryptography, pentest

Goal:I want to be: a) One of the best Ethical Hacker and Pentester for company, my family and myself. b) Got all certifications needed to improve my knowledgement and skills. c) Pursuit a PhD or DSc in Information Security.

Membership:None

Certification:None

Honor:Technical Reviewer in PhD William Stallings’s book “Cryptography and Network Security, 5th. Edition”. http://catalogue.pearsoned.co.uk/assets/hip/gb/hip_gb_pearsonhighered/preface/0136097049.pdf, page xxi

System Analyst 01/2012 - 06/2015
Petroleos de Venezuela, Punta de Mata, Monagas Venezuela
Industry: Oil & Gas
Responsible for administration and maintenance of desktop platform, comprising approximately 2,200 users.
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Project Leader 12/2009 - 12/2011
Petroleos de Venezuela, Maturin, Monagas Venezuela
Industry: Oil & Gas
* Leader in acquisition and real-time analysis project of data generated by Mudlogging and Welltesting equipments in 12 oil holes and 8 barges in PDVSA Furrial district, city of Maturin, Monagas state, Venezuela. * Achievements: visualization, conceptualization and project analysis.
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Budget, Planning and Management Control Analyst 01/2008 - 11/2009
Petroleos de Venezuela, Caracas, DC Venezuela
Industry: Oil & Gas
* Responsible for developing and administering the budget, supervise management planning and take operating control of management activities during the fiscal year. * Achievements: Management worked as planned and adjusted to the allocated budget.
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Mathematics Professor 01/2007 - 12/2007
Instituto Universitario de Nuevas Profesiones, Caracas, DC Venezuela
Industry: Education
Mathematics I and II for Informatics Technician career.
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Research Analyst in Information Security Project 01/2006 - 12/2007
Petroleos de Venezuela, Caracas, DC Venezuela
Industry: Oil & Gas
* Member of a team project of 3 people, the project goals was development of a cryptographic algorithm for PDVSA. * Participated in algorithm invention. Mainly, I was responsible for part of the coding and testing stage using battery of statistical tests to check pseudo-randomness. * Achievements: project completed at 100%. Algorithm tested by third-part Company. Exploitation rights and intellectual property of the algorithm to PDVSA surrendered, through its subsidiary PDVSA Intevep, where we also signed a confidentiality agreement which cannot give details thereof.
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Information Security Project Leader 05/2004 - 12/2005
Petroleos de Venezuela, Caracas, DC Venezuela
Industry: Oil & Gas
* Public Key Infrastructure project leader. * Achievements: visualization, conceptualization and project analysis.
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Information Security Consultant 01/2003 - 04/2004
Petroleos de Venezuela, Caracas, DC Venezuela
Industry: Oil & Gas
Working on broad of information security fields.
* Resetting root accounts in UNIX and AS400 mainframe servers, and local administrators in Windows 2000/NT. Achievements: 19 administrators’ accounts reseted. * Member co-founder creating Information Security Management for PDVSA; defining corporate and regional offices, deputy managers and charges. Achievements: I fulfilled the objective of developing job descriptions for the new senior management staff. * In charge of Gauntlet firewall platform, composed of nine firewalls spread across the country. * In charge of design and implementation for new CheckPoint Firewall/NG firewall platform project. * Member of design and implementation for corporate secure monitoring platform project. Achievements: The project was fulfilled in 100% planned, in the estimated time and within budget. * Member of design and implementation for computer forensic lab project. * Member of working group for choosing new corporate Anti-virus project. * Member of design and implementation for new cryptographic enterprise architecture project. * Member for development of new security policies, strategies, tactics and procedures project, applicable to entire industry. Achievements: It was possible to define the documents in full, leading at a later time to obtain ISO-17799 certification, valid for the moment. * Member of PDVSA corporate computer emergence response team. * Coordination of regional offices, in cryptographic themes. * Major Achievements: Minimize successful external security attacks (according to our logs, suffered more than 100 attacks per day) to one: proliferation of Slammer worm. There were no incidents from internal attacks.--
Network and Security Administrator 03/1998 - 02/2003
Proyecta Corp., S.A., Caracas, DC Venezuela
Industry: Engineering Contractor
I was hired for designing a new technology platform for corporate HQ and operational office in Caracas, providing technological services to 84 users. It included:
* Reconfiguring 84 desktops, * Installing 4 servers; shared folders, network print queues, mail, web, firewall, DNS, DHCP, WINS, IIS services and others. * LAN, MAN infrastructure planning and choosing ISP for internetworking connection and Internet services. * Information security specifications. * Choosing hardware and software providers. * My day-by-day working was user technical support, supporting services, network security, and elaboration of monthly reports for security events, network issues and fixes, user satisfaction, and others.--
Assistant Professor 10/1991 - 05/1998
Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, DC Venezuela
Industry: Education
Assistant Professor in: a) Data Communication b) Logic and Algebra c) Mathematics I and II
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Universidad Central de Venezuela 10/1989 - 10/2003
Caracas, DC, Venezuela
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Computer Science
Score: 3.3 (GPA)

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