Felix Laura

Information Analyst Security Engineer

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I am passionate about technology, cybersecurity, information security, problem management, software, and innovation. Over three years of IT experience in Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Intrusion Detection, Incident Handling, Incident Response, DoD Risk Management, System Engineering, Deployment, Re-Engineering, Coding and testing in n-tier system, System Analysis, Design and Object Oriented Programming Knowledge and experience in Agile. I am constantly seeking to improve my skills and am fully aware of the latest developments in the world of Java. On my free time I enjoy playing soccer, travelling and spending quality time with my family.


Work Experiences

Information Analyst

Western Express Forwarding LLC | Jul 2017 - Present
  • Ensure the infrastructure of the equipment connected to the network.
  • Evaluate, assess and certify hardware, servers, printers, routers, telecommunication equipment, and software products prior to use on any accredited information system or network.
  • Install software, such as firewalls and data encryption programs, to help protect the company’s data and sensitive information.
  • Documenting, planning, configuring, and overseeing security measures, covering a wide spectrum including network infrastructure, endpoint devices, firewalls, virtual private networks (VPN), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and network access control (NAC) systems.
  • Acting as the key security engineering representative within engineering teams, contributing to the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and integration of secure networking, computing, and enclave environments.
  • Creating prototypes for testing network and endpoint devices, specifically designed for vulnerability assessment and in-depth analysis.
  • Managing requests and inquiries and resolving issues escalated from other teams within the Information Technology Department
  • Configuring AWS security groups to ensure the effective and secure management of access controls and network traffic within the AWS environment.

Backend Java Developer

Paypal | May 2015 - May 2016

When a new customer comes to Paypal and expresses an intent on what they want to use Paypal for, it initiates an onboarding flow. Based on the customer intent, it creates an account or no. Behind the scenes, onboarding platform is an orchestration engine. It coordinates with various core and peer mid-tier services. The coordination is expressed as a workflow which is defined based on the intents the customer started with. Customer’s data is persisted in respective domains. Core domains that Onboarding is dependent upon are "Risk, Compliance, User, Merchant and FI"

  • Planned bug-fix schedules and releases, coordinated communication between QA and development team to handle client-side defects.
  • Created a deployment procedure utilizing Jenkins CI to run the unit tests on stages.
  • Used Spring annotations, dependency injections to implement business logic.
  • Utilized Jira as defect tracking tool on the project.
  • Performed various CRUD operation using RESTful web services.

Java Developer

Excelacom | Oct 2014 - Apr 2015

Worked on enhancements of its Century Suite which provide a competitive advantage by reducing time and effort required to create and deploy new products, services and portals. Along with entury Suite, I was also part of the team that worked on customizing their Century Suite for their client Avaya, to accommodate service selection, social media analytics, and Avaya Cloud Live Video.

  • Involved in gathering requirements from the users followed.
  • Created web pages using HTML and CSS
  • Created reusable and used existing Restful web services for single page applications (SPA).
  • Prepare Java/J2EE development structure for Maven.
  • Used Spring JDBC template to access database table.
  • Managed/Fixed bugs and Client Issues in the application.
  • Used Hibernate for programmatically generating the data base tables and mapping files

J2EE Developer

Telefonica Peru | May 2006 - Nov 2007

Designed and developed a web application for Telefonica Wireless module system. The module had several sub modules like plans, coverage, accessories, service, features etc. Designed and developed code for Order Entry, Order Confirmation, and Order Tracking for the System. The system was implemented in an N-Tier Architecture. The server side components were running on Web Logic server which was used as the Development Application Server and Production Server.

  • Used J2EE design patterns namely Singleton, Transfer Object, and Business Delegate etc.
  • Have prepared UML Sequence diagrams, Class diagrams, Activity diagrams to be incorporated in the Technical Design document using Rational Rose tool.
  • Used Struts framework to implement the MVC architecture.
  • Developed controller Servlets, form beans and front-end screens.
  • Used Tiles feature available as a part of Apache Struts in order to increase the reusability of JSP pages.
  • Involved in unit testing using JUnit.

Projects

Vulnerabilities Associated with Cyber Security Capstone Project

M.S Information Technology Cyber Security

The purpose of this research is to determine the vulnerabilities that compromise network Systems. Currently information technology and especially information is one of the main assets of organizations and companies, there are different types of threats that threaten the proper functioning of these entities, such as viruses, malware, cybercriminals, spyware and a number of threats existing, daily different equipment is used, especially mobile phones that are connected to the internet, the biggest source of security threats. (Link Project)

AWS Cloud Resume Challenge

Amazon Web Services

TI believe that learning Cloud and DevOps by doing projects is perhaps the best way to gain meaningful skills. The first part of the project was setup S3 bucket is AWS to store HTML, CSS and Javascript files for the website. Then the S3 bucket was linked to CloudFront distribution to host the website. I used AWS certificate manager for the SSL certification. A domain name was purchasewd and it was attahced to Route53 service. Then a visitor creator counter was added to the site using DynamoDB service to store the number of visits. A Lambda function in Pythoin was used to catch the visits. CI/CD was integrated using Github actions. A yaml workflow file was created to update the S3 bucket automatically with the new changes.