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Douglas Decker

SOC Analyst
I have roughly 29 years experience, 25 in Finance Tech and have worked for major companies like Bank of America, Wachovia, M&T Bank, and Boeing. Now I want to take all of that experience to the cyber security realm in the role of a SOC Analyst or Digital Forensics.
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Penn State University
Tampa, FL, USA

Professional Background

  • Current status
  • Profession
    Software Engineer
  • Fields
  • Work experience
    More than 15 years (1-2 years relevant)
  • Management
    I've had experience in managing 5-10 people
  • Skills
    Cybersecurity
    Incident Management
    Incident Response
    Linux
    SFTP
    SSH
    Digital Forensics
    Analytical Thinking
    SQL
    Wireshark
    Splunk
    COBOL
    SIEM
    Autosys
    SNORT
    Service Now
  • Languages
    English
    Native or Bilingual
  • Highest level of education

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
  • Desired work locations
  • Freelance
    Part-time freelancer

Work Experience

Team lead

May 2021 - Sep 2021
5 mos
Team lead for Business Requirements Extraction Doucmentation team May 2021 - September 2021 5 months Remote Team lead for Mainframe BRE documentation group Wrote Business Requirement Extraction documentation Wrote SQL to read tables that held information on all programs being converted Created workbooks of all program code being documented in each move group Improved process for creating the Business Requirements Extraction document

Source Code Reviewer

Mar 2021 - May 2021
3 mos
Remote Reviewed source code, COBOL, CICS and Easytrieve, to determine business processing and then wrote up Business Requirement Extraction documentation Documented two to four programs a day to help keep project on time Trained teammates on how to review and document the source code Tata Consultancy Services

Application System Support Consultant

Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
1 yr 2 mos
Designed and installed Autosys jobs for the Boeing Management Systems BMS Determined scheduling needs for each new process Created forecasting process so management would know when changes to each metric would occur. Reviewed emergent tickets to find and resolve any data quality problems. Checked logs of job failures to help resolve production issues. Net2Source Inc

Application Support Consultant

Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
9 mos
Designed and installed Autosys jobs for the Boeing Management Systems BMS Maintained versioning needs within GIT for all jobs relating to the BMS application Improved implementation process cutting the time one took almost in half Bank of America

Application Support Specialist

Mar 2011 - Dec 2018
7 yrs 10 mos
L1 monitoring and escalation for over one hundred applications Researched and reported on why processes didn't run as scheduled Developed Tech specs and Autosys scripts for Merrill Lynch GDPP application Converted the autosys jobs to run on the new release of DataStage. Designed and coded a system to verify and move files between Bank of America and Merrill Lynch Installed all mainframe changes for GDPP application Production support for both ML and BOA Operations and Monitoring UNIX and mainframe systems Generated SSH keys to send to other areas of the bank in order to SFTP files Installed SSH public keys on GDPP servers in order for groups to use SFTP to send files Coordinated with GAO team for setup of new FTP identifications to send files TEKsystems

Application Support Specialist

Sep 2010 - Mar 2011
7 mos
Installed COBOL coding changes, adding or deleting CA7 jobs using PODS and creating JCL Created, updated, and installed Autosys JIL changes Coded changes needed to convert systems related to the Merrill Lynch acquisition by Bank of America

Software Engineer for the Home Equity team

Sep 2008 - Aug 2010
2 yrs 0 mos
Updated pledge process to include indirect auto accounts Converted Personal Readiness accounts for Provident acquisition conversion Processed data conversion reports, all JCL and new reports for the Bradford conversion Automated transfer of all Small Business Administration loans Setup new jobs in CA7, and also performed the running, holding or deleting failed jobs out of the queue

Software Development Consultant at M&T Bank

Sep 2007 - Sep 2008
1 yr 1 mo
Coded changes for the Partners and First Horizon conversion projects Wrote programs to review conversion day files for changes and new accounts for entry Developed programs to convert data from a new vendor system to other applications in the bank for the Commercial Credit Card division Developed programs to pull data from vendor master file to send to Anti-Money Laundering team

Software Consultant

May 2007 - Aug 2007
4 mos
Reviewed MABIL, Membership and Billing application for feasibility of converting VSAM to DB2 Reviewed all source members and files to determine scope of overall required source code changes Reported all findings to the MABIL application managers

Software Developer Consultant

Sep 2006 - Apr 2007
8 mos
Completed project to bring Retail Credit Card into M&T from Bank of America M&T contracted with TSYS as the vendor for processing all credit card transactions in under the time expected to complete the project Completed mapping data coming from TSYS to Visa Rewards, Anti Money Laundering, Data Warehousing Coordinated with TSYS and M&T file transfer groups to transfer all files needed for TSYS setup in M&T

AVP with the Corporate and Investment Banking team

Oct 1997 - Mar 2006
8 yrs 6 mos
Developed interface between new front end trading system and current portfolio application Developed process to price inventory nightly Trained new employees on support applications Created Disaster Recovery documentation and performed DR testing Collaborated on First Union/CoreStates/Wachovia mergers to combine portfolios Developed Connect Direct parms which sent files between mainframe and UNIX environments On call team member for production support of our mainframe and UNIX systems Developed SQL queries via FileAid for DB2 to pull data needed by business users Wrote SQL queries to make manual adjustments to the production tables

Education

Bachelor's degree , Liberal Arts and Sciences , General Studies and Humanities
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Computer Programming
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Cyber Security
2021 - 2021